Windows 8 Dev Preview (8102) - 10 years later!

The Windows 8 Developer preview (build 8102) was the first public sneak peek into what would end up becoming Windows 8. As a public release, it had multiple pre-built apps and games, and developers could create programs using Visual Studio.

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[darkfungang]

I remember testing this and how excited I was to get my hands on a copy of Windows 8 when I was a kid. Its kinda crazy looking back at it. I was just as excited when I first got to have windows 7 on my desktop. I had modded the hell out of xp to get it to look like 7. I was always obsessed with the latest and greatest. Now I find myself so nostalgic of the past

[nathanyellowstarthegoanimator]

This Build of Windows 8 is one of the Best Builds. Interestingly Reversing the Build Number 8102 gives you the year 2018. This build should came out in 2018 not 2012 or 2011. Because of that

[RyDawg]

Wow, it actually has a Start button in this build. No idea why it was removed cause it’s way more user friendly than the hot corners they decided to use.

[kbhasi]

I remember seeing this back in the day and trying the Consumer Preview on my HP tablet (that I had at the time) before it died! When it did die, I replaced it with an original Surface Pro.

[Warblefly]

I really wanted to use the Windows 8 Developer Preview when Windows 7 failed me. My original plan was to install Ubuntu 8.04 from a CD, download and burn the Windows 8 DP onto a DVD and install that one, but I decided to wait for the Consumer Preview. In the meantime, Ubuntu morphed into a whole new beast as I went from 8.04 to 10.04 to 11.10 and from there it was hard for me to do a pure Windows setup. The Developer Preview was only used as a VM.

[smoothiethepotato]

I can’t believe it’s been 10 years since Windows 8

[bruchinmatifan]

The start button reminds me of hovering the cursor over windows 8.1 start button black background with 4 colours

[dellloveos]

intersting, have a alarms app in windows developer preview but removed in Windows 8 Consumer Preview. But alarms app back in windows 8.1

[롤리즈게임즈]

This build's start button doesn't really match the taskbar tbh. Either way, I LOVED this build of Windows 8!

[TSVAMSG]

I love the fact that if you reverse this build's number, it gives out the number 2018.

[Mrmasterbr]

Fun Fact: Windows Beta Builds have Server Counterparts

Example:
Windows 8 build 8102 server counterpart is Windows Server 2012 build 8102.

[nathanlamaire]

I still don't understand why they removed start menu in the final release.
They eventually brought it back in 8.1 though.

[elijahtorres]

3:26 I guess they were orignally were going to keep the transparency, but in a flat way :(…

[teamredstudio]

Your video's are just awesome!
I am going to fix the WinJS dev prev apps that are used in these builds to use more modern APIs so they can be run on Windows 8-11 production builds using the production WinJS library. Labyrinth is already almost done, only the level selection needs to be rewritten.

[oskartv]

I wish the UI from Windows 8 DP continued until the RTM release

[quzşewıti._]

i wonder how this build has become awesome

[RilyT_UK]

Hi is there any chance I could get a link with the key or iso with key to use the os I’ve tried many keys that don’t work would be much Appreciated if you could 👍🏻

[TorutheRedFox]

wish they kept the more aero esque design language in the final

[NotReallyHype]

I still remember this build, i used to test it in my old laptop, good times

Also for some reason when i installed this build in VMWare, i couldn't get VMWare Tools to be installed no matter how hard i tried, quite interesting

[rbrtnewoneforeverandalways]

how do i run chrome perfectly on this build?