Windows 8 Consumer Preview Thread

yes and he doesnt know what hes talking about and hes also known to shout his mouth off. hes worried about his profits in a decades time and make up rubbish.
 
A lot of the Win8 metro comments make me chuckle. There's some interesting improvements to Windows 8 as a whole, and if you're not particularly interested in Metro apps you just use it as a Start menu with some icons that present live data as well as your normal game/x86 launch icon shortcuts.
Windows 7, go to bottom left of desktop screen, click to get start menu, chose program click run.
Windows 8, go to bottom left of desktop, click to get start menu (metro), click on program you want, click, run.

Win7 and 8, chose the program you want to run, pin to taskbar or save to desktop.
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It's not difficult... sheesh.

Having said that I remember all the ranting from people that didn't like change when XP came out. "I hate the fisher price interface", "why did they change it from Windows 95/98 and 2000?" "All those flashy grafix are just bloat", "gamers and pros use windows classic mode to disable Luna", "Windows 98se is all I need, lol at the suckers who bought into the MS marketing".....

Not to forget "what's all this graphical windows rubbish getting in my way", DOS 6.22 is imba yada yada yada..

As for Newell, he makes me chuckle - Windows 8 is the devil, I should be the only person with a company that has online digital distribution of games, you don't see us charging other publishers a slice of the prof... oh... errmmm.. well... errr.... nothing to see here, have i mentioned hl3 lately???

:D

Windows 7 is great, Windows 8 adds a lot for touch enabled PCs/Slates and some decent improvements for non touch. If you have Windows 7 on a traditional PC you don't "need" 8, but it's a decent update with pretty much no downsides. If you spend all day looking at the OS instead of in Apps then you're doing it wrong. :)

Haters gonna hate on teh internet... /Shrug
 
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The arguments against it are pretty weak. Its faster, can be made to work almost the same as Windows 7. End of.

The only problem I have is some software being incompatible. But I have it on the OH laptop, a 1.5 C2D, 2GB and it flies along. Does everything she needs to do.
 
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i dont think the point is if metro is easy or not, with a mouse its slower, if you only run 5 or 6 programs ever then ok its maybe the same speed

if you use a lot of programs its many times slower than the old start menu

ive used windows 8 on a desktop, on a tablet and on a netbook
metro even feels bad on a tablet, its not smart and it hasnt changed any since last year

in developer you could regedit to get the start menu now you have to use an app, why they felt the need to stop people or to force them to use a tablet interface with a mouse is just irritating

the OS itself i think is great
metro NO
dont even get me started on the retarded side menu :p
 
If you have (lets say) 20 programs on the metro screen arranged as your first 25 icons in what way is it slower? It means from starting up the PC the first thing you see is a list of 25 (or however many) programs right in front of you without having to do a single click or rummage through a menu to find them. You don't even have to click a start button to get to your programs, let alone start:all programs:random submenu:program of your choice.

From the metro screen you can also just start typing the name of the program and it'll find it pretty much instantly, then click. For that matter you could have shortcuts for 40 programs all on the desktop screen if you prefer it "old skool".

I'm confident I could fire up Windows 8 and get into any one of lets say a choice of 20 programs from "off" quicker than Windows 7 on the same PC.

If it's slower for you to get into and out of programs in Win8 then you're doing something wrong.

Change isn't for everyone, some will adapt, get used to new ways of doing things and take advantage of changes, others will stay with the past grumbling about "new fangled technology" and "why'd they have to change things" , it's the way of technology :p ;) :)
 
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Athanor said:
If you have (lets say) 20 programs on the metro screen arranged as your first 20 icons in what way is it slower? It means from starting up the PC the first thing you see is a list of 20 (or more) programs right in front of you without having to do a single click or rummage through a menu to find them. You don't even have to click a start button:let alone all programs:random submenu

From the metro screen you can also just start typing the name of the program and it'll find it pretty much instantly, then click. For that matter you could have shortcuts for 40 programs all on the desktop screen if you prefer it "old skool".

I'm confident I could fire up Windows 8 and get into any one of lets say a choice of 20 programs from "off" quicker than Windows 7 on the same PC.

If it's slower for you to get into and out of programs in Win8 then you're doing something wrong.

Change isn't for everyone, some will adapt and take advantage of changes, others will stay with the past, it's the way of technology ;) :)
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that depends how big your screen is really, on a small laptop you are going to fit about 10
and submenu's/jump lists are a good thing not a bad thing

...who wants to type to find a program...on something designed for tablets thats retarded

it makes no sense with a mouse and its even bad on a tablet, im great on change but metro is a poor design

feels to me with them stopping people re-enabling the start menu they just trying to force people into the microsoft store so they can stick adverts in your face :o

shall we post some screenies of it so everyone can see how awesome it is? ;)
 
prescott28 said:
Heh Mei, try Classic Shell - it adds a start button nd start menu to Windows 8 to make it more homely.
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yes used that already, nice free little app
my point was only in the developer release you could easily re-enable the start menu without an app until they put a stop to it

if you are using a pc with a mouse they shouldnt try force metro on u

and i dont understand a 10gb os for a tablet...
 
Mei said:
that depends how big your screen is really, on a small laptop you are going to fit about 10
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I'm not sure about that, I think the screen scales to your display so you have the same number of tiles on the default settings regardless.
 
Mei said:
...who wants to type to find a program...on something designed for tablets thats retarded
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You don't have to type, however you can do, it's an option that works well and quickly if you have a traditional keyboard/mouse. As an OS it's not just for tablets.

My laptop screen is 1366x768 and by default I have 36 (single square) program Icons right in front of me immediately after start up available to single click launch on my metro "start" screen without even having scroll right.

I'm hard pushed to understand how that makes Win8 metro start screen slower to launch a program than desktop:start button:allprograms:random folder:random program :confused:
 
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Athanor said:
You don't have to type, however you can do, it's an option that works well and quickly if you have a traditional keyboard/mouse. As an OS it's not just for tablets.

My laptop screen is 1366x768 and by default I have 36 (single square) program Icons right in front of me immediately after start up available to single click launch on my metro "start" screen without even having scroll right.

I'm hard pushed to understand how that makes Win8 metro start screen slower to launch a program than desktop:start button:allprograms:random folder:random program :confused:
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i grabbed my netbook so i can show u :p
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thats 11 icons and 3 half icons, default

perfomance i think is pretty good, this is the worst netbook ever made, 1.6 atom single core, and rly it runs it fine
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im using the start menu app there posted above
http://classicshell.sourceforge.net

i think its a great os just think the interface is thrown together with no sense of direction, clunky!
having to press the start button to go back sometimes..but not always...lame
 
Mei said:
i grabbed my netbook so i can show u :p

perfomance i think is pretty good, this is the worst netbook ever made, 1.6 atom single core, and rly it runs it fine
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Not really a valid test then. The Metro UI is intended to be run on 1024x768 as a minimum. Most netbooks only have a 1024x600 resolution so there are bound to be compromises.

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2012/03/21/scaling-to-different-screens.aspx

However, you do know you can make a lot of those icons half the size and that would increase the number visible at any one time?
 
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