Windows 8 Developer Version free for all

[JuLieN]

Just so you know, Microsoft will release in a few hours a pre-version of Windows 8, free for anyone who has a Live ID. It will happen there :

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/home/

A beta version of Visual Studio 2012 (taped "Visual Studio 11 Express" for now) should be available as well, allowing us to start coding for Metro.

As this version o Windows 8 is meant for developers and not stable at all, do not use it on a production machine. Instead, it would be wise to virtualize it.

All this should be available at 8 P.M. Pacific time (5 AM in Western Europe: Paris, Brussel, Stockholm...).

[jshriver]

Interesting, thanks for the post.