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[Blackhead]

Very impressed. Will be following again tomorrow

Should stress it's a developer build and will not be 'Beta Quality'.

Yeah folks, don't go install this on your main computer

 

[Calisto Glory]

Would be good to make a new topic with all important facts about developing, gaming and stuff

 

[angelfly]

As someone who left Windows during the XP days I think I'll try the development version on my laptop once they release. All that application building stuff looked really interesting.

 

[artist]

For free though?

Skydrive is going unlimited (for photos and MS Office files). Other files upto 25GB.

All for FREE.

 

[Totakeke]

Okay guys here you go.

http://www.winsupersite.com/blog/supersite-blog-39/windows8/build-day-keynote-live-blog-140551

 

[Raistlin]

Well, everyone who has a Live account gets 25gb of free space on SkyDrive and they are using it heavily for photos, documents, and video storage in both W8 and WP. That bandwidth(for free services) probably eclipses what patches and updates will cause. Yuo probably also have to pay some money to be able to upload apps. The cost of that will most certainly be lower than royalty costs.

Actually it's better than that. Earlier this week they announced that documents and photos do NOT count towards your total. They are unlimited ala Amazon music bought from the store directly to your Cloud Drive.

 

[Mr_Zombie]

Holy shit, so there will be a preview version to download?

 

[Vanillalite]

Skydrive is going unlimited (for photos and MS Office files). Other files upto 25GB.

All for FREE.

Eh basically not a big deal then if it's only photos and office files. If it was anything then I'd be like omfg spooge.

 

[Whogie]

I'm pumped!
Can't wait to try out the preview build tonight
(Then I can just show people on my laptop instead of trying to explain it)

 

[Totakeke]

That was cool. Time to sleep.

 

[DavieC726]

My bets on the public crashing Microsoft Servers tonight!

 

[artist]

Eh basically not a big deal then if it's only photos and office files. If it was anything then I'd be like omfg spooge.

Actually, have people tried renaming their files to .xls and trying? I know they probably have checks in place but have anyone actually tried it?

 

[tycoonheart]

This is going to be a fantastic OS for an HTPC. I hope the Metro home screen is extremely customizable. As in, you get to choose what exactly you see there. And I hope there is a nice integration between Windows Media Center and the Metro home.

 

[Frustrated_me]

What time eastern standard time do I get all this?

 

[Hanningfield]

too bad there is no ARM build for download. Would love to see it ported to an existing tablet.


Edit: did they just play eminem for a hot second?

ARM builds would depend on the target chipset, no?

 

[KtSlime]

Why would they want to make it easier for devs to port to unix based systems? They hate unix.

That sentence was in regard to porting pre-existing Unix software to Windows Server. And don't you think it is stupid for them to hate Unix?

- They should stop supporting C while they are at it because that is also a technology that came from Unix - see, silly. POSIX support can only help them.

 

[HarryDemeanor]

What time eastern standard time do I get all this?

11:00 P.M. EST

 

[The Friendly Monster]

Zero percent cut in the store is incredible.

Good work Microsoft, looks like we have a tasty 3 way battle now.

 

[Frustrated_me]

11:00 P.M. EST

Thanks bud.

 

[StudioTan]

Couldn't have asked for more from the presentation.

Can't wait to try out the dev build!

 

[leadbelly]

GFWL has been 100% free on Windows for a very long time, but you were going for knee jerk reaction instead?

It's not GFWL I'm speaking about, it's Xbox live integration, but you can pretend that's what I meant if you like.

It was also said tongue-in-cheek. Nvm

 

[Vestal]

Should we make a new thread for just the Dev build discussion?

 

[thezerofire]

So Windows 8 looks pretty cool for tablets, but what about traditional PC's?

 

[artist]

New TaskManager for those who missed it;

 

[Emily Chu]

Should we make a new thread for just the Dev build discussion?

yeppers post download links too

 

[bathala]

i like the start up option right on the task manager

 

[infinityBCRT]

New TaskManager for those who missed it;

Awesome that theres network usage stats.

 

[saelz8]

New Task Manager is sex.

 

[Jadedx]

That sentence was in regard to porting pre-existing Unix software to Windows Server. And don't you think it is stupid for them to hate Unix?

- They should stop supporting C while they are at it because that is also a technology that came from Unix - see, silly. POSIX support can only help them.

No I don't think it is silly for them to hate unix, most unix based operating systems infringe on hundreds of their patents and since unix/linux is open source they can't sue. Me and my cts 1106 unix professor had me right a paper on this the semester before last.

 

[Damon Bennet]

I want that samsung tablet.

 

[enzo_gt]

New Task Manager is sex.

Indeed.

 

[mclaren777]

I think it's funny how excited some of us are for the new task manager.

 

[artist]

Notice that there is a Tiles Usage column also

 

[Jadedx]

Post the new remote desktop, I missed that part.

 

[Slayer-33]

Indeed.

MY body..


My. b.bbbb..deeey.

 

[Marty Chinn]

Post the new remote desktop, I missed that part.

This, I wanna see it too.

 

[hiryu]

Looks pretty awesome, I wonder if I'll be able to run the developer build on my netbook.

 

[Jadedx]

Looks pretty awesome, I wonder if I'll be able to run the developer build on my netbook.

can it run w7? if so, yes.

 

[Swag]

Looks so good, is the preview build going up tonight for the desktop version?

 

[clav]

I doubt this release of Windows 8 is compatible with Windows Home Server 2003, so looks like I'll have to stop backing up for a while.

Yes, I can VM, but it's just not the same. xzibit would be proud though.

 

[The Friendly Monster]

Looks so good, is the preview build going up tonight for the desktop version?

There's only one version I think.

 

[Mr_Zombie]

Looks pretty awesome, I wonder if I'll be able to run the developer build on my netbook.

Based on the conference the performance should be even better than in W7.

 

[Biggzy]

So Windows 8 looks pretty cool for tablets, but what about traditional PC's?

I believe ars technica have a preview coming up for PC users.

 

[HollovVpo1nt]

This might be the first time in my life that I'll buy Windows
As soon as WhatsApp hits WP7, I'm flashing my HD2 with Mango!

 

[Jadedx]

Looks so good, is the preview build going up tonight for the desktop version?

It is all one version, metro ui works fine with kb/m too. tablets can use aero aswell.

 

[thezerofire]

I believe ars technica have a preview coming up for PC users.

wonderful, exactly what I was looking for

 

[artist]

Me so jelly!

 

[Biggzy]

Me so jelly!

I want that in my life.

 

[Damon Bennet]

That would look so good in tandem with my samsung omnia 7

 

[Marty Chinn]

Any info on what the sepcs are of that Samsung tablet?

Booooo on 16:9 though.