Windows 8 release preview has been launched today

It looks like they've kept their stupid generic wireless driver on which hampers wifi performance.
Going to have to fix that.
Took a while to install, seems quite fast though, but we'll see how it runs after it's had some usage.
 
I think this is just one step towards the solitary Metro UI. They obviously couldn't do it with this release as there are too many programs and features that need to be rewritten before they can abolish the desktop. But I expect Windows 9 will further reduce the need for desktop and maybe by Windows 10 it will be gone altogether. And I can see the same with Mac OS X too. You'll just have a full-screen UI like the iPhone/iPad.
 
|Thomas| said:
I can see what you're saying from the rest of the post, however I just don't agree with this paragraph. I find the interface really counter intuitive for a non-touch screen device.
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Clearly it is built for touch, but its still usable for non touch devices.

For example, once the computer boots you are presented with a picture which you have to drag upwards to be presented with a login screen.[/quote]

Press the up key?

I think its meant to be the case that it shows something useful when the computer is locked and the screen is on....time/date etc....I think sometime in the future you will be able to customise this and have even more maybe?

Another thing I found difficult was just shutting down the computer, it took me a small age to find it! I decided to try to see if I was just being an idiot and asked a bunch of my friends, all computer literate students, to shut down the computer. Needless to say they found it equally difficult.
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But once you found it you were able to find it again right? Frustration because your going through the learning phase isn't really a viable excuse.

But why do you have to click so many buttons to get to shutdown...well...because your not meant to - so they can hide it with the "not-accessed very often" section, with more and more low powered devices and computers, you can simply put it into standby, there has always been a push for this!

I even have a button on my keyboard that I can use to put my machine into startby/switch it off.
 
I love the picture screen and picture password on the start screen.

Best bit is shows callander entries for today as well as emails date/time.
Much prefer picture password as well and that's on desktop as well.
 
They might have changed the user dragging thing? When I get the main screen with the time and pretty picture, I just click and the users appear and then click on a user and it logs in.

Found my first problem - some things like my PopCap games don't run when using large fonts at 150%. Reducing to 125% solves that issue.
 
Tried installing from the ISO to virtualbox, and got this screen. Anybody know of a cure. Thanks

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Cheetah Designs said:
Clearly it is built for touch, but its still usable for non touch devices.

For example, once the computer boots you are presented with a picture which you have to drag upwards to be presented with a login screen.

Press the up key?

I think its meant to be the case that it shows something useful when the computer is locked and the screen is on....time/date etc....I think sometime in the future you will be able to customise this and have even more maybe?
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Why can't you have this next to a list of login accounts? It's just a pointless thing to have before you login. Especially given most desktops nowadays have very high resolutions, having extra things on the login screen wouldn't exactly be challenging.

I didn't know you could move it with a key press, but it is still pointless.


Cheetah Designs said:
But once you found it you were able to find it again right? Frustration because your going through the learning phase isn't really a viable excuse.

But why do you have to click so many buttons to get to shutdown...well...because your not meant to - so they can hide it with the "not-accessed very often" section, with more and more low powered devices and computers, you can simply put it into standby, there has always been a push for this!

I even have a button on my keyboard that I can use to put my machine into startby/switch it off.
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Actually I've already forgotten how to do it. Obviously if I was using it daily I'd remember though.

What do you mean 'not meant to'? I don't want to leave my computer on standby because it is still drawing power, regardless of how small such a consumption is.

Again, this seems to be a small touch device vs normal PC situation. For a mobile/tablet of course standby makes sense, given that they take a long time to start up from cold boot and consume a negligible amount of power in standby. However, my desktop PC will cold boot incredibly quickly, so why would I want it wasting power on standby when I know I won't need it for hours at a time?

I do not have such a button on my keyboard.

Anyway, I'm sure this would come across as nit picking to some, but it's these sort of things that will really frustrate a 'normal' user.
 
It's basically back to the windows 3.11 days, that had no desktop either just windows with your programs in, metro is just this on steriods.

Don't see what all the fuss is about really, looking at metro I can see it's possibilities.
 
|Thomas| said:
Why can't you have this next to a list of login accounts? It's just a pointless thing to have before you login. Especially given most desktops nowadays have very high resolutions, having extra things on the login screen wouldn't exactly be challenging.

I didn't know you could move it with a key press, but it is still pointless.
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Agree completely pointless for desktop users. An extra step not needed at all.
 
Cool Breeze said:
It's basically back to the windows 3.11 days, that had no desktop either just windows with your programs in, metro is just this on steriods.

Don't see what all the fuss is about really, looking at metro I can see it's possibilities.
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What annoys me about it is that when a program is launched it invariably goes into the old style windows interface, there's no connection between the metro interface and non-apps, which frankly is what most people will continue to use.

I've ditched Windows 8 and gone back to Windows 7 today as Metro feels like a tagged on after thought for the desktop solution, yet works so well on phones. What I do wish they'd do with it is make the buttons/squares double-click and allow you to click and throw the interface almost like a gesture rather than using a scroll bar, mouse wheel or cursor to move it.
 
Halfmad said:
What annoys me about it is that when a program is launched it invariably goes into the old style windows interface, there's no connection between the metro interface and non-apps, which frankly is what most people will continue to use.
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But isn't this just a hiccup until Metro versions of apps are written? I am not at all au fait with it and thus I don't know what can and can't be done. Will there be a Metro version of Word, for example?
 
There is always shock and horror when a new windows release is revealed. I'm sure once its polished everyone will love it.

I've not been disappointed with any windows releases ever, even Vista.
 
ic1male said:
But isn't this just a hiccup until Metro versions of apps are written? I am not at all au fait with it and thus I don't know what can and can't be done. Will there be a Metro version of Word, for example?
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Office is desktop only, possibly in the future. Even on windows arm on tablets, it'll switch to desktop.
 
Glaucus said:
Office is desktop only, possibly in the future. Even on windows arm on tablets, it'll switch to desktop.
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MS are working hard on cut down metro versions of word excel and PowerPoint that will ship with ARM Windows 8.

Intel Win 8 won't get these but Office 15 will be metro-fide.
 
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