Microsoft Signing Off on Windows 8 Build 8250 as Preview

[theshadow2001]

[citation][nom]rahulkadukar[/nom]Does nobody here use VMWare ?[/citation]

Yeah, I set up the developer preview on a VM using vmware player. Although I had it on my laptop which didn't seem to run it too well. I'm going to throw this release on my i7 rig. That should have plenty of spare resources

 

[Guest]

The touch interface cannot be turned off. The "red pill" stuff was just for the secrecy of development and is gone from Consumer Preview.

Mouse and keyboard still work, you can get used to them... kinda. The lack of the Start Menu, however, throws me off every time - you only needed to open the Calculator, but now the entire Desktop UI is nuked, everything you were working on is hidden, and you kind of forget what you were doing on the Desktop that made you switch to Metro.

 

[opmopadop]

[citation][nom]A Bad Day[/nom]Well, I have a 12 years old desktop computer nobody uses. I wonder if W8 can run on a P3 processor with 512 MB of RAM and 32 GB of HDD?[/citation]
Im running Win 8 Dev on a old P3 laptop, seems to hover around 400MB memory usage (total 512MB available) . Your HD should be fine but Im guessing you dont have a newish GPU which will strain the already crippled CPU. My laptop GPU is not supported and it grinds a lot.

 

[houghe9]

what is the incentive for upgrading from 7 or vista? i really hope it is leaner. not trying to compare the 2 but it is hard to understand that you can get a linux distro like ubuntu and have a live cd plus it fits on a cd. i am tired of installs that take half a day to get all of the updates. i am tired of windows slowing down the longer you have it installed. i know there are tools and ways to help with clutter but i just want my computer to work. my 1st gen ipad takes a little over 40 seconds to boot from completely from shut down. same laptop booting vista can take up to 10 minutes to be usable. ubuntu loads to usability in under a minute.

 

[fancarolina]

[citation][nom]alextheblue[/nom]There are some additional performance improvements and other odds and ends too. From the typical end user's point of view you'll probably only really notice the UI and UAC improvements. Performance is up a bit but probably only diehard framerate junkies will notice. It's not night-and-day earthshattering differences. So yes, if you already have Vista fully up to date, with good drivers that don't crash, there isn't much incentive to upgrade to 7.At least for the home user. For business/IT purposes, there's a LOT of very noticeable improvements in Win7. There's better file searching, better remote access, much improvement management (scripting, troubleshooting, etc), security enhancements (including stuff like applocker, better smart card support, native biometrics, etc), and deployment improvements (dynamic driver provisioning comes to mind - smaller images, and fewer images needed. just have it nab drivers off the server). There's probably a lot more stuff I'm not thinking of.A lot of those features are exclusive to Enterprise or Server editions, of course. They're useless for a typical home user, hence the removal of the features and lower price tag.[/citation]


Biggest advantage of 7 over Vista is all the Windows services are 64-bit under 7. Whereas they hadn't finished rewriting them under Vista.
Vista was a fine OS from the beginning you just needed to give it 64-bit sized resources. A dual core processor can run 7 and Vista but a quad core runs better. They really are helped by RAM too, I would never attempt either in under 2gb I prefer 4-8gb.

 

[captaincharisma]

[citation][nom]madooo12[/nom]I have a partition ready for a monthwhen Win8 DP came out I didn't have a spare partition so I installed it instead of my OS about 19 hours after it came outcurrently I'm running ubuntu but I'll be sure to get Win8 CP once it comes out[/citation]


why bother making a partition when you can just install it as a virtual machine

 

[bhaberle]

[citation][nom]nebun[/nom]have you heard of win7....you should really look into it......it's the most stable OS Microsoft has produced[/citation]
Windows 7 = Windows Vista Sp2

 

[buzznut]

I've been running the DEV Prev for over a month. I like it although I admit I'm ready for the beta. The constant beeps from windows dropping in and out of drivers is getting a bit annoying. And for some odd reason, it keeps telling me my HD 6950 Twin Forzer III is an engineering sample. I just think I'm ready for a little more stability. Plus I haven't gotten Dirt3 up and running yet. And Skyrim is on the way!

 

[ap3x]

I will give it a go as well. I enjoyed the last preview. The Metro interface took a bit to get used to at first but once I did I found everything to be very snappy. It defiantly needed allot of work though. Interested in seeing how it has progressed since the last preview. Windows 7 is a solid OS, but I just really enjoy new experiences and new ways to do things.

 

[ap3x]

Also, Isn't Windows 8 supposed to really leverage Kinect. If they do it right that could be really slick.

 

[pedro_mann]

[citation][nom]superwiggle[/nom]Disable Metro UIHKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Mic­rosoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\­ExplorerChange "RPEnabled" value to 0you're welcome![/citation]
So all MS has to do in order to get with the program as keep this as the default reg entry and then have a control panel option to turn metro on. Or turn it on by default when a touch screen is detected on install. And the world will be happy. But will this happen? Maybe not, big mistake if not. Can't see losing market share over about 50 lines of code and a simple reg entry.

 

[beetlejuicegr]

I don't feel there will be any performance difference from windows 7...i have this feeling..lets hope i am wrong, however if the requirements are more demanding i won't use them more than a tryout...

 

[alidan]

are you able to turn metro off completely? as in it will NEVER pop up again? heard you couldnt do that even if you switched it to desktop mode.

will it play gifs without a 3rd party software,

can i change what icons look like without registry editing?

has this issue i have http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/33745-63-make-file-selecting-like-idea-search been solved?

these are all things that would make me drop win 7 and move to 8

 

[jacobdrj]

[citation][nom]theconsolegamer[/nom]Vista is pretty much stable now.[/citation]
Stable? Yes.
Fast? No.
Windows 7 is still so much better for limited hardware. Not to mention the driver support for Windows 7 in terms of automatic Windows Updates is FAR better on Windows 7 than Windows Vista.

 

[Guest]

Lots of misinformation here. Windows 8 has lower requirements than 7. Period. End of conversation. I've seen it boot on a monster machine faster than the LCD it was hooked up to. (With my own eyes). To the folks w/ a waiting partition etc. you can run this thing in a VM w/ out much effort. Big update from dev preview, APP STORE!! (also more drivers would be great). I'm interested to see what all the other devs on the preview have cooked up. First fart app wins.

 

[captaincharisma]

Disable Metro UI
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Mic­rosoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\­Explorer
Change "RPEnabled" value to 0

you're welcome!

hehe yea but it seems this doesn't work for this build so thanks for nothing 😀