Microsoft Office 2013 Customer Preview

A new Office has arrived ...

Check out the Office 2013 Customer Preview website, http://www.microsoft.com/office/preview/en

Compatibility Center for Windows 8 Release Preview

Does your product work with Windows 8?

Microsoft has prepared a online product catalog consists of two categories, Programs (Apps) an Devices.  All you need ot do is to Browse or search through the catalog to find out whether your apps and devices are compatible with Windows 8.  I feel it is really useful and become handy where you do not need to trial and error and sometimes may break the Windows 8 by re-installing your devices or apps multiple times, check out the Compatibility Center for Windows 8 Release Preview.

Windows 8 Release Preview

Microsoft has released the Windows 8 Release Preview on 31st May 2012 and it has been almost 2 months now.  I have couple of installation of the Release Preview version and it is so far working perfectly fine on couple of my computers.

For those who has not try out Windows 8, I would encourage to try out this pre-release software,Windows 8 Release Preview which is available for download on the official Microsoft Windows 8 Release Preview website.  There are two editions available for download, the 32-bit and 64-bit.  The Windows 8 works great on your current Windows XP or Windows 7 hardware and most Windows 7 applications works fine on Windows 8.

Windows 8 Consumer Preview, 32-bit (x86) First Look

Microsoft has released The Windows 8 Consumer Preview on 29th Feb 2012 and I have done a fresh installation of Windows 8 Consumer Preview on both Hyper-V and physical computer, the installation was smooth, fast and quite similar to Windows 8 Developer Preview released September last year. 

The Windows 8 Consumer Preview ISO Image is available for download at http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-8/iso

And I have captured Installation screenshot to share with you in this post and my next post will look at the look and feel comparison between both Windows 8 Consumer Preview and Developer Preview.

Installation Walk-through

This is the first screen after boot up from ISO, a new screen which has not been seen in Developer Preview.

Insteresting!  A fish picture on the screen.

Language selection

Select Install now to proceed

Setup is starting

Product key is required on the Consumer Preview, key is available on ISO download page

 As usual, accept the license term to proceed

Select the installation type to proceed

Select and setup the space for installation

Windows setup installation in progress

Installation should proceed accordingly

Windows Setup prompt for restart to complete installation

Windows restart and getting system ready

Personalization of Windows

Follow by Settings of Windows

Finalizing settings

A small wecome screen before the Metro UI screen

Here you go, the Windows 8 Consumer Preview Desktop / Metro UI !!  I see some new interesting tiles on the screen :)

Stay tunned for more about Windows 8 Consumer Preview.

The Internet Explorer 6 Countdown

Check out the Internet Explorer 6 Countdown page, it is a website dedicated to watching Internet Explorer 6 usage drop to less than 1% worldwide!  Let's join the world to move Internet Explorer 6 usage below 1%!

And there are lots of education articles on Why shall we move off of Internet Explorer 6? for both consumer and corporate user.  Enjoy reading :)

Compare browsers to Internet Explorer 9

If you are now planning for justification for Internet Explorer upgrade to standardized and to improve your environment and at the sametime looking for Internet Explorer 9 vs older version of Internet Explorer(s) comparison, you may now check out the ready made comparison of Internet Explorer 7, 8 & 9 on the official Microsoft Internet Explorer website - Compare browsers to Internet Explorer 9. 

It helps a lot!!!  :)

Internet Explorer 10 Platform Preview 4 Test Drive

The Internet Explorer 10 Platform Preview 4 is available for download now.  The Internet Explorer Platform Preview requires the Windows 8 Developer Preview and it is not available for Windows 7 yet.  You will get the below error by trying to install IE10 on Windows 7 :)

- Platform Preview Breaking Changes & Known Issues is available on the Release Note page
- Internet Explorer 10 Guide for Developers can be viewed here.

Check out and feel free to share your comment :)