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Today marks an exciting and important milestone in our Windows 8 project. Our Windows team announced today the completion of Windows 8 Release To Manufacturing (RTM). Starting today we release Windows 8 RTM to our OEM and manufacturing partners as they work towards delivery of exciting new PC...

If it makes you feel any better, my internet speed isn't pathetic, but everyone blasting MS is causing me to get ~ 1 MB a sec, where as I usually can pull 4-5 MB from MS.

That's the spirit. Someone has to test how it looks on 6 screen....

It isn't only an upgrade advisor, it will also download and install windows :) I just tried it out since it's specifically called windows 8 consumer preview setup.

It's important to realize that this is a consumer preview, and not necessarily a daily driver. I'm not saying it's not stable, but if you are replacing a system you are using for actual use you might want to rethink installation, or steal somebody else's computer and do it to theirs in case you...

You need to have a machine up and running already (windows installed) to install from the setup. Many people are using the iso for VMs, or cold boot ( spare machines that we want to just blast all the information away and get a clean installation).

Guys, stop using my bw... I've never gotten such slow numbers from MS...

I'm sure they just extended it because the CP is the same code branch and they are for all intents and purposes setting the CPs expiration date.

Well I guess the time has come to set up a dedicated win 8 testing machine.

Yeah... Apple already went solely x64. They dropped support for 32 bit in their latest release of OS X. On top of that, Microsoft will totally drop support for 32 bit in their next OS release. This was one of the main reasons they started pushing VM's with XP on it... or XPM. They want to...