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TheLQ wrote:Like all new changes, they will require getting used to. I know lots of people who said "XP SUCKS!" and "WINDOWS 7 SUCKS" but then they used it for a few months and were fine. Which is why I'm waiting for a bit to formulate a hard opinion
With my initial testing with the dev preview and release candidate I do worry about metro integration. There are just too many things I'm seeing with discrepancies between metro and the win7 interface. I'm also concerned about performance on mid to low range machines
If nothing else though I'll do what lots of people are doing and wait for Microsofts 2nd or 3rd attempt. That's usually when you know the product is at its best
LyokoMan95 wrote:My only hope is that Microsoft enables Kinect on all Metro software (including Start)
MattM wrote:TheLQ wrote:Like all new changes, they will require getting used to. I know lots of people who said "XP SUCKS!" and "WINDOWS 7 SUCKS" but then they used it for a few months and were fine. Which is why I'm waiting for a bit to formulate a hard opinion
With my initial testing with the dev preview and release candidate I do worry about metro integration. There are just too many things I'm seeing with discrepancies between metro and the win7 interface. I'm also concerned about performance on mid to low range machines
If nothing else though I'll do what lots of people are doing and wait for Microsofts 2nd or 3rd attempt. That's usually when you know the product is at its best
This is very true about the 2nd and 3rd attempt and it's a rule for pretty much any tech company! I have to disagree with you on the preformance on mid range machines though, I ran it on 2 cores in VMware with ~4GB of ram and in my brief tests it seemed to be ok. Granted that's two cores of a recent high end CPU (a Phenom II X6) and an "ok" GPU. I currently have the GT 430 and am debating getting a 660 TI or 670 when I upgrade to Win 8 or Win 9...
I personally wish Microsoft all the luck that they will need with this due to the drastic changes!
TheLQ wrote:Quick question, when using Win8 in VMware are metro apps like solitare a slideshow or usable? Cause in VirtualBox metro performance is terrible.
TheAppleFreak wrote:I haven't been using the RTM builds, but on my home gaming computer I'm using the RP as my primary OS (can't get AMD's GPU drivers to work for the life of me, but that's standard for them). Metro's pretty good once you get used to it, and the behind-the-scenes changes are excellent. Especially the Task Manager; god I love the W8 version of it.
If you guys don't like Metro, Start8 is always an option.
TheAppleFreak wrote:Bit of a bump, I know, but this is amazing (for us). Apparently, there's a bug in how Microsoft does Windows Media Center activation; if one enters a key for Media Center on KMS activated version of Windows 8, it permanently activates the entire OS (KMS essentially meaning you specify a non-Microsoft key server, which is a more difficult workaround for the rearm command). Essentially what this means is that they're giving away Windows 8 keys to everyone for free, that are 100% legitimate.
Found out about it on CNet, and I'm waiting for Microsoft to email me the key so I can test it in my VM. If this works... by god this sounds amazing.
TheAppleFreak wrote:Though tens of thousands of keys were already given out. Not to mention, but I want to MyDigitalLife and found out that the exploit was discovered ~a month ago, so people have already done it. I think the reason why the tech sites were running the story was because someone posted it on /r/Windows.
In any case, I've already begun stockpiling on keys and I've written a script to do the KMS activation for me. Apparently there's a KMS server hosted at Colombia that can be connected to via the Internet.
Keith Fordson Sr. wrote:*The old Windows = Xerox trolling argument*
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