{"id":292,"date":"2012-02-29T10:04:56","date_gmt":"2012-02-29T16:04:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yoonhuh.com\/blog\/?p=292"},"modified":"2019-07-27T20:14:20","modified_gmt":"2019-07-28T02:14:20","slug":"windows-8-consumer-preview-now-available-for-download","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yoonhuh.com\/blog\/windows-8-consumer-preview-now-available-for-download\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows 8 Consumer Preview Now Available for Download"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Windows 8: The New “Windows” Logo<\/p><\/div>\n

For those interested in testing out the beta version of Windows 8, the Consumer Preview is now available to the public for download<\/a>. Microsoft is offering two versions for download, a 32-bit and a 64-bit version. Unlike the previous Windows 8 Developer Preview that was unveiled last fall, the consumer preview of Windows 8 is more fully featured and will likely be similar to what we will be seeing in the final retail release version of Windows 8 later this year.<\/p>\n

I won’t be going over what’s new in the Windows 8 Consumer Preview, as many sites like Gizmodo<\/a> have already gone over some of the new features. Aside from the new MetroUI<\/a> (which I have previously\u00a0commented on), there are some other impressive features in Windows 8, such as Storage Spaces<\/a> (a new storage pooling option which is very similar to the Drive Extender technology seen in the first version of Windows Home Server), as well as built-in Hyper-V virtualization features.<\/p>\n

Granted, with the significant amount of changes, not everyone will like Windows 8, as the MetroUI interface<\/a> is a very touch-oriented user interface that is geared towards touch-based devices and not so much for traditional keyboard and mouse computers and laptops.<\/p>\n

You can grab the Windows 8 Consumer Preview (directly from Microsoft) here: http:\/\/windows.microsoft.com\/en-US\/windows-8\/iso<\/p>\n

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Sources<\/strong><\/span>:<\/p>\n

Windows 8 Consumer Preview ISO Images
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\nGizmodo – Windows 8 Consumer Preview Hands On: No Going Back<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For those interested in testing out the beta version of Windows 8, the Consumer Preview is now available to the public for download. Microsoft is offering two versions for download, a 32-bit and a 64-bit version. Unlike the previous Windows 8 Developer Preview that was unveiled last fall, the consumer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[26,25],"class_list":["post-292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-software","tag-microsoft","tag-windows-8"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yoonhuh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yoonhuh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yoonhuh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yoonhuh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yoonhuh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.yoonhuh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yoonhuh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yoonhuh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yoonhuh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}