The Official Windows 8 User Thread

[Beavermatic]

Still cant find a clear cut answer anywhere, I know some folks have nvidia 304.beta drivers working on Win8... but can it be done sing the default installer package from nvidia or do I have to modify .inf files and stuff?

 

[ViRGE]

Still cant find a clear cut answer anywhere, I know some folks have nvidia 304.beta drivers working on Win8... but can it be done sing the default installer package from nvidia or do I have to modify .inf files and stuff?

It should install correctly without any trouble. NVIDIA has officially included Win8 support since June or so.

304.79-desktop-win8-win7-winvista-64bit-english-beta.exe

 

[Beavermatic]

works like a charm, thanks for the heads up Virge

 

[Dominato3r]

Since they are dropping the Windows Live essentials, it will just be called Windows essentials 2012

http://www.winsupersite.com/article/windows8/windows-essentials-2012-preview-143943

So many articles are saying the WMM finally has youtube upload built in etc. They had a lot of this stuff in the older version

 

[Makaveli]

So I finally got around to installing Start8 last night on windows 8 RC, and its finally useable for me. Also spent a few hours messing around with the keyboard shortcuts and I don't find myself wanting to puke now.

It generally does feel faster than 7 but there are sometimes where I see Odd delays here and there doing task sometimes. Not sure if it just because I have it loaded on an HD and haven't had an OS on a HD since prior to 2009 been ssd ever since.

After going back and forth been desktops tho I don't like what they did to aero on 8.

 

[hclarkjr]

Last week of October before official drivers start rolling out on the internet.

@CatalystCreator: Catalyst 12.8 is targeting next week for release and will include Windows 8 support

 

[gmaster456]

The new themes and wallpapers are nice.

http://www.winsupersite.com/article/windows8/windows-8-secrets-rtm-graphical-assets-143904

 

[lopri]

Got my first BSOD and I have to say it was amusing. You'll understand what I mean when you get yours.

 

[ViRGE]

Got my first BSOD and I have to say it was amusing. You'll understand what I mean when you get yours.

It's such a pleasant screen, isn't it?

 

[gmaster456]

 

[lxskllr]

Strange that BSOD is an expected event with brand new O/S that isn't even really out yet :^D

 

[gmaster456]

Strange that BSOD is an expected event with brand new O/S that isn't even really out yet :^D

I haven't had one since the windows xp days

*knocks on wood*

 

[lxskllr]

I have had one since the windows xp days

*knocks on wood*

Windows was always pretty good to me, at least from XP on. I had some crashes, but it was usually hardware related, as in bad hardware. Not even drivers so much.

 

[lopri]

Hmm.. that BSOD is slightly different from what I remember. I thought mine read more "paternalistic." (We will reboot your system for you, or something like that)

 

[ImDonly1]

Windows was always pretty good to me, at least from XP on. I had some crashes, but it was usually hardware related, as in bad hardware. Not even drivers so much.

This. It's usually bad RAM.

 

[JKing106]

People are finding more and more that an iPad or Android tablet can do everything they do on their PC(web browse, email, music, video, messaging, facebook) and are often getting them instead of a new computer. Windows 8 is about Microsoft trying to get with the times without losing everything they've built with Windows. Not an easy task honestly. They absolutely can not afford to just keep Windows the way it is with 7 right now(Windows 7 is completely irrelevant and forgotten in the mind of today's consumer). My $0.02 on the "why" of Windows 8.

See, this is the thinking that made this abomination possible. If their tablets and the accompanying OS are good enough, people will buy them. Period. If not, then the OS needs to be improved. Forcing desktop users to use their new touch UI in hopes they'll get used to it, and want to buy one of their tablets is idiotic. When the hell are Microsoft's board going to fire Ballmer and Sinofsky? How many times can these guys demonstrate they have absolutely no vision of future trends and use? This is what happens when you let MBA's run a tech company: they just don't "get it." I still can't believe when Ballmer saw the first iPhone, he dismissed it. A blind man could see that touch UI done to that degree of functionality was a no brainer gold mine. Didn't Microsoft have "Surface" before then? Didn't they have people who understood the ramifications of it by merely having the project? There's no excuse for Microsoft to be this far behind, and still be fucking up. While they may never run out of money, they WILL run of good will, eventually. I think they've reached the point of no return. It's going to be a slow, steady decline. I don't think they'll go out of business in the next century, but the days of the captive audience are coming to an end.

 

[tornadog]

I got a BSOD yesterday while playing a game, Driver IRQ Less or not equal. Me and wife had a nice laugh after seeing that blue screen.

 

[hclarkjr]

it is listed on amazon already, with no price as of now http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...datlanticar-20

 

[hclarkjr]

must say it is different with new set of things to learn. do not like no aero styles though. still installing drivers

 

[blurredvision]

Windows was always pretty good to me, at least from XP on. I had some crashes, but it was usually hardware related, as in bad hardware. Not even drivers so much.

BSOD's have always given a bad rap to Microsoft operating systems when 9 times out of 10, it's bad hardware or poorly written drivers. I have seen a few BSOD's at my job over the past year+ and half of the time I'm able to fix it remotely by updating a driver, the other half by replacing faulty RAM or hardware. Rarely is an OS re-install required.

Anyhow, back on topic, I think I'm going to put this on the laptop at home and try it out. This is my wife's main computer so it will be interesting to see what she thinks.

 

[theevilsharpie]

Putting my post in the correct thread...

So up to this point, I haven't used Windows 8. I've seen news reports about it, I've seen others use it (or attempt to, anyway), and I've seen videos of it, but I haven't used it myself or paid much attention to it.

I now have Windows 8 in a VM, staring at me. I've used pretty much every version of Windows since Windows 3.1, and I'm no stranger to having to explore the system to figure out where Microsoft decided to put stuff this time around. But Windows 8? Holy shit, it's different. There may have been a brief tutorial during the install process that I may have missed (I was busy and didn't really pay attention), but after signing in, all I have is some tiles. I've been using Windows for nearly 20 years, and I have no idea where to even begin. I know how to get to the desktop (although it took me a minute to figure out where the tile was), and I know how to return back to the Start screen, but that's basically it. Where is the control panel? Where is the network setup? How do I configure the rest of my shit?

Even Android started you off with a brief tutorial showing you around, and Android is already pretty intuitive. With Windows 8, Microsoft is just content throwing you into the deep end, I guess. Microsoft is completely delusional if they think they can get away with shedding their legacy user interface experience and dumping people into a completely different interface with nothing to guide them in the transition. There hasn't been a change this jarring since the introduction of Windows 95, and Microsoft had plenty of on-screen instructions telling people where things were located during that transition.

OEMs are going to have to take up the slack or face some very irate customers.

 

[theevilsharpie]

BTW, I noticed that Internet Explorer (both the desktop and Metro version) no longer prompt you to select a search engine. It just throws you straight into Bing.

Sneaky.

 

[theevilsharpie]

I (finally!) found the control panel, both within Metro and the desktop. The desktop's control panel hasn't changed much, but the Metro control panel is obviously new.

Certain actions bounce between control panels. Although this is somewhat annoying, I wouldn't mind it so much if the Metro control panel worked properly. I went to create a new user account, and was greeted with this:

Great QA there, MS.

 

[Dahak]

Might be an issue with the vm video drivers probably?

I cant see something that screwed up make it way past qa

I guess it will have to go install it on my laptop....

 

[Dahak]

now i wonder if they will start to call it the sad screen