Categories: Technology

Windows 8 Consumer Preview downloaded one million times in first 24 hours

Windows 8 Metro-style interface

After releasing Windows 8 Consumer Preview yesterday, Microsoft has today confirmed that the build has been downloaded one million times in its first 24 hours – quite impressive.

Microsoft’s Building Windows 8 team tweeted a few hours ago saying,

At one million downloads in 24 hours, that’s 11.5 every second. Each download is 1.5GB or 1.9GB in size depending on which version you require, 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64), meaning Microsoft served up between 1.4 and 1.8 petabytes.

With figures like these, Microsoft has certainly created a new level of excitement around their forthcoming operating system, expected to be released prior to year’s end.

Albizu Garcia

Albizu Garcia is the Co-Founder and CEO of Gain -- a marketing technology company that automates the social media and content publishing workflow for agencies and social media managers, their clients and anyone working in teams.

Recent Posts

Is LinkedIn Tracking Your Browser Activity? Here’s What’s Behind It

Let’s take a closer look at ‘Browsergate’: is LinkedIn really running the biggest corporate espionage…

1 day ago

Techstars Startup Weekend bets on Valencia as a next European startup launchpad

Valencia’s tech ecosystem is getting a big win this June 12-14 as Techstars Startup Weekend announces…

1 day ago

Why enterprises keep getting AI wrong – and what it actually takes to get it right 

In the upper floors of corporate America, budgets are larger than ever, board presentations are…

2 days ago

The EU wants to put a ‘tax on disinformation’: Fractured Reality report

If your content is deemed to be disinformation by the ministry of truth, your speech…

2 days ago

You created the song. Now what? How Neural Frames is giving independent musicians a visual voice (Brains Byte Back Podcast)

In the latest episode of Brains Byte Back, host Erick Espinosa sits down with Dr.…

3 days ago

How the launch of Prezent Vivo promises to change the communication landscape in life sciences permanently 

According to research from McKinsey, nearly a quarter of life sciences organizations had already deployed…

4 days ago