Windows 8 is only just out, and Adobe and Microsoft are two entirely separate companies. It's too much to expect, isn't it?

John, you're dead right in your assessment (it's a bit ignorant of BKBK to suggest Adobe only gets access to new Windows versions at the same time the general public do).  And, no, CF9 doesn't work on Win8 either.

The official word on Win8 support is here:

http://blogs.coldfusion.com/post.cfm/coldfusion-10-support-on-windows- 8-and-os-x-mountain-lion

It's depressing reading.

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Adam

Adam Cameron. wrote:

 

(it's a bit ignorant of BKBK to suggest Adobe only gets access to new Windows versions at the same time the general public do).

Reread my reaction. I suggest no such thing. Your tendency to condescend usually overtakes your thinking.

The official word from the ColdFusion team is that we will have to wait till December 2012 at the earliest for Coldfusion 10 support of Windows 8. Terrible news for us developers, that goes without saying.

However, what surprises me is the number of developers unprepared for this delay. You could have guessed it from developments in recent months. Some of the milestones in the timeline for the release of ColdFusion 10 matched the timescales for milestones in the Windows 8 release. To illustrate, I have copied the following titbits from the respective Wikipedia stories:

ColdFusion 10 release

For much of 2010, ColdFusion Product Manager Adam Lehman toured the US setting up countless meetings with customers, developers, and user groups to formulate a master blueprint for the next feature set. In September 2010, he presented the plans to Adobe where they were given full support and approval by upper management. The first public beta of ColdFusion 10 was released via Adobe Labs on 17 February 2012. ColdFusion version 10 was released on May 15, 2012.

Windows 8 release

Development of Windows 8 started before the release of its predecessor in 2009. Its existence was first announced at CES 2011, and followed by the release of three pre-release versions from September 2011 to May 2012. The operating system was released to manufacturing on August 1, 2012. On August 15, 2012, Windows 8 was made available to download for MSDN and TechNet subscribers. Windows 8 was made available to Software Assurance customers on August 16, 2012. The operating system was released for general availability on October 26, 2012.

One could argue, from the statements I have italicized, that Windows 8 was actually released later than ColdFusion 10! That puts the delay in perspective.

ERICBRANCACCIO wrote:

 

It would be nice to hear some reasoning and a better timeline.

ColdFusion 10 on Windows 8 is the kind of thing that often pops up in the Christmas season.

Eric,

Did you get anywhere with CF10 on Win8?

Just curious if you found something I haven't seen yet.

I just tried tonight, 12/20/2012, having just condemned myself to Win8 last week, and the normal CF10 64-bit download crashes during the install on Win8, as of this date.

So next I'm going to go visit the folks over at Railo, to see if they are further ahead than Adobe with a CF engine working on Win8...

And as a fall back, then I'm going to use a virtual machine compatible with CF10, running in VirtualBox (which does run on Win8).

If anyone has updated news, please let us know.

Thanks.

Works fine, but had to go through hell to get the original poster with the blog article to get his site up and running.  He either hosts it from his home or has a really crappy host.  Eitherways, thanks to him I got it going, here is the site: http://thefusionator.com/index.cfm?blogID=2

Let me know what issues you are having or where you are at with the install and I might be able to offer some assistance.

Did the installation complete successfully for you?  If it did, the CF services should have been added.  If not, you'll have to perform a reinstall.  Did you install it using the troubleshoot compatibility mode and then picking windows 7 & run as administrator?  That's the jist of the whole process that gets it to eventually work, not to mention all the other tweaks you have to do here and there. 

I don't know how many people this will help, but I was able to get CF10 32-bit to install without any problems or workarounds and it runs fine on my Windows 8 machine (so far). The only thing I did, and I don't know if it was necessary, is run the installer in Compatibility Mode for Windows 7. Everything else went fine.

That said, I'm a novice user and I'm just using the built-in server, so if you need to set up anything more complicated, you may have to try a few of the workarounds that are posted here and elsewhere on the web.

Anyway, just wanted to share that with everyone. All hope is not lost!

JAW

Happy to do so. For what it's worth, I'm running Windows 8 64-bit, but what made the think to try the 32-bit is I remembered when I installed CF9 on my 64-bit Win7 PC, I had to install the 32-bit version as well. Hope this info helps some others!

I actually had CF10 and CFBuilder2 with the CF10 upgrade installed on Windows 7 which I then overinstalled with Windows 8. It works fine. BUT then I somehow deleted things and in trying to reinstall the CFbuilder2 and CF10 Dev Server....it bombs out....I will now try Windows 7 mode.