Windows 8 Developer Preview is up

[Phlakes]

And you can download it right here. [http://windows8beta.com/2011/09/download-now-windows-8-developer-preview]

I know a couple people who have already tried (I'm in the middle of downloading, it's 3.6 gigs and my internet sucks balls), and most of them say it's best for tablets, and that if it's not optimized better, people like us should just stick with 7 or XP. What? Vista? I don't know what you're talking about.

 

[Redlin5_v1legacy]

I already made my mind up on this one back when they were showing the videos of it. Unless its faster than Windows 7 and has the same interface, I don't want it. I'm quite content to stick with this.

 

[Hummmy]

Yeah, I'm quite happy with Windows 7 for now.
Hasn't missed a beat so far. Why change unless they've actually made an improvement?

 

[Aurgelmir]

And you can download it right here. [http://windows8beta.com/2011/09/download-now-windows-8-developer-preview]

I know a couple people who have already tried (I'm in the middle of downloading, it's 3.6 gigs and my internet sucks balls), and most of them say it's best for tablets, and that if it's not optimized better, people like us should just stick with 7 or XP. What? Vista? I don't know what you're talking about.

Considering history show that in the past few Windows versions every second suck. So I'll stick to 7 for now.

 

[ZiggyE]

If Windows 8 can run xbox 360 games like the rumours suggest, I'll get it.

 

[trollnystan]

If Windows 8 can run xbox 360 games like the rumours suggest, I'll get it.

IF this is true, I'd get it. Somehow. Although I'd probably install it on a partition or something.

 

[ZiggyE]

If Windows 8 can run xbox 360 games like the rumours suggest, I'll get it.

IF this is true, I'd get it. Somehow. Although I'd probably install it on a partition or something.

Definitely. I don't see why Microsoft thought it would be a good idea to optimise Windows 8 for touch screens.

 

[SnowyGamester]

I've looked at it, and while some of the interface tweeks I've seen look promising, the whole separate interface thing aimed at touch devices looks horrid (I'd prefer the default interface over that...it's just cluttered with stuff I'd never use by the looks, and the normal interface works fine for touch). I think my tablet (and everything else) will be staying with 7 for a while still.

 

[Doom-Slayer]

Hahaha...MS is totally clueless right now. Windows 8..so its a desktop AND tablet OS. Based on how system intensive Windows 7 is, are they planning on running their tablets on moon dust? And why tablets for gods sake, they are only beginning to be popular and barely anybody has them right now. On top of that, tablets are no where near as powerful, and only really niche appeal. They are good for surfing the web and maybe word processing, good luck playing games or using Photoshop or anything complicated on them with no physical keyboard or mouse. Stupid idea.

 

[devotedsniper]

Guess i'll begin the download but i don't hold much hope for it, i don't like the whole tab icon gui thing you see on all the screenshots. I just pray i can run 360 games on the finished version (considering i still have some 360 games from when i got rid of it), i know it's a rumor and probably won't happen but it would be awesome.

 

[tharglet]

With a lot of the more mainstream OSes jumping on the tablet interface bandwagon as of late, I can't see myself changing much any time soon.
They just do NOT work well for mouse-based systems, and it's really annoying a lot of desktop-orientated interfaces are going the tablet route without forkin'

 

[Low Key]

I already made my mind up on this one back when they were showing the videos of it. Unless its faster than Windows 7 and has the same interface, I don't want it. I'm quite content to stick with this.

Yeah, I'm quite happy with Windows 7 for now.
Hasn't missed a beat so far. Why change unless they've actually made an improvement?

And you can download it right here. [http://windows8beta.com/2011/09/download-now-windows-8-developer-preview]

I know a couple people who have already tried (I'm in the middle of downloading, it's 3.6 gigs and my internet sucks balls), and most of them say it's best for tablets, and that if it's not optimized better, people like us should just stick with 7 or XP. What? Vista? I don't know what you're talking about.

Considering history show that in the past few Windows versions every second suck. So I'll stick to 7 for now.

If Windows 8 can run xbox 360 games like the rumours suggest, I'll get it.

IF this is true, I'd get it. Somehow. Although I'd probably install it on a partition or something.

Just install it on a virtual machine. Far less hassle than partitioning your drive or doing a clean install, especially if you don't like it once you've tried it.

 

[glyn]

Yeah, I'm quite happy with Windows 7 for now.
Hasn't missed a beat so far. Why change unless they've actually made an improvement?

Whether the W7 interface is an improvement over XP's is debatable especially as it's just XP with blurry edges and a buggered explorer and search.

Only watched the videos for the new interface and while it doesn't look that great, at least they're trying something new (to them) that isn't Windows 95 with a few bells and whistles.

 

[Insideout Ink Demon]

is it free?
if it's free I'll give it a go on a spare hdd

 

[Low Key]

is it free?
if it's free I'll give it a go on a spare hdd

Yes it's free. And just put it on a virtual machine like Virtualbox. You don't have to buy a separate hard drive.

 

[viranimus]

Honestly. I do not comprehend why Windows keeps trying to cram this notion down our throat. Seriously this reminds me of Windows media center and that is not really a good thing. Its ugly, its counter intuitive and its essentially trying to force the user into accepting the dumbing down of the OS so they can take more control over it. (yes, they realize it was a mistake to give people too many tools)

Its my understanding you can avoid the "Iwannabelikeapple" start screen interface but once you remove that... its essentially just windows 7 anyway. So what is the point to upgrade the OS from one that is not even 2 years old yet?

I mean really we should NOT be seeing this for another 2 years because it simply unneeded.

Honestly theres no real logically sound reason to upgrade an operating system any sooner than twice a decade. Thats what they make service packs, and patches for.

EDIT: With mentions of "certify" as well as "From chipset to ...." It really puts me in mind of there being a massive hardware architecture overhaul that A is not really needed and B is going to result with hardware/software conflicts like that of migrating from win 95 to 98 or XP to vista. Really... not good.

 

[Insideout Ink Demon]

is it free?
if it's free I'll give it a go on a spare hdd

Yes it's free. And just put it on a virtual machine like Virtualbox. You don't have to buy a separate hard drive.

I've got a small one in tower totally unused, so it's no biggie.
i was going to put Unbuntu on to it, but didnt bother

 

[devotedsniper]

Anyone got this running on a Virtual Machine? VMware i get some error, and microsoft virtual machine 07 (x64 edition) wont install x64 os's (how good is that lol). Looks like i'm going to have to partition my hard drive..

 

[viranimus]

Anyone got this running on a Virtual Machine? VMware i get some error, and microsoft virtual machine 07 (x64 edition) wont install x64 os's (how good is that lol). Looks like i'm going to have to partition my hard drive..

Honestly if your going to try to run it off of virtualization, I would try it in Virtual box, ( http://www.virtualbox.org/ ) because honestly my experience has been that anything tied directly to Microsoft and virtualization is not well conceived.


Other thought:
As for Win8 has anyone been able to identify what sort of limitations are present(outside of the whole OS being semi neutered) in the developer preview?