Windows 8 Release Preview Dated For June

[Guest]

I first tried Windows 8 on a laptop. It was a bit awkward, but manageable once you learn how to quickly navigate Metro. I then installed it onto a second partition on my main PC which has 2 monitors hooked up to it. What a difference! Having Metro pop up on the secondary monitor while leaving the desktop in the primary is quite slick. I'm really starting to like it as I get using it more. There are a few little navigation issues that I don't like, and the fact that you can't minimize metro apps, but considering the upsides to what's under the hood, it's something I can more then easily learn to live with.

People have been screaming about changes to Windows since Windows 1.0. This is no different. Windows XP used to have people dumping on it left and right, now it's the one people cling to who like to blame their inability to manage their own PC on Microsoft. 5 years from now people will look back at Windows 7 and wonder how Microsoft could have been so stupid.

 

[halcyon]

[citation][nom]nekoangel[/nom]From my viewpoint with having to work with both OSX and Windows, it feels like Microsoft is trying to copy Apple in their push towards integration between mobile and desktop platforms, while trying to beat Apple at it. There are also a number of things being copied from ChromeOS. To me this large change in the UI is likely to make many typical "users" unhappy along with the potential to scare many businesses away with the new unfamiliar interface that will result in downtime that doesnt have to be there.[/citation]
If MS is trying to copy Apple they've missed the mark big time.

 

[nebun]

[citation][nom]someoneelse[/nom]windows 8 needs a start button[/citation]
it was designed by old people for old people yet everyone is confused with the UI...what a shame

 

[livebriand]

Bring back the start menu or I'm not buying it. The metro UI is a piece of shit on a regular computer without a touchscreen.

 

[del35]

Getting the start menu in Windows 8 -- a registry hack.

 

[del35]

IOS 5 on the iPad compared with Windows 8 running on a tablet.
Windows 8 runs circles around IOS 5. But in all honesty, I see no reason for people who are not going to be using a table to get Windows 8. It just makes no sense.

 

[Guest]

I don't get why is everybody whining about the start menu. What do you needed for? You can go to the desktop with one touch and from there can go to the old control panel. For programs the access is pretty easy. Most of the time they are automatically pinned to the metro start page or you can pin it really easy.
I love it. Installed it on my MSI Windpad 110w and works great can't wait to get the full version. And no, I don't work for microsoft.

 

[Guest]

Really, how many of you routinely use the start menu to open programs? I don't know about you, but most of the programs I use are pinned to my taskbar, and those that aren't, I find it easier and faster to type into the search box than scroll through the damn start menu. The only real exception to that is the frequently used or pinned programs that appear right when you open the start menu, but what's the difference between that and icons?

 

[Mudit Sathe]

After that the service pack release preview....

 

[dreadlokz]

not interested! see you in windows 9 =)

 

[synd]

Aside from the Metro UI that everyone is bashing, Windows 8 is great.
Performance-wise is much better and lighter than Windows 7 (strange, right, although it looks way better?). The new task manager is also mega awesome.
Definitely looking forward to the new release and seriously guys, stop whining. I was using XP and 7 for years with the classic theme (95/98) and I did dislike the Metro UI in the Developer Preview but they fixed some of the more annoying problems with the Consumer Preview, so they'll definitely fix some more with the Release Preview.

 

[atikkur]

metro ui on desktop --> it doesnt work (no precise control)
desktop ui on tablet --> it doesnt work completely (too precise control).

so.. win8 is just a wierd experiences both on tablet and pc, it should splitted into two. maybe in win9 they eventually realized it. so we just only wait until win9.

 

[halcyon]

[citation][nom]atikkur[/nom]metro ui on desktop --> it doesnt work (no precise control)desktop ui on tablet --> it doesnt work completely (too precise control).so.. win8 is just a wierd experiences both on tablet and pc, it should splitted into two. maybe in win9 they eventually realized it. so we just only wait until win9.[/citation]
As much as Windows 8 doesn't appeal to me I'm going to (try to) give it a chance. Perhaps the Metro UI part can totally and completely be disabled never to ever be seen ever ever ever again, which would be appropriate. If so, and there are general improvements, it may be an okay successor to Windows 7 (as long as I can still get it for free).

How's that for a positive outlook?

 

[eddieroolz]

Nice! Looking forward to trying it out on my spare laptop to see the improvements in June.

 

[back_by_demand]

Windows 8 is slated

Is this a pun?

 

[halcyon]

[citation][nom]kenobi1989[/nom]I don't get why is everybody whining about the start menu. What do you needed for? You can go to the desktop with one touch and from there can go to the old control panel. For programs the access is pretty easy. Most of the time they are automatically pinned to the metro start page or you can pin it really easy. I love it. Installed it on my MSI Windpad 110w and works great can't wait to get the full version. And no, I don't work for microsoft.[/citation]
There just doesn't seem to be any reason to upgrade...like there has been in the past.

 

[back_by_demand]

[citation][nom]halcyon[/nom]There just doesn't seem to be any reason to upgrade...like there has been in the past.[/citation]
If I have an Cyrix and upgrade to a Pentium 2, these is no reason to upgrade from Windows 95 to Windows XP because the hardware won't support the additional features.

Same applies with Windows 8, no one will need to upgrade if they don't have touch or motion (kinect) controlled machines. When they do, Windows 8 will be waiting, but it's a real chicken / egg situation, if both sides of the software / hardware divide wait for the other side to release a product first we will never have progress.

Windows 8 will be released, a slew of touch and gesture (kinect) controlled machines will follow after it.

 

[halcyon]

[citation][nom]back_by_demand[/nom]If I have an Cyrix and upgrade to a Pentium 2, these is no reason to upgrade from Windows 95 to Windows XP because the hardware won't support the additional features.Same applies with Windows 8, no one will need to upgrade if they don't have touch or motion (kinect) controlled machines. When they do, Windows 8 will be waiting, but it's a real chicken / egg situation, if both sides of the software / hardware divide wait for the other side to release a product first we will never have progress.Windows 8 will be released, a slew of touch and gesture (kinect) controlled machines will follow after it.[/citation]
logical. Perhaps when the hardware is here... I really have no problems with iOS but my mother has a Dell touch screen All-in-One with Windows 7...it works well and she likes it. It might be a candidate for an upgrade (as long as I can continue to get that upgrade for free)...don't see the reason to pay $100+ for Windows 8. ...but I'm sure I'm alone if that thought.

 

[Guest]

I just spoke to a Microsoft guy at the opening of the Austin Microsoft store; he claims that the Start button will be back by the final release. Probably a low-level person telling me what I wanted to hear, but given the intensity of criticism that Metro has had online, maybe...