Looking around the desktop experience looks like an evolved windows 7. Anandtech's review doesn't matter because a) its an alpha b) its designed to show of the main new feature (metro) c) its running on a tablet and d) there using the mouse/keyboard in metro which no sane person would do.
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Spot on. Can you imagine how slow something like Photoshop would be if written in HTML5/JS
Or even worse, games. 30fps HA!
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Look awesome in the video below.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97RtEABGt3M&feature=player_embedded#!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97RtEABGt3M&feature=player_embedded#!
TBH while it can be used with kb/m, its clearly been designed for touch. If your using a kb/m then explorer has much better software support, better window management, better file management, and the software available generally has more features (just compare IE10 metro and explorer to see this). Plus theres also the pixel inefficiency of metro. Thats not to say metro is ****, on the contrary it looks awesome for touch, but I can't think why a kb\m user would choose it over explorer.
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Anyone else thinking that they will use metro interface for desktop?
The way I use a computer at home now is only for a few things and with live tiles can have lots of info displayed on desktop.
I have been looking at desktop recently and thinking it's lacking compared to my so called cut down "iOS on the iPad" but it has email notification and stuff built in and windows8 metro takes that one step further and includes info in the tiles.
The way I use a computer at home now is only for a few things and with live tiles can have lots of info displayed on desktop.
I have been looking at desktop recently and thinking it's lacking compared to my so called cut down "iOS on the iPad" but it has email notification and stuff built in and windows8 metro takes that one step further and includes info in the tiles.
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I bet it will be 8am !!!! (to match 8am -> windows 8)
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So does Windows 8 contain DX12? 
8pm American would be 3am GMT Wouldn't it.
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No it would be 1am GMT
5 hours difference with american time being 5 hours behind uk time
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http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/city.html?n=1244 it now 14:44 at USA
No it would be 1am GMT
5 hours difference with american time being 5 hours behind uk time
That depends where in America it's 5-8hours isn't it.
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Lol I am looking at the newyork time
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/city.html?n=179
Didn't realise that time zone varied across US
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Microsoft is from Redmond, USA. Not in New York lol
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I haven't been following the thread but how is Win8 turning out?
Is it more exciting, user friendly, Dx12 etc??
Is it more exciting, user friendly, Dx12 etc??
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It more for touch screen, probably useless for all of us without touch screen ! I was wondering how big the ISO file is ? probably 4.4GB ?
As I just said, I can see many features that would be amazing on desktop with keyboard and mouse.
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.
I really don't think it is just touch.
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.
I really don't think it is just touch.
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