The Start button, which has been present in every version of Windows before 8 (and present in the Developer Preview for 8) is gone in the Consumer Preview release.

Just visit dev.windows.com after 8:00PM Pacific tonight and you download Windows 8 for 32-bit or 64-bit computers with x86 processors.

Microsoft recorded three million downloads of the Windows 8 Developer Preview between September and December, 2011. The latest version of Windows is a dramatic departure from previous versions of ...

BANGALORE, INDIA: Last month, Microsoft released a developer preview of its successor to Windows 7, code named Windows 8. The big deal about it, which can also be considered more of a necessity ...

For a little more than a week now, I’ve been using the Windows 8 Developer Preview both on the Samsung tablet Microsoft passed out at the Build conference and on a standard desktop PC. So far ...

Microsoft on Wednesday released the Windows 8 Consumer Preview, offering the beta version of its next-generation operating system as a free download worldwide. ... The Consumer Preview give consumers ...

At its BUILD conference, Microsoft showed a lot more of Windows 8, the codename for the next major release of Windows. The software giant also shared more details on its Windows 8 developer story.

The developer preview of Windows 8 has the Metro UI as the default interface. You can access the desktop, but when you click on the familiar location for the start menu, it goes back to the Metro ...

It's unclear how they will mark legacy apps in the store since those won't all run on the future ARM-based Windows 8 devices or if there will be any sort of meshing of the Windows Phone 7 marketplace.

But while a Windows 8 developer preview has been available for months, it currently only runs on x86 chips. Today NVIDIA showed off a tablet with a Tegra 3 quad-core processor running Windows 8.

You can also sign up for the Live Connect preview that will allow you to test Windows 8’s new single sign-on features with Windows Live accounts and tools like SkyDrive, Hotmail and Messenger.