toxicitizen Posted August 31, 2011 Report Share Posted August 31, 2011 Frankly, I never really understood all the hate for the ribbon in Office. It's perfectly functional. I don't know if windows explorer needed it, but it doesn't bother me that they're adding it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faiblesse Des Sens Posted August 31, 2011 Report Share Posted August 31, 2011 I don't know if windows explorer needed it, but it doesn't bother me that they're adding it. Exactly. I really like the ribbon but I don't know how it'll work with explorer. It'll be one of those things I'm not sure about until I use it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RockyRan Posted August 31, 2011 Report Share Posted August 31, 2011 (edited) Now that I have a netbook I'm wondering if they'll bring along a modified version of their tablet stuff into it. Or rather, I'm hoping for a special version of Windows 8 that works specifically for netbooks. Windows 7 Starter Edition is just pure ass. All the good stuff taken out with none of the advantages. I'd install Ultimate on my netbook but apparently it has higher system reqs and netbooks barely handle Starter Ed. as it is. Also means you skipped on Vista. You can skip Win 8 too. Windows OS are not pokemon, don't need them all. Unless you intend to run an ARM Pc I don't think Win 8 will include too much, and some of it's additions I foresee as being added in a SP for Win 7. Indeed. I've had and used Vista, XP, and 7 and will use 8 when it comes out, but only because my university offers them for dirt cheap or flat out gives them away and it gives me an excuse to re-format and get rid of all the shit I refuse to/forget to delete for some reason. My experience is that they're all very similar and if you don't have cheap/free access to them all you really don't need to upgrade anything unless you're buying/building a new PC, in which case you might as well just upgrade. Edited August 31, 2011 by RockyRan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted August 31, 2011 Author Report Share Posted August 31, 2011 Yeah I've only gone on to Win 7 cos my Uni has it for free (got Win Vista too) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faiblesse Des Sens Posted August 31, 2011 Report Share Posted August 31, 2011 (edited) Oh yeah, forgot about student pricing... I'm going to miss that. Windows 8 is looking nice enough to almost pay full price. Now that I think about it though... I think I bought Win 7 via early bird pricing or something where it was barely above the student price. This makes me think: I was part of the Windows 7 beta almost a year before Win 7 came out. Has anything been said about the Windows 8 beta? From what I've seen everything that's been released required leaking in order for regular joes to use it. Edited August 31, 2011 by Faiblesse Des Sens Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted September 13, 2011 Author Report Share Posted September 13, 2011 BUILD was today meaning: M-M-MEGA WINDOWS 8 BLOWOUT http://arstechnica.c...-tablet-age.ars http://arstechnica.c...tic-fingers.ars http://www.istarteds...art-experience/ http://www.istarteds...eloper-preview/ http://lifehacker.co...-8-in-8-minutes http://lifehacker.co...ew-in-windows-8 http://www.pcworld.c...le_tonight.html http://blogs.msdn.co...er-preview.aspx 2nd from bottom is news a preview build will be available. If anyone wants to give it a spin. (Yeah I just might) edit: http://www.windows7hacker.com/index.php/2011/09/install-windows-8-developer-preview-on-virtualbox/ For those wanting to give it a spin, but not brave enough to risk a PC here's instructions on installing it to a VM. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted September 15, 2011 Author Report Share Posted September 15, 2011 If anyone gets this running on a VM will you give me a yell pls. I've tried both VMware Player n Virtual Box. Player comes up with a (new, unhappy) BSOD upon the "Windows Developer Preview" logo popping up, and Virtual Box crashes at the "Expanding Windows Files" stage. Looking about I'm not the only one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted September 15, 2011 Author Report Share Posted September 15, 2011 http://mintywhite.com/windows-7/install-windows-8-virtual-machine-virtualbox/ Followed these instructions and I also got the version with all the bells n whistles (It's the top link on the MSDN download page, includes the Metro SDK, example apps, Visual Basic, Expression Blend etc) Here's a bunch of screens I took: https://www.dropbox.com/gallery/2066351/1/Windows_8?h=925ee1 Feel free to ask questions. Oh I currently can't run any "apps" except Visual basic which is more program than App. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnny Posted September 15, 2011 Report Share Posted September 15, 2011 the usage of "program" and "app" as separate things. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted September 15, 2011 Author Report Share Posted September 15, 2011 Are you at me or Windows? Window 8 very clearly defines them as separate things. Windows 8 is almost 2 different OSes in one. I will say if you're fine with Windows 7, and won't be getting a tablet or touchscren PC soon (and if Win 8 doesn't bring in a new DirectX) then you can quite safely skip it. It's Windows 7 with Windows 8 bolted on top, and Windows 8 is for tablet PCs n stuff like that. Useless on a desktop pretty much. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnny Posted September 15, 2011 Report Share Posted September 15, 2011 At the trend of differentiating them in general. As for W8... Well, I'll make my own opinion when it comes out. I like that they are integrating tablet functionality into the main OS, for various reasons, and I'm actually quite fine with W8 not catering to me as long as they don't do something like forcing me to use W8 if I want the newest version of DirectX. (Hi Vista!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted January 17, 2012 Author Report Share Posted January 17, 2012 http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/microsoft-goes-public-with-plans-for-its-new-windows-8-file-system/11666 New File System in Windows 8 to replace NTFS (with time I'd assume, doubt they'll ditch NTFS right away) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madbassman39 Posted January 17, 2012 Report Share Posted January 17, 2012 Requirements for the Windows 8. Most are a nice feature, others not so nice. http://www.engadget.com/2012/01/17/microsofts-windows-8-hardware-requirements/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faiblesse Des Sens Posted January 17, 2012 Report Share Posted January 17, 2012 That should read "Windows 8 tablet requirements." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted February 7, 2012 Author Report Share Posted February 7, 2012 http://www.theverge....ore-first-games First games for the Win 8 App Store. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faiblesse Des Sens Posted February 7, 2012 Report Share Posted February 7, 2012 Wait... they're all WP7 games, right? So that means you can play WP7 games on Windows 8? Interesting. Anyways, I'm really excited for the consumer preview. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted February 7, 2012 Author Report Share Posted February 7, 2012 Some of them are XBLA, dunno about WP7 games. Most likely just ports like most XBLA titles. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted February 29, 2012 Author Report Share Posted February 29, 2012 http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-8/iso Consumer Preview is out. The servers are crushed atm though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faiblesse Des Sens Posted March 1, 2012 Report Share Posted March 1, 2012 Can you run Win 8 in a VM? I would just install it outright but I need my desktop for work now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted March 1, 2012 Author Report Share Posted March 1, 2012 Well I ran the developer preview in a VM. There is (or was, I'd assume there will have been updates about now) only a couple that could run it though. I know Microsofts VM didn't(Virtual PC?) I think I used the one from Oracle. VirtualBox? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faiblesse Des Sens Posted March 1, 2012 Report Share Posted March 1, 2012 Alright, if I get bored this weekend I'll check it out.I really liked the Lifehacker overview of it. It was basically "fuck you morons it works fine with a kb + m" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted March 8, 2012 Author Report Share Posted March 8, 2012 http://www.stardock.com/products/start8/ Adds a "Start" menu to the Metro screen. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faiblesse Des Sens Posted March 8, 2012 Report Share Posted March 8, 2012 Seems pointless. Metro is the start menu. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thorgi Duke of Frisbee Posted March 8, 2012 Report Share Posted March 8, 2012 Windows 8 has a Compatibility Troubleshooter where it scans your .exe and determines the version of Windows it should emulate. This is now my favorite Windows ever, since it works like a charm. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted April 17, 2012 Author Report Share Posted April 17, 2012 http://windowsteamblog.com/windows/b/bloggingwindows/archive/2012/04/16/announcing-the-windows-8-editions.aspx So it's to comer in Windows 8 (aka Home Premium), Windows 8 Pro (aka..well Pro), and Windows 8 RT aka...I don't really know. No one knows. We know it's the ARM version but yeah the RT thing is a bit iffy. It does come with Office though, the only version to do so. WinRT/Windows Runtime, is the system used to display and run Metro Apps, but that's not restricted just Win 8 RT. It used to be referred to as WoA, as in Windows on Arm. I don't get why they don't just call it "Windows 8 Arm". It's still a while away, maybe they'll change the name. Kinda silly they drop the umpteen versions they used to have to stumble at the final hurdle of naming the Arm edition. What about Windows 8 Lite? Most of the devices it runs on will be pretty low-powered netbook level affairs. Then again it suggests it does less. Which I guess it does since X86 apps don't work on it. Yeah Lite would be fine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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