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REHAB IS FOR QUITTERS

Well I'm enjoying it as we speak! Huge step from the release preview I was running a couple of hours ago.

I haven't been blown away by the consumer preview, but it isn't bad - this price really does tip the balance, though.

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Will probably purchase a couple of licences soon but I shall wait until the first service pack to install.

Been running the 8400 public build on an old laptop, using Start8 to bring back the start menu. I just hate them tiles on a PC, fine for a tablet.

Windows 7 is so stable and quick on my gaming pc I just dont see the need to change yet.

Yeah, I'd actually quite like to play the games I own so I'll stick with W7...

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GPGSL: S6 - TafuroGP Tester (14th) /// S7 - ART Tester (6th) /// S8 - Demon Driver (13th) /// S9 - Demon/Snake Driver (13th) /// S10 - Snake Driver (???) ///]
"My ambition is handicapped by laziness" - Charles Bukowski

You do realise that Steam works perfectly well on Windows 8, right? GfW, or whatever it's called at this particular minute, apparently has a few issues for some (seems to work fine for the majority), but they'll be ironed out sharpish.

Personally I don't know. I tried out the previews on laptops, just testing a few things, and I guess I could happily use it, Metro included... but it doesn't do anything better for me - nothing in it is going to save me time, make things easier or improve what I do, so I currently can't see a single reason for installing it, even at the current price. I might make a backup, install it and give it a proper go for a few days, but I can't see me going ahead and buying a license - unless it's improved massively from the previews, I'll just end up restoring the backup.

I could see the benefit of the change to the ribbon in Office, and now most of the other desktop applications in Windows, and whatever you feel about the change, it is more logical. But I can see a whole world of issues coming up for the technically challenged with Win 8 - it's all swipes and invisible magic pixels (and even then they've been inconsistent in the previews). The majority aren't going to have a clue. Try installing this for someone and not telling them how to do things, such as how to shut down Windows... they're going to go ape @#$%&. It should be brilliant for tablets, but so far the tablets are costing far too much.

I'm much more interested in the effect Windows 8 will have on Windows Phone 8, namely what should be a huge surge in apps. WP8 is starting to look very inviting.

Got a Nokia Lumia 920 on preorder

Incident 2k9 Wrote:
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> Yeah, I'd actually quite like to play the games I
> own so I'll stick with W7...


Haven't seen any game till now which works in w7 but refuses to work in w8.

Oh and w8 works a lot quicker than w7 but you can sure do things in your own way..

Kimi, so, Massa Fernando Sebastian is faster than you. Can you confirm you understood that message?



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I installed it on my mum's really old laptop yesterday - vista, with a 1.63ghz Core Duo and 2gb RAM - it was like having a new laptop. I don't know how they've done it, but it runs nearly as fast as 7 runs on my computer, which is much newer. It used to take literally 5 minutes to boot up and log in, and now it's like a third of that.

Plus - and this is a good sign for Microsoft - my luddite mother seemed to get the hang of the new interface very quickly, even though she had a little trouble getting to the charms bar.

I'm rather impressed now, having been a little underwhelmed by the consumer preview. I'll be downloading it on payday.

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i'm downloading it via microsoft dreamspark right now, i think i'll just try to run it in a virtual machine first and see what it's like.

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used to be GPGSL's Nick Heidfeld

If you anyone of guys do decide to go for it, W8 Pro doesn't include Media Center so get a free licence of it from Microsoft here.

[windows.microsoft.com]