Windows 10 Technical Preview Available To Download. How To Get The New Windows

yesterday Microsoft announced Windows 10, the numerically questionable successor to Windows 8. Now just 24 hours later the ‘ Windows 10 Technical Preview’ has been made available for download, for free, and you can start using it right away .

Read on for how to get it and some important caveats.

First the caveats. Microsoft MSFT -0.84% stresses that the Technical Preview is just that: a very early build of what users will enjoy when Windows 10 goes on sale in mid 2015. As such it states “Download and install the preview only if you”:

• Want to try out software that’s still in development and like sharing your opinion about it
• Don’t mind lots of updates or a UI design that might change significantly over time
• Really know your way around a PC and feel comfortable troubleshooting problems, backing up data, formatting a hard drive, installing an operating system from scratch, or restoring your old one if necessary
• Know what an ISO file is and how to use it
• Aren’t installing it on your everyday computer.

 

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