Windows 8 consumer Preview - My first impressions
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Neuromancer
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Great write up. Been meaning to try this out myself but never got around to it.
I do not like the idea of the metro thing for desktop either but they do sell PCs with touch screen monitors now so that might be more usable. Colliding the desktop and mobile market into one interface in an interesting idea but so far I have not been overly impressed with smartphone navigation.
I do not like the idea of the metro thing for desktop either but they do sell PCs with touch screen monitors now so that might be more usable. Colliding the desktop and mobile market into one interface in an interesting idea but so far I have not been overly impressed with smartphone navigation.
yeah it will be with that ammount of ram, it would run fine with that ammount but the metro and aero.
Agreed, ive grown used to it but still prefer windows 7, i took a look at server 8 was well, very simple, but i think the same of that as i do windows 8
I will never ever upgrade to Windows 8 on a desktop I really have no desire to come to grips with it ultimately cause it's just so fumbled. It takes too long to get anywhere and the whole idea of putting apps into some sort of stasis instead of shutting them down is utter crap (assuming they still do that). I mean it says it uses no processing power/RAM etc but if you opened up task manager you could show easily that it did. As everyone said, great for tablets. Bad for a desktop. I really hope that developers don't switch to producing for Windows 8 and forget about Windows 7 when it comes to the desktop market. If they do then ultimately I will bite the bullet and switch to linux which I only don't do becaue of the effort required to game effectively on it.
YogevSkill
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great review solid work there. disregard my thought about the OS ,you did good mate!
but in my opinion the costumer review version sU*k balls.
it looks like window 7 for retards(no offence).
maybe the final retail version will be more to specs.
and in general whan you examine microsoft OS released in the past it always seems like
they pull a bad one and than a good one .
so...maybe 9?
but in my opinion the costumer review version sU*k balls.
it looks like window 7 for retards(no offence).
maybe the final retail version will be more to specs.
and in general whan you examine microsoft OS released in the past it always seems like
they pull a bad one and than a good one .
so...maybe 9?
SmoulderingCircuits
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Still not going to be as snappy as Linux/ Android. It's just going to be a giant IE9 with the oversized buttons spread apart a bit more. You'd think they'd realise people could just use a stylus, there's no need for the gargantuan interface with hardly anything on it, on account of being so oversized.
Good and informative review, but I see recently that there has been an obsession with making desktop user interfaces half-arsed and more suited to a tablet interface. IIRC, the desktop has a keyboard and mouse so why are things being designed for a touch screen?! It seems that Microsoft has joined on in the bandwagon with this. In the Linux world we had Gnome 3, and Ubuntu with their Unity crap, both look like they were designed for tablets, not desktops.
In my opinion if they are going to design interfaces for the personal computer, why not design it for what it is for instead of something else? That's a much better way to go about with stuff, instead of doing a half-desktop/half-tablet computer which is a pain to work with on both interfaces.
Also there's a reason why there aren't that many touch screen monitors about (try holding your arm up to touch stuff for a few hours, it gets painful after a while).
Just use GNU/Linux for everyday computing and when or if you want to game just boot it up into Windoze, save the hassle of getting Wine to work (much better these days) and get the benefits of a user interface designed for desktop computing.
In my opinion if they are going to design interfaces for the personal computer, why not design it for what it is for instead of something else? That's a much better way to go about with stuff, instead of doing a half-desktop/half-tablet computer which is a pain to work with on both interfaces.
Also there's a reason why there aren't that many touch screen monitors about (try holding your arm up to touch stuff for a few hours, it gets painful after a while).
Just use GNU/Linux for everyday computing and when or if you want to game just boot it up into Windoze, save the hassle of getting Wine to work (much better these days) and get the benefits of a user interface designed for desktop computing.
oO_KoPiTe_Oo
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Does anyone know how to change the install directory of windows apps. I don't want them filling up my SSD and cannot seehow to change this?
Cheers for any reply.
Cheers for any reply.
repton
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Great review
This reminds me a little bit of the old active desktop on windows 95 though obviously quite different, I think I'll also be sticking with windows 7 though. I guess Microsoft must know this will isolate their more advanced desktop users who won't find this an upgrade to win7, I see this as more of a compliment to windows 7 for users of touch screen devices and in typical Microsoft fashion they're punting it as a new OS rather than simply adding metro as an optional update in windows 7... as always, if it seems odd... follow the money hehe.
This reminds me a little bit of the old active desktop on windows 95 though obviously quite different, I think I'll also be sticking with windows 7 though. I guess Microsoft must know this will isolate their more advanced desktop users who won't find this an upgrade to win7, I see this as more of a compliment to windows 7 for users of touch screen devices and in typical Microsoft fashion they're punting it as a new OS rather than simply adding metro as an optional update in windows 7... as always, if it seems odd... follow the money hehe.
I think they should split it into 2 Operating systems. 1 for tablets+phones, 1 for Laptops and desktops. Metro is fine but not very good for desktop users.... or business' actually extremely poor for business. Also even though all in one computers with touch screens are compatible with Windows 8 the bezel on the screen that protrudes past the screen is going to prevent you from getting right into the corners... which anybody who has used it knows that the "VERY" corners all have different functions. Instead of windows 8 they should bring all the features that are supported in win 8 that are needed today, to win7 like UASP, and active queue depth control. The windows explorer optimization. Windows explorer is being moved into the base kernal rather than an executable like it is now explorer.exe
There wouldnt really be much point in most of us upgrading to windows 8 then as it would be just like windows 7 haha
I also agree with your point about poor for businesses, after i reviewed it at home i installed it onto a laptop (dell inspiron 1545) at work to show a few of my colleages, they where impressed with some aspects of it, i had it along side server 8 beta (which has since been renamed to windows server 2012), Windows 8 itself they didnt see it being very practical in a business environment unless it was on a mobile device.
(Microsoft have produce their own high end tablet to go with windows 8, it comes with either an ARM (i thnink) or the Intel processor your choice)
I liked the beta of server 8 it was nice and simple, again with a metro layout but i dont see us taking it up here anytime soon
(Microsoft have produce their own high end tablet to go with windows 8, it comes with either an ARM (i thnink) or the Intel processor your choice)
I liked the beta of server 8 it was nice and simple, again with a metro layout but i dont see us taking it up here anytime soon
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