{"id":11610,"date":"2011-09-14T00:28:24","date_gmt":"2011-09-13T23:28:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=11610"},"modified":"2011-09-14T00:28:24","modified_gmt":"2011-09-13T23:28:24","slug":"download-the-windows-8-developer-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=11610","title":{"rendered":"Download the Windows 8 Developer Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Steven Sinofsky <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/b\/b8\/archive\/2011\/09\/13\/welcome-to-windows-8-the-developer-preview.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">posted<\/a> that Windows 8 will be available for <a href=\"http:\/\/dev.windows.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">download<\/a> tonight at 8pm (PST) or 4am Dublin\/London time.&#160; This will be for x86 and x64.&#160; The ARM release won\u2019t be for some time.&#160; Be aware that a lot of people are going to want to download this developer preview; the download site is going to get <em>hammered<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>A few points about this release:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a developer preview.&#160; It is pre-beta.&#160; This is the first general public test build and there will be bugs. In fact, they want you to find and report those bugs.&#160; This build should not be used in production.&#160; Some of us geeks will use it on our primary PCs \u2026&#160; but we should acknowledge that there will inevitably be issues.&#160; That\u2019s the nature of this type of release.&#160; I wouldn\u2019t criticise it.&#160; This is the same process we had with Windows 7 and that worked out very well. <\/li>\n<li>This is a very different OS.&#160; Read my earlier <a href=\"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?tag=eventnotes\" target=\"_blank\">posts<\/a> where I talked through a lot of stuff.&#160; I also recommend a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.winsupersite.com\/article\/windows8\/windows-8-features-terminology-140559?utm_source=twitterfeed&amp;utm_medium=twitter\" target=\"_blank\">post<\/a> that Paul Thurrott just blogged.&#160; It\u2019s a glossary of terminology and changes. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As an IT pro, I think it\u2019s important to start learning a new OS as soon as possible.&#160; The final product will be different; some features may be added or even withdrawn.&#160; But the sooner you start to learn, the easier any future implementation or migration will be.&#160; And to be honest, the more bugs we log, the better the product will be.&#160; Sinofsky did say today that the focus for Windows 8 was on quality, not on schedule.&#160; The last time I heard that was Windows Server 2003.&#160; I personally believe that was a great release.&#160; Here\u2019s hoping!<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: none; padding-top: 0px\" id=\"scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:a1e570b9-645f-4709-abbf-8182ed0abe9e\" class=\"wlWriterEditableSmartContent\">Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Windows+8\" rel=\"tag\">Windows 8<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steven Sinofsky posted that Windows 8 will be available for download tonight at 8pm (PST) or 4am Dublin\/London time.&#160; This will be for x86 and x64.&#160; The ARM release won\u2019t be for some time.&#160; Be aware that a lot of people are going to want to download this developer preview; the download site is going &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=11610\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Download the Windows 8 Developer Preview&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[109],"class_list":["post-11610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-windows-desktop","tag-windows-8"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11610\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}