How many people on these forums have tried W8 !!! (I love W7 too)

[jimbo45]

Hi ALL

Just Curious in whether a lot of the W7 community have tried W8 at all.

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I really like W7 but I've also been incredibly surprised at how stable and fast W8 is too -- It's primarily based on W7 but it is a bit different.

To me it's amazing that W7 has evolved into something that could be used as a competitor to Android on mobile devices / tablets while still retaining features that are still needed on a PC using a "Classical OS".

Ms is going down the right road imo.

Cheers
jimbo

 

[boohbah]

i have it ,but i dont use it often, as win 7 does everything i need it to. i dont like the explorer ribbon, i like a context menu, the fact you have to select a tab to see which parts of the ribbon features you see is annoying ,rather than a context menu that has it all in one long list.

not keen on the metro start page. not a lot of point unless you have a touch screen. i dont.

however it is nice having a new system to play with occasionally, but im sticking with lucky number 7.

 

[pparks1]

Installed it on a laptop at work. Hate the metro interface.

 

[sgage]

Installed it on a laptop at work. Hate the metro interface.

Same here. I don't care what they want to put in Windows Phone, but my computer is not a phone.

The trend industry-wide seems to be to put the phone interface on desktop computers. IMHO, this is idiotic. I will not be rushing to Windows 8.

 

[alphanumeric]

I tend to agree with the above, I don't like the metro interface. Not on a PC with no touch screen anyway. I ran it on a laptop for a couple of days and found it an exercise in frustration. I'm posting this from that same laptop now running Windows 7. Windows 8 is only an early alpha build so a lot could change between now and RTM, or even the beta release. I'll probably give the beta release a look see when it comes out. Until then though Windows 7 suits me just fine.

 

[ashimashi]

I have an account there but never really posted there before.

 

[noobvious]

At this point I have zero interest in Windows 8.

 

[strollin]

I installed the Win 8 preview the first day it was available. I find the new Metro GUI interesting but also realize that the final product my be very different.

 

[Kari]

Installed it on a laptop at work. Hate the metro interface.

I hate Metro from the bottom of my heart. Nuff said

 

[essenbe]

I downloaded and installed it as soon as it came out. As far as the Metro, if I wanted an iphone, I would buy one. It may be great for some but not for me. After getting rid of that, I think it is good. Much like windows 7 but a little different and faster. Although i Have not used it that much, I am rather fond of it and find it quite usable. While this is just a developer preview, I think this is a good start and a good base to build on. That's my opinion.

 

[Spice]

Metro UI is not that good, especially when you don't have a touch screen. Like essenbe said, it runs very smooth and is very stable for a beta release. One thing to note, Ribbon UI has made its way to everything including windows explorer. That said, I think they will lose a significant chunk of the business market because of the UI changes.

 

[Sprockett]

I installed it on an extra machine I use as a test bed so I haven't used it for any real work, just for playing around. I have to agree with the other posts here; the ribbon seems like a step backwards and I can't see how it would ever make things more efficient. The start interface could be a step in the right direction for a mobile device, but it's just eye candy that seems to get in the way on a non-touchscreen desktop.

I make a living creating audio media on my machines, and the thought of doing real work in the environment I have seen so far makes me sick to my stomach. I've decided to stop thinking about it. Put me down as another user sticking with 7 for a while longer.

 

[davehc]

Installed but soon removed the Metro interface. I use the standard desktop, with the standard (Windows 7), menu. It is identical to Windows 7 in all functions. Why bother? Well, there is a slightly improved performance issue all round, which is worth experimenting with. I use the OS a good deal, and have installed a lot of my software without problems. I will probably keep it running until, at least, the Beta pops up, as a dual boot..

 

[Jerryw]

Windows 8 just wate untill the RTM comes out it will = Windows ME

 

[unifex]

I have not installed the preview myself for Windows 7 does everything I want it to do. However, there are a couple of issues with Windows 7 that the next system can improve. Mostly that's the file transfer speeds and the annoying "discovering items" situation. The folks at the Windows 8 Forums (well, same people as here, basically ), tell me that it's a bit faster. I think I will give the beta a try. However, if it does not perform faster than Windows 7 does, I will not be upgrading. The UI is not the point of the OS, imho. The performance is.

 

[pparks1]

Clearly it's early, but it just seems like Microsoft took the regular desktop...then took a touch centric UI design (Metro) and just forced them together. In it's present incarnation, it just doesn't feel integrated, but rather clunky and awkward. The fact that I cannot seem to find any way to actually shut down a running application that I launched from the Metro GUI is just frustrating. For example, everytime I hit "Ink Pad", it just brings up what it suspended from before. I DO NOT NEED all running apps suspended until next use. I want to close them, stop them, put them away, not let them consume any type of resources...albeit very small amounts. And the fact that I cannot actually get multiple applications running on the same desktop and sized "the way I want", not however metro feels it should be done is just aggravating.

If Windows 8 looks anything like it does today at release, I won't feel any reason whatsoever to move to it. And I haven't taken the time to open an 8 forums account either because I have next to no interest to even talk about this new OS. A thread like this, here or there, is really all I can take.