Has anyone played with the beta win 8 yet?
RoboOx wrote: I'm running it in a Hyper-V VM. Connecting by remote RDP (so I'm fairly sure I'm not getting the full visual effect). It seems to run ok. I don't like loosing the old style start menu....
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Can i get a link to the beta or something? How'd you get hold of it???
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EDB wrote: Can i get a link to the beta or something? How'd you get hold of it???http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/home/br229518
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Ugh... It's horrible. Thank you MS for turning my desktop into a tablet. It's just what I always wanted. A completely new interface to do nothing but make my job more difficult and frustrating.
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Just a small point; Can we change the title of this thread? We're actually talking about the Developer Preview, not the Beta (hopefully the beta version will be released later).
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Rivitir wrote: Ugh... It's horrible. Thank you MS for turning my desktop into a tablet. It's just what I always wanted. A completely new interface to do nothing but make my job more difficult and...
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akp982 wrote: I'm not convienced its any good yet I would second that.
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I put it on my Netbook, so far it makes a good clock. lol Will have to see when the Beta comes out, to see what it can do.
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JacobyXY wrote: RoboOx wrote: I'm running it in a Hyper-V VM. Connecting by remote RDP (so I'm fairly sure I'm not getting the full visual effect). It seems to run ok. I don't like loosing the old...
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I think the metro UI could be good for tablets and some touch screens but I think the way it is implemented at the moment spoils the PC experience. I think I would be happier if it was a bit more like...
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That raises another question - what will happen to Windows Media Centre?
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I installed this weekend also. It appears to be good, except for the metro UI. I found some links for disabling metro which is the first thing you want to do (unless you are using a tablet). It...
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a few good responses... nice... well i like it so far..., had a couple of network glitches so far and dns failures.. but otherwise very nice
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I would like to play with it but will wait for the beta unless developer is recommended.
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Running the W8 Developer Preview release in VMware Workstation 8. You will eventually want to disable the Metro UI if your not on a touchscreen system. There is a RPEnabled string under...
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bytesnagger wrote: Running the W8 Developer Preview release in VMware Workstation 8. You will eventually want to disable the Metro UI if your not on a touchscreen system. There is a RPEnabled string...
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Not a Metro fan here...on the phone or the Win8 Developer Preview. Wasn't really fond of the Windows Media Center UI either though... Didn't try much else out, but couldn't really tell that much else...
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From a parallel thread "Developer Preview". Been running the 32 bit version on my HP Probook with 8 gig ram. Totally amazed as it's speed and ability to retrieve almost 95% of the Windows 7 drivers....
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