Windows 8 Consumer Preview is out!

February 29th marked the day we announced that Windows 8 Consumer Preview at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2012 in Barcelona, Spain. Within the first 24 hours, it was downloaded over a million times. The Consumer Preview represents is significant change to the Windows operating system with over 100,000 code changes since the Developer Preview that was released during the //Build conference last September.

If you’re not familiar with Windows 8, here’s a great 8 minute video that gives you a quick glimpse showing off some of the key features.

To get your hands on the Consumer Preview, everything you need to get started can be found at Preview.Windows.Com. You can download both a 32- or 64-bit version of the preview.

It’s been a long time since I’ve been excited about a new operating system, and I have to say, what I’ve experience so far with Windows 8 Consumer Preview, I’m pretty excited with the I’ve seen so far.

So check out the video, download the bits, and try it out yourself.

Excelsior!

p.s. Please remember this is a preview release. Even with all the advances we’ve made, it’s always a good habit to back up your data on a regular basis. And if you have an extra computer, you might want to test it on that one first before putting it on your main system.

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