You'll be able to download Windows 8 Dev Preview Tonight...........
Tuesday, September 13, 2011 by Leo the Lion | Discussion: Personal Computing
Link to download above.............
News item on Neowin.........http://www.neowin.net/news/download-windows-8-developer-preview-tonight-at-8-pm-pdt
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Reply #83 Wednesday, September 28, 2011 7:36 PM
personally I think that windows 8 will make vista look like the mona lisa(the painting)and yes I refuse to support vista, and it looks like I will refuse to visit customers that have win8 as linux and MAC (both of which I do not know) will be easier to support.
I find it slow, horribly UGLY(it reminds me of the BABY toys from the late 60's(when I was already in school)), totally incompatible( and this is with 1 generation old minimal hardware(ie i3-550(oc to 4.95ghz) gigabyte mobo,4gb ddr3 1333, geforce 440 vga 120gb ssd & dvd drive), and also really HATE how mshit keeps fucking the user interface for essential things like the shutdown command, but have found the power on button on the tower does shut down shit8.
harpo
Reply #84 Wednesday, September 28, 2011 8:17 PM
Not a 'real' version... just a 'Preview'. When it starts getting into the Betas and RC, I guarantee it'll have an expiration date.
Also.. if you aren't doing it with a touchscreen capable device... you're probably missing a great deal of the 'experience' from what Sinofsky demonstrated.
Hmmm... Jim has an HP Touchscreen... lol. j/k. Don't do that...lol.
I have a new HP Touchsmart and love it. Can't wait to learn more about what Widows 8 will bring to it in terms of touch functionality.
Reply #85 Wednesday, September 28, 2011 8:37 PM
I've downloaded it but not installed. I want to partition a part of hard drive and install it on partition. Has anyone done this?
Reply #86 Wednesday, September 28, 2011 9:08 PM
Well, I haven't tried it. The site says clean install.
Reply #88 Sunday, October 2, 2011 5:09 PM
I tried to install windowblinds on 8......nope. Back to 7. Maybe later, 8.......
Reply #89 Monday, October 3, 2011 5:23 AM
From the sounds of all the posts W8 has quite a long way to go. Maybe a good thing its still a year or so away. Who knows...Microstuff got it right with seven. Two in a row is not unheard of. But I'll wait till the movie comes out.
Reply #90 Monday, October 3, 2011 11:41 AM
yeah, and when I was done I didn't even bother deleting it, just told win7 to boot to itself and hid the drive letter.
Might as well leave that partition for the inevitable beta, even if I'll need to format it.
There are things I liked and things I didn't, but I considered it almost worthy of being my main OS.
Not quite, but I'm sure the beta will be 
Too bad Protogon is broken, I definately want to see that.
Reply #91 Monday, October 3, 2011 10:21 PM
Not so. XP is 'OK' but Windows 7 simply WORKS. It FINALLY puts the 'O' into 'OS'.
As for proggies not working.....'most' will.
OK, so I still need DosBOX for Terra Nova...but then that's a Dos game and quite ancient..... doesn't run on XP natively either....
Reply #92 Wednesday, October 5, 2011 4:31 AM
Just Cause 2 and Shattered Horizon to name the ones I own, Renegade Ops is preordered and out shortly, Stormrise (I think) for one I don't plan to get.
And Battlefield 3 being the obvious first major title to do it. I haven't preordered it but I'll definately get it.
I assume if there were any others I'd know, but stranger things have happened.
Reply #93 Wednesday, October 5, 2011 8:13 AM
I had it dual booted on a separate partition and it worked fine, for what it was.
Just removed it last night. All I was doing with it was playing that word game! 
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Reply #81 Wednesday, September 28, 2011 1:47 PM