Only person excited for Windows 8?

Arthur Hucksake

Arthur Hucksake

Arthur Hucksake

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Might get shot down for this one, but am I the only person excited for Windows 8?

It looks to be a breath of fresh air in my opinion. The same old Windows desktop has run its course and i'm ready for a change in how I go about things.

Are you finding generally finding it to be stable right now?

No strange demonic crashes rearing their heads randomly?

I recall Vista being extremely awful at launch, was hoping Microsoft had simply improved on Windows 7 without a total rewrite of the backend.

Time is at a premium for me these days, I lose 3 hrs a day in travel to and from work and I have a young son approaching 2.

What I want from it is less faff, more streamlined. Does it achieve this?
 
Why would you be shot down?

Personally its not for me and I'll be on W7 for the immediate future but if you like it and it offers you genuine benefits then you go ahead an be excited dude.
 
I'm excited to see it working on the Intel based tablets. I'm also running the preview on my laptop and quite like it. It felt like I'd upgraded the hardware after installing it, everything is a little more responsive, hopefully it will stay this way when the full version is released.

I won't be installing it on my desktop for a little while as I don't feel it will add any benefit there and I don't want to run into any driver issues.
 
Running it on my laptop, feels counter intuitive on a laptop as with a touchpad it seems to take longer to do anything than it does in windows 7. Keeping windows 7 on my main PC for a while yet.

That said I'm looking forward to upgrading my phone to a windows 8 one (currently on a windows 7 one) and maybe a windows surface tablet :)
 
I'm quite excited. It's only going on an HTPC to start with that my parents use. They can be the crash test dummies. :)

I'll upgrade on my laptop if I like it.
 
There is undoubtably a learning curve but it really is good. I can't say I'm excited per se because I already have it, but I'm excited to see some great Metro apps in the coming months.
 
Personally I've become attached to W7 in a Big way, No issues, No re installs, works perfectly, I love it & know I've never had an OS so good in all my years, To be honest I never thought there would come a day where I could forget about my OS & have no issues & never have to re install.
I don't want to give up this happy place until I know 100% that Win8 is as good.
 
4T5 said:
Personally I've become attached to W7 in a Big way, No issues, No re installs, works perfectly, I love it & know I've never had an OS so good in all my years, To be honest I never thought there would come a day where I could forget about my OS & have no issues & never have to re install.
I don't want to give up this happy place until I know 100% that Win8 is as good.
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yea gone are the days of winxp and having to reboot after it gets bogged down and reinstalling every few months.

only installed win 7 once on my main rig
 
Mana said:
yea gone are the days of winxp and having to reboot after it gets bogged down and reinstalling every few months.

only installed win 7 once on my main rig
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Same here - feels weird not having a fresh image of XP ready to go every couple of months.
 
Looking forward to hopefully getting a transformer like tablet running Win8, not so sure about the desktop though.
 
Some of the guys at work have installed Windows 8 recently. However as far as I can see it just seems to be windows 7 with the Metro interface bolted on.

I will be sticking with Windows 7 for a while not least that a number of the systems I look after have not yet been tested with Windows 8.

I installed it on a samsung slate pc a while ago and for a touch screen device like this it makes sense however for non touch screen pc's metro doesn't make much sense to me.
 
Windows 8 is Metro with an improved Windows 7 bolted on, not the other way around.

AshD93 said:
Don't fix something that isn't broken comes to mind.

Windows 7 is perfect for me.
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Windows 7 was broken. It was utter garbage for touch input and had loads of room for improvement on mobile devices.

It was great for its time and still works a treat on desktop computers, but Windows 7 is old news and quickly looking its age.
 
Home PC / Work PC no - really don't like it for that type of purpose - I still hate how you run some applications and it takes you to a desktop (i.e. cmd).

Work Tablet - yes - I'd love to get my hands on the Surface tablets. It crosses the barriers created by Execs who want a iPad (usually spouting some work related rubbish but if you can have a tablet that is, essentially, a work 'pc' that's encrypted and has all of the applications on it then it works well and gets rid of any need to have any iPads, etc.)


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I'm running it on my primary development desktop and laptop now. I don't particularly care for Metro applications... but in real-use the only time I have to see a 'metro' app is the start-screen, and even then it's only for a few seconds (win [+ w] -> type -> enter).

It's stable, feels faster than Windows 7, has better multi-monitor support, explorer enhancements and other niceties. If I didn't already get it from MSDN I'd happily pay the £30-40 to upgrade from Win7 to Win8, I don't think it's worth any more than that though.
 
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Its not that people dislike windows 8, its just that win 7 is already so awesome. I won't be upgrading for that reason.
 
Being one of the "rare" few that still uses my Start Menu, i'll be staying with Windows 7.
 
I have installed windows 8 on my laptop. I have now installed it on my main rig.

Boot time is quicker and its faster overall.

The only major change is metro start screen. Desktop and everything else is pretty much similar to win 7

Press windows key and X and you have all the admin tools you need

Windows key to get to metro... windows key again to get back out again

Its great
 
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