Windows 8 User thread

MR.B · 14 Sep 2011 at 23:02

Nice thread AcidHell. I've linked to it in my Win 8 news thread

Subliminal Aura · 14 Sep 2011 at 23:18

Antar Bolaeisk said:
I think it's because we picked the one without the in-built apps. It looks like we can download the apps from here and over here we can get the in-built sample apps. Trying them now and I'll let you know how I get on.

Talking of which ... Where's the SDK ?

The blog says that Express 11 is included but I can't see it. It must be right in front of me or something :rolleyes:

Glaucus · 14 Sep 2011 at 23:23

Did you download the one with developer tools? If not that's your problem.
Visual studios and the rest are on the initial metro page on a colum on the right of the screen. twitter, stocks and the rest on the left hand side. 4.8th file, not the 3.6th file.

Subliminal Aura · 14 Sep 2011 at 23:30

Yeah I think I just worked that out - D'Oh ! I burnt the smaller iso because I thought the larger file wouldn't fit. :rolleyes:

PANTS !

I've got visual studio 2010 laying around somewhere ... That no good I take it ?

Glaucus · 14 Sep 2011 at 23:31

Not really, there are some add ons. But you really want the new one, to take control of all the new APIs, windows basically does everything for you now.

Can you not download them separately.

Antar Bolaeisk · 14 Sep 2011 at 23:33

AcidHell2 said:
They've added a ton of APIs and also how things communicate with each other. I keep banging on about it, but yesterday's keynotes is a great insight, to just how much has changed and how much is possible.

It really isn't just a UI.

Coolio, I should probably check that out at some point.

rp2000 said:
Out of curiousity, what sort of hardware are you running it on? Also, do you know if all the Fancy GUI stuff is specific to certain graphics cards (like some W7 features were). I will be trying this on a HP box that has some sort of Intel built in graphics tomorrow.

Messing around a bit more it does seem to handle multi monitors really well.

rp2000

Running on an integrated intel gma 950 chip here and everything works smoothly. Need to plug it in to a larger screen to get most of it to work though as Metro won't work fully on any resolution less than 1024x768.

Subliminal Aura · 14 Sep 2011 at 23:34

AcidHell2 said:
Can you not download them separately.

Would love to know this ... my google foo skills are failing me - I get the feeling it's only available on the iso

Glaucus · 14 Sep 2011 at 23:37

Seems only if you have msdn
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/subscriptions/default.aspx

rp2000 · 14 Sep 2011 at 23:38

Windows Developer Preview with developer tools English, 64-bit (x64)
DOWNLOAD (4.8 GB)
Sha 1 hash - 6FE9352FB59F6D0789AF35D1001BD4E4E81E42AF
All of the following come on a disk image file (.iso). See below for installation instructions.
64-bit Windows Developer Preview
Windows SDK for Metro style apps
Microsoft Visual Studio 11 Express for Windows Developer Preview
Microsoft Expression Blend 5 Developer Preview
28 Metro style apps including the BUILD Conference app

Windows Developer Preview English, 64-bit (x64)
DOWNLOAD (3.6 GB)
Sha 1 hash – 79DBF235FD49F5C1C8F8C04E24BDE6E1D04DA1E9
Includes a disk image file (.iso) to install the Windows Developer Preview and Metro style apps on a 64-bit PC.

Do both the downloads contain the same demo apps? The larger one makes mention of 28 apps, the smaller does not specify. I don't need the dev tools, but will get that package if it has more apps in it.

Antar Bolaeisk said:
Running on an integrated intel gma 950 chip here and everything works smoothly. Need to plug it in to a larger screen to get most of it to work though as Metro won't work fully on any resolution less than 1024x768.

Thanks. I should be fine with a 1280x1024 monitor and built in graphics, in that case.

rp2000

Glaucus · 14 Sep 2011 at 23:38

rp2000 said:
Do both the downloads contain the same demo apps? The larger one makes mention of 28 apps, the smaller does not specify. I don't need the dev tools, but will get that package if it has more apps in it.

Going by what a few on here have said, the smaller one doesn't include the apps.

Installed all my normal apps and they all seem to work fine, as does kerbal space program (game). No real use though, just fired them up.

Subliminal Aura · 14 Sep 2011 at 23:42

AcidHell2 said:
Seems only if you have msdn
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/subscriptions/default.aspx

Yep

Unavailable for me ..... Guess I'll have to reinstall

.NET Framework 4.5 Developer Preview (x86 and x64) - (English)
14/09/2011 View Unavailable
.NET Framework 4.5 Developer Preview Web Installer (x86 and x64) - (English)
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Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview (x86 and x64) - DVD (English)
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Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview Remote Debugger (x64) - (English)
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Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview Remote Debugger (x86) - (English)
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Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview Web Installer (x86 and x64) - (English)
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Visual Studio Agents 11 Developer Preview (x86 and x64) - DVD (English)
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Visual Studio Team Explorer Everywhere 11 Developer Preview (x86 and x64) - DVD (English)
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Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 11 Developer Preview (x64) - DVD (English)
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Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 11 Developer Preview Web Installer (x64) - (English)
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Glaucus · 14 Sep 2011 at 23:43

Although it says general release on Friday. So I assume that means anyone can download it then.

Some off you might want to try turning high contrast on, haven't tries it myself, but screenshots look like a lot cleaner black theme, assuming they haven't altered anything else.

Subliminal Aura · 14 Sep 2011 at 23:50

AcidHell2 said:
Although it says general release on Friday. So I assume that means anyone can download it then.

Yep - I'm missing whole chunks of text at the moment, maybe a sure sign that I need to get some kip.

Night all

McPhee · 15 Sep 2011 at 00:16

rp2000 said:
Do both the downloads contain the same demo apps? The larger one makes mention of 28 apps, the smaller does not specify. I don't need the dev tools, but will get that package if it has more apps in it.

I downloaded the non-developer 64-bit version. It has apps. They work. Not a lot else to be said really.

rtrm · 15 Sep 2011 at 00:35

Very strange, because I've installed both the developers and non-developers 64bit versions and neither appear to have apps. In Metro clicking on any title, except Control Panel results in nothing apart from the click animation on the title. I'm obviously missing something, but I can't see what it is.

McPhee · 15 Sep 2011 at 01:21

Maybe it's just broken? I can't switch between apps on my install, everything freezes for 30 seconds or so if I move my cursor to the left edge of the screen...

Antar Bolaeisk · 15 Sep 2011 at 07:28

rtrm said:
Very strange, because I've installed both the developers and non-developers 64bit versions and neither appear to have apps. In Metro clicking on any title, except Control Panel results in nothing apart from the click animation on the title. I'm obviously missing something, but I can't see what it is.

What's your screen resolution?

Freddie589 · 15 Sep 2011 at 09:14

Has anyone installed win8 on a vm?

Ringiho · 15 Sep 2011 at 09:25

Freddie589 said:
Has anyone installed win8 on a vm?

Going to be trying a Hyper-V VM shortly!

robinbredin · 15 Sep 2011 at 10:00

Antar Bolaeisk
Capodecina
Quote:

Originally Posted by robinbredin View Post
I don't know about you, but I'm finding this preview release to be very solid OS. I beta tested Win Vista, and Win 7, and finding this easy.

Click to expand...

I think this is mostly just a UI upgrade with only a little bit of work done to the Kernal which is probably why it seems to be as stable as it is (and also why all the Win 7 drivers work fine).

That being the case, there must still be a bit if Vista in Win 8, because there are in Win 7.