We also have a guide on how to download and install it today. Update: The Windows Phone 8.1 Developer Preview is now live. The new platform iteration will become available for download via the Preview for Developers application, which can be found on the Windows Phone Store today.

Call one of the available phone numbers listed. Select your location (or the location nearest to you) from the drop-down list, and then select Next. Under Activate Windows Now section, select Activate by Phone. The User Token Generator does not require App Review, but it will only work. If you're only using the Legacy API to generate tokens in order to display your Instagram Feed on a personal website, you can use the Instagram Basic Display API's User Token Generator to continue generating tokens. “Along with the tooling delivered in Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 RC, developers can now get everything they need to start building and testing Windows Phone apps.”ĭevelopers won’t be the only ones to receive access to the Windows Phone 8.1 preview build, though all those who are interested in grabbing it will need to register for a developer account on Microsoft’s portal for that. To activate Windows 10 by phone: Select Start > Settings > Update & Security > Activation. See our developer documentation here to learn more. “Starting today, you can update your personal dev phone(s) to run Windows Phone 8.1 using the Windows Phone Preview for Developers program,” Microsoft explains in the aforementioned post. Microsoft’s Joe Belfiore has already said that the OS preview will arrive early this week, but said blog post, which is set to go online in a few hours, confirms that April 14 is indeed the big day, as WMPoweruser notes. The platform has been long rumored to arrive starting today, and some more confirmation on the matter is now available, courtesy of a leaked, yet unpublished post on Microsoft’s official blog. Starting today, application developers around the world will be able to download and install the Windows Phone 8.1 operating system on their devices, although only in a Developer Preview iteration.

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