Today, 1st of June 2012, Microsoft has announced the arrival of Windows 8 Release Preview.
Below are quoted from windowsteamblog.com:
"For Developers:
Windows 8 presents a huge
opportunity for developers to build great new apps for a variety of form
factors. If you’re a developer looking to get started developing apps
with the Windows 8 Release Preview, I suggest reading this blog post from the Windows 8 app developer blog and this blog post from the Windows Store for developers blog.
These two posts will have a lot of information, like where to go to
grab the latest tools to begin app development. Developers can also
visit the Windows Dev Center
for more information on the Windows developer platform and what it
means for the Windows 8 Release Preview. In the Windows Store today with
the Windows 8 Release Preview, you will notice a lot of incredible new
apps – this is just the beginning!
For Businesses:
For enterprise customers wanting to know more about what the Windows 8 Release Preview means for them – I suggest reading this blog post
from Erwin Visser on the Windows for your Business Blog. The Windows 8
Release Preview provides a great opportunity to experience and try out
new capabilities in Windows 8 specifically designed with businesses in
mind.
For Consumers:
Are you really excited
about all the new PCs available today but thinking about waiting for
Windows 8? Well you don’t have to. We are also announcing today that
starting on June 2nd, 2012, Microsoft will roll out the Windows Upgrade Offer
in 131 markets including the US and Canada. Consumers who purchase
eligible Windows 7 PCs that are preinstalled with Windows 7 Home Basic,
Home Premium, Professional, or Ultimate and include a matching and valid
OEM Certificate of Authenticity through January 31, 2013 will be able
to purchase an upgrade to Windows 8 Pro for $14.99 (U.S.) which will be
redeemable when Windows 8 is generally available (the program expires in
February 2013). For more on the editions of Windows 8, see this blog post.
When consumers register for the Windows Upgrade Offer, they will be
able to download Windows 8 Pro starting the day it’s made generally
available and the upgrade comes with 90 days of support from Microsoft.
Go give the Windows 8 Release Preview a try!"Below are quoted from Building Windows 8:
"Our next milestone is traditionally called RTM, Release to
Manufacturing, and from today until RTM, we will still be changing
Windows 8, as we have done in past releases of Windows. We thought it
would be a good idea to outline the kinds of feedback we are acting on
as millions download and use the Windows 8 Release Preview.
Our focus from now until RTM is on continuing to maintain a quality level higher
than Windows 7 in all the measures we focus on, including reliability
over time; security to the core; PC, software, and peripheral
compatibility; and resource utilization. We will rely heavily on the
telemetry built into the product from setup through usage to inform us
of the real world experience over time of the Release Preview. In
addition, we carefully monitor our forums
for reproducible reports relative to PC, software, and peripheral
compatibility. We’ll be looking hard at every aspect of Windows 8 as we
complete the work on the product, but we want to highlight the
following:
- Installation – We have significant telemetry in the setup process and also significant logging. Of course, if you can’t set up Windows 8 at all, that is something we are interested in, and the same holds for upgrades from Windows 7. Please note the specifics regarding installation requirements and cautions found on the download page.
- Security and privacy – Obviously, any vulnerability is a something we would want to address. We will use the same criteria to address these issues as we would for any in-market product.
- Reliability and responsiveness – We are monitoring the “crash” reports for issues that impact broad sets of people. These could be caused by Windows code, Microsoft or third-party drivers, or third-party apps. Information about crashes streams in “real time” to Microsoft, and we watch it very carefully. We also have a lot of new data coming on the hundreds of new apps in the Windows Store.
- Device installation and compatibility – When you download a driver from Windows Update or install a driver via a manufacturer’s setup program, we collect data about that download via the Plug and Play (PnP) ID program. We’ve seen millions of unique PnP IDs through the Consumer Preview. We also receive the IDs for devices that failed to locate drivers. We are constantly updating the Plug and Play web service with pointers to information about each device (driver availability, instructions, etc.) We actively monitor the use of the compatibility modes required when the first installation of a Windows 7 based product does not succeed.
- Software compatibility – Similar to device compatibility, we are also monitoring the installation process for software, and noting programs that do not install successfully. Again, we have the mechanism to help move that forward, and/or introduce compatibility work in the RTM milestone. Here too, we actively monitor the use of compatibility modes required when the first installation of a Windows 7-based product does not succeed. We have tested thousands of complex commercial products from around the world in preparation for the Release Preview.
- Servicing – We will continue to test the servicing of Windows 8 so everyone should expect updates to be made available via Windows Update. This will include new drivers and updates to Windows 8, some arriving very soon as part of a planned rollout. Test updates will be labeled as such. We might also fix any significant issue with new code. All of this effort serves to validate the servicing pipeline, and to maintain the quality of the Release Preview.
- New hardware – Perhaps the most important category for potential fixes comes from making sure that we work with all the new hardware being made as we all use build 8400. Our PC manufacturing partners and hardware partners are engineering new PCs, and these include hardware combinations that are new to the market and new to the OS. We’re working together to make sure Windows 8 has great support for these new PCs and hardware."
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