Share Your Windows 8 Preview Edition Experience

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  avii

  The_Big_K

  I'm sure many of you might have installed the latest Windows 8 consumer preview edition on your computers. Why not share your own views about the latest from Microsoft?

  Corrected. Latest is Consumer Preview
  
  

  The_Big_K

  In particular, share -
  
  1. The hardware on which you've installed Win8.
  2. Things you like the most.
  3. Things you didn't like or think can be better?

  I have currently hackintoshed my laptop & bit skeptical about installing Win 8 thinking it might screw boot loader. And still I am downloading it, at 78% now, thanks to my blazing fast internet 😁
  
  From other experiences, everyone liked & many disliked Metro UI. Few apps crashing here & there. Boot time has improved significantly. & some even made permanent switch to CP after seeing Metro UI.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Though I feel Metro UI sucks on desktop. It is good for tablets, but not desktop IMO. Win 8 may be failure since MS always failed at first attempt 😁
  
  And btw :
  
  
  Windows 98 - Success
  
  Windows ME - Phail
  
  Windows XP - Success
  
  Windows Vista - Phail
  
  Windows 7 - Success
  
  Windows 8 - Guess 😉
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  Kaustubh Katdare

  Mea Culpa 😀 . Well, in fact it did screw up the boot on my laptop running Windows 7. I fixed it and decided to wait until Microsoft releases the stable. I'm not sure whether I'll go back to Windows (unless they've something fantastic in Win8). I made a switch from Windows to Mac and the transition has been smoother. I hope to have the Microsoft Office for Mac 2011 installed so that I never have to look back to Windows.
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  avii

  I think you tried DP not CP. CP doesn't screw up boot loader, so no worries 😀 As I have installed Lion, I am bit skeptical, but still I am gonna try it once the download is complete.
  
  I have used MS Office for Mac & it is really good. You may feel uncomfortable in beginning since the layout is bit different compared to that of Windows version & it it more like Mac. If you have already accustomed to Mac, then you don't feel any difference. And one last thing, for PPTs use Keynote. It is far more better than MS Office Presentations. However in Word & Excel, MS office rocks compared to iWork.
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  Kaustubh Katdare

  #-Link-Snipped-# : Nope, I have the CP edition. I'll give it another try (possibly on a virtual machine) when I've more free time 😁
  
  I agree with you that Keynote beats the hell out of power point but there is no match to Microsoft Word & Excel in the whole world. Office 2011 for Mac does offer the ribbon support and I think it's just as easy to use as Office on Windows. 😁
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  PraveenKumar Purushothaman

  Processor: Intel i7 Processor 2600
  RAM: 8GB RAM
  Graphics: 1GB Graphics Card
  Monitor: 23" HP Monitor
  
  Few things are, I was shocked to see the speed and performance. It is awesome. UI is good as usual. Waiting to explore more, but didn't get time to check out all the features! 😔 Will update here. 😀
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  Kaustubh Katdare

  #-Link-Snipped-# With *that* hardware, any operating system will 'feel' fast 😀 . Are there any fundamental changes to the way users interact with the system? If yes, then user adoption is going to take some time.
  
  I've heard that Microsoft is asking application developers to remodel their code to adopt the new metro UI. I wonder how difficult that's going to be.
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  PraveenKumar Purushothaman

  The_Big_K

  #-Link-Snipped-# With *that* hardware, any operating system will 'feel' fast 😀 . Are there any fundamental changes to the way users interact with the system? If yes, then user adoption is going to take some time.
  
  I've heard that Microsoft is asking application developers to remodel their code to adopt the new metro UI. I wonder how difficult that's going to be.

  PS: I was trying this out in Virtual Machine! 😛
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  Kaustubh Katdare

  Praveen-Kumar

  PS: I was trying this out in Virtual Machine! 😛

  ...and what's your host machine configuration?
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  avii

  I guess what he posted earlier is his host machine.
  
  btw @#-Link-Snipped-# - which graphic card you have ?
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  PraveenKumar Purushothaman

  avii

  I guess what he posted earlier is his host machine.
  
  btw @#-Link-Snipped-# - which graphic card you have ?

  Zotak 9600GS
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  PraveenKumar Purushothaman

  The_Big_K

  ...and what's your host machine configuration?

  That's my host machine configuration... 😀 How can I have a VM with such high... I just cut down it to 4GB RAM.
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  Ankita Katdare

  Jensen Harris from Windows User Experience gives a demo of the Windows 8 Consumer Preview.