World wide web publishing service failed to start - SharePoint 2010 installation on Windows 8 Enterprise edition OS

Hi

I am trying to install SharePoint 2010 on Windows 8 Enterprise edition OS. SharePoint 2010 was installed without any errors but the configuration wizard is failing with error- World wide web publishing service failed to start as the dependent service might not have been started. I tried to manually start WWW publishing service from Services.msc, checked the dependencies but found no dependencies, I tried to restart my system, I tried to reset IIS, I tried to provide Full control to W3SVC in regedit but no good.

I would appreciate any help on this.

Thanks

S Shankar