Thursday, September 15, 2011

First look at Windows 8 on an embedded device

This morning my colleague Marco installed a copy of Windows 8 Developer Preview 32bit on his embeddedSPARK 2010 Summer contest device.

It’s performance are amazing!

Have a look at his post and watch this short demo video we recorded this morning:

First look at Windows 8 on an embedded Device

Wednesday, September 14, 2011

Windows 8 Developer Preview

Yesterday evening (European timezone), the Microsoft BUILD conference started and the new Windows 8 has been revealed.

Lots of details have already been shared and many more will be shared during conference technical sessions in the next days. If you’d like to have a first hands-on experience with the next version of Windows you can go there, to download the Windows Developer Preview:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/home/

This is a pre-beta version of Windows 8 for developers.

MSDN subscribers can also download a preview of the next version of Windows Server from http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/subscriptions/default.aspx

More information here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/apps