Windows 8 build 8032

Windows 8 build 8032 is a Developer Preview build of Windows 8. The screenshots were known to be from BA user Pwned, who posted them on PCBeta. There was a discussion on OSBetaArchive.net about this build on 2016-04-05 by a user named intelsystembridge. On 2018-12-27, users of BetaWorld found the build and was leaked the next day, which was then uploaded on BetaArchive on 2019-01-04. This build is one of the first to fix the issue with window borders not displaying correctly whilst Desktop Window Manager is enabled. It is also the last known build to use Windows 7 branding during installation. This is also currently the earliest known leaked build to call itself “Windows Developer Preview”.

Redpill
A version of MetroUnlocker was released on 2019-05-10, unlocking all redpill levels on this build, including the start screen.

Significant changes have occurred with Metro since build 7989. The charms bar has been redesigned, along with the Metro login screen. The animations for the Immersive apps, logging in, the Start screen, and app execution from the Start screen has been completely redone. The betta fish pattern for the Start screen, present since 7927, has been removed. Switching between Metro apps is no longer done from an option in the Charms bar. While the general design by this point is much closer to 8056, some elements, such as the bigger size of the live tiles, the gradient effect on the Start screen, and some of the icons, resemble 7989.

Despite featuring both the left charms menu and the right charms bar, unlike the future builds that features both, you cannot use WIN-SHIFT-C to open the right charms bar. However, if you have a computer with touch, you can still swipe from the right edge of the screen to access it.

USB 3.0
This build appears to have a broken XHCI driver, and therefore will BSOD during setup if USB 3.0 is enabled. Disabling USB 3.0 for the VM (or from BIOS, on real hardware) should fix this problem.