Unofficial Tex Murphy

downloaded the developers preview for win 8, full working os . pretty cool & fast.
has an desktop interface touch screen but works okay with a keyboard & mouse.

pretty cool feature that you can setup a picture & click on parts of the picture which becomes your password.

the link below is the video.
http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/BUILD/B ... 1/KEY-0001

I am so behind. I'm just coming to terms with Windows 7. I suppose I need to be less of a Luddite.

I'm curious to see how it works but will probably just want until the cleaned up production release comes out to try it. Right now I'm enjoying Win 7.

I still haven't gotten around to installing 7 yet......


I never have any time =(

well they claim that more people are using win 7 that ever used xp something like a few hundred thousand more. The memory win 8 uses is 250mb against win 7 500mb but after service pack 1 they got it down to 100mb less.

I think the face book people will love it as all their pictures of their contacts will show on the screen, its been designed that all the apps will run from within windows .

However they intend to block in the registry dual booting into another OS other than windows which would be legal issues for microsoft. Antivirus is to be included in win 8 which I think will also upset a lot of companies.

They've just started to really sharpen up Windows 7 quite considerably over the last 6 months. I'd sooner they put their development teams into maintaining that for now. I've got the 64-Bit Professional edition and it runs like a dream. Why would I consider Windows 8 this early? It's almost becoming like Apple where they have a new model every year. I wouldn't be surprised if Windows one day does that.

yes joel you are right, I use win 7 ultimate 64 bit & on my I7 is runs beautiful.
In the microsoft video they claim have have added 1500 improvements to w7 not including the service pack to make windows 7 run better & to fix things that didn't work.

I only tried it on my external sata drive as you can run 2 apps side by side & I was interested to see if it worked for excel & myob , under a working enviroment but haven't worked that out as yet.

it has iso mounted sotware included so its just a matter of right click mount, which is really cool.
the windows security essentials has been included into windows defender.

i must say i really like some of the things win7 has brought to the table but disslike some others.. the fact that some of my favorit games dont run on it is really strange, even bought a game on steam that i thought would work dident.

with the jumping from OS to OS thers allways a 2-1-2-1-2 witch means win 95 and win 98 was at the time good OS's but then millenium came and it crashed and burned, then 2k and XP witch was good, then came vista witch was crap, now we have to good ones but when a game or a OS is in alpha or beta they'r really unstable with lots of bugs.. thats why you can download them to be free testers.

It's amazing how often they change it these days - weren't vista and 7 properly ready??

I know mac has had many variations of OS X, but the upgrades are far cheaper than windows - £20 for Lion compared to I imagine £80 for Windows 7 upgrade.

Vista actually needed to go. Frankly, that operating system should have been what Windows 7 is now. It seems as though Microsoft spend more time promoting and releasing their products ahead of testing them. For this reason a Microsoft Operating System these never completes its development cycle because of all the updates and service packs that are required to maintain it. Gosh I miss the 1990s.

since we had xp for so long before vista I really can't understand why there didn't get it right with vista as they had years to perfect it. They put out beta win 7 & then the RM to the public which was a good thing so not to have egg on their face with another OS gone wrong.

I still have a couple of games that run on w7 but half through the game they crash & won't go any further so I have mainly all my games under xp & have a dual boot setup.

The only games I still have on w7 are my steam games.

Win 8 is a developers preview & not beta as yet, although half a million have downloaded so far.

100% not getting this. The UI changes are going to be a huge problem for me since I operate on a tablet display that microsoft doesn't cater for. I'm better off not upgrading I feel.

There's no advantage to this OS for gaming either since we've only just hit DX11, with DX12 a good 2-3 years away (by then another Windows will probably be out). So yeah I have no reason to upgrade. I enjoy Windows 7 as is.

well win 8 is actually designed for a tablet with touch screen, still works with a mouse & keyboard desktop

ps don't you know that microsoft thinks no-one plays games on a pc

well win 8 is actually designed for a tablet with touch screen, still works with a mouse & keyboard desktop

I use a Wacom Cintiq, Windows 7 and Vista were really bad compatibility wise and caused a lot of issues in general with core windows tablet pc features interfering with Photoshop ect. It was difficult to disable them all, and even still they occasionally pop back up due to windows updates.

Now that 90% of the OS is tablet based, it will no doubt interfere even more so, the Cintiq is not designed to be a tablet PC nor is it designed for Tablet functionality, it is purely designed for commercial grade art programs only-- Microsoft however stupidly identifies it as a tablet PC which is causing the issues I've been having. Windows XP doesn't have this problem because it has no Tablet PC support.

looks like you will be sticking with xp then, win 8 was designed to be easier but I think most people will be struggling with it. A lot people want to get rid of the tile interface already.
I have tweaked a bit to make it run easier but I think microsft needs to do a lot of work on it before the average user will want to install it.