Windows 8 looks amazing...

[goldenchild9]

OS of the future.

 

[whyhellothere]

metro is 

with a mouse & keyboard tho.

@ no plugin support with Metro IE.

 

[nightruans]

i installed windows 8 on a pentium 4 the other day... its wack, its basically just mission control for windows.

 

[iheartboost]

That ++$$ looks gross

 

[servechilled81]

it looks like a Rainmeter Skin

 

[yngsimba.sneakershoebox]

Who the hell invented this?

 

[mp3911]

I'll stick with 7.

 

[goldenchild9]

Originally Posted by mp3911

I'll stick with 7.

It has 7 in it, the Metro skin is just for touch devices.
You can switch back to the regular 7 interface with a swipe.

 

[solegit08til]

Originally Posted by mp3911

I'll stick with 7.

i second this notion. I don't use windows media center now, why would i not want the option.

 

[whyhellothere]

Originally Posted by goldenchild9

Originally Posted by mp3911

I'll stick with 7.

It has 7 in it, the Metro skin is just for touch devices.
You can switch back to the regular 7 interface with a swipe.

Metro is also for desktops/laptops
& why would someone want to deal with the hassle of upgrading from 7 to 8 if they aren't even going to use metro? Sure the ribbon explorer & new task manager are nice but i'm not going to pay to upgrade for that alone. 

 

[goldenchild9]

Originally Posted by whyhellothere

Originally Posted by goldenchild9

Originally Posted by mp3911

I'll stick with 7.

It has 7 in it, the Metro skin is just for touch devices.
You can switch back to the regular 7 interface with a swipe.

Metro is also for desktops/laptops
& why would someone want to deal with the hassle of upgrading from 7 to 8 if they aren't even going to use metro? Sure the ribbon explorer & new task manager are nice but i'm not going to pay to upgrade for that alone. 

Its primarily for tablets and a lot of people in the tech world are excited about it because it will finally bring full PC/laptop functionality to tablets and other mobile devices.
Plus PCs are being phased into all in one touch screen devices, so this will be the first functional OS for touchscreen PCs/laptops.
 
Since it has full Windows 7 compatibility...all Windows 7 compatible programs will also be able to run on Windows 8 devices as long as they met the hardware requirements.

 

[goldenchild9]

[url=http://www.engadget.com/2011/09/13/windows-8-for-tablets-hands-on-preview/]http://www.engadget.com/2...ablets-hands-on-preview/[/url]

With the introduction of OS X Lion, Apple gave us a glimpse at what a post-PC operating system might look like, and now Microsoft's gone and pushed that idea to the limit. If Cupertino's latest was a tease, than Windows 8 is full frontal. And we have to admit, we like what we see. Sure this may not be the final build, or anywhere near it, but for whatever flaws it may have, the UI being offered in this developer preview is really something special. Time will tell if the "one ecosystem to rule them all" approach will catch on, but for now it's time to give props where props are due -- at least until we can get our hands on a final build.

 

[goldenchild9]

I know a lot of consumers are blinded by all things apple at the moment but this will change the way we use our electronic devices again.

1 OS for every piece of hardware you use.

Add in kinect motion functionality coming to PCs and baked into the next xbox and I can see Microsoft becoming the consumer electronics top dog again in the next 5 years or so.  

 

[whyhellothere]

For tablets Windows 8 looks good, but for desktops I'll either have to buy a touchscreen monitor or be suck using a mouse/keyboard. So I'll pass.

 

[goldenchild9]

Originally Posted by whyhellothere

For tablets Windows 8 looks good, but for desktops I'll either have to buy a touchscreen monitor or be suck using a mouse/keyboard. So I'll pass.

Its not meant as a upgrade for regular desktop users though.
Windows 7 just came out for that.

Windows 8 is for touch enabled devices.

 

[whyhellothere]

Originally Posted by goldenchild9

Originally Posted by whyhellothere

For tablets Windows 8 looks good, but for desktops I'll either have to buy a touchscreen monitor or be suck using a mouse/keyboard. So I'll pass.

Its not meant as a upgrade for regular desktop users though.
Windows 7 just came out for that.

Windows 8 is for touch enabled devices.

But they are pushing it as an upgrade. Isn't the whole idea suppose to be that you use the same UI on your tablet, desktop, and/or laptop? And knowing microsoft they'll make some programs Windows 8 only and try and bait regular desktop/laptop users into upgrading.

 

[zmoney3]

windows looks amazing??? LULZ not sure if srs

 

[dynamics82]

looks like xbox dash

 

[dyyhard]

the death of Windows imminent.

 

[yeah]

Originally Posted by dyyhard

the death of Windows imminent.

Haha! Microsoft, and it's Operating System, is not going anywhere for a very long time. Windows 98 and Windows Me are but two examples of the catastrophic failures that Microsoft has under it's belt, and they didn't do so much as to cripple the Microsoft Empire.

While I'm not particularly excited for Windows 8, a lot of people actually are. I can't blame them for wanting a PC with the EXACT SAME interface as their Windows Mobile phones.... different strokes for different folks. I'm pretty sure Windows 8 won't do as well as people expect it to. But it won't be bad. I just don't think Microsoft's customers will want to buy another OS... especially since over half of Windows users are still on XP,

 

[whyhellothere]

A tireless Steven Sinofsky, the man in charge of Windows 8, keeps posting information about Windows 8 by the slice.

[img]http://media.bestofmicro.com/windows8,G-B-319403-1.jpg[/img]

The latest piece details Microsoft's idea how to better protect your PC with passwords stored in the cloud as well as an infrastructure that will not lock you out when you either forget your password or someone else takes over your PC.

The solution is an approach with a password-manager-style credential manager which will enable users to store passwords for Windows in a similar way browsers do today. Just like IE10 will store account names and passwords for visited websites, Metro apps can use a direct API to store and retrieve credentials for that app. Windows 8 itself will support a sign-on via a Windows Live ID, which stores passwords in the cloud and synchronizes those passwords in an environment that is defined as "Trusted PCs" by the user.

While there may always be questions over the security of "the cloud," Microsoft said that Windows Live ID passwords can make your password management much more convenient. For example, if you forget your local password you may be out of luck and will have to start from scratch (or use a password cracking tool). The cloud approach, however, allows a user to reset a password from another PC. If your password has been stolen, you can recover your account access via secondary authentication data, such as a mobile phone number. Also, Microsoft said, users will be able to sign in to their Windows, as the software caches the your last “known good

 

[knightngale]

reminds me of the xbox live interface 

 

[Kobekobe]

i'll stick with osx

 

[freelythinkingmind]

apple>anything

 

[Grine]

CPU OS for Tablet...I am game. GREAT JOB WINDOWS.

Tell Apple to upgrade the OS for the iPad aka the big +@* iPod...