windows 8 pre alpha

It's really this Windows Midori?

dannykard said:

It's really this Windows Midori?

I'm sure any versions of Windows after Windows 7 will be a bit more advanced in the GUI department.

Oh this is random but does a 21" Touchscreen monitor exist? Can't seem to find one. >.> (checked tigerdirect and newegg)

coolzhunkie said:

hey, where did you get that wallpaper from, i kinda liked it.

Sorry this is not mine :s i took it from the web.

Someone knows when Windows 8 Pre Alpha will be available to download?

ppp said:

Are you sure that what killed Vista's "WOW" wasn't that it was a huge resource pig? I mean, its memory footprint at idle is 2x (or more) that of Windows XP or Windows 7.

I'm just sayin'.

What is everyones problem with an OS actually making use of the available memory. Do you understand what Superfetch was all about? What's cool about only having 2% of your 8 GB of RAM in use. You're already wasting power on the chips, why not use them? The biggest difference in Win7 is how efficient the DWM is. That's part of the WDDM 1.1 upgrade. Other than that Win 7 appropriates memory much like Vista does, especially after SP2.

ppp said:

Or maybe it was the millions of machines marketed as Vista machines that ran it without Aero?

Yea, 'cause reading Vista Basic (which was clearly marked and sold as NOT running Aero) is so hard. You want a $100 computer, you get a $100 computer.

ppp said:

Or maybe it was the back-room dealing with hardware vendors to phase out unprofitable parts by refusing any support for Vista? (Think Intel 915 GFX which worked in RC0, worked in RC1, and suddenly had no support in RC2 and the OS refused to acknowledge the RC0/RC1 drivers as valid!)

Intel writes the drivers, not MS. You have a problem with Intel's handling of that, write them a note. So, in response to my initial arguement, yes Drivers took out the WOW.

ppp said:

Or maybe it was the sleep mode which blue-screened virtually every laptop out there once in a while for no apparent reason?

Ran Vista on 7 different laptops at work, never had a sleep issue. In fact, sleep finally worked as advertised as XP could never handle it properly. The laptops were from 3 different vendors.

ppp said:

We could go on, if you like. Drivers didn't do in Vista. Vista was great until halfway through the RC process when it suddenly got terrible for no reason. Massive code branch changes made due to marketing decisions after code freeze... FTL!

(And before you criticise - I ran Vista x64 exclusively until Win7 got stable. But I'm the first to admit that I had to buy better hardware to make it workable!)

The only massive code change that occured was on the Audio side, and there was good reason for that. While i agree it should have never happened that late in the game. The fact that audio was the one component that had almost unfettered access to hardware made it a security issue, and the biggest mandate with this release was that it wouldn't be like XP in it's original release.

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