{"id":1556,"date":"2011-09-15T03:21:20","date_gmt":"2011-09-14T21:21:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dotcomunderground.com\/blogs\/?p=1556"},"modified":"2011-09-15T03:21:20","modified_gmt":"2011-09-14T21:21:20","slug":"download-windows-8-developer-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dotcomunderground.com\/blogs\/2011\/09\/15\/download-windows-8-developer-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Download Windows 8 Developer Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has officially released the developer preview version of Windows 8 during the BUILD developer conference. The Windows Developer Preview is a pre-beta version of Windows 8 for developers, and thus is not suitable for those looking for stable or intending to run on production system, as the downloads include prerelease software that may change without notice.<\/p>\n<p>3 versions of downloads are currently available officially from Microsoft on MSDN. If you decides to install Windows 8 Developer Preview, do read the Windows Developer Preview guide.<\/p>\n<p>1. Windows Developer Preview English, 64-bit (x64)<\/p>\n<p>Size: 3.6 GB<br \/>\nSHA-1 Hash: 79DBF235FD49F5C1C8F8C04E24BDE6E1D04DA1E9<\/p>\n<p>Direct Download Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/wdp.dlws.microsoft.com\/WDPDL\/9B8DFDFF736C5B1DBF956B89D8A9D4FD925DACD2\/WindowsDeveloperPreview-64bit-English.iso\">WindowsDeveloperPreview-64bit-English.iso<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Note: Includes a disk image file (.iso) to install the Windows Developer Preview and Metro style apps on a 64-bit PC.<\/p>\n<p>2. Windows Developer Preview English, 32-bit (x86)<\/p>\n<p>Size: 2.8 GB<br \/>\nSHA-1 Hash: 4E0698BBABE01ED27582C9FC16AD21C4422913CC<\/p>\n<p>Direct Download Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/wdp.dlws.microsoft.com\/WDPDL\/9B8DFDFF736C5B1DBF956B89D8A9D4FD925DACD2\/WindowsDeveloperPreview-32bit-English.iso\">WindowsDeveloperPreview-32bit-English.iso<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Note: Includes a disk image file (.iso) to install the Windows Developer Preview and Metro style apps on a 32-bit PC<\/p>\n<p>3. Windows Developer Preview with developer tools English, 64-bit (x64)<\/p>\n<p>Size: 4.8 GB<br \/>\nSHA-1 Hash: 6FE9352FB59F6D0789AF35D1001BD4E4E81E42AF<\/p>\n<p>Direct Download Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/wdp.dlws.microsoft.com\/WDPDL\/9B8DFDFF736C5B1DBF956B89D8A9D4FD925DACD2\/WindowsDeveloperPreview-64bit-English-Developer.iso\">WindowsDeveloperPreview-64bit-English-Developer.iso<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Note: All of the following come on a disk image file (.iso): 64-bit Windows Developer Preview, Windows SDK for Metro style apps, Microsoft Visual Studio 11 Express for Windows Developer Preview, Microsoft Expression Blend 5 Developer Preview and 28 Metro style apps including the BUILD Conference app<\/p>\n<p>Windows 8 has the similar system requirements with Windows 7:<\/p>\n<ul>\n    1 gigahertz (GHz) or faster 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor<br \/>\n    1 gigabyte (GB) RAM (32-bit) or 2 GB RAM (64-bit)<br \/>\n    16 GB available hard disk space (32-bit) or 20 GB (64-bit)<br \/>\n    DirectX 9 graphics device with WDDM 1.0 or higher driver<br \/>\n    Taking advantage of touch input requires a screen that supports multi-touch<\/ul>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mydigitallife.info\">My Digital Life<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has officially released the developer preview version of Windows 8 during the BUILD developer conference. The Windows Developer Preview is a pre-beta version of Windows 8 for developers, and thus is not suitable for those looking for stable or intending to run on production system, as the downloads include prerelease software that may change [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,9],"tags":[287],"class_list":["post-1556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech","category-tips","tag-windows-8"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dotcomunderground.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dotcomunderground.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dotcomunderground.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dotcomunderground.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dotcomunderground.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dotcomunderground.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1556\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dotcomunderground.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dotcomunderground.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dotcomunderground.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}