Windows home

Windows 8 Consumer Preview

Get started

Apps

Web

Cloud

Download

FAQ

See Windows 8 in action.

Windows 8 Consumer Preview

It's Windows reimagined and reinvented from a solid core of Windows 7 speed and reliability. It's an all-new touch interface. It's a new Windows for new devices. And it's your chance to be one of the first to try it out.

Get it now


Developers


IT pros

What's new

Swipe, slide, and zoom

Touch a full-powered PC. It's fast and it's fluid. Take natural, direct, hands-on control.

Apps, front and center

Apps in Windows 8 work together to get things done faster. Get them from the Windows Store.

Your Windows, everywhere

Windows 8 can connect you to your files, photos, people, and settings, wherever you sign in.

Wall-to-wall web

Internet Explorer 10 Consumer Preview brings you immersive web browsing on screens big and small.

The familiar, made better

Still devoted to your mouse and keyboard? Windows 8 makes the tried-and-true feel brand new.

See how it works

Watch a short video to see some of the new things you can do with Windows 8.

Behind the scenes

A guided tour

Video: Jensen Harris from the Windows User Experience team shows off some of the top features of Windows 8.

Building Windows 8

Get the latest news and the inside scoop on the development process from the Windows 8 engineering team blog.

Product guides

In-depth info from Windows 8 product guides:

Share

Share via Facebook Share via Twitter Share via Messenger

Like Windows on Facebook

http://www.facebook.com/windows

Windows

         


© 2012 Microsoft Corporation

                                      


Disclaimers | Terms of Use | Trademarks | Privacy Statement


Microsoft