Windows 8 Consumer Preview Thread

If Metro is forced with Windows 8, and of course there is no real way of knowing this at the moment, I know 100% that we will not be upgrading to it here at work.

I have to help support these users and my workload will go up ten-fold overnight once users have this interface in front of them.

I don't know how others in the corporate environment feel, but there is no way I'm massively increasing my workload in supporting this when my users will be just as happy sticking to "what they know" with a Windows 7 desktop.

Now the Office ribbon was a different matter. That was a great update and I forced my users to get to grips with it as I knew their experience of Office would improve. I was right, very, very few people still come back and tell me the Ribbon is not great.
The Metro interface however - I cannot see the point in forcing this on people.

As for me personally, jury still out. I've now had longer to play with it and I'm still not 100% convinced. Great for a tablet, good for a phone - really not the interface of choice for a desktop.
 
RE - My USB3 drive not showing up in the BIOS. Could having legacy USB support disabled be the problem? Can't test now as I am not at home.
 
With the last OSX upgrade they made it easy to get to the new app launcher screen but didn't force it on you in any way. Saying that I don't know anyone that actually uses it ;)
 
DanF said:
With the last OSX upgrade they made it easy to get to the new app launcher screen but didn't force it on you in any way. Saying that I don't know anyone that actually uses it ;)
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I do occasionally, but only because the new mac keyboards have a hotkey for it, quite useful to be honest and 100x better than metro :P
 
stoofa said:
If Metro is forced with Windows 8, and of course there is no real way of knowing this at the moment, I know 100% that we will not be upgrading to it here at work.

I have to help support these users and my workload will go up ten-fold overnight once users have this interface in front of them.

I don't know how others in the corporate environment feel, but there is no way I'm massively increasing my workload in supporting this when my users will be just as happy sticking to "what they know" with a Windows 7 desktop.

Now the Office ribbon was a different matter. That was a great update and I forced my users to get to grips with it as I knew their experience of Office would improve. I was right, very, very few people still come back and tell me the Ribbon is not great.
The Metro interface however - I cannot see the point in forcing this on people.

As for me personally, jury still out. I've now had longer to play with it and I'm still not 100% convinced. Great for a tablet, good for a phone - really not the interface of choice for a desktop.
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I have not actually tried the latest consumer preview, but I am in total agreement with the above comments - I am just hoping that they give us an option to turn tiles off or use a normal desktop,otherwise I will be sticking with windows 7. I fear however that we will be stuck with the tiles - as the consumer preview is reckoned to be pretty much feature complete so.......

Mark
 
DanF said:
With the last OSX upgrade they made it easy to get to the new app launcher screen but didn't force it on you in any way. Saying that I don't know anyone that actually uses it ;)
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There is an app launcher screen in Metro it has a shortcut Win+Q

http://www.stealthsettings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/win8apps.jpg

Other shortcuts

Not really an acronym for anything, but QIX is all you really need to remember to get to anywhere you need to be in Windows 8.

Win+Q

Listed as the keyboard shortcut to search All Apps it also takes you to the screen where all your apps are listed (same as right-click anywhere in the Metro and selecting All Apps from the bottom menu). So if you're working in the desktop and need to find/launch another application, hit Win+Q and either type in the name of the software needed (a habit I got into on Windows 7) or simply click on it on the All Apps screen.

Win+I

This is most helpful when you're on the Desktop. It brings up, perhaps most importantly, a link to the Control Panel as well as your power settings. It also has a link to the System Info screen (now called PC Info), volume control, wireless/LAN and more. As far as I can tell this is the quickest way to shutdown/reboot your PC.
This shortcut doesn't offer much if you use it from the Metro and it's one of the few shortcuts that cannot be used from anywhere in the OS.

Win+X

Probably the most useful keyboard shortcut for IT Pros. It launches the same menu you get from right-clicking on the Metro/Start in the bottom-left hot corner. It pops up an old-school Windows menu with the following options.
Programs & Features, Network Connections, Power Options, Event Viewer, System, Device Manager, Comp Management, Disk Management, Command Prompt, Command Prompt as Admin, Task Manager, Control Panel, Windows Explorer, Search, Run, Desktop.
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http://social.technet.microsoft.com...l/thread/e28ca07d-4700-4af3-bb1b-b627b61d9463
 
It was going to be reopened.

Woot, Mozilla have confirmed they'll be making a metro version as well as desktop version for w8.
 
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