Windows 8 Install Process Streamlined to 11 Clicks

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Big freaking deal, I keep windows on separate partition backed by HDD image which are updated incrementally. installing/reinstalling only involves making partition and copy
 
[citation][nom]Vladislaus[/nom]You're complaining that the Mac doesn't have write support for another OS file system? Does windows support reading or writing HFS+ partitions? Also exFAT does work on Mac OS X as long you have 10. 6 fully updated or 10.7, at least it does work on mine. If you really need read and write on a NTFS partition then you can install install macfuse.[/citation]
Yes. MacOS has been a minority OS long enough for it to support NTFS. All i would have liked it to do is write to NTFS, even if it doesn't let you format a partition using NTFS .

I dont know, i was too tired of the whole exercise to check if windows supports it or not.

there's a prob with the way exFAT is formatted. It seems to work once, or for a short time, can't exactly remember, i did this back in May. Format the drive from windows and it worked once, when i did it with mac it didn't work at all. could have been the other way around, i can't remember correctly.

Oh yeah, and there was HFS and HFS+ as options i think, i couldn't find the difference. Just used whatever it's own internal drive was using.

Will take a look at macfuse, thanks :)
 
Even though they were mentioned a few times, I think it's funny how many people forget about windows ME and Windows 2000 (for users). I tried to "upgrade" from windows 2000 to windows ME, and only had it on my machine for a couple days. It sucked so bad I wiped and went back to 2000. Vista at least lasted me until windows 7 came out.
 
I would bet a lot of people screaming bloody murder about vista never used it... I've had great and horrible experiences with it. I had latest gen machines so i thought it was great but all of the garbage windows vista compatible machines with 256mb are obviously going to hate it. Yes Windows7 is better but if you had a capable system, its not as if vista was full of errors (i never got BSODs) I'll kick the tires with Win8, and like i was with the dramatic changes to UI like vista was, this will be an even bigger step, i will probably hate it and then gradually (hopefully) not understand how we used the classic desktop all these years!
 
[citation][nom]drwho1[/nom]win98 didn't fail, it was great upgrade from win95 and it was awesome for games for its time.now Windows Me..... and Vista those were the biggest failures in M$ history.Still I will probably skip Windows 8.[/citation]

windows ME failure = bad programming

Vista failure=Dumb@$$ users
 
[citation][nom]legacy7955[/nom]Why don't people check out the FACTS before saying that they cannot revert to the classic desktop in Win 8!Microsoft has repeatedly stated that you can easily switch to the classic desktop and it will look almost exactly like Win 7.[/citation]

proof?
 
[citation][nom]gm0n3y[/nom]Why would anyone 'upgrade' their os? Just do a clean install. Its faster and your machine will run better.[/citation]
your statement is very true, i wish more people would do this...it would solve a lot of problems
 
Actually Microsoft Bob, as of a few years ago, was still available on Microsoft internal servers. Only 2 things came out of Microsoft Bob, Bill Gates met Melinda and eventually married her and second Melinda went on to lead Clippy in MS Word.

A bigger failure was with Microsoft Kin with a huge amount of money lost there.
 
If you want to get an idea of how well Windows did, at least as far as the marketplace is concerned, check out pcpitstop's research. They have a really great waterfall graph of Windows versions over the past decade.

http://techtalk.pcpitstop.com/research-charts-windows/
 
[citation][nom]amuffin[/nom]windows 98=failwindows xp=winwindows vista=failwindows 7=winwindow 8=.....?[/citation]
Missed some

windows 95 = fail
windows 98 = win
windows ME = fail
windows XP = win
windows Vista = fail
windows 7 = win
windows 8 = ???
 
[citation][nom]legacy7955[/nom]Why don't people check out the FACTS before saying that they cannot revert to the classic desktop in Win 8!Microsoft has repeatedly stated that you can easily switch to the classic desktop and it will look almost exactly like Win 7.[/citation]
They have also repeatedly said before each launch that users will be able to control how updates work, yet in every release they continue to have pop-ups that pull you out of whatever you were doing to remind you to update with only the ability to delay it 4 hours at a time. Just because you CAN doesn't mean its going to be easy or painless.
 


umm why would you think windows 95 failed? if it failed then we wouldn't have windows like it is today or all of us would be running a version of OS/2 WARP lol

and you forgot windows 98 SE :non:

FAIL all around
 
11 clicks is way too many. All you need is "Express" Install and wipe everything. Or custom with partiton options.
Then one screen with a username, password and timezone. Linux mint has this down to a science. Installing an OS can be 2 clicks.
 


no vista's problemwas it caught up with the future and the dumb@$$ users still thought it would be a small upgrade for there PC's like the jump from 2000 to XP was
 
[citation][nom]balister[/nom]No, Bob was the biggest failure in MS history. MS has a server that is accessible by anyone in the company that has every piece of software Microsoft has ever created...except Bob...That should give you an idea of how bad it failed.[/citation]

Is that the yellow smiley face? I was in my early teens when I saw that and can vaguely remember it. What does it do anyway?
 
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