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Windows 8 Consumer Preview - Who's running it?

Mar 1, 2012 1:41 AM

I just installed this about an hour ago, so I'm not 100% sure how everything works, but it seems pretty sweet. I can definitely see how it'd work on tablets, would be very nice, comparable to Android. I'm running it on my laptop now as I was bored and figured I'd give it a shot.

The main, social, screen is super nice. I'm not a fan of the file explorer, and I miss the old start menu, but it's still pretty sweet. Screenshot of how it looks (HUB screen) below: (taken on my phone as I was too lazy to figure out how to screenshot, lol - I'm used to Fedora, not used to Windows)

Download the Consumer Preview here:
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-8/consumer-preview

Things I like so far:

1. App screen - even though there are only a few apps to choose from at the moment, it seems to work very well, and app installation was a breeze.

2. Messaging screen - FB and Live support, hope for more.

3. It's fast as hell after initial loading.

linuxtrance linuxtrance

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You can have my XP when you pry it from my cold, dead drive.

Good to hear windows might have got this one right, though.

okham okham
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The inbox/mail app/feature is so frickin sexy, I love it.

linuxtrance linuxtrance
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@okham: Glad I'm not alone in that sentiment. I never bothered with 7 either, xp works just fine and dandy.

tiamat114 tiamat114
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@tiamat114: XP is bulletproof, 7's a hog. BUT- neither has ever crashed on me, and memory is really cheap. There are some amazing graphics in 7that you'd never see in XP. Virtualizing an OS inside XP is clunky at best, much easier in 7.
That said, while I don't exactly embrace change, I've seen nothing in 8 that I really cared enough to look at twice. Looks way too much like the idiot MS phone interface, which all looks like Ubuntu Unity(which is why I left Ubuntu).

havocsback havocsback
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Love My win 7, if i had a spare pc i might test this,
those pics look like that god awful new xbox dash i can't stand.

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