free windows 8 preview...

[billygoat333]

...who is going to try it? I might give it a download.

http://www.legitreviews.com/news/11461/

EDIT: direct link to microsoft

[Fuganater]

I might throw it in a VM and see how it does.

[crenn]

*downloads all* ;D

[xr4man]

i know what i'm doing tonight now. - building computer to run this and downloading.

[slaveofconvention]

Damn, I can't remember the last time I downloaded something that would take over 30 mins :S - too used to 700mb downloads heh

Just warned the wife that I may be stealing her PC for a day or two - hers is the only machine in the house with a touchscreen

[AmEv]

Im VMing it.


See you in FOUR hours....

[slaveofconvention]

I have a spare 500gb Sata drive sitting here - I'm just going to yank her HDD and install 8 on the spare - that way there's no risk to her stuff and I get to see it without any potential VM issues - at least, that's the theory heh

[diluzio91]

honestly? so far i'm not really loving much, and find myself repulsed by
The mutalation of the start menu...
Anyone here try to find the power button? Thats right, its hidden in the settings...
Programs seem laggy (forgivable as im running this on a dual core atom, and its a dev preview)

Havn't gotten further into it yet...

[AmEv]

I suppose, use the main power button to turn it off?

[xr4man]

just looking at screen shots, i really don't like the "metro" tiles. maybe if they were finished off like android or iphone tiles. but being just plain blocks is definitely a step backwards.