Windows 8 who's buying/upgrading

IvanDobskey said:
Have to say that £25 to upgrade is a decent price.

Just not sure it's for me :)
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You get use to it,besides its the way Microsoft is going,you can expect Win9 to be something along these lines,its very polished for a new OS IMHO,give it a shot since not got much to lose ;) .
I have same motherboard as you ,non PRO version ,running great on 8 overclocked.

Going to upgrade my laptop now once Win7 has finished installing some updates lol(too late to cancel) .
 
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I tried today to use windows 8, even after disabling metro and finding a decent free start menu application it still finds its ways to annoy me.

Currently i have 0 reasons to upgrade and 1000 reasons to not upgrade. Can't say i didn't try though. When i went back to windows 7 my head ache went away.
 
gareth170 said:
no issues here with the arrow keys
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Might be a funny install then... but it's really weird, ctrl + left arrow key works, and even using a keyboard tester, it detects the left arrow is actually being pressed. So something to do with my install not wanting to do what the arrow key usually does?
 
Orcvader said:
Might be a funny install then... but it's really weird, ctrl + left arrow key works, and even using a keyboard tester, it detects the left arrow is actually being pressed. So something to do with my install not wanting to do what the arrow key usually does?
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does it happen in notepad ect?
 
gareth170 said:
does it happen in notepad ect?
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Yes it does. Even with the Metro mode and all the other stock Windows stuff. Even hooked on my keyboard from my desktop to try.

Solved it! Went into safe mode, it worked fine there, so I thought a driver or software was causing it. Rebooted, then I noticed it only worked with one thing: StartMenu8.

Uninstalled it and boom, it works again :D! Avoid this if you're looking for a start button replacement!
 
cu3ed said:
Because Aero was tacky and boring looking.
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That's not a reason.

Adrian Kingsley-Hughes said:
Microsoft has announced that it is to make some significant changes to the Windows 8 user interface, including dropping the Aero Glass effect that was first introduced in Windows Vista.

This announcement was made by Jensen Harris, Director of Program Management for Microsoft’s User Experience team, over on the Building Windows 8 Blog.

Aero gave the appearance of highly-rendered glass, light sources, reflections, and other graphically complex textures in the title bars, taskbar, and other system surfaces. The effect, which was purely cosmetic, allowed the desktop, icons and windows that were hidden beneath other windows to show through the surround of the application.

I was never a huge fan of the Aero Glass interface so I won’t be sad to see it go, but there’s more to this change than aesthetics. And that reason is power efficiency.

Back when Microsoft released Windows Vista, the dominant platform for Windows was the desktop PC. Yes, notebooks existed, but they were still quite a niche platform. Desktop systems spend all their working life plugged in to what is essentially an unlimited power source, so it didn’t really matter how much power a system consumed.

Aero was born from this thinking.

To power the effects of Aero, Microsoft has to make use of the system’s Graphical Processing Unit (GPU), and this made the effect quite system intensive. On a desktop system this didn’t matter, because extra power consumed by the GPU goes unnoticed. However, on a portable system that has to rely on the battery, power becomes a precious commodity. Switching Windows Vista or Windows 7 to low-power mode would automatically disable the Aero effect and revert to the Classic look.

And this was the problem facing Microsoft engineers as they battled to make Windows 8 suited for a whole raft of new, low-power devices such as tablets and ultrabooks. Did they continue to switch between Aero and Classic look whenever the device switched between being on main power and battery power, or did they settle on one user interface? It seems that Microsoft has decided to settle on a single look.

Eliminating Aero won’t just save power. Taking the workload off the GPU will mean that the system will have to deal with less heat, another factor that’s important to portable device, especially thin and light systems.
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It look like to me that w8 go back look like to windows 98 old plain colour as w7 use aero... Im stick w7 cos i dont like look at w8.... Too much stuff..
 
wow after a day+ using this I am very surprised at how much I am linking this for my multi-monitor set up.

I can see the apps getting better in time but as they are they are pretty limited. Anyone got a list of good ones to get?
 
Aero glass would look horrible anyway.
It just doesn't fit with modern design. Design goes through phases and its not just MS, look at all sorts of programs and websites. Amazon is a good example of a similar modern update just a few months ago.
 
Just for my 2 cents. I have upgraded the first of my 5 household computers as a trial run and I have to say I am impressed. Part of me thinks though that they could have done with ditching the Desktop all together, I am not sure how they would do that but at the moment as other people have said it feels like another OS which sits in the background.

I am happy though and it has enough good features to warrant upgrading the whole network.
 
So do I now go about converting my virtual box vms to vhd and use hyper-v instead?

I'm thinking this gets rid of a load of third party drivers and will give slightly tighter integration with windows vms.
 
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