Geek Posted September 14, 2011 Posted September 14, 2011 <div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/windows-8.jpg" alt="Windows 8" title="windows-8" width="600" height="337" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-21228" /></p> <p>Windows 8 is Microsofts future operating system that is intended to share aspects of Windows 7 while also competing directly with iPad, iOS, and Android thanks to it’s Metro user interface. We’ve praised <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/06/02/6-features-ios-needs-from-windows-8/">some of the Windows 8 features</a> before, and also criticized the <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/08/30/windows-8-vs-mac-os-x-and-ios/">freakishly cluttered Ribbon UI</a>, but now you can try it out yourself and come up with your own conclusion of Microsofts future OS, completely for free.</p> <p>The Windows 8 Developer Preview comes as a free download from <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/home/">Microsofts new Windows Dev Center</a> – there is no product activation required. The .iso files weigh in between 2.8GB and 4.8GB depending on what you’re looking for.</p> <p>You should have about 16GB of disk space to try it out, and without a touch screen you won’t be able to enjoy all the funky Metro UI features. Official system requirements are as follows:</p> <blockquote><p>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</p> <p>1 gigabyte (GB) RAM (32-bit) or 2 GB RAM (64-bit)</p> <p>16 GB available hard disk space (32-bit) or 20 GB (64-bit)</p> <p>DirectX 9 graphics device with WDDM 1.0 or higher driver</p> <p>Taking advantage of touch input requires a screen that supports multi-touch</p></blockquote> <p>If you don’t have a spare PC to install Windows 8 DP on and you don’t want to bother dual booting with a separate partition, <a href="http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads">there’s always VirtualBox</a>, the free virtual machine app from Oracle.</p> <p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/windows-8-dev-preview-download.jpg" alt="Windows 8 Developer Preview" title="windows-8-dev-preview-download" width="524" height="264" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-21225" /></p> </div> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/FYtZmPTQC0_IHfN0271y8GtuHBQ/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/FYtZmPTQC0_IHfN0271y8GtuHBQ/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/FYtZmPTQC0_IHfN0271y8GtuHBQ/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/FYtZmPTQC0_IHfN0271y8GtuHBQ/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=vmtUxsYm5VE:JRqKqn0xJq0:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=vmtUxsYm5VE:JRqKqn0xJq0:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?i=vmtUxsYm5VE:JRqKqn0xJq0:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=vmtUxsYm5VE:JRqKqn0xJq0:D7DqB2pKExk"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?i=vmtUxsYm5VE:JRqKqn0xJq0:D7DqB2pKExk" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=vmtUxsYm5VE:JRqKqn0xJq0:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=vmtUxsYm5VE:JRqKqn0xJq0:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/osxdaily/~4/vmtUxsYm5VE" height="1" width="1"/> View the full article
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