Windows 8 Consumer Preview Thread

prescott28 said:
Its about the touch screen and how dirty they get with use. I'm always having to clean my phone - imagine an full size monitor - would have to spend time and money to keep that clean!
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I have only cleaned it once, phones must have some sort of attraction to prints and smudges been glass, my Galaxy is covered in them yet I use this a lot more and its print free. Strange :)
 
prescott28 said:
Wow! 55"! Isn't that size a bit overwhelming when standing next to it to use the touch screen features? It does sound like a possible chalk board replacement - but only when the price comes down.
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It actually worked great. The one niggling doubt for me with Windows tablets is that I use my iPad in portrait mode like 95% of the time and and I'm not sure whether the horizontal nature of Windows is a good thing or not on a tablet.

On a large widescreen touch display however, it's fantastic. You had to spend a couple of minutes getting used to it because if you quickly tap a tile it tended to register it as a swipe. You almost have to pretend its a button. Not sure if this particular panel was a bit oversenstive but I wasn't complaining because it was literally a case of plugging in the USB cable and you were good to go (no additional drivers or software)

Switching between apps was the feature that really shone out surprisingly. People say the Metro UI is badly designed, but it really isn't when you take all the different form factors into consideration. Most people are right handed and will naturally stand to the left of a presentation display and that left edge UI means you can flip between PowerPoint, web pages, videos, PDFs etc really easily.

This particular panel was £2300 + VAT so expensive but not out of this world.
 
I'm a little late to the party on this, but I might download it and throw it on an old hard drive or something.

If they are offering cheap upgrades from XP (even OEM?) I might buy a copy for my frankenstein build of old bits. I'm happy with keeping 7 on my main machine for now though.

What are the chances of getting it working from a 16GB flash card? :)
 
ChileanLlama said:
Does it detect it as "Solid State Drive" under Media type? If so it won't actually run defrag on it, the status should change to "Optimisation not available" if you manually try it, or after the first scheduled run.
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The Status will depend on your SATA controller and drivers, rather than "Optimisation not available" it may allow you to Optimise and run a Manual TRIM in which case it will report "OK (x days since last run)".
 
misterPK said:
I'm a little late to the party on this, but I might download it and throw it on an old hard drive or something.

If they are offering cheap upgrades from XP (even OEM?) I might buy a copy for my frankenstein build of old bits. I'm happy with keeping 7 on my main machine for now though.

What are the chances of getting it working from a 16GB flash card? :)
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Yes OEM qualifies.
 
What are the chances of win 8 raising pc sales ?

Intel has been banking on the Windows 8 release in October to help slow the trend of consumers buying smartphones and tablets instead of personal computers.

While a major Windows release normally boosts computer sales, MKM Partners analyst Daniel Berenbaum said it might not help as much this time.

Along with concerns about consumer demand being hurt by the weak economy, Berenbaum said PC makers are reluctant to build up a lot of inventory because they are not sure whether notebooks or tablet computers will sell best.

"You're trying to decide are people going to buy convertible form factors, a tablet that slots into a keyboard, or are they going buy traditional notebooks or ultrabooks," he said.

"In the absence of knowing what to sell, there's a clear reluctance to build any sort of further inventory."
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http://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/3-intel-cuts-sales-outlook-144226215.html

run a Manual TRIM
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wheres that shown
 
I think we'll see a modest rise in PC sales personally. Question is, where do you draw the line between a tablet and a PC? Because Microsoft doesn't.
 
Despite all the good improvements we have in Windows 8, I think it is squarely aimed at the tablet market and for people who will actually juts use the 'Metro' apps which for many people will do fine for all the usual mail, Internet and so forth stuff.

Desktops are getting to be a bit more specialist with business and gamers the made buyers these days, Such people may upgrade but I bet the majority will just stick with Windows 7. So no, I don't think the sales of desktops will increase to any nexptent due to Windows 8.

Light laptops are also being pushed but most of the push relates to the new hardware like Ivy Bridge which is enabling small and more powerful laptops but, unless there is na touch screen involved, I can't see the new version fo Windows making any difference to sales.
 
prescott28 said:
Despite all the good improvements we have in Windows 8, I think it is squarely aimed at the tablet market and for people who will actually juts use the 'Metro' apps which for many people will do fine for all the usual mail, Internet and so forth stuff.

Desktops are getting to be a bit more specialist with business and gamers the made buyers these days, Such people may upgrade but I bet the majority will just stick with Windows 7. So no, I don't think the sales of desktops will increase to any nexptent due to Windows 8.

Light laptops are also being pushed but most of the push relates to the new hardware like Ivy Bridge which is enabling small and more powerful laptops but, unless there is na touch screen involved, I can't see the new version fo Windows making any difference to sales.
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A sale is a sale to MS, it's more or less accepted that there's barely any room for growth in traditional PC sales now, so go for other markets like phone and tablets. Don't think there's any secrets there.

What needs to happen is some sexy devices which people want but don't need and some killer apps that will drive Windows 8 adoption. For average Joe this will drive people to additional machines or new machines even if their existing ones are perfectly capable.

I'd also like to see MS get the whole ecosystem thing right, they're heading in the right direction, but you can sense they'll just miss out hitting the mark.
 
Well it would have been better if there had been more apps in the app store sooner. We've all be testing the new OS and find that the apps aren't there to try. I think they are hoping that the independent developers will bring their apps along ans save the day but with 30% going to Microsoft I'm not sure its going to happen.
 
prescott28 said:
Well it would have been better if there had been more apps in the app store sooner. We've all be testing the new OS and find that the apps aren't there to try. I think they are hoping that the independent developers will bring their apps along ans save the day but with 30% going to Microsoft I'm not sure its going to happen.
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It's no different to the Apple App Store, and that is booming.
 
I would hope they'll have a number of high profile releases - haven't they announced a number of games? I like the approach on Win 8 phone, only give the tools to the larger developers. Hopefully this drives quality over quantity, at least in the early days.

But we'll have to wait and see, I'm pretty certain they'll keep the good stuff until the real launch in October to create some buzz.
 
windows 8 scrapped and back onto 7.

It died and failed to post and corrupted itself. And the new amazong windows 8 recovery kicked in on startup and just froze on rety or press f8 for startup options.

Put windows 8 disk in but kept going to recovery even when selecting boot from disk so couldn't even re-install it.
 
ChileanLlama said:
But we'll have to wait and see, I'm pretty certain they'll keep the good stuff until the real launch in October to create some buzz.
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The apps will come, its just a case of being patient. I just hope they crack on with the "core" first party apps - calendar, mail etc. Using Outlook in the browser is currently better than the metro app and that isn't right.
 
passey89 said:
windows 8 scrapped and back onto 7.

It died and failed to post and corrupted itself. And the new amazong windows 8 recovery kicked in on startup and just froze on rety or press f8 for startup options.

Put windows 8 disk in but kept going to recovery even when selecting boot from disk so couldn't even re-install it.
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How on earth did it stop your PC from posting? Its not even loaded at that point.
 
theheyes said:
The apps will come, its just a case of being patient. I just hope they crack on with the "core" first party apps - calendar, mail etc. Using Outlook in the browser is currently better than the metro app and that isn't right.
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Agreed.

And that mail app is absolutely shocking at the moment. I've noticed a lot of updates to the others in the last few weeks, but not that one!
 
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