Windows 8 Developer Preview Released

[Hielor]

ooooooooooold:D

had W8... uh... ~half year ago for 2 or 3 months or so..:P

switched back to 7 - because 8 suxx
what i can say about:

DO NOT USE!

its a pain in the butt - nothing more. W7 is much better - all the way.

the handfull new "functions" W8 got are not worth gettin' it in my opinion.

I'm not only talking about bugs. they are normal in betas/dev-editons.

(and i had the developer edition with more features than a public beta)

A lot has changed in the last six months. An opinion based on what it looked like six months ago isn't really valid anymore.

Microsoft are a tad quick on the OS releases these days... why?

This isn't a release. It's not even a beta. It's a "developer preview", intended primarily for application developers to see what sorts of things the new version will offer, so they can begin working on applications that will support the new features, and have them ready at release.

An actually release is still quite a ways off.

Full disclosure: I work for Microsoft.

[Camtheman]

Vista was awful.
Seven was imperfect.
Eight has a chance.

Vista was awful indeed...

7 is tolerable. A fixed version of Vista. Turn off UAC and its golden. Its like XP with a shiny interface!

Eight has no chance.

Mainly because... Why would you want a tablet OS on you're main PC? Providing better 'relations' as I have lack of a better word... with tablet and PC touch screens will make them worse with normal keyboards/mice...

[ivr56]

ooooooooooold:D

had W8... uh... ~half year ago for 2 or 3 months or so..:P

A leaked copy running a pre-alpha or very early alpha build
Judging a piece of software as a whole on a early build

Genuine software advice at right there

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[Anonymous User]

A leaked copy running a pre-alpha or very early alpha build
Judging a piece of software as a whole on a early build

Genuine software advice at right there

like i said. it was not about the buggish stuff - nor about the lack of stability.

thing was that 99% of the new features were just useless crap.


its like most times before.

pimp da system and add much more stuff to it.

who needs it? nobody.

all the new features just need more CPU/RAM/whatever

why use a W8 beta when it got nothing usefull what W7 dun has.

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[ivr56]

who needs it? nobody.

Tablets and AIO PCs

Touch+Windows 7
Horrid. Currently Windows is not worth even thinking about for tablets because of the interface.
And contrary to your last point, Windows 8 appears to be using less resources then Windows 7.

I shall be putting that to the test on a HP Tx 2000 (1.9ghz Dual Core, 3GB, HD3200 laptop from 2007)
Had Vista, nuked it for 7. Runs fine, lets see how 8 pre-beta fairs

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[Camtheman]

I think they said 8 would run on the same or less requirements than 7

[ivr56]

They are pretty low.

Windows Developer Preview works great on the same hardware that powers Windows Vista and Windows 7:
1 gigahertz (GHz) or faster 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor
1 gigabyte (GB) RAM (32-bit) or 2 GB RAM (64-bit)
16 GB available hard disk space (32-bit) or 20 GB (64-bit)
DirectX 9 graphics device with WDDM 1.0 or higher driver
Taking advantage of touch input requires a screen that supports multi-touch

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[Stealthsultn]

I actually think that windows 8 will use less system resources than 7.

They are doing it for consolidation; apple is doing it as well with IOS.

So that one OS is consistent through all their devices; that brings greater compatibility between tablets/phones/tablets and makes it easier on devs because they just have to develop for one platform. Imagine being able to play freelancer on your phone/tablet/lappy; that's what they are shooting for.

As someone who owns a mac as well I think apple doesn't get enough **** for pulling the "We finally brought 64x support to osx 5 years after the party is over, fork over $100 and its yours" move. Windows 8 is all good with me, i'm keeping an open mind.

P.S: if you still have XP I feel really sorry for you. Unless your on 10yr old hardware w7 is better in every single way. Lacking dx10 and dx11 support your not going to get the massive performance improvements for newer graphics cards. Even if you have hardware that was released with XP the overall results between the two are in a dead heat. If you have a new computer; windows 7 all the way!

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[RAL]

They release it, so you can encounter all the bugs so they can fix them.. you dont think they actually prescreen for them do you? microsoft? lolnonsense..

just like every other windows operating system that has ever been released, it wont be actually good, untill after like a year of patching, and by then they will be working on another update..

[Dart]

Gentoo Linux

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