24 hours with Windows 8

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    24 hours with Windows 8


    Posted: 18 Jun 2012



  1. Posts : 446
    windows 7 Pro 64Bit
       #1

    Sounds like the title of a Stephen King horror novel.
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  2. Posts : 1,491
    Win7 Pro-64 Bit
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    nitroman84 said:
    Sounds like the title of a Stephen King horror novel.
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  3. Posts : 12,177
    Windows 7 Ult x64 - SP1/ Windows 8 Pro x64
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    I thought that was a good review, thanks.
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  4. Posts : 3,168
    Windows 10 64bit
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    Liked the article and brought out some good points.Thanks for sharing it with us.
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  5. Posts : 279
    Windows 7 Home Premium x64
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    "Once installed you need to give the usual location details and LOGIN with a Windows Live account."

    Is this a paradigm shift for Operating System accounts? Or did the author mean something else?


    I also wonder how software developers will upgrade/update their interfaces that will satisfy the Windows 8 requirements and still function for Windows 7 users.
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  6. Posts : 7,878
    Windows 7 Ultimate x64
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    ^ You can create a local account like normal. You do not have to sign in with a Windows Live account.

    I generally tend to agree with most of the article. It's going to take time to get used to things, and it's going to appear to be 2 different interfaces for quite some time for most people.

    I've forced myself to start using it day to day on a secondary desktop at work and it's getting easier as I learn my way around. I'm not planning yet to upgrade anything at home (or at work for that matter), but I'm not finding Windows 8 to be the most awful thing in the world any longer.
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  7. Posts : 2,292
    Windows 7 Home Premium x64
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    This is perhaps because we've seen the rough side of Metro, the beginning of its creation where everything just looked square, two-colored and boring. The more I watch it around the internet the more appealing it gets, but I think I'm still ways from actually trying it out.

    Though I like giving second chances (first being the Developer Preview).
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  8. Posts : 5,941
    Linux CENTOS 7 / various Windows OS'es and servers
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    Hi there
    what Metro MUST have is the ability to display multiple CONCURRENT WINDOWS.
    Without that -- as a workplace OS FORGET IT --Dead in the water.

    For home users just surfing the Internet / reading emails / loggong on to places like facebook or watching movies / dvd's --fine but try to do any serious work like translating documents, comparing spreadsheets etc ONLY USING METRO --then it's all over.

    This won't fly in a workplace --100% given.

    Cheers
    jimbo
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  9. whs
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    Vista, Windows7, Mint Mate, Zorin, Windows 8
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