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Windows 8 customer preview now available!

Wednesday, 29 February 2012 Posted by Stephane Haby Category Technology Survey 0 comment

Following my article about Windows 8, Microsoft today released the customer preview. This is just a small posting to announce this fresh news!

How to download it?

This version is available in English, French and German... Japanese... and Chinese

32 and 64 bits are provided as an ISO file (~ 3GB).

Don't forget to check the system requirements on the web site.

You can download it here.

A Great Tool - Windows 7 USB/DVD download tool

Moreover, to complete my article, I will just present you this tool to create a DVD or USB Flash drive from an ISO file.

This can help you for your install...

You can download it here.

Conclusion

See Ken Walter (Windows Team) blog for a presentation of this preview (here).

The best way simply is to test it!

Tags: Microsoft, Windows 8

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About the author

Stephane Haby

Stéphane Haby is Consultant at dbi services.

He has more than ten years of experience in Microsoft solutions.

He is specialized in SQL Server technologies (installation, best practices, performance analysis, etc.) and Microsoft Business Intelligence solutions.

Stéphane Haby is Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS) and Microsoft Certified IT Professional (MCITP) : SQL Server 2008, Implementation and Maintenance.

Futhermore, he has also many years of .NET development experience in the banking sector and other industries.

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