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soddit112
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Source: Guru3D.comLink to Download Selection Pagejust saw this, seems that Microsoft has made a Windows 8 Developer Preview available at its BUILD conference, complete with program design tools, and a bunch of other stuff. the full download is 4.8GB, but without the tools it is 3.8GB. dev tools are only available for 64bit (thank God), but a 32bit .iso is provided for installation.  *EDIT* Thanks Lev!!
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l3v1ck
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Consider it moved. 
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forquare1
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jonlumb
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Definitely fancy having a play with this, I love new things.
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l3v1ck
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I'm just not excited by Windows 8. Windows 7 excited me as Vista had a bad reputation and XP was seriously showing its age. But as Windows 7 is still great and fairly new, I just don't see a reason to be that bothered.
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Amnesia10
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Many corporates have already said no to 8. Maybe Microsoft are having problems keeping that money train rolling? Need a new release to get the income again? _________________Do concentrate, 007... "You are gifted. Mine is bordering on seven seconds." https://www.dropbox.com/referrals/NTg5MzczNTkhttp://astore.amazon.co.uk/wwwx404couk-21
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pcernie
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There are certain wee things that interest me about it, but we've all been lied to so many times before, so I'll wait and see what the final release holds when it's reviewed...
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big_D
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I'm interested to see how the interface works. I currently have 5 overlapping windows on my screen, it took me a while to get them set up. The "full screen mode" that both Windows and OS X are taking just wouldn't work for me - I tried it in OS X, but it looks silly on a 24" display.
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forquare1
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Full screen apps work really well on portables, and when you look at the market many people are buying portable over desktops. Haven't Apple shown that they mainly sell MacBook*s? Having overlapping screens is a luxury of having high screen resolutions and having the space to fit everything together nicely. One thing that frustrates me with overlapping windows in Windows is that to scroll a scrollable pane on a background but visible app you've got to click it (the pane, and thus the app) into focus, meaning that a background app jumps to the front just to be scrolled. I don't know if this is still the case?
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lacloss
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Started loading 9.42 am,Acer aspire 3000 2gig ram 80 gig hdd amd something or other .  finished installing at 10.05 am , now lets play 
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Spreadie
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jonbwfc
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Bah, doesn't install under VirtualBox.
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james016
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I have the 32bit version installed on a spare PC. Can't work out how to close down programs/apps without resorting to the task manager.
The screen is limited to 1280x1024.
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Amnesia10
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The only thing that I use full screen for are games. I have dozens of windows open normally so will probably not use full screen if I can when I install Lion. _________________Do concentrate, 007... "You are gifted. Mine is bordering on seven seconds." https://www.dropbox.com/referrals/NTg5MzczNTkhttp://astore.amazon.co.uk/wwwx404couk-21
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soddit112
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finally figured out how to make it install in VirtualBox (i had VT-x diabled in EFI, so it crashed on boot  ). its unpacking itself right now, ill report back when its done  *EDIT* well, the new task manager is nice, it shows all the information that used to be saved for Performance Monitor (RAM/disk/network usage), which makes things a lot easier for me. cant say im too keen on the Tile interface, but even more annoyingly it seems to have completely replaced the start menu. you can get the start menu back, but only by messing with the Registry. nothing else seems to stand out for now, other than a few over-sized phone-oriented pop-ups with stuff like the time etc on, which i cant get to go away. they ought to be fixed soon though, so they arent really worth worrying about but it has just crashed when i tried to disable UAC :S
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