After a long wait and speculation, Windows 8 Developer preview (pre-beta) edition is finally available to download directly from Microsoft. It was released by Microsoft yesterday in their BUILD event of Windows 8 to everyone. As the BUILD event showcased whats inside Windows 8 and almost everyone who watched it, felt thrilled. Hopefully Microsoft has done its homework right again this time just like they did with Windows 7 and not like Windows Vista which failed to impress. Never ever seen a Windows event to have thrilled everyone like this before.
The developer preview build of Windows 8 is available to everyone who wants to test it without even needing a sign-in leave aside any MSDN account. Just download it and you are ready to go. The build are available for both 32 bit and 64 bit systems. Apart from 32 bit and 64 bit OS ISO image, a third ISO is also available which includes Windows SDK for Metro style apps, Microsoft Visual Studio 11 Express for Windows Developer Preview and Microsoft Expression Blend 5 Developer Preview. This build is for you if you want to develop apps for Windows 8. For rest of you, choose the 32 bit or 64 bit version and start downloading it directly.
THe downloads are available on Windows developer page . You can use the links below to download the files directly.
Windows Developer Preview with developer tools English, 64-bit (x64)
DOWNLOAD (4.8 GB)
Sha 1 hash – 6FE9352FB59F6D0789AF35D1001BD4E4E81E42AF
All of the following come on a disk image file (.iso). See below for installation instructions.
- 64-bit Windows Developer Preview
- Windows SDK for Metro style apps
- Microsoft Visual Studio 11 Express for Windows Developer Preview
- Microsoft Expression Blend 5 Developer Preview
- 28 Metro style apps including the BUILD Conference app
Windows Developer Preview English, 64-bit (x64)
DOWNLOAD (3.6 GB)
Sha 1 hash – 79DBF235FD49F5C1C8F8C04E24BDE6E1D04DA1E9
Includes a disk image file (.iso) to install the Windows Developer Preview and Metro style apps on a 64-bit PC.
Windows Developer Preview English, 32-bit (x86)
DOWNLOAD (2.8 GB)
Sha 1 hash – 4E0698BBABE01ED27582C9FC16AD21C4422913CC
Includes a disk image file (.iso) to install the Windows Developer Preview and Metro style apps on a 32-bit PC.
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
How to activate Windows 8 Developer Preview
Fortunately, one good thing to note here that you don’t need to activate this build after installing the developer preview. So, you can download without worry of getting any developer key or someone releasing some hack. SO go and start downloading it to enjoy it.
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