Microsoft just announced that the Windows 8 Release Preview, the company’s final pre-release version of Windows 8, is now available for download. With this release, Microsoft is also making new versions of its Windows 8 apps for Hotmail, SkyDrive an Messenger available, as well as hundreds of new and updated apps from third-party developers in the Windows Store.
Other new apps in this release include a Bing Travel app, as well as Gaming and Music Xbox apps that integrate with Microsoft’s Zune music service.
Microsoft says that it will focus its resources before launching the
final version of Windows 8 on improving the installation process,
security and privacy, as well as device and software compatibility. As
Microsoft’s president of its Windows Division Steven Sinofsky noted, his
team “will still be changing Windows 8, as we have done in past
releases of Windows.”
We will be giving the Release Preview a good spin soon, but we already know that Microsoft has significantly improved multi-monitor support
in Windows 8, for example. While this new version still features the
Windows 8 Aero theme, we also know that this will be gone in the final
release.
Microsoft also says that it has increased personalization options for
the Start screen and refined the way “the way people find and download
apps through the Windows Store.” The touch-friendly Metro version of
Internet Explorer now also supports Adobe’s Flash player and features a
Do Not Track feature that is turned on by default.You can download the Release Preview installer here. If you prefer to get the Preview Release as an ISO, you can find there here.
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