14 DAY TRIAL // The first sneak peek video that Microsoft shared of Windows 8, the next major iteration of the Windows client, has been watched almost 5 million times. 4,979,559 times to me more specific, according to the official count on YouTube at the time of this article.
Microsoft made the Building "Windows 8" - Video #1 available at the start of June 2011, on the same day it offered the first official preview of Windows 7’s successor to the world.
Some Softpedia readers might remember that the video shoot past 2 million views on the first day alone. Since then, the number of views has been growing at a slower pace, but growing nonetheless.
At just a little over a month, the Building "Windows 8" - Video #1 has been watched 4,97 million times, and it’s bound to cross the 5 million mark soon enough.
I have included it below, it’s the first video embedded at the bottom of this article, just in case you want to watch it again.
The second video is a much longer preview of Windows 8 from Computex, Taipei, less popular than the official preview but worth the time it takes to watch it.
Following the early June 2011 video previews, Microsoft hasn’t offered any additional details about the next major version of Windows.
Still, BUILD Windows is approximately one month away, and it will be an event focused on Windows 8, as the software giant has stressed repeatedly.
The fact that BUILD registration was already been closed is another indication that interest for Windows 8 is extremely high. The BUILD conference has been sold out even if Microsoft provided absolutely no details about any sessions, pre-sessions or any type of content to be presented to participants between September 13 and 16 in Anaheim, CA.