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Video: How to install the Windows 8 developer preview

InfoWorld's Windows expert walks you through the steps of installing Microsoft's developer preview edition of 2012's Windows 8

Tempted to explore Windows 8 before it ships? Microsoft is making the developer preview -- the very early version that no doubt will change significantly over the next year -- available to anyone to experiment with on their Windows 7-capable PC. You can download the preview installer from Microsoft.

Let me walk you through the installation so that you can safely avoid the possible pitfalls and get to a working version of Windows 8 faster in the video below.

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