Author Topic: I Just Installed Windows 8 Eval Copy (Read 11293 times)

kiwipete · « **on:** June 02, 2012, 05:53:33 PM »

I am finding it a little hard to get around, however like anything it has only been about an hour or so and I expect that it will become easier.... But the first thing I have noticed is How bloody fast it is at new install... Boot time has been at least halved and even the Internet seems twice as quick... Very impressed so far....

I ran partition magic and split the drive in 2 and done a duel boot install off a iso and dvd very easy to install....

I am liking it so far.....

Estelle · « **Reply #1 on:** June 02, 2012, 08:01:57 PM »

Is it designed more for tablet or mobile devices than desktop/laptop devices.

Whenever I have a quick read of the 'previews', they seem to mention swiping rather than keyboard or mouse movements.

Looks rather clunky.

Do you have the option of 'interface'? PC or Tablet style?

Nice to see it is quick. Guess it is very much cut down to boot up. Is there a delay after bootup before you can do anything worthwhile? M$ seemed to make the startup quicker in earlier versions such as Vista, but it still took forever to get to the point where you could do anything with the PC.

sandman · « **Reply #2 on:** June 02, 2012, 08:22:04 PM »

I've had a copy due to my work for a while and it is fantastic of tablet style devices but I was not too impressed on a standard laptop. I certainly did seem to run quicker but navigation with a mouse was a pain. I will probably put it on my work machine when we get the RTM version but certainly won't be rushing to run it out onto the rest of the network.

D4D · « **Reply #3 on:** June 02, 2012, 08:27:17 PM »

The keyboard experience is much improved in this release.

bobnrob · « **Reply #4 on:** June 02, 2012, 08:36:59 PM »

Still running XP, & that's where I'll be staying for awhile

Got a copy of Windows 1.0 if anyone wants a play

dazzler · « **Reply #5 on:** June 02, 2012, 08:50:53 PM »

Quote from: kiwipete on June 02, 2012, 05:53:33 PM

I ran partition magic and split the drive in 2 and done a duel boot install off a iso and dvd very easy to install....

I really wish I knew what that meant

JonoH · « **Reply #6 on:** June 02, 2012, 09:36:33 PM »

Mac

Nuff said

bobnrob · « **Reply #7 on:** June 02, 2012, 10:33:04 PM »

Quote from: kiwipete on June 02, 2012, 05:53:33 PM

I ran partition magic and split the drive in 2 and done a duel boot install off a iso and dvd very easy to install....

Quote from: dazzler on June 02, 2012, 08:50:53 PM

I really wish I knew what that meant

Just means he's ran a program to make his OS see his single hard-drive as 2. He then installed Win 8 on the 2nd hdd & now has the option of selecting his default OS, or Win 8 when he turns his machine on...to put it simply

Mikeb62 · « **Reply #8 on:** June 02, 2012, 10:49:07 PM »

I use a windows phone which uses the same metro interface and live titles found in windows 8. They are going for a seamless interface phone, tablet and pc. I love my windows phone and think windows 8 will be huge.

Brettmc · « **Reply #9 on:** June 03, 2012, 08:21:37 AM »

'They are going for a seamless interface phone, tablet and pc' i think someone already does this , thats right its Apple ,

sorry could not help myself i am an Apple person.

D4D · « **Reply #10 on:** June 03, 2012, 08:27:46 AM »

Quote from: Brettmc on June 03, 2012, 08:21:37 AM

'They are going for a seamless interface phone, tablet and pc' i think someone already does this , thats right its Apple , sorry could not help myself i am an Apple person.

I wouldn't call the Apple experience seamless, it is a different app for each different o/s. With 8 it is one app across all platforms.

schmik · « **Reply #11 on:** June 03, 2012, 09:39:48 AM »

I use both Win7 and OSX (and Linux). IMO, Win7 was the best Win since XP.
XP was THE best windows. They have gone downhill from there.

With the latest OSX and IOS being so good.... it would take a great release of windows to even break even with apple.

mike

gibbo301 · « **Reply #12 on:** June 03, 2012, 10:27:35 AM »

Quote from: Brettmc on June 03, 2012, 08:21:37 AM

'They are going for a seamless interface phone, tablet and pc' i think someone already does this , thats right its Apple , sorry could not help myself i am an Apple person.

I'm not partial to apples myself i do like a nice orange or pear though

briann532 · « **Reply #13 on:** June 03, 2012, 10:50:27 AM »

Sorry, but I'm an apple man myself.

Usually in a crumble or pie, but always with cream and custard.

Oh and whats all this stuff bout 'puters???

Kangaron · « **Reply #14 on:** June 03, 2012, 07:15:15 PM »

Windoze
V1 = well, new
V3 = crap
95 = ok
98 = crap
98SE = ok
ME = crap
XP = ok
Vista = crap
7 = ok
8 = seems to be a pattern here.

I'll keep running XP for as long as I can. does everything I want to efficiently once you clean out all the rubbish like Internet explorer,
Media Player, Messenger etc etc.

boobook · « **Reply #15 on:** June 04, 2012, 06:18:18 AM »

Quote from: Estelle on June 02, 2012, 08:01:57 PM

Is it designed more for tablet or mobile devices than desktop/laptop devices.

snip

Estelle that's not the case. It is designed as the next version of desktop/laptop OS that will also do tablets including ARM CPU based ones. It doesn't support phones. That is windows mobile 7 or 8

D4D · « **Reply #16 on:** June 05, 2012, 07:26:30 PM »

Loving the auto-correct and dictionary features of IE10 on Win 8. No more spelling errors in posts

Paul (SA) · « **Reply #17 on:** June 05, 2012, 09:21:44 PM »

Sorry... I went to apple recently and will never go back to windows. I have found windows, while flexible, to be really unreliable and a magnet for virus attacks and system faults.

Apple is pretty much a "you will only do it this way" in it's approach, but at least it's stable and reliable. It does what it says it will do.

Vale Microsoft Windows!!!

koshari · « **Reply #18 on:** June 05, 2012, 09:37:54 PM »

i think microsoft are victims of their own success.

xp was a pretty solid OS but lack of 64bit support pretty well sentenced it to a slow death,

windows 7 is a good solid 64 bit release and i have a feeling will be the bedrock of OSs for a long time,

win8 like the ribbon interface in the modern incarnations of Office are just change for changes sake.

macs are nice but really they cannot do any more than a PC.

for the record i use ubuntu 10.04 on my desktop and have 3 android 4 devices.
i have an xp Virtual machine and win7 Virtual machine i run in virtualbox on my desktop when required.

my laptop dualboots linux mint and win7,

Dragonfly · « **Reply #19 on:** June 06, 2012, 01:57:03 PM »

Quote from: Brettmc on June 03, 2012, 08:21:37 AM

'They are going for a seamless interface phone, tablet and pc' i think someone already does this , thats right its Apple , sorry could not help myself i am an Apple person.

IOS looks nothing like OSX. Need another paid for app for everything - in Windows or Windows Phone it's just a web page - and you don't have to pay for that...

Apple make good stuff, but it's not perfect. As they say, if it has wheels or code, it will give you sh*t

Dragonfly · « **Reply #20 on:** June 06, 2012, 02:09:29 PM »

For the Windows fans out there (and just so you know, we Windows users generally out-number Mac users by about 10:1), here's a GREAT article that talks through using Metro.

(I love the right-click on the bottom left corner and app switch on the top left

)

http://www.techradar.com/news/software/operating-systems/50-windows-8-tips-tricks-and-secrets-1028220

By the way, do you know that Microsoft sold more Windows Vista (yep Kangaron, that crap one) than there are iPads and MacBooks combined?!?

Bird · « **Reply #21 on:** June 06, 2012, 03:04:56 PM »

For those that can be bothered http://windows.microsoft.com/en-AU/windows-8/iso

I have not had one failure or blue screen, or hang on this Dell E6500 with Win7 64bit, Office 07, admin tools, citrix, VNC, FTP, Coffeecup etc etc used all day every day inc remote admin...

I keep hearing about 'clunky' and 'flawed' and 'I just wanna say what all the supposed kewl techno nerds say' but I never had an issue with Windows 7 or XP...
Windows 7 is probably the only Windows OS I'd buy since Windows 95.

BigJules · « **Reply #22 on:** June 06, 2012, 03:15:35 PM »

Quote from: Lost on June 06, 2012, 03:04:56 PM

I have not had one failure or blue screen, or hang on this Dell E6500 with Win7 64bit, Office 07, admin tools, citrix, VNC, FTP, Coffeecup etc etc used all day every day inc remote admin...

Windows 7 is probably the only Windows OS I'd buy since Windows 95.

I use W7, works a treat, but then I also had a good enough time with Vista. Possibly the only person apparently, but there you go. I hired the right sysadmins to set it up

.

noel_w · « **Reply #23 on:** June 06, 2012, 03:22:53 PM »

Quote

Windows 7 is probably the only Windows OS I'd buy since Windows 95.

You actually buy OS's?

I've been running W7x64 Ultimate on my clunker box at home (nephews handmedown gaming rig) for a while with no issues except for scanner devices. Doesn't like them or more actually can't find them. x32 version doesn't have the same problem so I run a vm when I want to scan. Upgraded from XP which I have had since 2002. 10 years is a looooonnnggg time for an OS. Gave Vista a big miss though.

Had a play with a Win8 Samsung Tab at JuiceIT last month. Very nice interface but as I had been using a Windows 7.5 phone for a while it was easy to get around.
M$ confirmed to us the other day that there is no guaranteed upgrade path for the Windows 7.5 to Win 8 phones so there could be some angry people out there if that happens. That backed us out of using Windows phones in our corporate environment. So we had to go with iphone 4 8G which was twice the price. Over 70 odd handsets it is a lot of money.

D4D · « **Reply #24 on:** June 06, 2012, 03:30:33 PM »

Quote from: noel_w on June 06, 2012, 03:22:53 PM

M$ confirmed to us the other day that there is no guaranteed upgrade path for the Windows 7.5 to Win 8 phones so there could be some angry people out there if that happens.

I think you'll find that is wrong information

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Author Topic: I Just Installed Windows 8 Eval Copy (Read 11293 times)