Top 10 articles: Windows 8 will boot in eight seconds, and Flash coming to iPad and iPhone

Microsoft's Build developer conference, and the forthcoming Windows 8 operating system to which it is dedicated, dominated the week's top stories, with no fewer than six slots devoted to these popular topics.

Build ran this week in Anaheim, California with the intention of showing developers what's happening with the much-anticipated OS.

V3 readers were keen to find out the latest from the show, including news of the improved scalability in Windows 8, the release of a Windows 8 preview and the fact that no legacy Windows apps will be able to run on ARM-based Windows 8 devices.

Also popular was news that the aforementioned Windows 8 preview was downloaded 500,000 times in an hour, and that the new OS will have a dramatically reduced boot-up time.

Elsewhere, V3 readers flocked to find out about Adobe Flash coming to Apple devices without the need to use HTML5, the continued outage of several Linux sites after an intrusion, and our review of the Acer Iconia Tab A100.

Microsoft demonstrates eight-second boot-up in Windows 8
Kernel session now placed into hibernate mode instead of being closed down

Adobe Flash video coming to Apple iPad and iPhone devices
Flash Media Server 4.5 allows publishers to make Flash video available on iOS phones and tablets

Windows 8 developer preview gets 500,000 downloads in 12 hours
Steve Ballmer excited about Windows 8, but disappointed with Windows Phone sales

Linux sites still down after security breach
Kernel.org intrusion blamed as sites are taken offline as a precaution

Microsoft Build: Windows 8 will scale from tablets to PCs to servers
Next version of Windows features new UI and programming model in most radical overhaul yet

Microsoft Build: Windows 8 preview now available
Developer Preview released, but no word on final shipping date

Acer Iconia Tab A100 review
Android Honeycomb device promises much but is let down by poor battery life

Microsoft and Google cloud outages knock out online services for hours
Google Docs, Hotmail and Office 365 failures underline risks of cloud services for business use

Windows 8 Developer Preview hands-on
We take the pre-release version of Windows 8 for a quick spin

Microsoft Build: No legacy Windows apps for ARM devices
Company confirms it will not port the installed base of x86 applications to ARM