A Skype tile will now appear on your Start screen. So just in case I rebooted and then the license acquisition worked fine. However I had just installed Visual Studio Ultimate 2012 and hadn't rebooted. I did indeed do an upgrade, so it could have been that. Some websites indicated this problem could occur if you upgrade from Windows 7 to Windows 8 and keep your application settings. I was getting the error 'We couldn’t get your developer license for Windows 8': Follow the steps and if you haven't obtained a Windows 8 Developer key, it will ask you to sign into Windows Live to acquire one. Or you could try these PowerShell execution tips)Ĥ. (Note: You may need Visual Studio installed to run as PowerShell. Right click on the Add-AppDevPackage.ps1 file and click Run with PowerShell.
(Ironic Microsoft wants to kill the name Metro yet their Skype team is still using it for their filenames! )ģ. Download the MetroSkype_1.0.0.128_x86.zip file from here.
So you want to try out the new Skype Metro/Modern UI on Windows 8 do ya? Well so do I, so last week I found out how to download and install a leaked copy of Skype for Windows 8.ġ.