Windows 8 Consumer Preview

[He Is Legend]

Here you can test out it out for yourselves, enjoy

http://windowsteamblog.com/windows/b/windowsexperience/archive/2012/02/29/introducing-windows-8-consumer-preview.aspx

[JIMINATOR]

why would we want to?

I was a beta tester for 98SE and "unofficial tester" for a lot of versions before that. Now, W7 works great, don't see any reason to mess with it. :)

In other words stability is way more valuable to me than seeing new features and becoming annoyed at what they have changed.

[He Is Legend]

change is good, I personally haven't tested it nor will I before it's official release. but I'm very excited to see what new things they have been able to bring to the table, and if I don't like it I'll just simply reinstall, not a big deal imo.

[JIMINATOR]

Yeah boy, you will love the new windows market place and the way your desktop can now look like a phone....

[He Is Legend]

Actually, the desktop will still be a desktop..what you are seeing is the application of windows iteslf, it's just a navigating addon to the os. you're desktop will still be there JIMBO

[JIMINATOR]

Just trolling you buddy. :D

[He Is Legend]

I got trolled :(

[Dan2]

Visual aid.

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[EXEcution]

why would we want to?

I was a beta tester for 98SE and "unofficial tester" for a lot of versions before that. Now, W7 works great, don't see any reason to mess with it. :)

In other words stability is way more valuable to me than seeing new features and becoming annoyed at what they have changed.

Agreed. Windows 7 is fine and I don't want to get used to a new interface just yet.

[He Is Legend]

Maybe I'm just stuck in my ways of always wanting to try something new, I get bored too easy.

[ME BIGGD01]

I have been testing this OS since the Dev version on my Acer W500. It ran very smooth then and the updated version runs just as smooth. It actually has a lot of features to the OS and better coding to utilize todays technology. I think it's a great OS and very fast but.......


Having installed this on a mini system I3 3Ghz with 8 GB's of ram and 1 GB HD and having it connected to my 50" Samsung LCD in the TV room I wasn't too happy with the new UI "Metro". I know there are tricks to disable Metro via registry hack but I am testing it as it is suppose to be. I am not crazy with not having the start button. I've used it for years and Love it more in Windows 7 because if I needed a program instantly I didn't have to search for it. I would simply click the windows key and type the program name or just a few words before it popped up and boom it was opened. Maybe its somewhere in Win 8 but I just don't like the setup using this OS as a desktop operating system. If I want tiles flip through I will use the tablet or my phone. I think Microsoft better give an option to users or they will shoot themselves in the foot.

After messing with this I thought about what it was I actually liked about the Windows 8. I then wondered what I don't like about Windows 7. To be honest, I love Windows 7. It runs great, very stable, and it runs everything I pretty much throw at it. So what is Microsoft actually doing with Windows 8? Well they need to get into a market the have neglected and allowed Apple and Google take over. I think their approach is a bit late but overall, they actually have a pretty solid plan. Their mobile OS is awesome and it's fast. It has the best feature set yet their is no marketing to show people what it actually can do. For those like me who are using mainly Microsoft products and a pc, the Mobile OS works wonders over the competition. It connects with everything. It is what WIndows 8 is actually going to take over.

Google's Chrome OS is somewhat the same concept. Android, you setup a google account, you have your mail, cal, cont, and what ever else you have configure via Googles account. You log on to it using a pc and you have all of your information.

With Microsoft, it's just as good. I am well aware of the office docs and apps for google but if you are in an office environment, you know they aren't using that open source software because you have to use what most people are using. The mobile version of Microsofts OS on their phones come with a standard office package like excel, word. When you logon with your hotmail or Windows ID as I should say, you are logging into the same things but Microsoft based software which is widely used.

Lets take it one step further from the way I see how things are going or what Microsoft is actually doing. As I have said a few years ago that the average homes will no longer be using Computers daily but instead the computer industry is turning into appliances. Today everyone is using their cell phones, tablets to check their email, play their words with friends and telling people when they took their last shit on face book. IF you notice, all software clients are trying to connect it all together. As an example, your Iphone may be connecting your email contacts with your FB contacts. It's like adding your life into one sub system. This is happening across all platforms and software today is pretty much considered app based. Now I have been watching this for the past couple of years and I have messed with every platform to see that everything is changing. Parts of me aren't too happy because I always worry about the lack of standards. Like open source is great of you are a poor person who needs to open a document or create a document but it is not industry based where I can rely on it 100%. It's a catch 22 because there are options in some of these open source packages that can be better than the over priced packages you have to pay for but there is more to it than that that keeps you sticking to the more well known software suites. All of these companies pretty much have the same idea and when I look at every option, I think Microsoft has the best offering due to it has a piece of everything we do from work to play. I can connect all of them together and yet have them seperate. Eventually even your Television will need to be logged into. It's already out there but looking ahead and from where I see it is now, eventually there will be no software installed as we will all be just clients. Like Googles desktop OS, you log on and all of your data is on their servers.

It's kind of creepy really when you think about it. You heard the stories of big brother and you will see people screaming BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING. While that is most likely true, how often do you see people just giving their life story away? You can log onto face book and pretty much learn and know everything about someone.

Depending on how fast Microsoft can get their Windows 8 on mobile solutions such as tablets and other devices, they have a chance to take back a market they refused to get into correctly the first time. I honestly think Google will lose more of that share though because Apple will always have those fans. You know like the same type of people you see in a starbucks wearing those weird sweaters sitting their drinking a Mocha Latte. It's more of an image than actual work.

I don't think I am going to switch to Windows 8 on my desktop. I like the newer features but unless they allow me to have the desktop I am use to and actually love, I won't bother. I honestly feel many people will avoid it as well and I think it's stupid Microsoft thinks they can force others to "Get use to a new way" after the majority of people stuck with Windows because they didn't want to learn a new way. Metro is great with a swoosh of the finger but F that with the mouse or keyboard. It's a big risk considering the competition out there. I have never heard so many people ask me about Apple Computers the past year than ever. They need to give it an option during setup and allow people to get use to the new UI on their own time. It's been my suggestion to them and I am sure many others feel the same.

[Death Engineer]

I tried it. I hate the new start menu. Other than that, it seems alot like Win7. I don't see a reason to upgrade (though I will have to have machines at work to support it).