Windows 8 Consumer Preview

[Jay]

Oh dear lord!  

Going to make space on my laptop and repartition it and see what the full experience is like It comes with a Skydrive 25Gb cloud storageApp (YES!!!! stick your 5Gb cloud drive/sugar sync/drop box/icloud storage in your Yaris )

[R32UK]

it does mean the new laptop runs as sweet as a cola cube

[Jay]

Holy sh!t!!! On my 5 year old laptop it runs well and IE10 is forking quick! I mean it would leave Chrome on my 1 year old i7 16Gb ram behemoth for duuuuust.

I think the nay-sayers need to try it before they dismiss it

[R32UK]

I will give IE10 a try... but why can they not change all the back end, and allow the user to chose the front 

I dont mind faster software that does cool stuff... I just dont want to keep having to learn new stuff 

[Jay]

That's because a lot of the back-end is still Windows 7(ish) and the new bit is the front end. Do you still have your old laptop? If you do, install a clean fresh Windows 8 Consumer Preview on it and give it a go, took about 30 mins top to install Windows 8 on this sh!tty creaking laptop.

Full screen apps and full screen IE10 FTW.

Won't take long to learn, bottom left and right corners and top left corner for different options, right click at the bottom of the screen for App menu, get to app settings from bottom right corner.

Not tried IE10 in the 'normal' version of Windows 8, but the Metro version is superb

[Ben Lessani]

We are only just moving from XP to windows 7 at work 

All our office PCs still run XP x64 (and laptops). Its 12 years old and still flawless. Don't see any reason to bother upgrading

[R32UK]

I may just give that a try Jay... not got much spare time at the moment. How long will it take to load on?

[Jay]

Took about half an hour

[Jay]

I like the autocorrect of IE10, just noticed it changed thats to that's automatically for me, I think it's spell check is also better the Chrome's crappy spell check. I know fullscreen web browsing has been around for ages using F11, but this is a really good experience (it just auto corrected experience for me too! )


Still think it is really good, it's got a few niggles - but hey it is an early preview aka beta

[clipperjay]

call me a dingbat do I need win7 to add this on?