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Windows 8

  • Have it installed already

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ultimatebob said:
You're missing the obvious "I'll get it when it comes on my new computer" option. Most people never install an OS on their computer... they just use what's already there.

Hell, many of them never even bother uninstalling the bloatware.
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This is AT though ... those kind of bloatware users aren't here 😀
 
alfa147x said:
Seems like the mods are letting more and more bullshit threads like this slide. Too busy I guess...

Wrong section.
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seems like apple fags cant stay in their own section.


Note: see PM about this infraction of the rules here.
 
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i have it running on vmware and all i can say is wow. they are going for the gold with this release. its a very bold move and i really think it will pay off in the long run. i am not crazy about all the changes, but i have found many things that i look forward to having on my desktop when it get released next year. i am not all that crazy that the start menu doesn't exist any more though....
 
i made my DVD this morning, but haven't got the guts of the computer assembled yet

also, for those with MSDN, Windows SERVER 8 preview is available today
 
Windows? Is that anything like Debian? :^D

If I don't get a copy free, I'll download a copy to get familiar with it for support purposes, but I use Linux pretty much exclusively.
 
phreaqe said:
i have it running on vmware and all i can say is wow. they are going for the gold with this release. its a very bold move and i really think it will pay off in the long run. i am not crazy about all the changes, but i have found many things that i look forward to having on my desktop when it get released next year. i am not all that crazy that the start menu doesn't exist any more though....
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Your words provide contradicting information.

Please provide clarification ...
 
When it comes out if I am still with MS. I am a sucker for new OS's, I even had ME and Vista. Considering giving MacOS a shot with my next notebook. We'll see in a year or so.
 
Spikesoldier said:
I knew you would get mad after getting your ego kicked in.

Btw, that rig is a secondary rig in sig. It will still kick the Shit out of all your macs, despite being put together out of all spare parts.
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Oh yeah?!? I'm calling bullshit. There is no computer faster than a Mac Pro!
 
Microsoft is going big with Win8 and they deserve a lot of credit for that. If they can pull off a UI that uses touch, voice, mouse, keyboard, or kinect (?) all effectively, then they will have pulled off a massive accomplishment. I think it's a good sign that they've seen touch and lower end devices like tablets are going to be a big part of the computing landscape.
 
Fritzo said:
I'm actually pretty psyched about it. It runs on 1GB of RAM, can run on ARM processors, and Balmer hired coders that were under 60 years old to build it.
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Now that is just not nice, but an lol. I worked with many of those guys in the NT Base Group, for about ten years, and it is very hard to get new NT Kernel devs. Especially when NT was those guys baby from the get go. Now if you are talking about the UI group, that is a different story. You want those crusty old guys owning the kernel, the more robust it is, the more can run on top of it.

I will run W8 when it RTM's, I have done more than my fair share of running dev builds. Hell, I remember installing the new builds of W2K, XP, Vista, the week after we RTM'ed. Not much time to run the fruits of your labor so to speak, although usually everyone did on their laptop for corpnet access reasons.
 
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Theb said:
Another one already? Am I getting old or is the release cycle speeding up? It seems like I used XP forever.
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You're just stuck a small way into the past, but not that far.
Rather than being stuck in the past where there was a 3 year release cycle, you're stuck in the past with the gap from XP to Vista.
We're now back to the 3 year release cycle of the 90s, so there's nothing odd about it, and it's not speeding up, it's just at the same rate it's been for almost 20 years, excluding XP to Vista (and ignoring Win ME as a horrible abortion which never existed).
 
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