Windows 8 RTM 90day TRIAL .iso out!

[johnporter29]

No limits as far as I can see.

Cheers, have bit the bullet and installed, found no limits so far.

[spaceelf]

I'll probably start the download tomorrow and stick it to dual boot on my HD. Got another download to finish first.

Then in October I'll just upgrade my 7.

[Shane Nokes]

Can anyone think of a logical reason that Microsoft would have to make it not upgradable to the "full" version once it's released? Kind of a crappy move.

It's a trial for businesses and is an Enterprise SKU, not Pro or just plain 8. So in order to make it upgradable you'd have to have an Enterprise key.

Now if this was a Pro trial version I could somewhat see the point, but would still be ok with it being locked down like this to help avoid a bit of piracy.

[JaredFrost]

If you have access to the retail disc from another purchase, you can install that as a trail, you just can't go through the installer, you need to manually extract the install.wim and create the boot records, that would allow you to upgrade to a full version should you choose.

EDIT: That's also probably limited to 30 days.

[Pam14160]

Now I know that Windows 8 will not be intstalled on any of my computers; Andrea Borman is using it. . .help. . . :shiftyninja:

[SkyDX]

I'm sorry for bumping such a old thread though I didn't really feel like opening a new one, well I wanted to give Windows 8 another try with the recent mods out but I noticed that the Evaluation download doesn't work anymore. It always loops me to the Server 2012 Evaluation page which doesn't work either :( Is it just me or did Microsoft remove the download? :/

[xendrome]

Try here - http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/hh699156.aspx

[SkyDX]

Try here - http://technet.micro...r/hh699156.aspx

Thanks xendrome but that's exactly the site that fails for me, no matter if I pick x86 or x64 I get taken to the Live Login screen and after I login it asks for my data and as soon as I click continue I'm at the Server 2012 page. Oh well googling the filename lead me to a direct link on Microsofts servers so I hope it's okay if I just use that >.< I mean it's hosted by Microsoft and it's only a free Evaluation so eh...

[Brandon H Supervisor]

I just tried it Sky and the download starts just fine for me

have you tried a different browser?

[SkyDX]

I just tried it Sky and the download starts just fine for me

have you tried a different browser?

Well that's interesting o.o I tried it with Firefox 19 and whatever version of Chrome I have and both looped me :/ Oh well if anything that makes me feel less bad about using the direct-link because that means that it's still fine to download it and only the re-direct is broken for me, thanks :p

[manifesto]

The link works fine with chrome. ( At least here :p )

[Draconian Guppy]

Can this dual boot with Windows 7 like the Consumer Preview, and Release Preview did? I'd hate to hose my Windows 7 install just for an evaluation. My guess it simply cripples Windows one that period is over, and you simply have to reinstall Windows 8 while being able to keep 7.

this ?

[SkyDX]

The link works fine with chrome. ( At least here :p )

Well that's just my luck! :p

this ?

I remember reading somewhere it can dual-boot but I'm not sure I don't mix it up with the RP in my brain so better look around first :/ I will only use it in a dedicated VM^^