UWHS Giveaway: Win tickets to see John Carter in 3D at the BFI IMAX in London

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UWHS Giveaway: Win tickets to see John Carter in 3D at the BFI IMAX in London

It’s time for another of our giveaways, and this time we have three sets of family tickets for a screening of the new film John Carter in 3D at the BFI IMAX in London.

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What is John Carter?

A war-weary former military captain, John Carter, is inexplicably transported to Barsoom (Mars) where he becomes reluctantly embroiled in a conflict of epic proportions. In a world on the brink of collapse, Carter rediscovers his humanity when he realises that the survival of Barsoom and its people rests in his hands.

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Oscar-winning director Andrew Stanton (Wall-E, Finding Nemo) has created a sweeping action adventure, re-mastered into stunning IMAX 3D.

More on the BFI IMAX

The BFI IMAX is a luxury 500-seat (including wheelchair spaces), state-of-the-art, large-format cinema on the South Bank.

  • The screen is more than 20 metres high (nearly the height of five double-decker buses) and 26 metres wide.
  • A 11,600-watt digital surround-sound system
  • An IMAX projection system (the most sophisticated motion-picture projection system in the world).

Working together, these elements immerse viewers in larger-than-life images and ultra-realistic digital sound, making them feel as if they are literally “in the picture”.

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It was opened in 1999 and was made possible thanks to £15 million from the Arts Council of England’s Lottery Fund.

It was designed by award-winning architect Bryan Avery of Avery Associates Architects

The multi-storey, glass-enclosed cylinder, illuminated by coloured lighting effects at night, serves as a beacon to the revitalised South Bank.

So what is the prize?

We have three sets of Family tickets for John Carter in 3D at the BFI IMAX in London at a screening of your choice from the 17th March onwards for as long as the film is running.

A set of Family tickets consists of 2 adults and up to 4 children.

You are responsible for your own transport costs, and popcorn though – sorry!

What do you have to do to win?

To be in with a chance of winning a set of Family tickets (and we are giving away 3 sets), all you have to do is follow us on Twitter and tweet the following

I want to win some tickets to see John Carter with @aedney, UWHS and the BFI. Visit http://bit.ly/Ct7vB and RT for your chance to win.

Or just click the Tweet button below to do it automatically.

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If you don’t have Twitter, just click on contact button at the top of the page and send us an email and we will enter you that way.

The giveaway runs until the 9th March, so good luck!

And thank you to BFI for the tickets.

Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 Content Collection #1 Hits Xbox LIVE on March 20

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Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 Content Collection #1 Hits Xbox LIVE on March 20

Activision revealed today that the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 Content Collection #1 will release on Xbox LIVE on March 20, the first of four Content Collections available for purchase to all Call of Duty: MW3 gamers.

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MW3 Collection #1 includes an unprecedented breadth and variety of content for Call of Duty downloadable release – four brand new multiplayer maps Liberation, Piazza, Overwatch and Black Box along with new Special Ops Missions Black Ice and Negotiator, marking the first time Special Ops has been made downloadable online in franchise history.

In “Black Box,” players will battle beside a downed Air Force One amidst multi-level homes overlooking the luxurious Southern California neighbourhood. Infiltrating a diamond mine aboard a snowmobile in the Special Ops mission “Black Ice,” your primary objective is to plant high-grade explosives in order to shut the mine down forever. In “Negotiator,” you head to India for high-stakes hostage extraction in which you’ll breach-and-clear rooms and navigate surface streets to ensure the safety of your VIPs.

Additionally for Call of Duty Elite Premium Members on Xbox LIVE, Call of Duty Elite Content Drops 4-6, featuring Black Box, Negotiator and Black Ice, will be available for download on March 13. Elite Content Drops 4-6 and MW3 Collection #1 will be made available on other platforms at a later date.

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Check out our review of Call of Duty: MW3

Have you tried any of the packs yet?

CyberLink Launches PhotoDirector 3 for photographers

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CyberLink Launches PhotoDirector 3 for photographers

Today CyberLink launched a new version of PhotoDirector, which is aimed at photographers.

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CyberLink today launched PhotoDirector 3, a new version of its innovative photography software. PhotoDirector 3 is designed to provide all the features photographers need to manage large batches of photos, adjust images to the best quality and showcase work in their own unique style, in a single application. Now featuring People Beautifying tools and a complete range of cutting edge processing features, PhotoDirector 3 not only enables customers to perfect every detail of scenery photos, but also create professional portraits.

PhotoDirector 3 introduces several new features, including precise editing tools that accurately remove objects, people or backgrounds from images as if they never existed and a complete set of tools to create professional portraits by smoothing out skin tones, adjusting color casts, whitening teeth, removing wrinkles and much more. Additionally, PhotoDirector 3 provides new adjustment features, including curve-based levels, and is the only workflow application that allows the user to apply a complete range of adjustments to a targeted area of an image with a fine-tuned Adjustment Brush and Gradient Mask, including intensifying the color or sharpening details, without touching the rest of the photo.

Key Features in PhotoDirector 3

  • A complete workflow solution which includes photo library management, non-destructive image enhancements, picture retouching and customized publishing;
  • Efficient importing and management features making it easier to render huge batches of RAW photos and effectively manage images via an easy to use library;
  • Precise editing tools that accurately remove objects, people or backgrounds from images as if they never existed;
  • A complete set of tools to create professional portraits by smoothing out skin tones, whitening teeth, removing wrinkles and more;
  • New adjustment features, including curve-based levels;
  • Fine-tuned Adjustment Brush and Gradient Mask to apply a wide range of adjustments to a targeted area of an image; users can now intensify the color or sharpening details, without touching the rest of the photo;
  • Personalized publishing features which enable customers to showcase their photos with customized watermark and print layouts.

The price is £114.99 and is available now!

I saw this at CES 2012 and I was very impressed, not only with the features provided but also just how easy it was to do things!

Learn more about PhotoDirector 3 from here

Nokia Announces Lumia 900 for Rest of World

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Nokia Announces Lumia 900 for Rest of World

Nokia announced a version of the Lumia 900, recently announced Stateside on AT&T, for the rest of the world.  We have the details!

Here is what Nokia had to say about the Lumia 900:

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At the high end of the range comes the Nokia Lumia 900 in white, cyan and black, designed for the rest of the world, outside the United States.  People have bombarded our site with queries about this phone, with front and back cameras, since it was announced exclusively in the US with AT&T.  Designed for entertainment, with a stunning combination of big screen and processing power, people all over the world can’t wait to get their hands on this latest flagship Nokia phone.  It offers the best quality video and entertainment performance in the Lumia family on the 4.3-inch ClearBlack AMOLED display, housed in the unique polycarbonate unibody.  And it’s all powered by Nokia’s highest capacity battery and fast data connection, using LTE in Canada and DC-HSPA outside of North America.

The main camera has exclusive Carl Zeiss optics and a large aperture for great performance in low light and a wide-angle focal length for 16:9 images.  There’s also a front-facing camera with large apertureand wide-angle lens for sharp, bright images and video calling out of the box.

Nokia Lumia 900 tech & spec

Networks: WCDMA 850/900/1900/2100, GSM/EDGE 850/900/1800/1900

Speed: HSDPA+ Dual Carrier cat 24 (42 Mbps), HSUPA cat 6: 5.8 Mbps

Display: 4.3” WVGA (800×480) AMOLED capacitive touch ClearBlack display

Memory: 512MB RAM, 16GB storage

Camera: 8Mpix auto-focus with f2.2, LED flash

Size/Weight: 127.8mm x 68.5mm x 11.5mm / 160g

Processor: 1.4 GHz Single Core/Snapdragon APQ8055 + MDM9200

Battery: 1830mAh

Operating times – Talk time: (GSM/WCDMA) up to 7 hours. Standby time: (GSM/WCDMA) up to 300 hours.

Here are some pictures:

They also posted a great promotional video:

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This is a beautiful phone!  It will be available in the second quarter…are you interested?

Nokia Announces New Entry Level Windows Phone

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Nokia Announces New Entry Level Windows Phone
Nokia announced the Lumia 610 Windows Phone at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this week.  Read on for details!

Nokia announced a new entry-level Windows Phone handset at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this week.

The funky Nokia Lumia 610, with a 3.7-inch, is aimed at teenagers on a budget who want a smartphone with social networking, music, Web browsing, gaming and apps. It’s the most affordable Lumia so far.

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The secret of the Nokia Lumia 610 is that it uses slightly less processing power and memory than the other Lumias but will still give teenagers exactly the kind of Internet experiences they are looking for.

This arrives via the bright Live Tiles on the Windows Phone homescreen, with the unique People Hub which puts all your friends, family and people you care about most in one place.

It also lets you read Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn feeds. The Lumia 610 is perfect for sending individual or group shout-outs via text, email or IM conversations.

And the smooth Internet browsing via Internet Explorer 9 and Bing search gets you exactly where you want to be on the Web.

Coming in four colours, white, cyan, magenta and black, the Nokia Lumia 610‘s metallic looks offer individual style choices which appeal above all to the youth market.

Additionally, tens of thousands of applications at the Windows Phone Marketplace – with a try-before-you-buy choice of the world’s best mobile games – makes this phone the perfect introduction to Lumia and Windows Phone at €189.

And then there’s Nokia’s signature experiences.

When it comes to music, there’s something to suit all tastes thanks to Nokia Music (38 countries) with MixRadio (15 countries) and its 100 channels with selected locally-relevant tracks from a 14-million song catalogue.

And Nokia has announced Nokia Reading providing a single, integrated reading hub experience. Nokia Reading makes it easier and faster to enjoy news, books, and audio books including an extensive catalogue of local language reading material and the ability to access content offline.

Access to Nokia Maps, Nokia Drive, with turn-by-turn navigation, and Nokia Public Transport add even more value to the Nokia Lumia 610 package.

Nokia Lumia 610 Tech & spec:

Networks: WCDMA 850/900/1900/2100, GSM/EDGE 850/900/1800/1900

Speed: HSDPA cat 7: 7.2Mbps,

Display: 3.7” WVGA (800×480) TFT capacitive touch LCD display with pinch zoom

Memory: 256MB RAM, 8GB storage

Camera: 5 megapixels, auto-focus, LED flash.

Size/Weight: 119.24mm x 62.18mm x 11.95mm / 131.5g

Processor: 800 Mhz Single Core/Qualcomm Snapdragon S1

Battery: 1300 mAh

Talk time: GSM : 10.5 h, WCDMA: 9.5h. Standby time: GSM : 670 h, WCDMA :720 h

Here are some pictures:

They also posted a great video:

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The Lumia 610 is expected to ship in the second quarter of 2012…are you interested?

Amazon Expands The Kindle Owners’ Lending Library

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Amazon Expands The Kindle Owners’ Lending Library

Last year we told you about the Amazon Kindle Owners’ Lending Library where you can borrow a book for free. Now Amazon have announced that they have over 100,000 books available.

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Here is what Amazon said today:

The Kindle Owners’ Lending Library continues to grow rapidly, now offering more than 100,000 books that Amazon Prime members with Kindles can borrow for free—including over 100 New York Times Best Sellers like The Hunger Games trilogy—as frequently as a book a month, with no due dates.

“Kindle Owners’ Lending Library continues to grow rapidly – with over 100,000 titles, customers can choose to borrow a variety of breakout, best-selling titles for free, including ‘Nobody’ by Creston Mapes, ‘The Walk’ by Lee Goldberg and ‘Abducted’ by Theresa Ragan, as well as Kindle Singles from best-selling authors Andy Borowitz, Karin Slaughter and Mishka Shubaly,” said Russ Grandinetti, Vice President of Kindle Content. “It’s also become a meaningful way to grow royalties for authors like Patricia Hester, who sold less than 200 books in 2011 prior to joining KDP Select and has now earned over $36,000 from KDP Select in one month as readers have discovered her books through this service.”

Recent milestones for the Kindle Owners’ Lending Library include:

  • Since launching the Kindle Owners’ Lending Library in November 2011, selection has grown by over 20 times.
  • More than a third of the Top 20 Kindle Best Sellers in February are enrolled in the library and available to borrow for free.
  • More Amazon customers are reading independently-published books, with over 1 million KDP Select books borrowed through the Kindle Owners’ Lending Library since the program launched for indie authors in December.
  • KDP authors participating in the Kindle Owners’ Lending Library have earned $1.8 million from the KDP Select fund so far, which is an incremental 24% on top of their royalties from paid sales.

For more information about the Kindle Owners’ Lending Library, please visit http://www.amazon.com/kindleownerslendinglibrary.

Unfortunately for us poor UK based Kindle owners this is only available to US Amazon customers. Come on Amazon, do the same for us – please!

Microsoft releases Visual Studio 11 beta to developers

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Microsoft releases Visual Studio 11 beta to developers

Along with Microsoft Flight, Windows Server 8 beta and the Windows 8 Consumer Preview, Microsoft has also released a beta of Visual Studio 11.

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No matter the size or complexity of your organization or project, Visual Studio 11 Beta can help you turn your ideas into software. Large development teams will enjoy the full breadth of features offered in Visual Studio 11 Ultimate Beta and Visual Studio 11 Test Professional Beta, while smaller teams can enjoy success with tools optimized for their needs with Visual Studio 11 Premium Beta and Visual Studio 11 Professional Beta.

There are a number of different versions to choose from:

Visual Studio 11 Ultimate Beta

Visual Studio 11 Premium Beta

Visual Studio 11 Professional Beta

Visual Studio 11 Test Professional Beta

Download the Visual Studio 11 beta here

Let us know what you think if you are a developer.

Hands-on Review of the Lenovo ThinkPad X220

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Hands-on Review of the Lenovo ThinkPad X220

Here we review the new business laptop from Lenovo – the ThinkPad X220. One of the selling points of this laptop is the claim of around 15 hours of battery life. So we put that claim to the test!

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This is how Lenovo describes the X220:

When your need for speed and your need for mobility converge, look to the ThinkPad X220 laptop to rise to the occasion. The same full-powered 2nd generation Intel® Core™ processors that fuel many 14″ and 15″ laptops are built right into the X220’s slim — it’s 2mm thinner than previous generations — frame. Energize graphics-intense programs with two-times-faster Intel HD Graphics, and instantly increase your startup and shutdown times with Lenovo Enhanced Experience 2.0 for Windows® 7.

Who are Lenovo?

From their website:

Lenovo creates and builds exceptionally engineered personal technology, but we are much more than a tech company. We are defining a new way of doing things as a next generation global company. That means we are years ahead of the game in terms of understanding what it will take to win 5, 10 years from now.

Formed by Lenovo Group’s acquisition of the former IBM Personal Computing Division, Lenovo builds on its dominant position in China to grow globally. The expansion from East to West – such as by introducing our newest products in China and then spreading across the globe – is a new way of viewing the world, one we believe will be the way of the future.

That focus on the future is based on a strong history of success that is driving results today. Long the leader in China, Lenovo is growing rapidly and winning market share in all parts of the world. This balanced growth is what has made Lenovo the fastest growing major PC company and enabled us to consistently grow faster than the market.

Achieving optimal balance in all that we do is Lenovo’s operating philosophy. This mind-set encompasses every aspect of Lenovo’s business, from balancing leadership with consensus-building, to valuing both short- and long-term thinking. As a result, we have created a balanced business model and strategy that take maximum advantage of profit and investment across both core and new businesses. The result is balanced performance and market share growth across all regions, customer segments, products and business models.

Our mission is to become one of the world’s great personal technology companies. We aspire to achieve this objective by leading in three key areas:

  • Personal Computers: Lead in PCs and be respected for our product innovation and quality.
  • Convergence: Lead the industry with an ecosystem of devices, services, applications and content for people to seamlessly connect to people and web content.
  • Culture: Become recognized as one of the best, most trusted and most well-respected companies to work for and do business with.

Specifications

The specs vary on the X220, depending on what you order, but for this review, we had the following spec:

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– 12.5″ HD Premium LED B/L (1366×768) AntiGlare, w/o Camera

– i7-2620M 2.70GHz Processor w/ HD3000

– Intel QM67

– Intel AMT

– Gigabit Ethernet

– No Modem

– Bluetooth

– 1 x USB 2.0

– 1 x USB 2.0 always on

– 1 x USB 3.0

– VGA Port

– Display Port

– HD Audio

– Energy Star 5.0

– Ultranav (Touchpad and Trackpoint) w/ FPR

– Express Card Slot

– 4-in-1 Media Card Reader

– 3 Year Carry-In

– Power Supply 65W

– Win7 Pro 64 Sticker

1 160 GB Solid State Drive No HW Encryption

1 4GB PC3-10600 1333MHz DDR3 SODIMM SDRAM

1 ThinkPad Battery 29++ (9 Cell) for X220

1 Intel Centrino Ultimate-N 6300 – 802.11 a/b/g/n

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Microsoft talks about Windows 8 System Recommendations

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Microsoft talks about Windows 8 System Recommendations

In the next in their series of Windows 8 articles, Microsoft talks about system recommendations.

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This is how Microsoft starts the article:

We’re very excited to get to the point in the project where we can provide a pre-release version of Windows 8 that is broadly usable by the tech community on a daily basis. We know folks who are anxious to run the Windows 8 Consumer Preview are probably interested in suggestions around what hardware to use. This post provides the technical details behind system recommendations. These are not system requirements, and are not final, but simply a view of what works best for running the Consumer Preview.

Whether you have a logo PC or you’ve built your own PC, the recommendations for the Consumer Preview include:

  • 1 GHz or faster processor
  • 1 GB RAM (32-bit) or 2 GB RAM (64-bit)
  • 16 GB available hard disk space (32-bit) or 20 GB (64-bit)
  • DirectX 9 graphics device with WDDM 1.0 or higher driver

To read the rest of the article, click here.

Learn more about the Windows 8 Consumer Preview

Have you downloaded it yet? What do you think of it?

Windows Media Center IS in the Windows 8 Consumer Preview

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Windows Media Center IS in the Windows 8 Consumer Preview

Now that I have the Windows 8 Consumer Preview installed, I wanted to check on Windows Media Center – and it is there!

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It appears to be the same as the Windows 7 Media Center app, so it’s not been “metro’d” just yet, but at least its there.

Have you tried the consumer preview yet?

Synology Launch the DiskStation DS1512+ NAS

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Synology Launch the DiskStation DS1512+ NAS

Synology today announced DiskStation DS1512+, a 5-bay next generation NAS server for delivering high performance and scalability with complete business solutions to small and medium businesses.

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Synology DiskStation DS1512+ offers a high-performance, scalable, and full-featured network attached storage solution that meets the needs of small and medium-sized businesses that require an efficient way to centralize data protection, simplify data management, and rapidly scale storage capacity with minimal time spent on setup and management. The Synology DS1512+ is backed with Synology’s 3-year limited warranty.

  • 194.83 MB/sec Writing, 200.31 MB/sec Reading
  • Scaling up to 15 Drives with Synology DX510
  • Featuring SuperSpeed USB 3.0
  • Expandable RAM Module (Up to 3GB)
  • 2 LAN with Link Aggregation Support
  • CPU Passive cooling Technology & System Fan Redundancy
  • VMware®, Citrix®, Microsoft® Hyper-V® Compliance
  • Running on Synology DiskStation Manager (DSM)
Learn more from the Synology website

What’s New in the Windows 8 Consumer Preview

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What’s New in the Windows 8 Consumer Preview

Earlier we told you that you could now download the Windows 8 Consumer Preview. Now we can tell you a little about what’s new.

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At a Windows 8 Consumer Preview event in Barcelona that was attended by partners from Europe and around the world, the company shared some key new updates in the Windows 8 Consumer Preview:

• Broad range of product changes and improvements. Since the Developer Preview in September, designed to preview the programming platform, Windows 8 has progressed across every dimension. From completing the user experience for touch, keyboard and mouse to refining the development platform, the Consumer Preview improves performance, quality and reliability across all subsystems. With the added features, it represents a more complete view of the capabilities of Windows 8.

• Windows Store with new apps. The Windows 8 Consumer Preview marks the beta opening of the Windows Store, which is filled with a variety of new Metro style apps from both third-party developers and Microsoft. During the Consumer Preview, these apps are available to try and experience at no cost to users. The Windows Store will offer personalized recommendations, and Windows 8 gives users the ability to take their apps and settings with them across multiple PCs, making it easy to discover and try new apps while offering developers the greatest opportunity of any platform.

•Connecting to the cloud across Windows-based PCs and Windows Phone. The Windows 8 Consumer Preview offers seamless integration with the content people care about across their devices. An optional additional sign-on with a Microsoft account provides access to a host of features, including the ability to roam all settings, use cloud storage, communicate with email, calendar and contacts, and connect to a broad range of services. Your connection to the cloud works across your Windows-based PCs and your Windows Phones.

•Internet Explorer 10 Platform Preview 5. The best way to experience the Web on Windows is with Internet Explorer 10. The browser has been re-imagined to create a new experience designed specifically for Windows 8 devices. It provides an edge-to-edge user interface that is all about less browser and more Web. Fast and fluid, Internet Explorer is hardware-accelerated to enable Web performance.

•Preview of new hardware capabilities. At the event, Microsoft also showcased Windows 8 running on a wide range of new x86- and ARM-based reference hardware. This hardware will be available to select developers for trial and testing as previously announced.

The Windows 8 Consumer Preview will be available worldwide for download in English, French, German, Japanese and simplified Chinese languages. More information about Windows 8 and how to download the Consumer Preview is available at http://preview.windows.com or http://windowsteamblog.com.

Have you downloaded it yet? What do you think of it?

Windows Server 8 Beta now available to download

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Windows Server 8 Beta now available to download

Along with the Windows 8 Consumer Preview, you can also download the Windows Server 8 beta.

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Windows Server “8” is the broadest, most scalable and elastic platform for web and applications. Its consistent, open set of tools and frameworks give developers the flexibility to build and deploy applications on-premises, in the cloud, and in a hybrid environment. Windows Server “8” will empower you to deliver:

  • Flexibility to build on-premises and in the cloud: Developers can use the same languages and tools to build on-premises and cloud applications, allowing them to build applications that use distributed and temporally decoupled components.
  • An open web platform: Windows Server “8”, combined with Internet Information Services (IIS), offers a solid platform for both open-source web stacks and ASP.NET, opening up a wide range of choices for application development.
  • A scalable and elastic web platform: Hosting providers can use new features in Windows Server “8” to increase density, simplify management, and achieve higher scalability in a shared web-hosting environment.
Download the Windows Server 8 beta

Windows 8 Consumer Preview ISO images available now

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Windows 8 Consumer Preview ISO images available now

The Windows 8 Consumer Preview ISO images are now available to download – start your engines!

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Windows 8 Consumer Preview ISO files (.iso) are provided as an alternative to using Windows 8 Consumer Preview Setup. If you are on a PC running Windows and want to install the consumer preview on another partition, another PC, or a virtual machine, we recommend you download Windows 8 Consumer Preview Setup and use the built-in tools for converting an ISO image into installation media, such as a DVD or USB bootable flash drive. You can find additional information, including a list of supported upgrades, in the FAQ.

Note before you download: Windows 8 Consumer Preview is prerelease software that may be substantially modified before it’s commercially released. Microsoft makes no warranties, express or implied, with respect to the information provided here. Some product features and functionality may require additional hardware or software. If you decide to go back to your previous operating system, you’ll need to reinstall it from the recovery or installation media that came with your PC.

System Requirements

Windows 8 Consumer Preview works great on the same hardware that powers Windows 7:

  • Processor: 1 gigahertz (GHz) or faster
  • RAM: 1 gigabyte (GB) (32-bit) or 2 GB (64-bit)
  • Hard disk space: 16 GB (32-bit) or 20 GB (64-bit)
  • Graphics card: Microsoft DirectX 9 graphics device or higher
  • To use touch, you need a tablet or monitor that supports multitouch
  • To access Windows Store and to download and run apps, you need an active Internet connection and a screen resolution of at least 1024 x 768
  • To snap apps, you need a screen resolution of at least 1366 x 768
Download the Windows 8 Consumer Preview now

Let us know what you think of it!

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