Windows 8 Consumer Preview

[Jay]

It's finally out, I had forgot about it till I saw an email just come through.

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-8/consumer-preview

Going to try it out at work tomorrow if I get some time.

[Jay]

Big old run down of some of the more noticeable changes.
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/bott/windows-8-consumer-preview-a-fresh-start-for-microsoft/4540

[The Mighty Elvi]

I was gonna post this earlier...but....

[R32UK]

seems to kind of get rid of the whole idea of 'windows' 

i woudl much prefer on them getting previous versions of windows to run properly... if it wasnt originally broke... 

[Adam]

Not sold on it. Hate the Windows Mobile and this just looks far too much like that.

[Jay]

seems to kind of get rid of the whole idea of 'windows' 

If you think of each tile as a Window to that app, it makes sense, seeing as the tiles are live and show you updates to the app/social network etc

i woudl much prefer on them getting previous versions of windows to run properly... if it wasnt originally broke... 

They did with Windows 7  and XP was pretty solid after it's 6+ year life span.

[R32UK]

granted xp was much better... although certainly not without issues. I had the msi installer issue recently which wouldnt allow me to install any other apps.

looking for solutions online and I found 1000's of people complaining of the same problem. Lots of links to the MS site to so called apps that fix the issue.  ..... erm "hello MS!!!, you CANT INSTALL ANYTHING!!!"

then a few registry fix's which didnt work. then a small app that fixed the messed up registry keys that didnt work and took you back to dead link on the MS site 

Was a total pain in the a$$ to fix.... thats the kind of problems they need to address! im sure for many users the system will be great and fault free. However for many they will just have to continue to suffer, which shouldnt be the case. I have even had a couple of blue screens on my brand new laptop running W7 pro.

I guess the difference is simple MS has to run with numerous different products/vendors/hardware specs etc. Where as someone like apple rule the roost over anything to do with their systems.

The price to pay for freedom??? I think i may well be 

[Jay]

Well, to be fair no OS is without faults and we're forever getting problems % wise around the same with our Mac clients as with Windows clients.

With Windows 8 there is a Store where you get the new apps from and the apps MUST run as MS want them to or won't get through or will get pulled - Windows Phone 7 apps have strict requirements as to what they can and can't do before being put on the Store.

Had a quick play today in a Virtual machine and seems MUCH MUCH better than the Developer preview released 6 months ago, I'm going to install it on another partition to get the 'full' experience. My boss wants a Windows tablet now too see what it's like on a tablet but they're all Atom based crud that wouldn't do it justice or Expensive i5/i7 machines. Roll on the Arm or new Intel based tablets later this year 

[Kerrse]

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

[R32UK]

let us know what its like J! I cant see myself moving tbh..... i still have my windows in the classic 2000 look with no animations/gadgets/screen savers/desktop short cuts.