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Download Windows 8 Now. Microsoft has introduced Windows 8 yesterday. Microsoft has released Windows 8 developers for anyone to preview. Anyone can download Windows 8 developer version, its not limited for developers.

Before Download Windows 8 Developers - Whats Hardware Requirements:


Dont worry, Windows 8 doesnt require special hardware, if your PC / Laptop is running Windows 7 so it will be easily able to run Windows 8, heres the minimum hardware requirements :

• 1GHz Processor
• 1 GB of RAM
• 16 GB of free hard disk space
• DirectX 9 graphics card with WDDM 1.0

Windows 8 comes with Metro UI, powerful apps, syncing with the Cloud, separated Application Store, improved performance, support for ARM/x86 and more.

Download Windows 8 Developers [Direct Links] :

Download Windows 8 Developer Preview ISO (64-bit)
Download Windows 8 Developer Preview ISO (32-bit)

Before you begin this tutorial you will need the Windows 8 Consumer Preview ISO and Product Key. Those of you with a DVD burner will need to burn this ISO to DVD before continuing. Those of you (like us) without a DVD drive will need to connect a blank 8GB USB flash drive before beginning.

Step One
Open a new Finder window by clicking the Finder icon in your dock.


Step Two
Navigate to the Applications : Utilities folder and double click the Boot Camp Assistant icon to launch the application.


Step Three
The Boot Camp Assistant will open. Click the Continue button.


Step Four
You will now be asked to select from a series of tasks. Leave all 3 tasks selected and click Continue.


Step Five
Click the Choose button, select the ISO you just downloaded, and click Open.




Make sure the correct USB flash drive is set as the destination disk and click the Continue button.


Step Six
You will be warned that the drive will be erased. Click Continue.


Step Seven
Boot Camp Assistant will now copy the Windows files to the USB flash drive.


Step Eight
You will be asked to enter your Administrative username and password. Do this, then click the OK button.


Step Nine
If you have more than one hard drive, you will be asked to select which system hard drive you would like to partition for Windows. Choose the correct hard drive and click the Continue button.


Step Ten
You will now be asked to Create a Partition for Windows. You can drag the divider to set the size of the partitions.




When satisfied with the size of your partition click the Install button.

Step Eleven
Boot Camp Assistant will now partition your disk.


Step Twelve
Once the partition has been completed your computer will automatically be restarted and launch Windows setup from the USB flash drive.

Step Thirteen
Proceed through the Windows setup.

When asked whether to do a Upgrade or Custom (advanced) install, choose Custom (advanced).

When asked "Where do you want to install Windows?" select the partition labelled BOOTCAMP. Next click Drive Options then click Format. Click OK to confirm format and click Next to continue the installation.

Step Fourteen
Once installation has completed successfully, click the Windows Explorer tile.


Step Fifteen
Select the WININSTALL USB flash drive from the list of devices under Computer and double click the WindowsSupport folder to open it.


Step Sixteen
Double click setup to launch the executable.


Step Seventeen
The Boot Camp Installer will appear to guide you through the steps necessary to install Boot Camp. Click the Next button to get started.


Step Eighteen
Read the license agreement, select I accept the terms in the license agreement, then click the Next button to continue.


Step Nineteen
Choose whether you would like to install Apple Software Update for Windows then click the Install button.


Step Twenty
Boot Camp will proceed to install the drivers necessary for your Mac to work properly with Windows.


When the installation has completed click the Finish button.


You will then be prompted to restart your system for the configuration changes to take effect. Click the Yes button.


Step Twenty One
Once your system has restarted you will have successfully installed Windows 8 on your Mac using Boot Camp.

First You Will Need:

• Windows 8 ISO - Developer Preview [Download]
• Windows 7 USB/DVD [Download] – This is the official Microsoft tool for creating bootable DVD or USB device of Windows 8

Here is how to make a Windows 8 Bootable USB Stick:

Step 1: Install Window 7 USB/DVD tool and open it, Browse the Windows 8 ISO which you downloaded earlier and click next.





Step 2: In the second step select USB in creating bootable image.





Step 3: Plug in USB and browse the USB as shown in picture below to create bootable Windows 8 drive, now click begin copying:



Step 4: That’s it Windows 8 files will now be copy to usb in the form of bootable image.



Step 5: Now simply restart your computer and boot the computer via USB drive to begin installation of Windows 8.

We didn’t try this yet, so feed us back and tell us what do you think of Windows 8.

Microsoft’s Farzana Rahman, the group program manager for Windows Update, has posted about the details of the planned improvement for Windows Update on Windows 8 on an extensive blog post in the Building Windows 8 blog.
According to Rahman, Windows 8 OS updating will be improved in two main ways.

First, she says that Windows Update will consolidate all restarts in a month, synchronizing with the monthly security release (you might know this by its “Patch Tuesday” moniker) and that Windows Update will notify you of any upcoming automatic restart in the log-in screen.


For the first area of improvement, Rahman writes:

“This means that your PC will only restart when security updates are installed and require a restart. With this improvement, it does not matter when updates that require restarts are released in a month, since these restarts will wait till the security release. Since security updates are released in a single batch on the second Tuesday of every month, you are then getting essentially one restart a month. This simplification helps in three ways: it keeps the system secure in a timely manner, reduces restarts, and makes restarts more predictable.”

Nonetheless, there’s an exception to this rule so there might be times when the ideal one-restart-per-month for Windows Update will not hold true.


User experience with Windows Update will be improved for Windows 8. Image: Microsoft

This is for times when a patch for a very critical vulnerability with Windows 8 is released by Microsoft. Rahman assures, however, that “this will happen only when the security threat is dire enough.”

For the second area of improvement, Rahman says that Windows Update will notify the user on the log-in screen that an upcoming automatic restart is scheduled by Windows 8 Windows Update.

This notification will last for three days, Rahman says, to “allow you to restart at your own convenience”.
With Windows 8, users will also “no longer see any pop-up notifications or dialogs about pending restarts” while on the desktop or on the home screen.

Microsoft has also thought of the loss of data with Windows 8 as users sometimes get shocked that Windows has automatically restarted without them being able to save their current work before the restart occurred.

According to Rahman:

“If after three days, the restart still has not occurred, then WU will automatically restart your PC for you. In this case, the automatic restart will happen either at the end of the three-day grace period, or, to prevent data loss if WU detects that there are critical applications open at the end of the three-day grace period, it will wait to automatically restart the next time you login.”

She continues:

“Delay the automatic restart if there is potential of losing user data. If the PC has hit the three-day deadline and still needs an automatic restart, WU will only automatically restart the machine if there is no chance of losing the user’s data. That means, if you are not at your PC (i.e. it is locked), if you have applications running in the background, or if there is potentially unsaved work, WU delays the automatic restart until the next time you come back to your machine and log in. At log-in, you will be asked to save your work, and you’ll see a warning that the machine will be restarted within 15 minutes.”

So if these improvements are implemented seamlessly with Windows 8, users can expect a better experience with Windows Update on the next-generation Microsoft operating system.

You can read Rahman’s post here for more details about the improvements being made to Windows Update on Windows 8 along with data about current user behavior regarding Windows Update on other Microsoft operating systems.