Windows 8 download link revealed

[Roger H. Veteran]

I'm logged into technet and ready for the downloading to begin. Sux i'm at work though vs home, lol. My home network is faster than work (same ISP). Got 30Mbps at work and at home is 50Mbps (but jumps to 60Mbps sometimes).

While I'm sure I wont need technet, i'll just get it from the first link available anyways :)

[Guest]

What's PlayReady?

[Detection]

I'm logged into technet and ready for the downloading to begin. Sux i'm at work though vs home, lol. My home network is faster than work (same ISP). Got 30Mbps at work and at home is 50Mbps (but jumps to 60Mbps sometimes).

While I'm sure I wont need technet, i'll just get it from the first link available anyways :)

I'm sure 30meg will suffice :D

[ilovetech]

link online for esd release:

http://ak.or.esd.microsoft.com/pr/WCPDL/8A9D4FDFF736C5B1DBF956B89D6C8FDFD925DACD2/Windows8-ConsumerPreview-64bit-English-x1794226.esd

[Detection]

link online for esd release:

hxxp://ak.or.esd.microsoft.com/pr/WCPDL/8A9D4FDFF736C5B1DBF956B89D6C8FDFD925DACD2/Windows8-ConsumerPreview-64bit-English-x1794226.esd

2.1GB seems a little small for x64

And how do you use ESD ?

[Muhammad Farrukh]

What is esd release?

And lets take the discussion to the official topic

[Scorpus Veteran]

As far as I can tell from Googling, a .esd file is NOT a disc image. Not sure if it needs to be renamed or anything but I'm not downloading 2 GB to find out

[Detection]

As far as I can tell from Googling, a .esd file is NOT a disc image. Not sure if it needs to be renamed or anything but I'm not downloading 2 GB to find out

Everything keeps pointing me towards osx when I try finding anything about .esd

[ilovetech]

As far as I can tell from Googling, a .esd file is NOT a disc image. Not sure if it needs to be renamed or anything but I'm not downloading 2 GB to find out

I guess no point in downloading it. It contains actually a WIM image but is compressed by some new compression technology.

http://www.windowsblogitalia.com/2012/02/windows-8-consumer-preview-storia-di-un.html#more

[Aaron Olive]

i'm on OS X and an ESD is simply a disc image, i'm downloading it now and will see what we got here.

[Mando]

Found this via technet, which looks like when its for general consumer download itll be available here~

http://windows.microsoft.com/windows-8/consumer-preview

[Roger H. Veteran]

Putting the Windows 8 CP discussion here. Post screenshots and other new download links once found here:

http://www.neowin.ne...iew-discussion/