Microsoft Windows 8 BUILD Conference

[MCD]

Video Stream: Keynote for Day 1 is over.  Tune again tomorrow same time for Keynote #2 (9/14)

Download links and discussion for Windows 8 Pre-Release will be provided in this thread: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=444722 once the links are online.  ETA is tonight 8:00 PM Pacific Time.



Overview:

BUILD will showcase the future of Windows computing on a variety of devices.  This conference is targeted specifically for both software developers and hardware manufacturers.

When:

9:00 AM Pacific Time
9-13-2011 to 9-16-2011

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Full agenda here.

Where:

Anaheim Convention Center, Anaheim, California (right next to Disneyland)

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Day 1

Windows 8 Pre-Release ISOs available 8 PM Pacific Time tonight!

You probably want to try out the preview release—and you can. Starting at 8PM today, Seattle time, you can download all of the code that attendees at BUILD received. This includes 32 or 64 bit x86 builds, with or without development tools. The releases also include a suite of sample/SDK applications and the SDK (please note these are merely illustrations of potential apps, not apps that we intend to ship with Windows . The ISOs are linked to from http://dev.windows.com. You download with a Windows Live ID (which you might want to use to test out some of the new roaming features).
 
Upgrade from Windows 7 installation is not supported for pre-release code; only clean installs are supported. Reminder: this is a developer preview release and is not meant for production. It is not a beta release. We will be updating the release with various quality updates and drivers over the coming weeks/months just to exercise our overall update and telemetry mechanisms.

Channel 9 has a summary + vids: http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/Build2011

Engadget summary:

http://www.engadget.com/2011/09/13/windows-8-details-new-features-ui-enhancements-and-everything/

•All Windows 7 applications will run natively on Windows 8
•Security update notifications have been minimized to the lower right of the log-in screen
•Refreshed Windows Task Manager suspends apps when they're not running on-screen
•New "Reset and Refresh PC" functions enable simplified system wipe and restore
•HyperV virtualization software comes pre-loaded on Windows 8
•Multi-monitor support now enables a single background across screens, as well as monitor-specific task bars
•Multi-touch support enabled for Internet Explorer 10
•Magnifier function enhanced for desktop manipulation
•Optional thumb-by-thumb input mode
•SkyDrive storage support integrated into all cloud-based apps
•Metro-style refresh for Mail, Photos, Calender and People apps with Windows Live ID
•Settings roam allows for preferences to sync across a user's Windows 8 devices
•Continued update support for Windows 8 Developer Preview Beta
•Even a Lenovo S10 (first-gen Atom + 1GB of RAM) can "run" Windows 8
•There's "no overlays" with Windows 8; Metro-style goodness is baked into the core
•Both Metro-style and conventional Win32 apps will be sold in the Windows Store
•Windows 8 devices equipped with an NFC chip will be able to use a tap-to-share feature to either send content from one device to another, or simply receive content from something like an NFC-equipped card.
•Logins will use a photo-based system###
•Apps will be able to natively connect and understand one another (if written as such)
•Built-in antivirus software will ship in Windows 8
•There will not be a different edition of Windows 8 for tablets, and presumably, not for Media Centers either
•It's unclear how many "editions" (Home, Professional, Ultimate, etc.) of Windows 8 there will be
•ARM devices will be supported, but not in the developer preview




###Logins can also be done with a pin number or traditional password.

Blog entries during the keynote:









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Day 0

What's expected:

• Windows 8 Developer Build Preview (8100+)
  
• Windows Live, SkyDrive, and the cloud
  
• App store
  
• Windows Phone 7 app integration
  
• Kinect integration
  
• Metro touch friendly interface
  
• ISO and VHD mounting
  
• Hyper-V Virtualization Tool
  
• Ribbon and Explorer
  
• IE10
  
• Faster Boot Times
  
• USB 3.0 native support
  
• ARM, Nvidia, Qualcomm support
  
• Quad-core Tablet Giveaway

... and more.  We shall see.

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[G The Resurrected]

thanks for the reminder.

I'll have my hands all over Windows 8 at the end of next month. Very much looking forward to getting my mittens on it. If anything to see the next iteration of what windows media center is becoming and true fast booting tech.

[MrAngryFace]

Pumpedddd

[G The Resurrected]

All them folks getting brand new windows 8 tablets by samsung 

[MrAngryFace]

blend so awesome

[G The Resurrected]

Contracts has a hell of a lot of potential for awesomeness. I'm particularly interested in how they'll deal with x86 vs arm.

Love love love the smaller footprint for windows 8. Cutting the fat good job!

[Brehvolution]

/b/ would have been much better.

[MrAngryFace]

That boot time always gives me a BOOT BONER

[G The Resurrected]

This is real! I'm so happy thinking about all the possibilities is just mind blowing. Cloud storage for app's making it possible to log into any computer using your windows live ID and be at your own computer! 

[MCD]

I want Julie.

No wait, that's gay.

I WANT STEVEN.

[Chinner]

alot of people on gaf seems really excited about this, but windows 8 seems like really dumbed down and shit, am i just the only one?>

[MrAngryFace]

lol CASUALS WIN AGAIN AMIRITE- you can go back to the old UI if you want iirc, and the rest are just new features and improvements that make the experience better- not sure anything is being dumbed down. Nothings really being taken away- if anything theyre expanding on the group that develops apps, and expanding on the types of hardware that can use the OS effectively (tablets).

[MCD]

If dumbing down means better memory usage and fuck awesome hardware then so be it.

[MrAngryFace]

Win8 is pretty nutballz from both developer and end-user points o view imo

[G The Resurrected]

Personally Window's 8 is everything it needs to be when it needs to be it. Its full featured and is lacking nothing in terms of usability. Everything you want thats in windows 7 is still there and some of things you don't want too.

Like maf says they are effectively branching out in the only way it makes sense to in the market we have today.

Having the same basic platform for both tablet and regular computing is a great step in the right direction. Its all about making those lines between each type of device disappear leaving the user to do what they want when they want. Having this new ability that Windows 8 features is gonna change things.

I cant wait to try this on my laptop tonight if it'll download. If nothing to get a feel for developing under something new and exciting.

[MCD]

I was amazed the most by UEFI.

Viruses no more.

[Shaka Khan]

No videos demonstrations yet? fail.

[Van Cruncheon]

it's only begun, folks. there's shit in there to blow your little tech nerd minds.

pc gaming

[Dickie Dee]

 

[Howard Alan Treesong]

it's only begun, folks. there's shit in there to blow your little tech nerd minds.

pc gaming

Direct X 11b confirmed

[MrAngryFace]

Also giving devs the tools to validate their apps themselves is kinda cool too- and more transparency during validation on MS's end. All of these changes should make things less frustrating.

[D3RANG3D]

Prole where is my beta build for download like with win7?

[MyNameIsMethodis]

Can't wait to be forced to pay for a service that is miles worse than Steam and the PS3 online on my PC compliments of Microsoft and their attempts to shed their nerdy little dweeb image and take every little penny from the users.

[Pringo]

The dev preview build is out now: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/home/

[Van Cruncheon]

it's only begun, folks. there's shit in there to blow your little tech nerd minds.

pc gaming

Direct X 11b confirmed

11.1, baby

dirty console poors still years behind the master race

[MrAngryFace]

wooooot consoles lol- cept xbawkz dat coo

[Cormacaroni]

hooray, maybe now my work PC will be upgraded to Vista

[MCD]

New BSOD.

[benjipwns]

Been playing with it for the last few hours instead of finishing my work stuff, all the changes to get it to work on tablets have improved the speed quite a bit again even on my craptop I'm testing it on. (Which stutters like crazy running GoldSrc games, but oddly can run Iron Grip: Warlord maxed out, another victory for Iron Grip.  ) The boot up stuff works basically as well as they advertised.

After I got some 64-bit drivers for the Intel chips anyway, it wouldn't find them automatically for some reason. Had to install audio drivers too because it auto installed ones for something completely different. 

The new start menu is neat to tinker with but you don't really need to use it permanently, you can just use the desktop like normal. I can see more casual computer users liking this quite a bit. All right there for them to click and scroll easily, how they integrate Office will probably be most important. The "old desktop" has more tweaks and stuff like the ribbons in Explorer. Does 7 have small icons for the task bar? I haven't ever upgraded from Vista on my desktop (despite having a copy of 7) and I don't remember it back during the 7 preview. Works nice on 8, wish Unity had a small icon mode.

If there's a built in by default Facebook style app like Tweet@rama, plenty of people will go crazy over this.

Play Tile Puzzle 6x6 with a video.

Like all Windows installs it screwed up GRUB though. 

[MCD]

http://www.buildwindows.com/

Keynote 2 will start in 25 min.

Sadly, I can't watch it live this time so have fun folks.

[recursivelyenumerable]

I wish Microsoft's new "fast and fluid" motto extended to their HR and/or IT departments. 

[Brehvolution]

IS there an upgrade path or clean install only?

[Vizzys]

using it now

first impressions:

its faster than 7
ribbon on explorer? where can I send the hate mail
I dunno how I feel about the huge tablet esque launch stuff, hope its optional in final
ie 10 is pretty solid but i cant see myself using it much

thats about it

[D3RANG3D]

Okay, what the fuck. Windows 8 opens and loads TF2 in seconds. Is W7 this fast opening programs? Spaceman ass shit indeed.

Win7 is fast too.

[MrAngryFace]

7s pretty awesome, 8 looks awesome too- people still knock for Vista though- claiming they run on XP still which is kinda tin foil hat shack in forest weird imo.

[Smooth Groove]

Some games only work properly on xp.  I used to keep a copy on another partition but I don't bother anymore.  It was too mich hassle. 

[D3RANG3D]

Some games only work properly on xp.  I used to keep a copy on another partition but I don't bother anymore.  It was too mich hassle. 

I have some old win98 games, that would actually run better on win7 than they did on windows xp.

[Brehvolution]

Installed on a Dell 6410 and worked like a charm. Went home and installed on a Dell D630 and it only had half the drivers so it's pretty much unusable. It's a narcissist's dream though.