Ok this is going to sound silly but please remember I'm a Welshman living in a cave in the hills.
How do you get this preview to work, never done anything like this before, if downloaded will my win 7 stop working et al or is it best to forget about it?????
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You'll want to either install it in a Virtual Machine (VM) like with VirtualBox, or install it on a test machine. Not sure if it will let you dual boot with this dev preview (I think one member said he set a dual boot up just fine). Visit eightforums and you can find different options posted there.
I tried to use VMware Player but had to up grade to VMware Workstation 8 to get the ISO to run but now all is good what a difference in some areas with the new interface 15 minutes to install like the dots going around in a circle.
Yeah, the cheerio finally isn't so ugly. I'm pretty happy with the build so far, although the IE browser doesn't like going from one resolution to another over RDP (the window gets cut off at the resolution from the first device to open the browser). If you don't open the browser before making an RDP connection (or close and re-open the one outside the desktop view), it does work properly at any res. I'll file it, but it's definitely an easy workaround.
I installed Office 2010 to see how it worked for touch, and the ribbon really does work well. I've started seeing how much I can get used to it on Explorer too, but regular old apps appear to at least work.
I am using FF with it did you do the 64 bit office I was just going to try and install the 64 bit version like the 8 so far real neat features like the apps and ribbons.
Important to note that, Only the 64bit 4GB One has the developer tools integrated, the other 64bit and 32bit download is just an OS preview.
VMware Player is free.
https://www.vmware.com/products/player/
I don't know if Windows 8 will run in a virtual machine though.
Still waiting for the downloads (32 & 64 bit) to finish.
Works in Virtualbox, not sure about VMware. Don't think it does.
Again, probably best to head over to eightforums and ask the specific Windows 8 questions.
A lot more user posts relating to it there...
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