Will you go to windows8?

Unforgiven · 8 May 2012 at 13:25

I'll probably try it more in a dual boot on my new rig, but atm I prefer 7 and so will probably stick with that.

Yaayuh! · 8 May 2012 at 13:25

Mr Krugga said:
No mention of disabling Metro UI anywhere.

Thought there was a registry hack? :/

_Jimlad_ · 8 May 2012 at 13:30

its' only ME and Vista which were bad, but saying that if you tweaked UAC and had a good PC Vista was ok

Saundie · 8 May 2012 at 13:43

I'll be going Windows 8 upon release, purely to force myself to become accustomed to it. I didn't leap straight on Office 2010 when it came out, and as a result I suffered when our customers started calling in with problems relating to it. I have already tried the consumer preview (as well as the beta of Server 2012) but not for long enough to get over the initial "I want my start button back" thing most people seem to experience.

_Jimlad_ said:
its' only ME and Vista which were bad, but saying that if you tweaked UAC and had a good PC Vista was ok

I found Vista to be pretty good, but then again I had a great system - most people back then had single core systems, often with under 1GB RAM, which is why Vista has such a bad reputation for being slow.

HeX · 8 May 2012 at 13:47

3.1 = Good
95 = Bad
95B/C = Ok
98 = Ok
98SE = Good
ME = Kill me now
2000 = Good-->Great by SP4
XP = Good-->Great by SP2
Vista = Ok-->Good by SP2
Win7 = Great

Chaos · 8 May 2012 at 13:48

Im still on the fence about the metro ui but will prob still get it for the under the hood improvements.

ThomasTheTankEngine · 8 May 2012 at 13:53

HeX said:
3.1 = Good
95 = Bad
95B/C = Ok
98 = Ok
98SE = Good
ME = Kill me now
2000 = Good-->Great by SP4
XP = Good-->Great by SP2
Vista = Ok-->Good by SP2
Win7 = Great

My post was meant to be tongue in cheek, it doesn't look so good when you write it out like that.

Krugga; win 95 was a terrible resource hog, and you're right... it was ME that was the **** one, not 2000.

Yaayuh! · 8 May 2012 at 13:55

I might stick W8 on my spare SSD and have it to play about with until I'm ready/choose to move.

Moeks · 8 May 2012 at 14:07

I will no doubt take a good look at it, weather or not I will actually buy a retail copy of it though, I don't know yet. I am most likely to own it on a new laptop or tablet.

From the research I have done, I don't like Metro on the desktop at all, if that and the hot corners can all be completely disabled to make it more like an evolution of Windows 7 rather than a different take on the Windows desktop operating system ...a system that has worked well since 1995, then yes I probably will. If it continues as a slightly awkward bonding of desktop and tablet os's ...then probably not.

413x · 8 May 2012 at 14:56

Not from my understanding and looks of it

Gizmowithatt · 8 May 2012 at 15:19

Deluxe1 said:
If they do a cheap pre-order price like they did with Win7 then yeah i'll most prob buy it.

Me to, if the price is right

inogen · 8 May 2012 at 15:35

I was familiar with windows 2.0, but didn't have a PC until '94. Since, I installed every version of windows from 3.0 to 98. I didn't bother with ME. I stuck with 2000 until XP sp1. I tried with XP but found it a PITA with SCSI HDDs. SP1 fixed that.

I never installed vista on any of machines. I never even tried to install it. Only used it when preinstalled on other machines. Didn't like it at all and was running an old Athlon PC, so stuck.

I built a new PC and went Windows 7 pretty much as soon as it came out.

I'm not adverse to completely ignoring Windows editions if they don't do it for me or suit the hardware I'm running.

I'm gonna be interested to see how it works with Kinect. Might be good for an HTPC.

Curio · 8 May 2012 at 17:13

I'll definitely be using it on my Media PC - for my desktop I'll stick with 7. Might also try 8 on my netbook.

Ricochet J · 8 May 2012 at 18:17

Mr Krugga said:
Windows XP was terrible when it started, wasn't any good until SP2.

Lulwut? XP was amazing from day 1.

Alex74 · 8 May 2012 at 18:20

Ricochet J said:
Lulwut? XP was amazing from day 1.

I wouldnt say it was terrible at release, but it properly came into its own with SP1. Then with SP2 it was happy standing at least until vista release.

Ricochet J · 8 May 2012 at 18:22

When XP was released, there were holes, which were plugged with updates. Despite that it was hailed as a fantastic OS. SP1 did complete XP, but out of the box it was fantastic.

Mr-White · 8 May 2012 at 18:40

Will be upgrading at the first possible chance - minus metro

MW

Glaucus · 8 May 2012 at 18:44

Allready have, it's not a massive change at all. It's still w7 desktop with a host of tweaks. Metro is a great start menu and on mobile devices metro is a great desktop.
I realy do t understands people's hate of metro.
You open up start menu you can't do anything else. So why waste 3/4 of the screen and confine yourself with a stupid list. Metro as a start menu is far superior and hopfully a few more tweaks to make it easier.

Mr Krugga · 8 May 2012 at 19:00

Ricochet J said:
When XP was released, there were holes, which were plugged with updates. Despite that it was hailed as a fantastic OS. SP1 did complete XP, but out of the box it was fantastic.

It was very resource hungry (almost like Vista) and there were many holes which is why it had regular updates and 3 service packs.

I don't argue that it wasn't a brilliant system after a while, but it wasn't perfect on release either.

Glaucus said:
Allready have, it's not a massive change at all. It's still w7 desktop with a host of tweaks. Metro is a great start menu and on mobile devices metro is a great desktop.
I realy do t understands people's hate of metro.
You open up start menu you can't do anything else. So why waste 3/4 of the screen and confine yourself with a stupid list. Metro as a start menu is far superior and hopfully a few more tweaks to make it easier.

I don't know about your PC, but on mine the start menu takes maybe 10% of the screen and I don't have to toggle between the Xbox interface and my usual desktop when I do my thing. Not to mention that default tiles are terrible and 90% of people don't customise things like that.

Tute · 8 May 2012 at 19:02

Tried it and didn't like it. If there was an option to disable/remove Metro then i'd get it, but at the moment it just feels like a touchscreen interface shoehorned in a rather unruly way into a predominantly keyboard and mouse OS.

Having said that, I do like Metro on Windows Phone 7 so it has lots of potential for touch devices.