What's your path to Windows 8?
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I have all ready shifted my PC and my laptop to Win 8 pro, full fresh installs. (through MSDN subs). I have got over the initial, "where have they shifted that" and "the start screen arrangement/lack of start button is p!sh" and finding windows 8 quite a pleasant experience. It does still come a cross as a bit of a step back in terms of graphics being more plain. But you soon get used to the adaptive themes etc.
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Hi Dave, I've got a genuine question which you might be able to answer for me. I'm still trying to spot something that is a genuine reason for me to upgrade. You have clearly got used to the things that trouble a newbie to the OS. I'm intrigued to know what would you really miss about Windows 8 if you had to go back to Windows 7? Thanks very much, Andy
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Hi Dave, I've got a genuine question which you might be able to answer for me. I'm still trying to spot something that is a genuine reason for me to upgrade. You have clearly got used to the things that trouble a newbie to the OS. I'm intrigued to know what would you really miss about Windows 8 if you had to go back to Windows 7? Thanks very much, Andy
There are some core changes that I really do like. For example; 1) Using a microsoft account to syncronise machine settings and as login mechanism. 2) Multiple file copy/transfers; If you start different copy/move operations, these get stacked up into a window, and you can pause/restart operations each operation has nice visuals on transfer rates etc. 3) Task manager is a lot better. Having more resource graphs etc without having to open up the resource monitor is good. I was thinking that fonts etc were all too big in the likes of visual studios code views, but only noticed this morning that in the personalisation settings these were set to Medium-125%, changed them to Smaller-100% and everything is much better. I have no intention of going back!
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Hi Dave, I've got a genuine question which you might be able to answer for me. I'm still trying to spot something that is a genuine reason for me to upgrade. You have clearly got used to the things that trouble a newbie to the OS. I'm intrigued to know what would you really miss about Windows 8 if you had to go back to Windows 7? Thanks very much, Andy
I upgraded my main machine at home, and if I went back to W7 the thing I would miss the most is the performance. It was a noticeable improvement. I'm also really liking the new start screen and some of the apps that go along with it. I don't use IE, the Chrome experience is much better as it allows plugins (AdBlock) and keeps my tabs and bookmarks visible.
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I was just reviewing the pricing options for Win8 and was wondering, for those planning to install Win8, are you upgrading or going with the System Builder option? I prefer to do clean installs over upgrades, but need to keep a 32 bit environment for testing...maybe not at that price! The 64 bit System Builder option is reasonable though at 99 usd.
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Hi Dave, I've got a genuine question which you might be able to answer for me. I'm still trying to spot something that is a genuine reason for me to upgrade. You have clearly got used to the things that trouble a newbie to the OS. I'm intrigued to know what would you really miss about Windows 8 if you had to go back to Windows 7? Thanks very much, Andy
Client Hyper-V Windows to Go Now that I know how to use it, I would actually miss the start screen. Integrated search - at the start screen, you just type. Results are sorted into files, apps, and settings. Bitchin'. File History - configurable, keeps track of versions and content. Bitchin' Storage Spaces - useful, create storage group from every old drive you have laying around
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:) Wonder if anyone else will get the reference.
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There are some core changes that I really do like. For example; 1) Using a microsoft account to syncronise machine settings and as login mechanism. 2) Multiple file copy/transfers; If you start different copy/move operations, these get stacked up into a window, and you can pause/restart operations each operation has nice visuals on transfer rates etc. 3) Task manager is a lot better. Having more resource graphs etc without having to open up the resource monitor is good. I was thinking that fonts etc were all too big in the likes of visual studios code views, but only noticed this morning that in the personalisation settings these were set to Medium-125%, changed them to Smaller-100% and everything is much better. I have no intention of going back!
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I was just reviewing the pricing options for Win8 and was wondering, for those planning to install Win8, are you upgrading or going with the System Builder option? I prefer to do clean installs over upgrades, but need to keep a 32 bit environment for testing...maybe not at that price! The 64 bit System Builder option is reasonable though at 99 usd.
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
Stick to Kubuntu. I read all comments so far, and the only two mentioned improvements are performance and asynchronous file system operations for lengthy stuff. I had both of these for years already on Kubuntu - without a loss of eye candy. What I was hoping for is the market to behave like a package manager for Windows, and provide easy installation for all the popular free source packages out there, but that's unlikely given the developer fee. (You can't expect that someone would pay to be able to provide you with the results of his unpaid work.)
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I was just reviewing the pricing options for Win8 and was wondering, for those planning to install Win8, are you upgrading or going with the System Builder option? I prefer to do clean installs over upgrades, but need to keep a 32 bit environment for testing...maybe not at that price! The 64 bit System Builder option is reasonable though at 99 usd.
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
Having tried W8 Beta, I have decided that my path to Windows NINE is via openSuSe and/or Ubuntu!
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I was just reviewing the pricing options for Win8 and was wondering, for those planning to install Win8, are you upgrading or going with the System Builder option? I prefer to do clean installs over upgrades, but need to keep a 32 bit environment for testing...maybe not at that price! The 64 bit System Builder option is reasonable though at 99 usd.
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
None right now. I'm going to sit this one out. After playing with it for a year I see no reason to upgrade any of my production systems to it.
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I was just reviewing the pricing options for Win8 and was wondering, for those planning to install Win8, are you upgrading or going with the System Builder option? I prefer to do clean installs over upgrades, but need to keep a 32 bit environment for testing...maybe not at that price! The 64 bit System Builder option is reasonable though at 99 usd.
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
I've walked the path. :) I prefer upgrades as some of the drivers of my computer do not install properly once i'm on Windows 8 (damn Dell), any way i've already made a clean installation and like it so far.
CEO at: - Rafaga Systems - Para Facturas - Modern Components for the moment...
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None right now. I'm going to sit this one out. After playing with it for a year I see no reason to upgrade any of my production systems to it.
Same here on the production systems...but soon I am sure to have customers getting it with new hardware. I have already thoroughly tested our applications on the RP, so I'm not worried about that aspect. Still, I have to prepare for the unknown and become proficient in whatever version of Windows customers are likely to be using.
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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Same here on the production systems...but soon I am sure to have customers getting it with new hardware. I have already thoroughly tested our applications on the RP, so I'm not worried about that aspect. Still, I have to prepare for the unknown and become proficient in whatever version of Windows customers are likely to be using.
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
kmoorevs wrote:
Still, I have to prepare for the unknown and become proficient in whatever version of Windows customers are likely to be using.
That's the trick, deciding what they are "likely" to be using. Offhand, to me, sticking with desktop development seems a safe bet. It will have the largest audience. Desktop S/W will run on everything from XP to Win8. I'd say that's a pretty good audience. It also depends on what type of application you're writing. If it's got to have a highly complex GUI, would the touch-based (Metro) be a good target for it? Maybe not. This is going to be a weird one to watch.
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I was just reviewing the pricing options for Win8 and was wondering, for those planning to install Win8, are you upgrading or going with the System Builder option? I prefer to do clean installs over upgrades, but need to keep a 32 bit environment for testing...maybe not at that price! The 64 bit System Builder option is reasonable though at 99 usd.
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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I will wait until the full version of the surface is out and buy it.
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