Windows 8 Consumer Preview Thread

LeJosh · 29 Feb 2012 at 16:16

marc2003 said:
the metro mail app is an absolute joke. it only displays 2 messages from my hotmail inbox when there are 13 and although it does display all my gmail messages, the update is so slow i might as well write a letter. i know it says "app preview" but it's simply not good enough to be released in this state.

lol then mention that to them and they'll change it? The amount of changes going on is huge.

marc2003 · 29 Feb 2012 at 16:17

mrbell1984 said:
I am suprised I hear this from you. It's an app preview! noob.

don't call me a noob. it should function better than this even as a v0.0000001 alpha.

Cosimo · 29 Feb 2012 at 16:19

How can I upgrade my BUILD Samsung Prototype to Windows Consumer Preview?

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/...otype-to/c5731e13-1dac-44f2-bc4e-946c816c6fab

anything I don't mind · 29 Feb 2012 at 16:21

I am going to try this on a spare ocz vertex 1 60gb.

paradisiac · 29 Feb 2012 at 16:21

whats everyones impressions of overall speed/performance of the OS as a whole?
windows 7 was a lot less system hungry than vista, is windows 8 a huge increase over windows 7?

Deleted member 77746 · 29 Feb 2012 at 16:24

paradisiac said:
whats everyones impressions of overall speed/performance of the OS as a whole?
windows 7 was a lot less system hungry than vista, is windows 8 a huge increase over windows 7?

massive speed increase I think but then again it doesn't have high graphics processing needed. It's strange to be on it.

The messaging apps n stuff work out the box that I can tell. Signs you into services once you log into the system.

paradisiac · 29 Feb 2012 at 16:25

mrbell1984 said:
massive speed increase I think but then again it doesn't have high graphics processing needed. It's strange to be on it.

The messaging apps n stuff work out the box that I can tell. Signs you into services once you log into the system.

does it still have the same logon that dev did where you put your msn live details in and it sets the stuff up from that?

Deleted member 77746 · 29 Feb 2012 at 16:25

paradisiac said:
does it still have the same logon that dev did where you put your msn live details in and it sets the stuff up from that?

yup

marc2003 · 29 Feb 2012 at 16:27

woo, the random number generator(tm) now has a top score of 9.9

Deleted member 77746 · 29 Feb 2012 at 16:28

marc your images are huge and don't tell me to get a new screen!

paradisiac · 29 Feb 2012 at 16:28

mrbell1984 said:
yup

kool.
when you install programs (if you have yet) does it do the annoying thing where everything that would normally be in the startmenu (launch, uninstall, help etc) gets added to the metro screen?

Deleted member 77746 · 29 Feb 2012 at 16:29

paradisiac said:
kool.
when you install programs (if you have yet) does it do the annoying thing where everything that would normally be in the startmenu (launch, uninstall, help etc) gets added to the metro screen?

I am just installing Office 2010 now so will let you no, pictures coming up shortly on my feed on twitter. /mrbell1984

Macro · 29 Feb 2012 at 16:33

marc2003 said:
i know it says "app preview" but it's simply not good enough to be released in this state.

I rue the day they decided it was a good idea to give end users beta previews /sigh...

Deleted member 77746 · 29 Feb 2012 at 16:36

paradisiac said:
kool.
when you install programs (if you have yet) does it do the annoying thing where everything that would normally be in the startmenu (launch, uninstall, help etc) gets added to the metro screen?

The answer is yes. It leaves behind icons. :mad:

paradisiac · 29 Feb 2012 at 16:37

mrbell1984 said:
The answer is yes. It leaves behind icons.

this is a pain, and really should have been sorted. metro apps will be a while yet, so they need to sort out some way of tidying this up.

marc2003 · 29 Feb 2012 at 16:38

Athanor said:
I rue the day they decided it was a good idea to give end users beta previews /sigh...

perhaps discussion forums are not the place for you? of course people are going to complain when such basic functionality as displaying all the messages in your inbox doesn't work. :/ such a simple feature should be bulletproof regardless of whether it's pre-release or not.

i'll forgive the gmail integration being slow but my first issue is with my hotmail account.

paradisiac · 29 Feb 2012 at 16:41

marc2003 said:
perhaps discussion forums are not the place for you? of course people are going to complain when such basic functionality as displaying all the messages in your inbox doesn't work. :/

i'll forgive the gmail integration being slow but my first issue is with my hotmail account.

have you reported this issue to microsoft, see if its a known issue?

ChrisD. · 29 Feb 2012 at 16:43

Downloading at a whopping 500kbps on my 50Mbps connection.

LeJosh · 29 Feb 2012 at 16:44

Many people will be downloading now. I'm just glad I got it early on.

I can see the metro style UI being extremely popular for the masses.

First time I've tried W8.

marc2003 · 29 Feb 2012 at 16:44

paradisiac said:
have you reported this issue to microsoft, see if its a known issue?

to be honest, i'm not even bothered about metro apps. even if it worked perfectly, i wouldn't use it. it's so cumbersome to use compared to windows live mail or even the webmail. i won't moan anymore.

if i find some shortcut for submitting feedback i might do. there doesn't appear to be anything obvious though.