The dev stuff...can't wait to see the samples and tools...but nothing to test on except WP7 emulator. :\

z3r010 said:

Win7User512 said:

The dev stuff...can't wait to see the samples and tools...but nothing to test on except WP7 emulator. :\

Test it on the windows 8 they are letting you download

Ah, I didn't realize they were releasing a version so soon. I thought it was just the SDK, samples, tools, etc.

:)

So the version WITH dev tools will have them integrated with the build and you do the dev on there? No writing the code on my physical machine?

The Win8 build they're releasing (the dev preview build) includes the Win8 OS, samples, SDKs, and Visual Studio. You do all of your dev and testing on that machine, either physical (if you install it on a real machine) or virtual (if you install it into a VM). Obviously to do touch testing and such you'd need a touch-capable machine, but the rest could probably be done either in a physical or virtual machine.

z3r010 said:

Nope you get a fully featured no activation version at some point within the next 12 hours.

I do notice at the bottom it says it won't have everything shown this morning in the keynote.

Correct - the build is a preview, not a beta or RC. It will only have what is necessary to start testing and building applications. From what I understand, we won't get a full OS release to test until the first beta, similar to the Win7 test cycles.