Windows 8 Consumer Preview Thread

Athanor said:
Why would discussions forum not be the place for me? You made a comment, I replied, pretty much the definition of discussions. If you can't cope with people not agreeing with you all the time may I suggest you look to take your own advice.
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Athanor said:
I rue the day they decided it was a good idea to give end users beta previews /sigh... :D
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you essentially telling me to be quiet because it's a beta is hardly encouraging discussion, is it? :/
 
Ive installed this on my older system which I just use for testing things. Old s939 rig. I used a secondary partition on same drive as windows 7. It seems to take about 20 seconds or so to bring up the boot loader screen where win7 or 8 can be chosen. It will reset the whole pc to boot windows 7 but takes another 20 seconds or so to get to windows 8 logon.

I have so far just installed ati windows 7 drivers 12.1 for the radeon 3800 (which doesnt seem to have installed right) and Latest win7 beta driver for x-fi sound. All seems ok so far and no other hardwae seems to need me to go digging for drivers.

All i have done so far is turn my computer icon on for an easier life and run windows benchmark. 5.4 for the test machine which is a little lower then win 7 score of 5.5. All the scores seem to be one mark down from win 7.

Now to go see whats on the store.
 
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Hi can anyone snap more than two apps to the screen at once? In the consumer preview video he has a word doc on the left/centre and then snaps different apps onto the right hand side; a video, msn convo etc.
Can you snap say a msn convo on the left, word doc in the middle and video on the right?

Does it have vertical snapping as well? (snapping top to bottom)
 
MadMatty said:
Ive installed this on my older system which I just use for testing things. Old s939 rig. I used a secondary partition on same drive as windows 7. It seems to take about 20 seconds or so to bring up the boot loader screen where win7 or 8 can be chosen. It will reset the whole pc to boot windows 7 but takes another 20 seconds or so to get to windows 8 logon.
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when dual booting with 7, you should set 7 as the default OS. you get the OS picker straight after the bios like with previous OSes.
 
Really enjoying the new start screen after playing about with it for a while, it's very intuitive.

The OS feels even more responsive then W7 if that's possible, or perhaps I'm just imagining it?

I kind of wish they had made the desktop task bar a bit more metroish though, it still feels very W7.
 
marc2003 said:
you essentially telling me to be quiet because it's a beta is hardly encouraging discussion, is it? :/
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No, I said I rue the day incomplete and by definition unfinished betas of software were made available to end users. The extension to and inference is that end users can have unrealistic expectations of what a beta build is. That is why I made it in reference to your post.

Commenting on your post without agreeing with what you've written is not the same as telling you to be quite.

Really, if I have to explain this all to you you really should consider taking your own advice. /sigh.
 
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I don't know what to say about this? I agree with mrbell1984 about this looking like an iDevice thing and I'm not very happy about that. I for one will certainly not be getting a touch screen for my computer so me or other people can put their grubby hands on it, it seems so unnecessary for a desktop computer and a radical overhaul of laptop computers. Not something I am enthusiastic about.

Although I have to comment on this I read
paradisiac said:
can anyone confirm if the iphone works with the consumer preview?
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So if that means what I am thinking -- that Windows 8 can be installed on iPhones that for me sounds interesting, especially if it's from the same iso?

I would have imagined the people transitioning to Win95 from pre-gui would have gone through similar feelings about the direction Microsoft is taking at the time. Though it has become standard pretty much now if you get what I am saying so maybe it won't be a big deal after all. Mind you, I still use classic view on Windows 7 now so:rolleyes:
 
I used the Windows 7 USB tool, which all went smoothly. I had an issue trying to boot from it when I was using a USB3 port but I just plugged it into a USB2 port and the install went fine.

As for Windows 8 itself, it's an improvement over the developer preview but it still feels very clumsy. Basic tasks like logging off and restarting the computer are needlessly convoluted, while there are numerous references to "tap" the screen. Clearly a lot of optimisations have been made for touchscreens—which isn't a problem in and of itself—but a lot of things just aren't intuitive; for instance: the lack of a start button; trying to find applications not pinned to the start screen; trying to close a metro app (very tedious if you try to use the top-left cursor method); trying to open the Charm bar, etc.

It really has potential but at the moment I think it's going to cause problems for most desktop users. Tablet / touchscreen users will love it.
 
TAC4U said:
I used the Windows 7 USB tool, which all went smoothly. I had an issue trying to boot from it when I was using a USB3 port but I just plugged it into a USB2 port and the install went fine.

As for Windows 8 itself, it's an improvement over the developer preview but it still feels very clumsy. Basic tasks like logging off and restarting the computer are needlessly convoluted, while there are numerous references to "tap" the screen. Clearly a lot of optimisations have been made for touchscreens—which isn't a problem in and of itself—but a lot of things just aren't intuitive; for instance: the lack of a start button; trying to find applications not pinned to the start screen; trying to close a metro app (very tedious if you try to use the top-left cursor method); trying to open the Charm bar, etc.

It really has potential but at the moment I think it's going to cause problems for most desktop users. Tablet / touchscreen users will love it.
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Im finding that its faster to find apps then windows 7. For instance bring up the start screen and start typing out the name of the app your looking for and it finds it whether you have it pinned to the start screen or not. Feels faster then the win7 method.
 
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