Windows 8 Developer Preview Build 8102 M3 (32 & 64 Bit) ISO
Information:
Review: Microsoft demoed their upcoming Windows 8 OS during the BUILD
conference today along with the sneak peek to developers platform and
tools. Windows 8 includes plethora of new features which includes the
all new immersive Metro style UI, Internet Explorer 10 (IE10), Task
Manager, Quick boot, Face password, Cloud integration etc. They also
made available the Windows 8 Developer Preview copy to all the attendees
out there along with a Samsung Tablet so that the developer community
can play with it and give feedback before the RTM hits store. And for
the rest of us the very same files will be uploaded to their public
servers and will be available soon.
Features:
The main
feature that
was shown is the extensively redesigned user interface, optimized for
touchscreens as well as mice and keyboards. A new "Start screen",
similar to the one in
Windows Phone 7, includes live
application tiles.
It replaces the Start menu, being triggered by the Start button
or Windows key, and is also the first screen shown on startup. The user
can go to the regular desktop by choosing the "Desktop" tile or a
traditional desktop-based application. The Start screen also
displays the
user's name and avatar. Windows 8 has a new developer platform
according to Microsoft Vice President Christopher Ham, who called it
"our new developer platform, which is...based on HTML5 and JavaScript.
The new applications run in full-screen, but two of them can be
displayed side-by-side using "Snap". Examples of new applications that
were demoed include a Twitter client, a weather application, a
stock-tracking application, an RSS news feeder, and a virtual piano.
The new interface is primarily designed for 16:9 screen resolutions,
with 1366×768 and larger screens able to display two Windows
8 applications. 1024×768 screens can display one Windows
8 application in full-screen, and 1024×600 screens can only use the
traditional Windows desktop. Mike Angiulo confirmed at Computex 2011
that Windows 8 will use OEM
Activation 3.0 instead of OEM Activation 2.1 (used by
Windows 7),
which supposedly makes it less prone to cracks. Windows 8 features a
new lock screen that shows the date and time and notifications, along
with a customisable background.
Windows 8 will also include Microsoft's Hyper-V virtualization tool. Previously only offered in
Windows Server,
Hyper-V will now be available in client versions of Windows for the
first time. The system requirements for Hyper-V are a 64-bit processor, a
64-bit version of Windows 8, and a minimum of 4 GB of RAM. Hyper-V also
requires a 64-bit system that has Second Level Address Translation
(SLAT), a feature that helps with memory management. Many of Intel's and
AMD's recent processors support this feature, including many of Intel's
i-Series processors (with Extended Page Table) and AMD's 10h family
processors. On September 8, 2011, Microsoft announced that Windows 8 has
short boot times, because it saves the kernel's memory to the hard disk
on shutdown (similar to the existing Hibernate option) and reloads it
on startup.
Cofiguration Details: All configuration same as Windows 7 (32 & 64 Bit)
Download Instructions: Click on download link to start download directly from MS own server.
Direct download with resumable option.
System Requirements-
Windows Developer Preview works great on the same hardware that powers
Windows Vista and Windows 7
1 gigahertz (GHz) or faster 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor
1 gigabyte (GB) RAM (32-bit) or 2 GB RAM (64-bit)
16 GB available hard disk space (32-bit) or 20 GB (64-bit)
DirectX 9 graphics device with WDDM 1.0 or higher driver
Taking advantage of touch input requires a screen that supports multi-touch
To run Metro style Apps, you need a screen resolution of 1024 X 768 or greater.