Windows 8 - the Features, Applications and News Thread

mmj_uk said:
Gave this a try it's just a tweaked Windows 7 with an unavoidable front end bolted on to it, the only link I found really useful was 'Desktop'. :p

The old start bar was a lot faster and more user friendly than this new start screen.
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I'm sorry but it's in no way a tweaked version of Windows 7. There is an entire blog listing all the changes. It's fundamentally different from top to bottom.
 
smogsy said:
i wonder how long it will be before win8 sp1 is released :p
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Well they must be getting good at this over the years

Win 2000 had 4 plus one sort of service pack I think.
XP had 3
Vista had 2
Win 7 has 1 and havent seen any news about service pack 2. So I guess it be left at that. So Win 8 may not get or even need one.
 
Service Packs are just roll ups of previous updates these days anyway. Very few features get added, if any.

For Windows 8 though... I'm really not sure. I can see the WinRT side of things getting updated very regularly since it is a version 1.0 product after all.

And then we'll get the threads, "How can I avoid/remove updates to WinRT" because it's "eating disk space" and "I never use Metro".
 
Thanks for the link, I've been using OS X for the past couple of years so I hadn't followed this. Seems like a significant upgrade, UI debate aside; Although it's not going to benefit me as I only drop into Boot Camp or a VM to game or run a few odd tools.
 
AbsenceJam said:
Thanks for the link, I've been using OS X for the past couple of years so I hadn't followed this. Seems like a significant upgrade, UI debate aside; Although it's not going to benefit me as I only drop into Boot Camp or a VM to game or run a few odd tools.
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No problem. And yes, it is a significant upgrade yet most people see a few tiles and then switch off.

For bootcamping I would agree its hardly worth it, nobody is going to dual boot or launch a VM for Metro apps and the core improvements are a bit wasted on a guest OS.
 
theheyes said:
I'm sorry but it's in no way a tweaked version of Windows 7. There is an entire blog listing all the changes. It's fundamentally different from top to bottom.
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That might be so but 90% of the improvements are not going to be noticed by most users, the dire user interface that's been added in place of the start bar is (as proven by the efforts to circumvent it).

If they wanted to have a screenful of oversized links (presumably for touch users) they'd have been better just making it an optional active desktop and leaving the start bar in place for conventional users.
 
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If they wanted to have a screenful of oversized links (presumably for touch users) they'd have been better just making it an optional active desktop and leaving the start bar in place for conventional users.
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But they need to force adoption of metro and they couldn't do that if they let everybody turn it off.
 
nightmare99 said:
But they need to force adoption of metro and they couldn't do that if they let everybody turn it off.
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Any semi intelligent being would offer the traditional menu system for desktops and the new metro for pads and such.

However metro is being forced on desktop users so the microsoft shop is in your face constantly.
It has nothing to do with useability it is pure microsoft greed.
 
PCZ said:
Any semi intelligent being would offer the traditional menu system for desktops and the new metro for pads and such.

However metro is being forced on desktop users so the microsoft shop is in your face constantly.
It has nothing to do with useability it is pure microsoft greed.
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Nobody used the "traditional start menu" any more. It was pretty much replaced in W7 by pinned task bar apps. Which is basically the same model used by OSX.

So they got rid of it and replaced it with a far better menu that isn't simply a "god menu" that tries to display everything and the kitchen sink.
 
PCZ said:
Any semi intelligent being would offer the traditional menu system for desktops and the new metro for pads and such.

However metro is being forced on desktop users so the microsoft shop is in your face constantly.
It has nothing to do with useability it is pure microsoft greed.
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/sigh, there's always one... :rolleyes::confused:
 
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