win8 Are you going to install the Windows 8.1 preview?

[BeerFan]

Sure, why not.

[firey]

Nope, don't like Windows 8, though they are heading in the right direction with 8.1 I am still not a fan. Will be sticking with 7.

[LittleNeutrino Veteran]

I will so long as i can upgrade to the final version without any problems.

[Active.]

Definitely. As soon as I can get my hands on it.

[+Eternal Tempest MVC]

I'll put it on a spare hard drive, to learn, play around with it.

I also have to be familiar with it.

[Studio384]

Yes, I'm planning to make it my default OS as soon as it is available on both my PC and tablet.

[spy beef]

No I'm sticking with Windows 7 until 8.2 reintroduces the start menu.

[MorganX]

No, but I will upgrade to it when it's RTM'd.

[Obry]

The day it comes out most likely. I do all my work inside VM's so other than installing Office and connecting to SkyDrive there isn't much more to installing Windows on a new machine for me even if I had to do a clean install.

[Growled Member]

I voted no but it's because I don't do previews any more. I'll wait for the final.

[+Warwagon MVC]

You need another poll option

"Yes I use windows 8 and don't like it the way it is but I could care less about 8.1 because I want to keep my 3rd party start menu."

[notuptome2004]

No I'm sticking with Windows 7 until 8.2 reintroduces the start menu.

and that wont ever happen since oh guess what the start screen is the start menu like it has been siad many times the windows 8 start screen does everything the old classic start menu did and more and now with windows 8.1 it does even more then the windows 8 version

[buggingmenot]

I already have it installed.

[chrisj1968]

Nope I might have found my reason to permanently install either reactOS or Linux

[Ian S.]

Looking to try the preview on Surface!

[The Dark Knight]

Yup, but in a VM only. Will upgrade directly to the RTM version on my computers.

[spaceelf]

I'll be installing it. I like disk space improvements on an SSD.

[cleverclogs]

I'll wait for final release because I don't want to re-install my apps

[subcld]

no i'll wait for final version then update

[J_R_G]

I'm diving in. It looks to bring some new improvements, and besides, only takes me about an hour to re-install and set everything up thanks to most of my stuff being portable apps.

[theyarecomingforyou]

Yeah, I'll be installing it. I like being on the cutting edge of technology and was using Windows 8 as my primary OS from the Consumer Preview onwards (I ran the Developer Preview as a secondary OS as it had too many compatibility issues).

[nyolc8]

I'll update to the final 8.1 only. I don't want a preview as my main OS.

[Dashel]

Absolutely, day one.

[Rickkins]

Can't see why, as it brings bugger all to desktop users... it's rather pointless, and ms seeks to attempt to fool us into thinking that it has paid attention to the masses....

I will however, surely enjoy sitting back and watching the show...

[PGHammer]

The Windows 8.1 preview is upon us three weeks from now. Time to ask the Neowin community: Are you going to install it?

Personally I plan on installing the 8.1 preview as long as it can be upgraded to Windows 8.1 RTM. Failing that I'll wait for the final release.

I have a Windows 8 Pro VM (Server 2012 side) and dual-boot, so I will likely upgrade one or both to the Preview. My hardware situation will be changing during the summer, so a complete re-do (both OSes) will be a mandatory in any case (upgrading from Q6600 CPU and G41 chipset->i5-4670K and Z87 chipset - Z87 supports AHCI; G41 does not). If I add an SSD to the mix, the redo will be painless (my current boot drive will demote to storage-only)