Now that the Build conference is under way, I thought I’d start a list of good links that come out of it and also links related to Windows 8 itself and how we are going to develop for it.  They are in order or priority (for me) as going forward, I’m going to use this as a reference list for myself…

Blog Posts

• 2011-09-14
  How does the new Windows 8 Runtime compare to Silverlight and WPF?
  Awesome thread on stackoverflow discussing WinRT.
  
• 2011-09-19
  Mary Jo Foley – Here’s the one Microsoft Windows 8 slide that everyone wants to redo.
  
• 2011-09-13
  David Burela – BUILD keynote day 1–Metro experience with Jupiter, XAML and HTML5/JS
  The best Day 1 summary of the Build conference that I’ve found.
  
• 2011-09-14
  David Burela – BUILD keynote day 2–Windows Server 8 and developer tools
  
• 2011-09-13
  Mary Jo Foley – Microsoft to developers: Metro is your future
  Mary Jo’s Day 1 Summary of the Build conference.
  
• 2011-09-17
  Laurent Bugnion – My thoughts about Build, Windows 8, WinRT, XAML and Silverlight
  
• 2011-06-14
  David Burela – Premature cries of Silverlight / WPF skill loss. Windows 8 supports all programming models
  Probably the best post I read at the time about how people had started poking Windows 8 to see if WPF/Silverlight were dead or not.

Videos

• Jensen Harris clearly explains Metro and the thinking behind it.

Tools and stuff…

• Windows Developer Preview downloads
• Windows 8 Developer Preview Metro style app samples
• Guide to Installing and Booting Windows 8 Developer Preview off a VHD (Virtual Hard Disk)
• Windows 8: Tips and Tricks for mouse/keyboard users
• The Windows Dev Center
• Visual Studio 11 developer preview Web installer
• ASP.NET MVC4 developer preview