The History of Windows 8 Development

Today's video details the development process that led to the creation of Windows 8. We take a look at 4 unique development builds compiled at different stages of the development process.

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[SupaPhly]

MS: please don''t leak our work :(


Staff: no

[billylardner]

“No matter how you feel about it, you can’t deny that this operating system released in 2012”
You got me there.

[AshiqurRahman]

In summery we can say they put a lot of hard work in it. Respect developpers

[BanjoeCommando]

Microsoft: "Shhh... Let's not leak our hard work."

Microsoft employee: "That sign can't stop me because I can't read."

[Bebble]

The Windows 8 team: Can I copy your homework?
The Windows Phone team: Yeah, make sure to change it up a bit.

[davinp]

Microsoft was trying to make Windows touch screen friendly for use on tablets/phones. You see at fast-food restaurants that their cash register have buttons you touch. THe problem is some things look good on a tablet, wouldn't look good on a desktop with a large screen and vise versa

[Nelwyn]

I liked 8.1. It was one of the few OSes I actually paid for. Disabling the metro view made it feel like an updated version of 7.

[DrewTNaylor]

So bizarre seeing a Windows 7-like UI go straight to a mostly-finished Start Screen on clicking the Start button.

[jcfb]

This is very interesting. Seeing a mixture of windows 7 and 8 elements on this early builds.
You should also do a windows 10 development history, it would be very interesting.

[dumb]

i didn't know anything about pre-release builds of windows 8, thanks for making this video dude, very interesting!

[aby]

i have watched this video SO many times! it's so satisfying to see how it slowly changes from an old UI to Modern UI.

[acidwizzardbastard]

The consumer preview visual style is like the peak of Windows visual styles. Like, the squared-off Aero. Shit's BEAUTIFUL.

[evancrazyerror]

You know i never realized what “Shhh let’s not leak our hard work” really meant back in the day, before the redpill work around was found. Because for like so many builds it was the same UI, but the new stuff was right under our noses the entire time, I just find that amusing.

[addiesworld]

I remember using the Microsoft Developer Preview when I was messing around with my computer as a kid. I even printed out the manual they had for a short time. It's so cool seeing the history of an OS I used in beta for almost a year. Thanks for the video and keep up the hard work!

[idtyu]

Unpopular opinion : win 8.1 isn't bad

[hs_doubbing]

I actually really enjoyed Windows 8 once I got used to it, especially after the 8.1 update. The start screen was extremely intuitive if you knew how to work it, and I loved to spend hours arranging all of my tiles in all their little groups. The whole thing somehow felt bigger than it was, I guess is the best way to explain how it made me feel. It felt futuristic, love it or hate it.
I also loved how Google Chrome had a "Windows 8 mode" that launched it in a full-screen environment that was identical to the then-current iteration of the Chrome OS. Things like that are what make me miss the operating system.

[Luke]

I just remember that Windows 3.1 for pen computing was a thing.

[RollingTheOC]

I remember my friend's dad used a beta version of 8. He always tried to hide it from me like I was some sort of spy

[TriangIe]

I never had an issue with windows 8. Once I figured it out, I just pinned my most used programs to the start screen like control panel and this pc and if I needed to quickly search for something, I just used the charms menu.

[pivotman]

Correction: Development for Windows 8 began in the early 2010s. 7850 has a build date of 22nd September 2010, whereas 7700 (which is visually and functionally identical to Windows 7's RTM build) was compiled on the 22nd of January 2010, most possibly several days/weeks after 7652 (which was obviously an architecture implementation test and can be considered a post-RTM build).

The date that shows on your install of 7850 was set to the 1st of January 2009, which is period-incorrect (as Windows 7 was indev during that period) and thus can timebomb your build and show the "not genuine" tag.

Hope this helps with future videos.