Bart
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Now that the final build is out, thought id start a new thread.
Whats peoples opinions?
Im personally struggling to get used to it, and so far am REALLY not very keen on it.
Its almost as if its been designed for a tablet and at the last minute they've realised it needs to suit PCs as well. 
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Whittie
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It's super gash. There's nothing I like about it.
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Dom
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It's the whole New User Interface (Metro), it's a load of balls on a desktop system. Worse is apparently there won't be a way to use a default desktop on Windows Server 
If that can be removed then i'll happily update to 8.
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Gary
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Tried the beta and hated it.
Vista mk2 imo
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Whittie
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pow
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RTM is out is it?
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Whittie
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http://windows.microsoft.com/en-GB/windows-8/download
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/aa570309
[Edited on 16-08-2012 by Whittie]
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pow
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Umm need a key... I was gunna try it on my laptop
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pow
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And it's the RC (Release Candidate) not the RTM today
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Bart
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ah.
I picked up my clean copy from Technet this morning.
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Rob_Quads
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The RTM is cut and I am sure available from dodgy download sites.
Still no date as to when it will be available on MSDN
[Edited on 16-08-2012 by Rob_Quads]
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John
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I've been using the old public preview for a while and it's fine.
I could do without metro though.
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Rob_Quads
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Whats Metro lol its just "Windows 8"
Funny that they have blocked applications from using the term Metro. By having no obvious name for the touch/panel interface it is going to be confusing
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John
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Maybe they'll just call it surface same as they do with everything else.
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andy_mk3
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I'll probably hang on to 7 and skip 8 unless metro can be removed.
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John
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Why? It's not as if they'll change back, everything will be more touch reliant by the time 9 comes out.
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chris_uk
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Im on vista 64 atm and i was waiting on 8 coming out but all ive heard is that its shit and even when you remove the metro bit so you have a normal desktop again its actually gash.
I think ill just get win7 instead.
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adiohead
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quote:
Originally posted by chris_uk
Im on vista 64 atm and i was waiting on 8 coming out but all ive heard is that its shit and even when you remove the metro bit so you have a normal desktop again its actually gash.
I think ill just get win7 instead.
THIS!
Nail. Head.
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andy_mk3
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quote:
Originally posted by John
Why? It's not as if they'll change back, everything will be more touch reliant by the time 9 comes out.
It should be a separate thing then, OS for desktop and OS for touch screens. They managed it with XP so why not 8?
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Dom
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quote:
Originally posted by John
I've been using the old public preview for a while and it's fine.
I could do without metro though.
What do you make of the use of Metro in server environments?
Personally it's the most backwards thing i've ever heard.
As said, hopefully someone will come up with a hack to remove metro as the underlying changes made to Win8 are pretty decent.
[Edited on 16-08-2012 by Dom]
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Rob_Quads
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With Metro disabled - What does Windows 8 offer that a Windows 7 user doesn't have?
So far I have seen things like New Task Manager mentioned, which IMO are minor changes. Are there any major reasons to upgrade?
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adiohead
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What does Windows 7 have that Vista doesn't?
(I actually don't know, but have heard it's better but don't know why).
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andy_mk3
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quote:
Originally posted by Rob_Quads
With Metro disabled - What does Windows 8 offer that a Windows 7 user doesn't have?
So far I have seen things like New Task Manager mentioned, which IMO are minor changes. Are there any major reasons to upgrade?
Things like built-in virtual drives to mount ISO's.. nothing particularly amazing though. I'm pretty sure they could've fit it all into a service pack for 7.
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chris_uk
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You can remove the metro thing.
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Dom
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quote:
Originally posted by chris_uk
You can remove the metro thing.
Can you actually remove it, completely?
There was a registry hack but apparently it's disabled in the RTM's, and you have the start menu tool but it requires you to bodge a secondary toolbar but i've yet to read anything about completely (either uninstalling or always defaulting to the standard desktop environment) removing Metro.
Rob - Lots of improvements at kernel level, WinRT, better support for multi-monitor environment, 'Storage Spaces', Hyper-V support and various UI changes. Certainly a lot more than a standard service pack update.
Whittie - Think you might be right with Win8 being the 'bad' OS. I think Metro is going to bite them on the rear with desktops and servers.
[Edited on 16-08-2012 by Dom]
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