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NeilWest wrote:

Zeusking19 wrote:

NeilWest wrote:

Why is it that every new OS has a non-creative name? How about Windows Platinum? Or Windows Pulse?

Oneiric Ocelot :p

Or Windows The-Same-Thing-For-Ten-Years-Then-Jack-Up-The-Price-With-A-New-OS-Which-Has-Just-One-New-Feature-And-A-Boring-Un-Original-Name-Like-Windows-8

But, like, the other OSes have names you feel stupid saying.

illusionist wrote:

It will fail.

Windows 7 gave everyone a reason to dump XP, and was hugely successful.

2 years later, you are telling people to switch again? Not gonna happen.

I agree.
I sure hope Microsoft decides to keep W8 on tablets...

Okay, I'm not liking it at all.

1) It looks nothing like Windows
2) IE will be the only browser that is allowed fast Javascript
3) You need an API to make programs! Come on, I like making standalone excutables!

Source

BirdByte wrote:

GameHutSoftware wrote:

1) It looks nothing like Windows
2) IE will be the only browser that is allowed fast Javascript
3) You need an API to make programs! Come on, I like making standalone excutables!

D:

I think 1 is a good thing, though.

Well, the whole point of Windows is familiarity. I could go back and use Windows 1.0 because I know how to use 7.

I think it already came out.

maxamillion321 wrote:

CylonToast wrote:

I found this on Youtube 

http://www.scratch.mit.edu/ext/youtube/?v=_3UoH-HgajY

That video was a lie. It was windows 7.

No. really?

If I get a new computer, I AM GETTING WINDOWS 7.

OR SOMETHING ELSE.

AS LONG AS IT'S NOT 8.

Cardigan wrote:

veggieman001 wrote:

maxamillion321 wrote:

I think it already came out.

No, it didn't. There's a release preview available on Microsoft's site, however.

It's not even worth the download, isn't it?

-Terrible multitasking
-Reduced performance of browsers outside of Internet Explorer
-Designed SPECIFICALLY for mobile devices..

F-/5, people. Not worth it.

It's totally worth it. Number 2 isn't even true, number 1 is subjective (I don't think so), and number 3 is sorta true but I haven't even really used the Metro screen much. And I think it's nice to have a Windows computer in a VM for testing and it's free.

Last edited by veggieman001 (2012-08-28 20:45:38)

Yea, I downloaded it because it's the only way to use Windows legally, and for free. It can come in useful at times, though I would never use it everyday 

funelephant wrote:

jji7skyline wrote:

Yea, I downloaded it because it's the only way to use Windows legally, and for free. It can come in useful at times, though I would never use it everyday 

What would you rate it out of 10?

It's hard to give it a real summary, but I have tried quite a few OSs over the past few years, so I'll try and give it a fair review 

9/10 for originality. I find it pleasantly surprising that Microsoft was actually able to make an OS that could be used on a desktop just as easily on a tablet. Though it's not very usable on either... as I will explain in the next paragraph.

3/10 for usability. On a desktop, the metro interface (though Microsoft don't call it that anymore, they call it the Windows 8 interface) is really annoying and anti-productive. Full screen apps are also a real waste of the perfectly good screen, mouse and keyboard available on desktops as opposed to tablets, where full-screen apps are fine. For tablets though, full screen apps are great, well designed, and there are a variety of gestures, that might take a while to get used to, but I can see their potential. The problem though, is the desktop. Eventually, the tablet user is going to have use the desktop for some apps. Therefore, Windows 8 is going to be most usable on hybrids like the Surface. On tablets and desktop/laptops, it gets a 3/10. It's like what they say — a jack of all trades, a master of none.

GameHutSoftware wrote:

veggieman001 wrote:

Cardigan wrote:

It's not even worth the download, isn't it?

-Terrible multitasking
-Reduced performance of browsers outside of Internet Explorer
-Designed SPECIFICALLY for mobile devices..

F-/5, people. Not worth it.

It's totally worth it. Number 2 isn't even true, number 1 is subjective (I don't think so), and number 3 is sorta true but I haven't even really used the Metro screen much. And I think it's nice to have a Windows computer in a VM for testing and it's free.

Number 2 is true. http://www.freelists.org/post/luajit/FY … -8-for-ARM

If you were to read that, it specifically says it's only on ARM. I was saying the blanket statement wasn't true, because it isn't. See my previous post.

The Windows on ARM thing bothers me, because only apps compiled for ARM will work on it. Why don't Microsoft include an emulator or something? That's what Apple did when they switched to x86 from PPC 

EDIT: Outposted by Steve 

And no, almost everybody hates it 

Last edited by jji7skyline (2012-08-28 23:36:55)