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Windows 8 Just (significantly annoyed apples business model)

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I cant describe the epicness of this. Starts off a little slow.

See more here http://www.buildwindows.com/
download a developer preview here http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/home/ later tonight
http://www.buildwindows.com/Sessions list of sessions at the conference, might give you some idea.
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Microsoft is back, bitches. :)
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I would try and list some of the features, but it wouldnt do it justice.
watch the keynote when the site is back up :)
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http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2 ... mpaign=rss

this kind of explains it, but its not just a tablet os. this os is for pc/tablet/laptop etc
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Not hating on the new features and optimisations, but from what i've seen its a horrendously ugly desktop experience. The look fits with the tablet, I hope its not like that for the desktop. Or it's at least changeable to look like a standard windows installation. Gotta give them props for trying something different, though. I'm still gonna give it a whirl when they release it later. Perhaps my opinions will change.
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Right of the bat I'm informed to install Silvershit which I can't even get to install.
But from what I've seen the only thing I've liked about Windows 8 is in one of the screenshots I saw the album cover for Dragonette's "Fixin to Thrill" (I'm dead serious). Windows 8 appears to be optimized for tablets which in my opinion is stupid because a majority of users who like Windows use it on the computer, not on a tablet.

The only thing that will make Windows 8 good in my opinion is to add actually good features such as stock support for more file formats like different audio and video formats, PDFs, disk images mounting, zip archive formats, overhall of the registry, things like that.

I'll have to get Shitterlight working sometime and watch that link though.
(also I don't think Windows 8 will put Apple out of business any time soon ;))
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i agree, silverlight sucks
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I'm digging the new features and looking forward to the new Visual Studio, its looking pretty sweet.
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Coming from a mixed Windows and Mac / smartphone background... I honestly think it's a bit over simplified.

After spending like 3+ hours trying to burn the iso to a usb, and attempting to use a dvd to install it on an old machine I have, I gave up and just decided to use a Virtual machine. It runs well and its very polished, but the home screen makes me feel as if I'm just using a giant smartphone.

Excited to switch back from Mac to Windows though, and this interface seems the most OSX like so far that I've tried, so that is very good!


EDIT: I couldn't burn it to a USB because Disk Utility wouldn't let me after everything I tried, and I couldn't get the DVD to work because the old machine's CD reader is kinda broken and it wouldn't read an external CD reader.
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So, is the new Windows 8 API Microsoft's take on software communism? So they just made a whole bunch of wrappers for Javascript, C# and VB.
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ibly31 wrote:Coming from a mixed Windows and Mac / smartphone background... I honestly think it's a bit over simplified.

After spending like 3+ hours trying to burn the iso to a usb, and attempting to use a dvd to install it on an old machine I have, I gave up and just decided to use a Virtual machine. It runs well and its very polished, but the home screen makes me feel as if I'm just using a giant smartphone.

Excited to switch back from Mac to Windows though, and this interface seems the most OSX like so far that I've tried, so that is very good!


EDIT: I couldn't burn it to a USB because Disk Utility wouldn't let me after everything I tried, and I couldn't get the DVD to work because the old machine's CD reader is kinda broken and it wouldn't read an external CD reader.
I installed it on virtualbox, works pretty well considering i only did the 32 bit version and allocated it 512mb ram
I think a lot of people will turn off the metro screen and just use it like win7
Interesting how VS11 and the new metro apps are basically html5 and interchangable.
And i think the simple interface will work well on tablets/smartphones
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The installation on VirtualBox goofed :(
I'm trying again, hopefully I can get it to work this time.
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I had to change chipset to PIIX3 in virtualbox. found it later on a couple of guides.
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For anyone who tries this using VMWare Fusion -- it's pretty much not possible on VMWare Fusion 2.0, but if you get a free trial or own 4.0, set the OS to Windows 7, and it should install fine. Kinda sucks because I actually PAID for Fusion... I don't want to have to pay to upgrade to 4.0!
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Windows 8 server is faaaar more impressive. If they pull up off what they wanna do with any modicum of quality they will launch them selves into the main contenders for the cloud market.
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