I have the "developer's preview" version of Win 8 that was released some time ago. I'm not impressed with the iPad/Android apps look.

There is a Windows 8 forum here. http://www.eightforums.com/

i hate the look of windows 8, hopefully you can boycot all the jazzy guff and have a proper desktop.

Gbsnplr said:

I know it is just starting but I am not a fan of the new desktop look of Win 8. At present I will be staying with Win 7 unless you can turn the new desktop off.

There is a "Registry" hack which gets rid of Metro.
It also disables some of the other new features though.

How to disable Metro Tiles:

• Open Regedit
• Navigate to: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\
• Change the value of RPEnabled from 1 to 0.

I just finished installing and running Win8 Developers Preview, Build 8102.
It only took 10 minutes to install which is good but I know it is really a barebones version.
I agree that the Metro screen was no big deal. Everything I ran had a nice video flow and actually thought it worked well with my hardware.

So after playing with it for a few hours I have decided that I may just pass on this one. It really looks like Win7 with another graphical layer for the touchpad screens. I updated Win8 while online and it seems to have installed all the Win7 security updates that were released in the past day.
I like my stable Win7 OS and desktop as well as my IE8.

So what do you think?

Coke Robot said:

I've been running the Developer Preview since September and I think it's great. I've customized the Start Screen as much as I can with a couple third party apps and I think it looks nice. I don't regard the Start Screen as a touch GUI for my desktop, I think it's more like a backstage view of the Desktop.

Personally, I can't wait for a further expansion of metro design. It's everything every software designer would love to see: clean, easy to read, and vibrant.

But, since Windows 8 is about HUGE changes, I wonder if the lock screen a user chooses can become the boot screen background since honestly, most desktop users won't really lock their PCs unlike mobile users. If the lock screen with all the notifications, maybe, along with a boot animation, I think it'd look nice.

I'm sure you are correct in your statements as you have been using it since September. I agree with you that I really don't want to change. I guess after using Windows since the beginning and Metro screen is too modern of a change. I'm sure I'll come around after I see more what it does.

The one thing that I noticed was that it installed so quickly and flawlessly.
Coke Robot please tell us more of the advantages you see.
Thanks

Looks like a big cell phone but with more finger prints from all the touching and poking. I would like to see how it works with mouse and keyboard. The on screen keyboard is for one finger poking at a time. How in the heck would one type like I'm doing now? Touch screen on a P/C is as useless as nipples on a sidewalk.