windows 8

[roliath]

anyone upgrade last night?

[Ratt]

I refuse.

[Silverback]

I've been running windows 8 RC for a few months on one of my home laptops, and I've been in the early adopters program at work (Dell), using Windows 8 on my second work laptop.

So far it's been fine, minus a few minor issues. One being when I get a phone call on my softphone tied to Lync, the pop-up in the system tray does not alert me to who's calling.

[mstng86]

I've been running windows 8 RC for a few months on one of my home laptops, and I've been in the early adopters program at work (Dell), using Windows 8 on my second work laptop.

So far it's been fine, minus a few minor issues. One being when I get a phone call on my softphone tied to Lync, the pop-up in the system tray does not alert me to who's calling.

fucking first world problems man

[roliath]

I've been running the RTM on my atom box for about 70ish days now, I have no issues with it thus far.
My pro upgrade was processed this morning and I got my key not to long ago, usb flash drive is ready to rock. I will install this on my laptop when I get home this afternoon.

[UserX]

anyone upgrade last night?

I have no plans to, still very happy with Win7. My experience is, skip evey other MS OS. I stayed on XP until Win7 was released.

[HOOCBB]

I don't really see an advantage to Win 8 unless using a touchscreen.

[01vnms4v]

i downloaded it friday night, and been happy with it, easy to use, fast and like the interface.

those that dont use a tablet, or use to a tablet style interface are going to be screwed, if they buy a new laptop or desktop.

just makes me wish that my laptop was touchscreen, but then again they might be one day soon.

[Darren M]

i downloaded it friday night, and been happy with it, easy to use, fast and like the interface.

those that dont use a tablet, or use to a tablet style interface are going to be screwed, if they buy a new laptop or desktop.

just makes me wish that my laptop was touchscreen, but then again they might be one day soon.

Old tech. Ultrabook is not the first, but it is the latest.

[roliath]

You don't ever even have to use Metro, the whole touchscreen/tablet talk is simply ignorant. You can do everything with shortcuts, you can have your start button like your used to. you can boot into the desktop and forego metro ui. Like I said, the whole tablet/touchscreen talk is simply ignorant.

Liking it here so far.


two things, my webcam software doesn't work correctly and my razer mice doesn't work that well when switching profiles/dpi.

[HOOCBB]

You don't ever even have to use Metro, the whole touchscreen/tablet talk is simply ignorant. You can do everything with shortcuts, you can have your start button like your used to. you can boot into the desktop and forego metro ui. Like I said, the whole tablet/touchscreen talk is simply ignorant.

Liking it here so far.


two things, my webcam software doesn't work correctly and my razer mice doesn't work that well when switching profiles/dpi.

Since you are adamant that I am fucking ignorant about the touchscreen deal, why don't you detail exactly why someone should upgrade from 7 to 8?

[diablo rojo]

Since you are adamant that I am fucking ignorant about the touchscreen deal, why don't you detail exactly why someone should upgrade from 7 to 8?

My reason:

Corrupt Win7 computer that would boot to the logo and loop back to the loader. My wife "misplaced" my Win7 boot disk from the safe leaving me with two options.

1. Pay $199 for the full version of Win7,

2. Pay $69 for the upgrade.

System is running fine. I've spent the last few months familiarizing myself with 8 and am pleased overall. This pc is only used for media (movies, music...) so the ui isn't bothering me....it's making things a bit smoother in fact.

[goofygrin]

Microcenter has the Pro upgrade for $38.88. I'm interested in a detachable (or maybe convertible if light) as a replacement for my wife's heavy as hell (and out of warranty) m11x.

[HOOCBB]

My reason:

Corrupt Win7 computer that would boot to the logo and loop back to the loader. My wife "misplaced" my Win7 boot disk from the safe leaving me with two options.

1. Pay $199 for the full version of Win7,

2. Pay $69 for the upgrade.

System is running fine. I've spent the last few months familiarizing myself with 8 and am pleased overall. This pc is only used for media (movies, music...) so the ui isn't bothering me....it's making things a bit smoother in fact.

I can understand doing so in that situation, I'm more curious about the why someone would actually want to upgrade. What does 8 give that 7 does not already have?

[roliath]

Since you are adamant that I am fucking ignorant about the touchscreen deal, why don't you detail exactly why someone should upgrade from 7 to 8?

I didn't call you ignorant, I said the whole argument about "oh noes you can't use windows 8 unless you have a touchscreen/tablet" is ignorant.

I got my copies for 16 bucks. 16 bucks for a legit license considering I paid nearly 200 for my 7 licenses who can complain?

If you hate metro that's cool, but you DONT NEED TO USE IT EVER. All these options below bring your start button back.

Free:

http://www.startisback.com/

http://classicshell.sourceforge.net/

https://www.pokki.com/windows-8-start-menu

http://code.google.com/p/power8/

http://lee-soft.com/vistart/windows-8-start-menu.html

Paid:
http://www.stardock.com/products/start8/ - ($4.99 or $4.50 if you like their fb page and get a promo code)
http://www.classicstartmenu.com/ - ($19.99)
http://www.retroui.com/ - ($4.95)

Ninite includes "Classic Start" as an option.

http://ninite.com/

It is EXACTLY like Windows 7 but with improvements.


Reading Material, as i'm watching the game and don't want to type this shit out.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2012834/windows-7-to-windows-8-the-systems-biggest-improvements.html

My Desktop

http://i.imgur.com/zAwL7.jpg

Never need to use Metro.