Marking another milestone on the road to launch, today Microsoft unveiled the latest beta version of its coming OS, Windows 8 Release Preview, for free download. Though consumers have been able to ...

After a lot of fluster on the Building Windows 8 blog, the Release Preview is actually surprisingly similar to the Consumer Preview. Multi-monitor improvements are in, and Metro IE now supports Flash ...

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Microsoft today posted the Windows 8 Release Preview for public download, the last major milestone before the final release of the operating system, which will be the biggest change for the widely ...

For all the ways in which Windows 8 is a bold departure from its predecessors, it’s following a road map to release that’s very much like the one Microsoft has used for years. Last September, the ...

In a post today on a Microsoft blog, Vice President on the Windows Development team, Chuck Chan, touted the release of the Windows 8 Release Preview to the Windows Dev Center. The blog post seems to ...

Microsoft today announced the availability of the Windows 8 Release Preview, the next milestone of the highly anticipated Windows 8 operating system. Available for download today in 14 languages at ...

Sebastian Anthony goes hands-on with the last pre-release build of Windows 8 -- and unfortunately it's still not very good on the desktop. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share on X (opens ...

If you move quickly, before servers all over the world start groaning under the load, you can get an early official copy of Windows 8 Release Preview Microsoft promised to deliver Windows 8 Release ...

In what was obviously an accidentally posted blog entry, Microsoft Windows VP Chuck Chan revealed that Windows 8 would be released later today. The post, visible for only two minutes, was spotted by ...

As expected, Microsoft today shipped Windows 8 Release Preview, the final sneak peek the company will offer the general public before the operating system goes on sale later this year. Microsoft also ...

Microsoft’s top Windows executive today said that the company will ship an almost-complete version of Windows 8 the first week of June. Stephen Sinofsky, president of the Windows and Windows Live ...