Windows 8 Dev Preview build

[nexhunter]

anyone else downloading it right now :D

[Smith6612]

I've already downloaded it. When I get home I'm installing it to a Virtual Machine.

[abouharga]

Me Too i downloaded it

i like the new tasks

u can check this site for Windows 8 Developer

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/home/

[Darkmere]

It looks like a giant Windows Phone to me

[essellar]

It is, at least by default. Remember, this OS is designed to work across tablets and "traditional" computers; the touchscreen-style interface is a big part of what makes it work. The "classic" Windows UI (and the heavy "classic" API) is only invoked when necessary. When you consider that, for most people, a computer is really nothing more than an information appliance, the concentration on consumption applications and home-screen "micro-reporting" is a huge plus. If you need to go beyond that, though, the "classic" functionality is invoked when an application that requires it is also invoked.

[nexhunter]

so much fun in my computer science class i was trying to install my download onto a virtual machine and it kept failing to install checked to make sure everything was set properly all was darn download failed and my schools (college) internet is slow as molasses during the day and even during the night another fun 10 hour download -_-, everyone would think a technology school in downtown Boston would have a stable and very good internet connection.

[Smith6612]

Got Windows 8 to install properly and start up, so yes it certainly does remind me big time of turning a VM into a giant Windows Phone/Zune. Anyways, upon logging in it would not do anything but land at a Black desktop/Interface, so I'm curious as to what it was trying to load up at the time. I'll see if I can get the thing to work completely tonight. Installation took about 10 minutes in total, so that was certainly a breeze.g

[jayjen0674]

I'll give it a try

[ammar.ahmad199374]

Nah I am actually waiting for it to get out of beta stage :D

[nexhunter]

Got Windows 8 to install properly and start up, so yes it certainly does remind me big time of turning a VM into a giant Windows Phone/Zune. Anyways, upon logging in it would not do anything but land at a Black desktop/Interface, so I'm curious as to what it was trying to load up at the time. I'll see if I can get the thing to work completely tonight. Installation took about 10 minutes in total, so that was certainly a breeze.g

if it was your first launch then it was probably setting up the thing like when windows 7 is ran for the first time it has to set that stuff up same thing with win8 but it a black screen instead was up at 1am est installing it and going through the setup everything but the metro apps work but im downloading the 64bit version right now (running on 32bit right now) and see if the dev tools will help anything besides having a new version of visual studio for my cs class :D