{"id":2868,"date":"2011-09-14T20:12:44","date_gmt":"2011-09-14T10:12:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/?p=2868"},"modified":"2011-09-14T20:12:44","modified_gmt":"2011-09-14T10:12:44","slug":"windows-8-preview-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/windows-8-preview-released\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows 8 Preview Released"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ll keep this short and sweet but the developer preview of Windows 8 has been released (and you can <a title=\"Windows Developer Preview Downloads | MSDN\" href=\"http:\/\/msdn.microsoft.com\/en-us\/windows\/apps\/br229516\" target=\"_blank\">download the various versions here<\/a> if you are interested). It sports the brand new tile-based &#8220;Metro&#8221; interface that has been inspired from Windows Phone with the aim of being more touch friendly than a traditional Windows desktop.<\/p>\n<p>My time is running a bit scarce at the moment with university assignments and work but I am hoping to get this up and running on a virtual machine to share my initial impressions on this upcoming operating system.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve gotten your hands on it, feel free to share your thoughts!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ll keep this short and sweet but the developer preview of Windows 8 has been released (and you can download the various versions here if you are interested). It sports the brand new tile-based &#8220;Metro&#8221; interface that has been inspired from Windows Phone with the aim of being more touch friendly than a traditional Windows &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/windows-8-preview-released\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[152,151,18,1374],"tags":[2246,1667,1668,2361],"class_list":["post-2868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-microsoft-operating-systems-technology","category-operating-systems","category-technology","category-windows-8","tag-microsoft","tag-msdn","tag-virtual-machine","tag-windows-8","item-wrap"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2868\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}