Windows Evaluations
This is the new TechNet Evaluation Center
Customized. Connected. Cool.
We’d like to introduce you to the new TechNet Evaluation Center—built to bring you a better evaluation experience on your laptop, tablet, or phone. It is customized based on your own personal experiences, connected to community and social sites, and includes cool new features to make your day job just a bit easier.
The new experience helps you keep track of your evaluations, valuable resources, and community connections. In addition you’ll be kept up to date on new releases, site updates, and more. Start using the site today and chart your own personal evaluation path forward.
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Customized
Your customized experience begins when you sign-insign-in to the new TechNet Evaluation Center, immediately enabling your My Evaluations page. Think of the My Evaluations page as your own, personal evaluation control center—a place for you to track the history of your evaluations, virtual labs, and Tech Journeys—as well as organize your many resources.
To begin an evaluation, simply click Evaluate Now in the top navigation bar and select your desired product.
This will take you to the product family page for the product you’ve selected. Here, all of the product evaluation information is at your fingertips—download details, pre-install information, evaluation resources, and more. Click Download, select your file type, complete registration, and monitor the progress of your download with the embedded status bar in the top toolbar. Additionally, you can monitor your download status from the My Actions drop down menu. Here you will see your download status, along with options to pause or cancel the download process. After the download process completes, additional options are available to open the file location or re-download the evaluation.
FIND YOUR PRODUCT KEY: If your evaluation requires a product key, the key will be displayed in the Download details section immediately following registration completion. For security reasons, the product key will disappear when you leave the page. Copy the product key down so you can access it after your download completes. To regain access to the key you’ll need to re-register for the download.
Following download completion, the evaluation will be added to the Evaluations tile on your My Evaluations page—allowing you to track your progress, share, and more.
Explore, Try, and Learn the newest Microsoft solutions, which guide you along a Tech Journey learning path to understanding how you can bring these solutions to life.
The new Evaluation Center includes evaluation resources galore. But what if you want to read a white paper and don’t necessarily have the time right now? With the pin feature you can pin the white paper and it’s automatically added to your Resources tile—giving you the flexibility to read it when you’ve got the time. And a time estimate is also included for most resources, so you’ll have an idea of how much time it will take to get through each individual resource.
Connected
Connecting with others—from product experts to your internal IT team—is essential when evaluating new products and solutions. The Evaluation Center helps you connect more easily with new community and sharing features.
Access to product and solution experts is always at your fingertips on your My Evaluations page. As you evaluate new products and solutions, social resources will be added to your Community tile, helping you make those essential community connections.
Cool
Built-in to make your day job just a bit easier—the Evaluation Center includes some cool new features.
If you enjoy finding new and better ways of doing things then you’ll want to check out the Tools & Tips tile. As you try different product evaluations you’ll find resources targeted to where you are throughout your evaluation experience. Here you’ll be guided from initial setup through deployment and purchase.
Another cool feature to help you find more resources and additional experiences is the highlights bar, located at the top of every page. Here we’ll provide options for you to Explore, Try, and Learn based on your past actions.
Get a pre-sorted view of evaluation resources by purpose, when you click into the Explore, Try, and Learn experiences. Explore will surface documents, guidance, white papers, and similar support materials. Try will surface resources for getting hands-on with products and solutions—including virtual labs, guided experiences, and trials. Learn will surface online learning opportunities for you to improve your skills.
Easy to access. Advanced filters. Content that’s easy to save and organize. These are just a few of the search benefits the new Evaluation Center provides. Collapsible, advanced search filters are available throughout your evaluation experience, giving you the power to find what you need. The content is displayed in a user-friendly view, with the ability to pin and save resources relevant to you.
Thank you for checking out the new TechNet Evaluation Center.
Enjoy!
TechNet Evaluation Experience Team
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Please sign in to download Windows 8.1 Enterprise. If you have not registered before, you will be asked to do so.
You can only download this evaluation from a desktop computer.
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Windows 8.1 Enterprise provides IT professionals with a reliable and easy-to-manage infrastructure for today’s changing and increasingly mobile work styles. It’s the fastest and most secure OS from Microsoft for desktop, laptop, or tablet.
Need more information about Windows 8.1 Enterprise? See what's new in Windows 8.1.
Benefits
- Best business tablets and PCs – Enhanced user experience (improved multi-tasking, multi-monitor support, and mouse and keyboard navigation), boot to desktop, new Search experience, support for latest hardware innovation (processors, InstantGo, displays, smaller tablets, NFC, biometrics)
- Windows apps for business – Develop, deploy, and manage new mobile apps easier and faster, across PC and Phone (commonality of app platform, same tools, consistent user experience, easy portability)
- Mobility for the enterprise – Enhanced mobile broadband, NFC ‘tap to pair’ printing, Wi-Fi Direct printing, native Miracast wireless display, auto-triggered VPN with built-in clients, broadband tethering
- Empower Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) – Improved IT controls (Start screen layout and consistency), remote business data removal, Open MDM (OMA-DM support for Windows Intune and third-party MDM,) workplace join, work folders
- Enterprise grade security – Modern access controls (fingerprint-based biometrics, multi-factor authentication using virtual smart cards), malware resistance (Windows Defender with network behavior monitoring and Internet Explorer 11 scan of binary extensions)
Languages
Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), English (United States), English (Great Britain), French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish
Editions
- Windows 8.1 Enterprise 64-bit ISO
- Windows 8.1 Enterprise 32-bit ISO
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- Review Windows 8.1 Enterprise system requirements
- Register, then download and install full-featured software for a 90-day trial
- Receive emails with resources to guide you through your evaluation
Installation Guidelines
- Plan ahead. Back up your files and settings before installing this evaluation and, if necessary, again prior to the 90-day expiration.
- Upon installation, Windows will prompt you to activate. A product key is not required for this software. Unsure on how to activate? Visit our FAQ.
- You must complete activation before October 31, 2014 to use this evaluation.
- Once you activate, you have up to 90 days to use the software. You can track the amount of time you have left by referring to the “watermark” in the lower right corner of the Windows desktop.
- If you fail to activate this evaluation after installation, or if your evaluation period expires, the desktop background will turn black, you will see a persistent desktop notification indicating that the system is not genuine, and the PC will shut down every hour.
Following the evaluation period, you will need to replace the operating system on your test computer and reinstall all your programs and data. It is not possible to upgrade the evaluation to a licensed working version of Windows 8.1 Enterprise. A clean installation is required.
Things to Know
This is evaluation software designed for IT professionals interested in trying Windows 8.1 Enterprise on behalf of their organization. We do not recommend that you install this evaluation if you are not an IT professional or not professionally managing corporate networks.
Downloading the Windows 8.1 Enterprise 90-day evaluation could take a few hours. The exact time will depend on your provider, bandwidth, and traffic. If your download gets interrupted, it will restart where it left off. See this FAQ for details. For technical questions, please visit the Windows 8.1 IT Pro Technical Forums.
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