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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

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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.

This story, "Video: How to install the Windows 8 developer preview," was originally published at InfoWorld.com. Follow the latest developments in Microsoft Windows at InfoWorld.com. For the latest developments in business technology news, follow InfoWorld.com on Twitter.

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J. Peter Bruzzese is a six-time-awarded Microsoft MVP, currently for Office Servers and Services and previously for Exchange/Office 365. He is a technical speaker and author with more than a dozen books sold internationally. He's the co-founder of ClipTraining, the creator of ConversationalGeek.com, instructor on Exchange/Office 365 video content for Pluralsight, and a consultant for Mimecast and others.