It’s a big day for releases as a number of new Release Previews and Release Candidates have just been made available:

[Last updated – 7/13/2012]

Windows 8 Release Preview

• Windows 8 Release Preview Home
• Windows 8 Release Preview ISO images
• Windows 8 Release Preview FAQ
• “Delivering the Windows 8 Release Preview” – Building Windows 8 blog
• “Windows Store for Release Preview” – Windows Store for Developers blog
• “The Windows 8 Release Preview & Windows Upgrade Offer” – Windows Experience Blog
• “What’s Changed for App Developers Since the Consumer Preview” – Windows 8 App Developer blog

Visual Studio 2012 Release Candidate

• Visual Studio 2012 RC Downloads
• Downloads for Metro style app development (VS 2012 Express RC, SDKs, Samples, etc.)
• What’s New in Visual Studio 2012
• “Announcing the Release Candidate (RC) of Visual Studio 2012 and .NET Framework” – Jason Zander’s blog
• “Visual Studio 2012 RC is Released – The Big Web Rollup” – Scott Hanselman’s Blog

.NET Framework 4.5 Release Candidate

• “Introducing the .NET Framework 4.5 RC” – .NET Blog 
• .NET Framework 4.5 RC Download
• “What’s New in the .NET Framework 4.5 RC” – MSDN

Team Foundation Server 2012 Release Candidate 

• “Visual Studio/TFS 2012 Release Candidate Available Today” – Brian Harry’s blog
• Team Foundation Server Downloads
• Team Foundation Server 2012 RC Readme

Windows Server 2012 Release Candidate

• “Windows Server 2012 Release Candidate Available Now” – Windows Server Blog
• Windows Server 2012 Release Candidate Download
• Windows Server 2012 Release Candidate Home
• Windows Server 2012 Release Candidate Overview

Enjoy downloading and exploring!

-Chris