This is the Windows 8 Welcome and Lock Screen

[fayzaan]

[citation][nom]delazaren[/nom]Relax guys, the image is changeable and what's wrong with adding a few extra bits on the welcome screen like date and time? Your uber CPU and uber GPU won't sweat over it. I assume of course that we'll be able to get the standard login prompt though... [/citation]

Lies mah GPU's will the burn and den burn mah house down! especially that pic! it'll do it!

 

[youssef 2010]

Couldn't they think of a better background?

 

[alexcheng]

Guys this isn't that bad! You spend like what, one minute everyday on this screen? Why all the whining and complaining?! Besides, if it's the background image that's bothering you, you could always change it to fit your own taste!

 

[pierogi210]

I'll stick with windows 7 for a while. Thank you very much.

 

[Guest]

Why you would not want the date and time on the lock screen is beyond me. What, are you people stupid or something?

Also, as a SysAdmin I'll tell you that the idea of 5000 PC's running "particle effects" for the casual observer sounds like the worst idea I've ever heard of in terms of energy efficiency.

It's sad what passes for a "techie" nowadays.

 

[Guest]

Way to STEAL this from Paul Thurrott/Rafael Rivera and not include the link. Nice job robbing them blind and selling it as your own

 

[buzznut]

Creepy

 

[Fecal Face]

We now have the time and date on our home screens? GOD HELP US


Sarcasm aside, why is everybody so mad about this?

 

[rantoc]

Knowing Microsoft since the beginning, i bet Win8 will be a bad user experience compared to the awesome Windows 7 (best OS to date if you ask me).

Pretty much every other Windows have been a poor experience (95, ME, Vista) while every other have been good (98, Xp, Win7). So i don't hold my breath for this one.

My guess is that MS is experimenting on purpose (new driver model ect) every other and if it backfires it won't do too much harm as they still have the previous good OS in place and will be at its end when the windows after the bad one comes booming the sales.

Quite clever if you think about it!

 

[buzznut]

[citation][nom]rantoc[/nom]Knowing Microsoft since the beginning, i bet Win8 will be a bad user experience compared to the awesome Windows 7 (best OS to date if you ask me).Pretty much every other Windows have been a poor experience (95, ME, Vista) while every other have been good (98, Xp, Win7). So i don't hold my breath for this one.My guess is that MS is experimenting on purpose (new driver model ect) every other and if it backfires it won't do too much harm as they still have the previous good OS in place and will be at its end when the windows after the bad one comes booming the sales.Quite clever if you think about it![/citation]

Yes this is known as the every other theorem. I developed it, so stop stealing from me!

 

[dread_cthulhu]

I'm sure you'll be able to change it to classic mode, i.e. not using the welcome screen, just like every other version of Windows...

 

[Marcus Yam]

[citation][nom]WowThatsBold[/nom]Way to STEAL this from Paul Thurrott/Rafael Rivera and not include the link. Nice job robbing them blind and selling it as your own[/citation]
Not true. You must have missed the hyperlink situated right above the image.

 

[jimsocks]

why is an april 1st joke being told on april 5th? come on Tom's!

 

[Stryter]

Looks like a late April Fools to me. I dunno, maybe I'm wrong, but there's something about that date that just screams April Fools.

 

[rhino13]

I like it and I think the music player would be even better!

 

[milktea]

The Win8 login screen looks ugly.

By the way, could be put customs Widgets on the login screen? *haha*

 

[cookoy]

if the welcome and lock screen is the only news worthy item from windows 8, i'll just have to squeeze out all the cents from windows 7.

 

[damianrobertjones]

[citation][nom]frustratedwithyouall[/nom]Why you would not want the date and time on the lock screen is beyond me. What, are you people stupid or something?Also, as a SysAdmin I'll tell you that the idea of 5000 PC's running "particle effects" for the casual observer sounds like the worst idea I've ever heard of in terms of energy efficiency.It's sad what passes for a "techie" nowadays.[/citation]

...and surely as 'admin', you'd know that you can turn that feature off, just as you can turn off aero. (Also admin)

 

[Guest]

@rantoc

You really can't call ME a bad experience, it's much closer to a dying experience, happens only once and then promptly cremated then buried never to be seen ever again, i can not speak of the trauma ME has inflicted upon me.......

 

[Guest]

After all of this time and Microsoft still cannot figure out how to replace the "CTRL+ALT+DEL" keys for log in!? Have they seen the iPad at all; no wonder Apple is eating their lunch. And what is that urgly display background?

 

[Guest]

If you note the date, you should see this is a joke

 

[ubercake]

This is exciting jazz.

 

[zybch]

WTF! You idiots do realize that the image is one of the included wallpapers included with windows 7 right, and most likely IS NOT going to be included in 8.
Name ANY other version of windows that reuses wallpapers from the previous version.
What a bunch of stupid ignorant a-holes!

 

[maxiim]

That is just homo if you ask me....

 

[nebun]

ok, stop your wining, the welcome screen background can and will be changed