"Windows 8 Survey: Half Who Have Tried the OS Wouldn't Recommend It"

my first impressions aren't favourable. metro + mickey = fail

maybe it's just neophobic inertia, i'll give it another few days, it might grow on me...

i loved my first experience with 7 RC, and knew straight away that it was the OS for me. i'm not feeling that at all with 8 - yet, at any rate...

i'm sure it's a very competent OS, but personally (and i'm certainly not the only one!) so far usability is hampered by the revolutionary UI - or should I say the mix of two disparate UIs?

will microsoft listen to all us old dinosaurs and give us an option to bring our start-button and menu back??

(has anybody called it windows hate yet? )

After the novelty value wore off, I found too many things I did not like and have gone back to Windows 7!

mickey megabyte said:

my first impressions aren't favourable. metro + mickey = fail

maybe it's just neophobic inertia, i'll give it another few days, it might grow on me...

i loved my first experience with 7 RC, and knew straight away that it was the OS for me. i'm not feeling that at all with 8 - yet, at any rate...

i'm sure it's a very competent OS, but personally (and i'm certainly not the only one!) so far usability is hampered by the revolutionary UI - or should I say the mix of two disparate UIs?

will microsoft listen to all us old dinosaurs and give us an option to bring our start-button and menu back??

(has anybody called it windows hate yet? )

Don't know about Windows Hate, but could it indeed be curtains for Windows?

hello... is there any tutorial in this website on how to use easybcd to reset boot?

I just fired it up, selected "Edit Boot Menu", deleted the entry for Win8 consumer preview, ticked the box "skip boot menu", saved it all and that did it. I then deleted the partition on which I had been dual booting Win8.

I don't know if that was the correct way to use it, but it worked

I ask if anyone has run Win8 on a TouchPad and gregrocker commented that a table is what Win8 is made for...

Found the answer (for now) - no, it does not run on most tablets yet as MS hasn't released an ARM chip version yet.

Regards,
GEWB

Hello gregrocker -

A quick search turned up over a dozen references...boiled down to this:

• HP and other manufacturers are playing with Win8 on their tablets
• Microsoft has not released an ARM version to the public for testing

You are correct that Win8 appears to be targeted at the tablet market. As of a week ago I could not find a public release to test. If you know where I can download an ARM version of Win8 I'll give it a try.

Regards,
GEWB