Windows 8 pre-beta release free and legal download

[ChrisUK]

You manage to recover your parition then?.

And virtualbox is a free "virtual machine" manager. Means you can install Windows 8 in a safe 'virtual' environment leaving your partion tables and your data alone .

 

[dave]

You manage to recover your parition then?.

yeah i deleted e as it was empty for some reason and made 1 new big one out of all the unused space, data recover has found some files but not the ones i got moaned at for losing

And virtualbox is a free "virtual machine" manager. Means you can install Windows 8 in a safe 'virtual' environment leaving your partion tables and your data alone .

bit late now

 

[dombooth]

:yeahthat:

 

[RuSZ]

Release Preview is here.. Final release supposedly around October.

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-8/release-preview


http://res1.windows.microsoft.com/resbox/en/6.2/main/66f89db7-9687-4b45-a423-ef7cb90b8e40_32.mp4

 

[ChrisUK]

Whoopie..... Look forward to that

 

[dave]

what is this Microsoft Silverlight are they trying to wipe out flash player? netflix made me install Microsoft Silverlight too

 

[ChrisUK]

Basically yes.

 

[dave]

so eventually Microsoft Silverlight will play all the porn and Microsoft will know what we are watching? that cant be good

 

[ChrisUK]

They already know If your using Windows, It's got lots of 'phone home' code with usage stats.

 

[dave]

ah so thats why that dude only uses linux

 

[Eklipze3k]

ah so thats why that dude only uses linux

Yeah, and Silverlight doesn't work on Linux :bang: Well, it kind of does, but depends what you're trying to use. SkyGo and Netflix don't work

 

[RuSZ]

Meant dislike. Been trying months to get silver light working on linux with no results

 

[Magic Johnson]

HTML5 will wipe out these annoying, badly written plugins, and I for one, CAN'T WAIT.

Anyway Windows 8 = no thanks.

 

[ChrisUK]

Reminds me of a Fisher Price laptop using Windows 8...

 

[RuSZ]

For anyone remotely interested.

Windows 8 was offically RTM today!

That means the first copies have been sent to manufacturers of Desktop PC's and Laptops, and now guess Tablets.

http://windowsteamblog.com/windows/.../windows-8-has-reached-the-rtm-milestone.aspx