Windows 8 Beta available

[N1LAF]

Get a sneak peak at of the next Microsoft disaster

Windows 8 Consumer Preview ISO images
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-8/iso

I am curious, and installing now.. 35% complete. My third attempt in installing using VMware.

[N1LAF]

OK, I know what I did wrong, fixed it, and now I have Windows 8 beta running

Hideous start

I think businesses will bypass this 'repackaged' Windows 7

[N1LAF]

After setup and restart, this will be your startup screen

http://www.paulfelgate.com/hamisland/Screen_on_restart5.jpg

To log in, you have to hold-click the screen, and move upward to log in. It is so obvious that this is a touchscreen-centric system.

http://www.paulfelgate.com/hamisland/Login_screen6.jpg

After login, you will see this:

http://www.paulfelgate.com/hamisland/Login_screen1.jpg

Slide sideways for more selections. Click a category... like "All Apps"

http://www.paulfelgate.com/hamisland/All_apps2.jpg

Slid the screen, and clicked on "Windows Explorer". A familiar screen came up....

http://www.paulfelgate.com/hamisland/Windows_explorer3.jpg

Menus continue to bloat....

http://www.paulfelgate.com/hamisland/bloated_menuing4.jpg

Here is your Windows 8

http://www.paulfelgate.com/hamisland/Windows8-7.jpg


This is good news for Apple and LINUX.

[N1LAF]

[CTRL][ALT][DEL] opens a new windows with more options, and the Shutdown selection. Did not find a way to do so with mouse click.

This OS may be fine for Tablets, but will suck badly for Office/Desktop use.

[KA9MOT]

I downloaded it and have yet to commence experimentation.....Looking at your's, I'm not sure I want to.

[n2ize]

After setup and restart, this will be your startup screen

http://www.paulfelgate.com/hamisland/Screen_on_restart5.jpg

To log in, you have to hold-click the screen, and move upward to log in. It is so obvious that this is a touchscreen-centric system.

http://www.paulfelgate.com/hamisland/Login_screen6.jpg

After login, you will see this:

http://www.paulfelgate.com/hamisland/Login_screen1.jpg

Slide sideways for more selections. Click a category... like "All Apps"

http://www.paulfelgate.com/hamisland/All_apps2.jpg

Slid the screen, and clicked on "Windows Explorer". A familiar screen came up....

http://www.paulfelgate.com/hamisland/Windows_explorer3.jpg

Menus continue to bloat....

http://www.paulfelgate.com/hamisland/bloated_menuing4.jpg

Here is your Windows 8

http://www.paulfelgate.com/hamisland/Windows8-7.jpg


This is good news for Apple and LINUX.

YIKES !!! that looks HORRIFIC !!! I'll stick with Linux/KDE.

[KC2UGV]

Looks like they tried copying Ubuntu's NBR.

[W1GUH]

Wonder if Windows 8 will continue the tradition of almost daily, time-consuming updates?

[NQ6U]

Wonder if Windows 8 will continue the tradition of almost daily, time-consuming updates?

No, they've improved it from almost daily, time-consuming updates to absolutely daily, time-consuming updates.

[NQ6U]

Looks like they tried copying Ubuntu's NBR.

Just out of curiosity, when was the last time Microsoft came up with anything original, especially anything pertaining to Windows? Seems to me like almost everything they've done since XP has been derivative or playing catch-up with Apple. Even the name Windows XP was a nod to OS X.

[KC2UGV]

Just out of curiosity, when was the last time Microsoft came up with anything original, especially anything pertaining to Windows? Seems to me like almost everything they've done since XP has been derivative or playing catch-up with Apple. Even the name Windows XP was a nod to OS X.

Windows Vista and 7's interface is pretty slick. Nothing like Mac OS (Except maybe transparency, but they both ganked that from Gnome and KDE)...

[NQ6U]

Windows Vista and 7's interface is pretty slick. Nothing like Mac OS (Except maybe transparency, but they both ganked that from Gnome and KDE)...

OS X has been using transparency since at least 2001, I don't believe Gnome or KDE implemented it that long ago. But, even if Apple did copy it, I wish they hadn't. It just consumes GPU cycles without really adding anything useful.

[KC2UGV]

OS X has been using transparency since at least 2001, I don't believe Gnome or KDE implemented it that long ago. But, even if Apple did copy it, I wish they hadn't. It just consumes GPU cycles without really adding anything useful.

Yeah it did. Compiz has been around for a while :)

[NQ6U]

Yeah it did. Compiz has been around for a while :)


From the Wikipedia:


The first version of Compiz was released as free software by Novell (SUSE) in January 2006 in the wake of the (also new) Xgl.

[KC2UGV]

From the Wikipedia:

My bad... Compiz (And Beryl) were packaged and called such in 2006, taking from components built long before then...

[W1GUH]

Just out of curiosity, when was the last time Microsoft came up with anything original, especially anything pertaining to Windows? Seems to me like almost everything they've done since XP has been derivative or playing catch-up with Apple. Even the name Windows XP was a nod to OS X.

Not so sure "original" would be of any interest to me. After all, an OS is there to "Operate" the system - maybe innovation for the sake of innovation, at least in the visible part is meaningless. This BS where they change the user interface with every "new" Windows is more maddening than anything and contributes nothing to the efficiency of my machine.

Let us not forget what may be MS's best move ever. And that was when they decided to port Digital's (R.I.P) VAX/VMS to the Wintel platform. I believe that was for NT, & that's what XP, Vista, and 7 are. Copycat move? You decide...whether 'tis better to develop a new OS from scratch, with all pitfalls that entails, or using something that's been tried and true? I'll take the latter any day.

[KJ3N]

Just out of curiosity, when was the last time Microsoft came up with anything original, especially anything pertaining to Windows?

MicroSoft Bob. It was reincarnated as Clippy, the "wonderful" animated MS Office assistant. :roll: :yuck:

[n2ize]

MicroSoft Bob. It was reincarnated as Clippy, the "wonderful" animated MS Office assistant. :roll: :yuck:

:-D:mrgreen::-D

[WØTKX]

http://www.pmgeiser.ch/calc/hp82104A/hp82104A14.jpg

[KA9MOT]

MicroSoft Bob. It was reincarnated as Clippy, the "wonderful" animated MS Office assistant. :roll: :yuck:

I liked the sound it made when Clippy knocked on the inside of my monitor. Clippy was my friend.........

[kf0rt]

http://www.pmgeiser.ch/calc/hp82104A/hp82104A14.jpg

HP41!!! ;)

[WØTKX]

Yes, geek-boieeeee!

I may have spent more time in front of a Windows/Mac/*Nix GUI.

But it still might be a close call. :wiggle:

:mrgreen:

[W1GUH]

Always expected that dog that filled in for Clippy sometimes to lift his hind leg and piss on the document!

[kf0rt]

Yes, geek-boieeeee!

I may have spent more time in front of a Windows/Mac/*Nix GUI.

But it still might be a close call. :wiggle:

:mrgreen:

Damn, loved the HP calcs; the stories I could tell. Still have a 41CX here somewhere; hasn't been used in eons (and no card reader, ahem). Back in school (mid-70's), I bought a HP45; think I paid $375 for it at the time at the school bookstore. The chick in line behind me was stunned when the checker rung it up. (Should have asked her out, but didn't.)

Used the HP45 until I dropped out of college. It was "tits" at the time. Even did the clock mod. After leaving school, I loaned it to a friend and it was stolen from his house.

Bought the 41CX a lotta years later. No real need for it today, but it calculated a few tax returns.

[W1GUH]

I had a 12C and really loved it. But....the keys went flaky just after the warranty expired. Isn't it ironic that I bought it just to get away from the key problems in cheap calculators? So I called HP. They'd be happy to sell me a new on at a "discount". Yea, sure, the discount was insignificant -- could've bought a new one at Staples for the same money. Went back to cheap calculators.

[n2ize]

Not so sure "original" would be of any interest to me. After all, an OS is there to "Operate" the system - maybe innovation for the sake of innovation, at least in the visible part is meaningless. This BS where they change the user interface with every "new" Windows is more maddening than anything and contributes nothing to the efficiency of my machine.

Let us not forget what may be MS's best move ever. And that was when they decided to port Digital's (R.I.P) VAX/VMS to the Wintel platform. I believe that was for NT, & that's what XP, Vista, and 7 are. Copycat move? You decide...whether 'tis better to develop a new OS from scratch, with all pitfalls that entails, or using something that's been tried and true? I'll take the latter any day.


I agree :-D

http://www.library.upenn.edu/exhibits/rbm/mauchly/img/eniac3.jpg