Windows 8.1 Preview is here!

It's (pre-)Christmas-time in the middle of the year: a great new product preview announcement at Microsoft's Build conference in San Francisco: Windows 8.1 "Blue" Preview. And Visual Studio 2013 Preview got announced earlier this month at TechEd. Great news indeed!

First and foremost, the Windows 8.1 preview. This announcement was already anticipated, and today, you can download the installer here. As I'm writing this, an installer has already been made available, with full-blown .ISO image files coming tomorrow.

Second, there's Visual Studio 2013 preview. I've already touched the topic earlier this month, scroll down for more information. Just in case you missed the news, you can download the preview version here. This new version should work pretty nicely together with the newest Windows 8.1 Preview, but of course, as both are just in the Preview stage, minor hiccups can occur.