• Windows 8 Consumer Preview hits 1 million downloads in less than 24 hours
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Oh look, finally a Windows that can live up to the name of Windows ME in terms of being a failure! I am sick and tired of this "~[I]tablet-friendly[/I]~" bullshit. I do not want a tablet-console-desktop hybrid OS. If I want to work using a desktop OS, I want to work with tools and in such environment that only a computer, a fully-fledged one can provide. I do not expect a mobile/tablet OS, such as Android or iOS to do the same as my Windows machine. They are made for entirely different usage. Dumbing an OS down to make it compatible and more unified with tablets and consoles which have less or completely different abilities and ways of usage is not the way to go.
I don't know what is all the hate, I'm a desktop + mouse user here with windows 8 as a default OS. I love how it is also keyboard friendly as well, I am so far not really disappointed in what I am seeing. Then again, I've used windows phones and xbox's new dashboard and in general been following Metro for some time because it is so modern. Who cares if it is a tablet friendly UI? I quite like it and you should too.
[QUOTE=VistaPOWA;34966779]Oh look, finally a Windows that can live up to the name of Windows ME in terms of being a failure! I am sick and tired of this "~[I]tablet-friendly[/I]~" bullshit. I do not want a tablet-console-desktop hybrid OS. If I want to work using a desktop OS, I want to work with tools and in such environment that only a computer, a fully-fledged one can provide. I do not expect a mobile/tablet OS, such as Android or iOS to do the same as my Windows machine. They are made for entirely different usage. Dumbing an OS down to make it compatible and more unified with tablets and consoles which have less or completely different abilities and ways of usage is not the way to go.[/QUOTE]Except ME genuinely was shit. Still, as a tablet OS, Win 8 has a ton of potential. [editline]2nd March 2012[/editline] Using it right now. Its definitely incredibly good on a touch screen. I'm still on the edge as far as general purpose desktop use goes.
I like it a lot more then windows 7, it didn't take me long to get comfortable using Metro, and it's actually been way faster then the old start menu, for me. I love the speed improvements. Sure it defiantly feels built for tablets, but it works great for a desktop all the same, I can't understand all of the hate. Though I do dislike how everything is burried, like the shut down, the control panel etc. But the UI is really nice to me, I also have dual monitors, but I doubt that has anything to do with it. I love the new style so clean and crisp, I remember this same hate towards windows 7 though, so I think once you get use to it, you will have trouble going back.
[QUOTE=Atlascore;34967565]Hate towards Windows 7? The hell are you talking about? Pretty much everyone was jizzing over Windows 7 even when it was deep in development and we only had experimental builds to go off of.[/QUOTE] Even the media (which often hates on Windows and before Windows 8 was saying there will be no more PC's manufactured by some arbitrary year due to the rise of the more fair and beautiful Google and Apple) liked Windows 7.
After trying Windows 8 I have to say I actually quite like it. The only thing I would like to have back is the start menu. I appreciate the new one and I can see its usefulness however I do enjoy clicking that shiny start button (instead of having to mouse down to the corner of the screen and hope it picks up the movement).
[QUOTE=Atlascore;34967565]Hate towards Windows 7? The hell are you talking about? Pretty much everyone was jizzing over Windows 7 even when it was deep in development and we only had experimental builds to go off of.[/QUOTE] As far as I remember there were plenty of people who literally refused to upgrade to windows 7 from XP because of it windows 7 UI.
[QUOTE=Atlascore;34967565]Hate towards Windows 7? The hell are you talking about? Pretty much everyone was jizzing over Windows 7 even when it was deep in development and we only had experimental builds to go off of.[/QUOTE] There was actually quite a bit of hate against the new taskbar. You don't see it today but back around the Windows 7 Dev Preview there was. Not as much as the new start screen though. People always forget the hate once it dies down. Like now for example people would consider Windows 2000 and Windows XP to be great operating systems, but when they were first released they had just as much hate as Vista. And if 7 had taken as long as Vista its reputation would've eventually been like XP's as in it got better over time. The fact that 7 was shown off only about 2 years after Vista only made it be overshadowed. [QUOTE=quacles;34967884]As far as I remember there were plenty of people who literally refused to upgrade to windows 7 from XP because of it windows 7 UI.[/QUOTE] That was toward both Vista and 7. I still see a lot of that today.
[QUOTE=Teddi Orange;34967823]After trying Windows 8 I have to say I actually quite like it. The only thing I would like to have back is the start menu. I appreciate the new one and I can see its usefulness however I do enjoy clicking that shiny start button (instead of having to mouse down to the corner of the screen and hope it picks up the movement).[/QUOTE] Just press the windows key instead of doing the mouse thing.
[QUOTE=The Baconator;34968333]Just press the windows key instead of doing the mouse thing.[/QUOTE] I found that out about 30 minutes in however I still prefer having a small menu instead of having to swap out entirely. For productive reasons it feels more iffy but that may just be because I'm not used to it.
I hope this is far from final and they make a proper "desktop" win8. All these tablet specific quirks are annoying on a desktop. It feels like I am using a port of a goddamn OS.
[QUOTE=The Baconator;34968333]Just press the windows key instead of doing the mouse thing.[/QUOTE] What about me, those who do not have Windows keys? Am I supposed to do the silly faux-gesture thing? (My keyboard is older than Windows itself)
Only 1 million? You have to think how many people in the world are using windows currently. 1 Million out of that? Don't be so proud of yourselves Microsoft, windows 8 is getting seriously controversial.
I downloaded it last night, ran it in a VM, quickly found it was exactly as shit as I was expecting, then ran off to try Linux for the first time
[QUOTE=PX1K;34972856]Only 1 million? You have to think how many people in the world are using windows currently. 1 Million out of that? Don't be so proud of yourselves Microsoft, windows 8 is getting seriously controversial.[/QUOTE] It's a preview. There is no reason to download it other than to preview it. These are rarely popular outside nerd/media crowd.
[QUOTE=smurfy;34972875]I downloaded it last night, ran it in a VM, quickly found it was exactly as shit as I was expecting, then ran off to try Linux for the first time[/QUOTE] Ditto.
[QUOTE=PX1K;34972856]Only 1 million? You have to think how many people in the world are using windows currently. 1 Million out of that? Don't be so proud of yourselves Microsoft, windows 8 is getting seriously controversial.[/QUOTE] That's a million microsoft/technology nerdes and that's a pretty high number for that
[QUOTE=Hentie;34959715]For those who haven't seen VS2011: [thumb]http://blogs.msdn.com/cfs-file.ashx/__key/communityserver-blogs-components-weblogfiles/00-00-01-29-92-metablogapi/3225.dev11darktheme_5F00_5FAA05D6.png[/thumb][/QUOTE] Lmfaoo!!!!! Yeah I'll stick with 2010
[QUOTE=Panda X;34962813]Which half?[/QUOTE] If people were able to disable it, the migration to the new interface would take longer. I don't think Microsoft believes that the whole world is going to want to use the interface, but if they leave the option in, the first thing people will do, is getting their closest computer guy to revert them to the old interface. That way many people won't be forced to use the interface, and they'll never learn how to use it officially. They'll probably also show their friends how to disable it, and you've got the ball rolling. If they can't disable it, Microsoft will be able to continue the developement of the interface and begin to go away from the old one. I think your right, but I don't think you're right about it not having a down side. It's maybe not the nicest solution, but I think that it's the one that'll help Microsoft in the long run. [editline]3rd March 2012[/editline] [QUOTE=PX1K;34972856]Only 1 million? You have to think how many people in the world are using windows currently. 1 Million out of that? Don't be so proud of yourselves Microsoft, windows 8 is getting seriously controversial.[/QUOTE] Mac OSX Lion sold 1 million copies the first day. This is a preview, and even though there's some fuss about it, I don't think that more than a few percent of Windows users is aware of it's release.
Well I have it. The only thing I hate is the new metro start menu, but in performance, I get better fps with this instead of 7.
The new VS reminds me of cryengine editor but more contrasted. [img]http://3dvision-blog.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/cryengine-3-free-sdk-editor.jpg[/img]
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