The Windows 8 Thread

Cosimo · 14 Sep 2011 at 11:49

Lol this download is going to take forever.

Glaucus · 14 Sep 2011 at 11:52

You don't need to trust ms, you just need to know what w8 is about. It's a bit silly slating and asking questions. Everyone in this should watch the keynote and not skip through it, the development parts, gives great insight.
So because ms had issues with vista, that must mean w7 failed and w8 will be the same.

Glaucus · 14 Sep 2011 at 11:54

Subliminal Aura said:
How many of you are online account registration vs local accounts.

I'm wondering if the online accounts are portable as in Joli OS

What do you mean portable?

You can if you wish sync pretty much everything, including apps. So all comps you log onto are identical, or you can disable some or all sections.

The recovery system has changed as well and is really nice.

Subliminal Aura · 14 Sep 2011 at 12:16

AcidHell2 said:
All the sharing between apps for a start and being able to select stuff from the cloud and uploading it to what ever you are doing in a simple click.
The whole side by side thing would be meda useful, ok you can do that now, but no where near as slick.

Exactly the answer that I was looking for ... Posting via Win 8 btw - Now running natively :eek:

Gregry254 · 14 Sep 2011 at 12:19

hmm, I just built a new system to replace my aging e8600.

Before I try and sell it on I think I will have a play with windows 8

Temi_D · 14 Sep 2011 at 12:20

Is there any new info about the protogon file system? I don't have any machine I can test W8 on atm.

NathanE · 14 Sep 2011 at 12:23

AcidHell2 said:
You don't need to trust ms, you just need to know what w8 is about. It's a bit silly slating and asking questions. Everyone in this should watch the keynote and not skip through it, the development parts, gives great insight.
So because ms had issues with vista, that must mean w7 failed and w8 will be the same.

The multi-monitor taskbar is enough reason to upgrade.

Can't wait to have Metro running on a 3rd monitor. With my 1st and 2nd monitors for running desktop apps. I fully suspect that, over time, the Metro monitor will get used more and more as the apps that I want (or don't know that I want yet) become available and popular.

Subliminal Aura · 14 Sep 2011 at 12:38

NathanE said:
The multi-monitor taskbar is enough reason to upgrade.

Can't wait to have Metro running on a 3rd monitor. With my 1st and 2nd monitors for running desktop apps. I fully suspect that, over time, the Metro monitor will get used more and more as the apps that I want (or don't know that I want yet) become available and popular.

Yeah what's the deal with this - Windows 8 just recognised my hacked up triple display setup with gtx 460 + 8400gs :eek:

. I didn't have to do anything other than order the displays. Under windows 7 I hacked them together with ultramon

Apparently the drivers are from 20/7/11 Signed Nvidia 8.17.12.7574 - I'm running metro on the primary

EDIT : OHHHHhhhh ******* cool ! Just toggle the windows button and it moves metro to that display

mrbios · 14 Sep 2011 at 12:40

ahh nice little feature, double clicking the direct left side of the screen flicks between open applications

Amp34 · 14 Sep 2011 at 12:51

Hmmm... I was thinking of waiting til they had an ARM preview out but now... Any chance this will work in VM on a machine with 2GB of ram...

Subliminal Aura · 14 Sep 2011 at 12:53

Amp34 said:
Hmmm... I was thinking of waiting til they had an ARM preview out but now... Any chance this will work in VM on a machine with 2GB of ram...

Don't do it ... It almost killed me.

Subliminal Aura · 14 Sep 2011 at 12:56

mrbios said:
ahh nice little feature, double clicking the direct left side of the screen flicks between open applications

Doesn't play too will with triple display unless of course you stick metro on the 1st monitor

Now out of curiosity can't you have metro span all three displays ?

mrbios · 14 Sep 2011 at 13:03

Subliminal Aura said:
Doesn't play too will with triple display unless of course you stick metro on the 1st monitor

Now out of curiosity can't you have metro span all three displays ?

Can you select which monitor metro goes on? Perhaps it's focued more as a single monitor feature to be able to flick through applications like that

Subliminal Aura · 14 Sep 2011 at 13:12

mrbios said:
Can you select which monitor metro goes on? Perhaps it's focued more as a single monitor feature to be able to flick through applications like that

Yep with a simple single click ... Yeah maybe it is focused as a single monitor feature but that would be too bad. Maybe a windows nerd could help shed some light on this.

nightmare99 · 14 Sep 2011 at 13:33

That's what they said about Vista. After the Vista shambles i'll never trust MS again.

Vista worked fine for me :confused:

Are you one of those dudes that ran Vista on a Celeorn 600Mhz 512MB & 4200rpm hard drive by any chance?

nightmare99 · 14 Sep 2011 at 13:34

Epic new BSOD screen is epic:

What did you do, change the storage controller mode?

Amp34 · 14 Sep 2011 at 13:52

Subliminal Aura said:
Don't do it ... It almost killed me.

Maybe I'll run it on the second partition of my Laptop then... I don't think there is any irreplaceable data on it... :eek:

I take it installing it onto a second partition won't delete anything on it (as long as I don't format it anyway) and it should be fine?

MR.B · 14 Sep 2011 at 13:54

Anyone yet tried this on some REALLY old hardware? Maybe something with 512MB and single core? Hows the memory usage? SCREENSHOTS PEOPLE

I wont be able to test it for a few hours yet.

Xinn · 14 Sep 2011 at 13:54

Going to give this a try I think, looking at the info on Engadget it looks like it really could be fantastic.

One thing I like about Apple kit is that they all sync well together with the Mac, iPad and iPhone. Hopefully by the time Windows 8 comes out the phone OS wil be in a suitable place to allow the same kind of functionality.

Exciting times.

NathanE · 14 Sep 2011 at 14:10

R34P3R said:
Exciting times.

Indeed. They're basically doing a platform reset on Windows.

There are literally thousands of applications that need to be written again as Metro apps. There is A LOT of "new money" to be made in shareware over the next few years.

It could be the right time for some software developers to pack in their day jobs and set up a business that produces Metro apps.