The store is great just install new apps

oh lucky you...i won't visit BA till i download it...

...They took the start orb away, That will be a risk, but also they're looking towards innovation and trying new things, but taking the start orb away is a no-no to me. I love the start button in the Developer preview.

Also, I was going to install the beta on my spare computer that has 3Gb of RAM, and a dual core but the VGA port got busted so, do you think I can run the Beta on my Dell Optiplex GX270 with a Pentium 4 and 1Gb of RAM? I really don't want to have to resort to trying it in a virtual machine or on another partition on my main because my main is strictly Windows 7 only.

Can someone please tell me what's going on? I've been without internet for 24 houres Ö

What's going on is, Windows 8 Beta came out today (In my time zone) and everybody is disscussing the differences and fixes from the Developer preview to the beta.

Link me please or is it on the F2P?

I can't link you it, I'm on my school computer in class right now and there is a ton of things I cannot do on this dang this cause almost every site is blocked, I haven't looked on the FTP, but you can look on the FTP or google it maybe?

The Consumer Preview Expires 15/1/2013 UK date format.
EDIT Halo 2 vista works fine

Installed & running, how the H can I use windows 8 if I don't have a touchscreen etc. is there a business mode? this sucks =(

Installed it finally im amazed!

thanks i was guessing that,

What happened to the many Metro apps that were originally available in the previous build? Have they been moved to the Windows Store, or were they discontinued from the Windows line?

I'm asking this, since I was originally in the process of reviewing those as well in my coming Windows 8 Review for BetaArchive, yet if they were indeed moved to the Windows Store, then I will still review them, but as Windows Store apps, rather than Metro apps installed by default (with a notable exception to the earlier Developer Preview build, since it's still officially supported by Microsoft, yet no longer recommended for use).

Also, while this is somewhat offtopic, my coming Windows 8 Review for BetaArchive will have the following system requirements and system recommendations:

Minimum system requirements:
Approximately 1 Ghz Windows-compatible processor, either native x86 or emulated x86 (may range from approximately 700 Mhz to 1 Ghz, depending upon the speed of the particular system configuration)
512 MB of RAM
Windows Vista/Windows 7/Windows 8-compatible graphics adaptor
Media capable of handling copies of the Windows Vista/Windows 7/Windows 8 setup files
Approximately 10 GB of hard disk space
Monitor capable of displaying graphics modes supported by Windows Vista, Windows 7, and Windows 8
Usable keyboard, mouse, and/or other input devices
Windows 8 Developer Preview (Build 8102 or similar builds)

System recommendations:
Approximately 1 Ghz Windows-compatible processor or emulated x86 equivalent in terms of speed
1 GB of RAM
PCI or AGP graphics adaptor capable of handling hardware rendering, with drivers compatible with Windows Vista, Windows 7, and Windows 8 (either from the original equipment manufacturer itself or third party)
Windows Vista/Windows 7/Windows 8-compatible PCI sound card
CD/DVD/Blu-Ray/other optical disc drive (either hand burned discs of all formats or formats officially supported by Microsoft), USB solid state device or other such media capable of storing the Windows 8 Setup files (note that this may not apply in certain cases for direct downloads)
Approximately 15 to 20 GB of hard disk space
15 Inch or larger SVGA color monitor
Keyboard and mouse/trackball/touchpad/eraser head/other reliable pointing devices (note that this may not apply in some cases for people with disabilities)
Windows 8 Consumer Preview (Build 8250 or similar builds)

Well,I installed it.Installation was very fast.I was done with everything in just 20 minutes.This one seems promising,there's a lot to see what the future of Windows is going to be like.

Anyone have any luck getting the x64 VirtualBox graphics drivers working? I've installed VirtualBox Guest Additions in both Client x64 and Server, but I see this error for the graphics device: "Windows cannot initialize the device driver for this hardware. (Code 37)."

Can't wait to download in a few hours, then I can finally try this out!

Not finding any problems yet very stable Games for windows live work great in this build did not in DP i will post every few hours on updates

Figured it out. Now running it in full-screen without issue!

http://www.mstechpages.com/2011/09/17/s ... windows-8/

Same error as in the developer preview. Signed in with my Live ID, setup the computer, rebooted and it won't accept my password and allow my account login to work

Piece of crap...

Seems they screwed up the Windows Server 8 download pages as well. First time you go there you "register" and choose your language, but you can never change this. I managed to grab the english one but I can't grab any other language since MS doesn't allow you to change it... argh, what the heck were they thinking...

I need to grab the other languages as well for BA...

Try this link
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-8/iso

Read his post again:

I am sorry but it seems to work fine on my end

It seems to me that there are only 2 public versions and around 4-5 MSDN versions.

Whats missing is Windows 8 Server, Windows 8 with apps, as well as a few others (I have to get word since I don't have MSDN).

Also Visual Studio 11 beta is also out now as well.