I still have not seen a clear explanation of where .NET and the CLR are in this WinRT story. Anybody have a good sense for what's new, renamed, and deprecated?
It's pretty speedy and responsive on my 2.4ghz C2D ThinkPad X200. Being a Developer Preview, it's also pretty useless. But, it does work as in today's keynote presentations. You can install apps on it.
Has anyone had an issue on Virtual Box where you're only able to click on certain icons? For example, I can launch the control panel or desktop with a single click but when I try the IE tile it just moves and nothing happens. I can go to the desktop and launch IE without issue. Not sure what to try….<p>[Win7 x64 host running VB 4.1 attempting Windows Developer Preview with developer tools English, 64-bit (x64)]
It's downloading at a ridiculously slow rate—230 kbps. Why didn't they make torrents for them as well? The load would be shared on all the developers downloading it.
Oh, the win8 app store looks really great. 0% cut, transparent review process and support for trials.<p>I guess I will be writing some windows app in the future. (I'm a Mac developer.) And I hope this will force Apple to improve their app store developer experience a little bit.