Got it installed on AMD 12" netbook. Nothing just makes sense about windows 8. Metro doesn't even blend with windows desktop. Metro stuff might be great for tablets and phones, but it just doesn't work for PC. The only good thing about it is updated explorer and task manager. I find the settings and various options totally confusing. If Microsoft is not going to separate the tablet part from the desktop part, I'm not upgrading even if I'm losing DirectX 12 or whatever Microsoft's excuse for exclusive win8 feature support.
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why would the average joe like it? unless the average joe has a touch screen monitor then this will be more of a learning curve for them then the old GUI
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[citation][nom]ojas[/nom]i think he meant the Core 2 based pentiums forgive him[/citation]
Even in that case, there is no good reason to downgrade to XP. The Pentium Dual-Core CPUs can handle 7 and even Vista just fine.
Even in that case, there is no good reason to downgrade to XP. The Pentium Dual-Core CPUs can handle 7 and even Vista just fine.
Windows Metro UI is a complete nightmare!
This will be a disaster of unimaginable proportions. Remember windows Vista? Well, multiply that experience by 100. I almost ripped my hairs out trying to use this thing.
I provided technical support to end users working at a call center for over a decade. You could not pay me enough to walk someone through this piece of S%hit. You just CANNOT navigate through the system with a keyboard and mouse. Not everyone will be buying a tablet PC or touchscreen AIO where Win 8 excels in.
The average Joe just wants to click on a icon to browse websites, facebook, etc. SIMPLE AND EASY!
Customers will be screaming for refunds and/or demanding a downgrade to Win 7
This will be a disaster of unimaginable proportions. Remember windows Vista? Well, multiply that experience by 100. I almost ripped my hairs out trying to use this thing.
I provided technical support to end users working at a call center for over a decade. You could not pay me enough to walk someone through this piece of S%hit. You just CANNOT navigate through the system with a keyboard and mouse. Not everyone will be buying a tablet PC or touchscreen AIO where Win 8 excels in.
The average Joe just wants to click on a icon to browse websites, facebook, etc. SIMPLE AND EASY!
Customers will be screaming for refunds and/or demanding a downgrade to Win 7
Windows Metro UI is a complete nightmare!
This will be a disaster of unimaginable proportions. Remember windows Vista? Well, multiply that experience by 100. I almost ripped my hairs out trying to use this thing.
I provided technical support to end users working at a call center for over a decade. You could not pay me enough to walk someone through this piece of S%hit. You just CANNOT navigate through the system with a keyboard and mouse. Not everyone will be buying a tablet PC or touchscreen AIO where Win 8 excels in.
The average Joe just wants to click on a icon to browse websites, facebook, etc. SIMPLE AND EASY!
Customers will be screaming for refunds and/or demanding a downgrade to Win 7
This will be a disaster of unimaginable proportions. Remember windows Vista? Well, multiply that experience by 100. I almost ripped my hairs out trying to use this thing.
I provided technical support to end users working at a call center for over a decade. You could not pay me enough to walk someone through this piece of S%hit. You just CANNOT navigate through the system with a keyboard and mouse. Not everyone will be buying a tablet PC or touchscreen AIO where Win 8 excels in.
The average Joe just wants to click on a icon to browse websites, facebook, etc. SIMPLE AND EASY!
Customers will be screaming for refunds and/or demanding a downgrade to Win 7
blazorthon
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[citation][nom]zcpro[/nom]Windows Metro UI is a complete nightmare! This will be a disaster of unimaginable proportions. Remember windows Vista? Well, multiply that experience by 100. I almost ripped my hairs out trying to use this thing.I provided technical support to end users working at a call center for over a decade. You could not pay me enough to walk someone through this piece of S%hit. You just CANNOT navigate through the system with a keyboard and mouse. Not everyone will be buying a tablet PC or touchscreen AIO where Win 8 excels in. The average Joe just wants to click on a icon to browse websites, facebook, etc. SIMPLE AND EASY!Customers will be screaming for refunds and/or demanding a downgrade to Win 7[/citation]
I have tried the dev preview, the consumer preview, and now the RC. I can honestly say that you're either crazy or that you are exaggerating to a huge extreme. I have no problem with navigation at all. Simply click the legacy desktop and put in a few shortcuts (my computer, control panel, other obvious things and this is all very easy to do in just a few seconds. That's right, seconds, not even minutes) on the desktop and/or on the taskbar.
However, even when using metro, I find that given a few minutes to get a feel for it, metro is not nearly as bad as most people have been saying that it is. For average work, it is fine. For more advanced work, it can be limiting, but you still have the legacy desktop UI and you can simply install a program such as Classic Shell or if you just want a start menu without changing anything, ViStart (or one of many other programs) will give you a start menu.
I'd say that the huge amount of improvements in Win 8 more than outweigh metro. Win 8's only problem is metro and once it gets more worked out, I think that Metro can be a pretty good thing, especially if it can be used in conjunction with the desktop instead of either the desktop or metro. It could be like a combination of a side bar and a partial start menu if MS wanted to do that (or a third party develops a way to make metro coexist with the desktop in such a way). Sure, not everyone likes that, but Metro is still fairly easy to disable (despite MS's seemingly adamant stance about trying to *fix* every *vulnerability* that lets people ditch Metro) if you know what yo're doing, so all it really is is just another option.
I have tried the dev preview, the consumer preview, and now the RC. I can honestly say that you're either crazy or that you are exaggerating to a huge extreme. I have no problem with navigation at all. Simply click the legacy desktop and put in a few shortcuts (my computer, control panel, other obvious things and this is all very easy to do in just a few seconds. That's right, seconds, not even minutes) on the desktop and/or on the taskbar.
However, even when using metro, I find that given a few minutes to get a feel for it, metro is not nearly as bad as most people have been saying that it is. For average work, it is fine. For more advanced work, it can be limiting, but you still have the legacy desktop UI and you can simply install a program such as Classic Shell or if you just want a start menu without changing anything, ViStart (or one of many other programs) will give you a start menu.
I'd say that the huge amount of improvements in Win 8 more than outweigh metro. Win 8's only problem is metro and once it gets more worked out, I think that Metro can be a pretty good thing, especially if it can be used in conjunction with the desktop instead of either the desktop or metro. It could be like a combination of a side bar and a partial start menu if MS wanted to do that (or a third party develops a way to make metro coexist with the desktop in such a way). Sure, not everyone likes that, but Metro is still fairly easy to disable (despite MS's seemingly adamant stance about trying to *fix* every *vulnerability* that lets people ditch Metro) if you know what yo're doing, so all it really is is just another option.
[citation][nom]whooleo[/nom]It's improved from before but now the UI looks like a supped up transparent version of XP, UGH!!!!!! Whoever at Microsoft thought it was a good idea to copy Apple's policy of simplicity went WAY overboard and is why I'm staying away from this mess. They're almost forcing us to either stick with 7 or move to Mac OS X/Linux....... NOT IMPRESSED[/citation]
ok so you dont like win 8 since its trying to look like osx so your threating microsoft that you'll use osx if they do this????.
also linux is doing the same also so you pretty much up shit creek atm, i think the word hypocrite is appropriate here
ok so you dont like win 8 since its trying to look like osx so your threating microsoft that you'll use osx if they do this????.
also linux is doing the same also so you pretty much up shit creek atm, i think the word hypocrite is appropriate here
blazorthon
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[citation][nom]azz156[/nom]ok so you dont like win 8 since its trying to look like osx so your threating microsoft that you'll use osx if they do this????.also linux is doing the same also so you pretty much up shit creek atm, i think the word hypocrite is appropriate here[/citation]
Metro doesn't really look like OSX and only some distributions of Linux have UIs like this. Most still don't and probably never will, especially distros intended to be very high performance and/or resource light.
Metro doesn't really look like OSX and only some distributions of Linux have UIs like this. Most still don't and probably never will, especially distros intended to be very high performance and/or resource light.
the 64-bit link just goes to the same 32-bit link page, ie there is no 64-bit page to get the key.
An alternative place to download the 32-bit and 64-bit editions, see
http://superuser.com/questions/494013/where-can-i-download-windows-8-release-preview
Links still work as from today (12Jn2013). But no keys have been supplied.
An alternative place to download the 32-bit and 64-bit editions, see
http://superuser.com/questions/494013/where-can-i-download-windows-8-release-preview
Links still work as from today (12Jn2013). But no keys have been supplied.
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