Tag Archives | Windows 8 Developer Preview

What Do You Expect To See Different In The Windows 8 Consumer Preview?

With Windows 8 it’s a new experience for me. I have had a chance to play around with the developer preview of Windows 8, and while I was slightly impressed by the new Metro UI, I haven’t been completely blown away by the whole experience as I was with Windows 7

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Microsoft Extends Windows 8 Developer Preview Expiry Date

The Windows 8 Developer Preview build is set to expire on March 11, 2012 and Windows 8 Server preview on April 8, 2012. But now Microsoft have extended the expiry date.

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How To Build Your Own Windows 8 Tablet

While you can still use Windows 8 without a touchscreen, the whole Metro UI experience isn’t as good navigating with a mouse and keyboard. So it would be nice to have a touchscreen tablet to try it out and get a real feel for Windows 8.

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Are You Still Using Windows 8 Developer Preview?

Everybody was looking forward to Microsoft finally releasing the Windows 8 developer preview so that we could all finally get to play around with the latest edition of Windows 8, however I haven’t really used it at all, I’m wondering have any of you?

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Windows 8 Developer Preview Reaches 3 Million Downloads

Microsoft have announced that the Windows 8 Developer preview has now had over 3 million downloads since it was released back in September. I suppose the news isn’t really that surprising, especially when you consider that Windows is easily the most popular operating system in the world.

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An Opinion!

Over the last few weeks I’ve been using Windows 8 Developer Preview constantly on three computers a netbook, a laptop and a desktop. Two are in dual-boot mode and one…

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How To Install Windows 8 From A USB Flash Drive

This guide will show you how to install the Windows 8 developer preview from a USB Flash Drive instead of installing Windows 8 using a DVD

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Wonders will never cease! Windows 8 Developer Preview runs on a Netbook!

I decided to download a copy of WindowsDeveloperPreview-32Bit-English.iso and see if I could install it on my MSI Netbook. I was a bit concerned about the netbook’s ability to handle it given its Aton CPU and minimal features.

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Microsoft Talks About The Windows 8 Start Menu

Microsoft have completely changed the start menu and start screen in Windows 8. Some people like it, some hate it, but Microsoft have published a post on the building Windows 8 blog explaining their actions

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Windows 8 Is Faster At Pretty Much Everything

Microsoft promised us major performance improvements with Windows 8 and while the new OS may still be in its infancy, it appears to be living up to these claims. Over at Lifehacker they decided to put Microsoft’s claims to the test and ran a few speed tests to compare the Windows8 developer preview with Windows 7.

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How To Install Windows 8 Developer Preview

This is a guide on how to install Windows 8 Developer Preview in a virtual machine. This will allow you to install windows 8 and try it out while still retaining your existing OS

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