The recently launched Windows 8 Consumer Preview has topped 1 million downloads within the space of a day. Microsoft tweeted the news shortly after the milestone was reached.
“One day later…one million downloads of the consumer preview”
The preview was released on the same day that Microsoft demonstrated Windows 8 at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Interest in the upcoming tablet-friendly OS has been high since the launch of the Developer Preview in September 2011
Source: CNET