Windows 8 requires a developer license

Kunal Chowdhury: “The straight forward answer to this is “Noâ€. You canâ€ t develop and deploy your Windows 8 Metro applications in your Win 8 environment or Win 8 simulator unless you have a Developer License synched with the PC. If you try to deploy the app without the license, you will get the error “Error: DEP0100: Deployment failed due to a Developer Licensing issue.â€ as shown in the following screenshot:”

Hopefully you don’t have to take a test.