Hello from Windows 8! Running pretty smoothly on an old (but powerful at the time) laptop from 2005 or so. Can't find the correct graphics driver though, so I'm stuck at 1024x768 at the moment, but everything else is working well so far.
The ARM version wouldn't run existing Windows software, so it's almost like an entirely separate platform.
Fact is, this review was done on a tablet with an i5, and app performance will suffer on a lower powered tablet.
Will MS somehow make a seamless desktop/portable OS with Windows 8? Let's just say I'm not hopeful.
I want to install this on my desktop, can i create a partition on my only drive while it has my win 7 on it and install this on it?
Windows 8 is a real desktop OS with a real file system, explorer, etc. You can use it exactly the same way you use Windows 7. Or you can use it simply like a tablet, using only touch-optimized Metro apps. Or do some mix of both.
It uses significantly less memory, is less CPU-intensive, and boots up very quickly.
What more exactly would you want in order to consider it a "seamless desktop/portable OS"?
After so many versions of Windows growing massively in size with each iteration, I simply won't believe that Microsoft has finally managed to make a slim version that's backward compatible until I see and use it myself.
If they have, I'll be incredibly impressed. I've been an MS stack developer for a long time, and even app size grows with every generation. Color me skeptical.
Yea I find that odd...there has to be a way I can't figure it out. You can kill it via the task manager, but I haven't figured out a way from within the app.
6GB? Christ, that's not a mobile OS. Install a game or two and couple of regular non-mobile apps and your SSD is full.
Also, I have a question regarding the desktop interface. How in the bloody hell do you get icons or anything to show up there? Normally, you could click start and then show on desktop then click My Documents, profile, etc... However, I had to go into explorer and then drag and drop a shortcut to My Computer. I can't click start and find the application I want to use.
I find it incredibly difficult to switch between applications from the left. Not in the sense that I couldn't do it, but the fact that if you have 5+ applications open and you want to get to a certain one, you have to keep dragging and dropping. They need to incorporate some kind of window pane that shows the apps you have open (a la Honeycomb), but let them be able to be dragged and more or something of that sort. Currently, I think it's a little bit clunky.
After so many versions of Windows growing massively in size with each iteration, I simply won't believe that Microsoft has finally managed to make a slim version that's backward compatible until I see and use it myself.
If they have, I'll be incredibly impressed. I've been an MS stack developer for a long time, and even app size grows with every generation. Color me skeptical.
I want to install this on my desktop, can i create a partition on my only drive while it has my win 7 on it and install this on it?
It keeps crashing VMWare Player for me.Can't install as a VM via Virtualbox.
Hello from Windows 8! Running pretty smoothly on an old (but powerful at the time) laptop from 2005 or so. Can't find the correct graphics driver though, so I'm stuck at 1024x768 at the moment, but everything else is working well so far.
After so many versions of Windows growing massively in size with each iteration, I simply won't believe that Microsoft has finally managed to make a slim version that's backward compatible until I see and use it myself.
If they have, I'll be incredibly impressed. I've been an MS stack developer for a long time, and even app size grows with every generation. Color me skeptical.
It keeps crashing VMWare Player for me.