Windows 8 released for all to try

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/apps/br229516

It's BETA but it's rock solid. The UI is different but overall pretty impressive.

[Ailantd]

I already try it and even metro interface could be really good for tablets I don't like it at all for desktop systems. I hope it can be deactivated in release version or I´m going to be stuck in win7 for a lot of years. The reason I don´t like it for mouse keyboard & control it is because has non sense at all. It does not add nothing better about usability or agility than we have now. It is a lot slower for open programs and force you to go to a different screen for open a program while you are working? that´s silly. If it could be deactivated when you are not working in a tactile system, then I have no problem with it. I want my OS let me do thing really quick without moving from here to there for common tasks. No more, no less. About how it looks, I think it does not fit at all with desktop part, and I like coherence, so I don`t like it either.

[Kobold10]

Originally Posted by Ailantd

I already try it and even metro interface could be really good for tablets I don't like it at all for desktop systems. I hope it can be deactivated in release version or I´m going to be stuck in win7 for a lot of years. The reason I don´t like it for mouse keyboard & control it is because has non sense at all. It does not add nothing better about usability or agility than we have now. It is a lot slower for open programs and force you to go to a different screen for open a program while you are working? that´s silly. If it could be deactivated when you are not working in a tactile system, then I have no problem with it. I want my OS let me do thing really quick without moving from here to there for common tasks. No more, no less. About how it looks, I think it does not fit at all with desktop part, and I like coherence, so I don`t like it either.

Did you detect any speed advantages? Is the win8 faster while using sowtware?

[Fjordmonkey]

Originally Posted by machoo

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/apps/br229516

It's BETA but it's rock solid. The UI is different but overall pretty impressive.

This is NOT the Beta-version. This is the developer preview-release that was released at this year's Build-conference. Beta 1-release isn't until later this year, at which we'll really start to see how the system performs.

I've run it on an older box, and the system seems faster. The new layout is a bit to get used to, however, but it only takes a slight adjustment of thought, from PC to tablet, to get comfortable with it. And besides, how many of us spend our days staring at the desktop, anyway?

[Ailantd]

Originally Posted by Kobold10

Did you detect any speed advantages? Is the win8 faster while using sowtware?

I try it in a virtual machine, so I can´t tell that.

[Ailantd]

Originally Posted by Fjordmonkey

This is NOT the Beta-version. This is the developer preview-release that was released at this year's Build-conference. Beta 1-release isn't until later this year, at which we'll really start to see how the system performs.

I've run it on an older box, and the system seems faster. The new layout is a bit to get used to, however, but it only takes a slight adjustment of thought, from PC to tablet, to get comfortable with it. And besides, how many of us spend our days staring at the desktop, anyway?

People like me that use it to work, not only gaming, and that are opening and closing heavy programs all the day.

[shoot_the_goose]

I'm just interested in gaming performance really.I don't know why microsoft or someone else doesn't release a cut down gaming operating system you can have on a seperate partion or second drive or something.

[epoch]

Originally Posted by Ailantd

I try it in a virtual machine, so I can´t tell that.

You got a VM working? Which host?

It wouldn't even install on VMware Workstation 7.

[ratzmilk]

Did you have to re-install Steam and/or Clod?

The game isn't starting for me at all. No errors, or anything. Even tried running the launcher.exe direct as administrator, and still nothing happens.

[AWL_Spinner]

Originally Posted by epoch

You got a VM working? Which host?

It wouldn't even install on VMware Workstation 7.

It'll run in Virtualbox.