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Microsoft is launching the most complete preview yet of its forthcoming Windows 8 operating system.

The company said that tens of thousands of improvements have been made to what it calls the most important redesign of its interface since Windows 95.

Consumers can download the release preview of Windows 8, a system which Microsoft says is its most tested operating system ever.

It is expected to go on sale in the autumn, three years after Windows 7.

The new operating system is designed to bring Windows into the touchscreen, smartphone era.

It adopts the Metro interface of the company's mobile operating system, Windows Phone 7.

Windows, which still dominates the desktop PC software market, has been much slower to make an impact on mobile phones and tablet computers.

The release preview has features not available in the last version, the consumer preview, launched in February.

There will be new apps for the Bing search engine, news and sports, and improvements to the mail and photo applications unveiled previously.

The latest version of Microsoft's browser Internet Explorer 10, optimised for touchscreen, is also included for the first time. Users are promised greater personalisation of the start screen, and more control over privacy.

Internet Exploerer 10 will be the first browser with "do not track" turned on by default, meaning users can easily decide not to accept cookies.

Microsoft said manufacturers and developers are at work on new devices and apps designed to make the most of Windows 8's features.





BBC News - Microsoft previews Windows 8 operating system

Nice one mate for the link.

Downloading now... Still not sure if windows 8 will float my boat due to me hating all this touch screen crap and over complicated way that things work now... Facebook.. twitter... I think i am getting old but hey!

perhaps it will be more stable then windows 7 and hopefully have a few nice new features. Cheers again m8 and will send my report on this release preview..

Windows has a cycle of good then crap system. XP was good, Vista was crap, Windows 7 was good and hopefully Windows 8 may break the cycle.

I'll try it in a virtual box first.

I don't think I'll bother with a touch screen, the problem is that if I have to sit within touching distance of my monitor I wont be able to see it without sitting back again.

thanks for sharing

this windows app scans your system to check hich version win8 will work best on yourt machine,
it then checks your proggies/apps for compatability issues and then downloads an upgrade package...

http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=242045

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thanks mate

ill just go and get me glasses so i can write it down

There is going to be a lot of pcs that cannot run it due to old processors

Tried installing it yesterday. It got to the end of the install, rebooted, I signed in, then the screen just started flashing on & off.
Result, reinstalled Win 7. Might try again soon. (Consumer Preview version worked ok)

After running linux i dont think i will go back to windows again. especially in ubuntu you can run al programs you want. plus most things are free legally.