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#2 2011-09-13 19:28:25
#3 2011-09-13 19:31:42
- maxskywalker
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Re: Windows 8 Developer Preview Will be out at 8 PT!
Win7 is great, but from what I know about Windows 8, it's got all the reasons I abandoned Macs, and no perks.
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#5 2011-09-13 20:45:11
- GravityCatisalie
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Re: Windows 8 Developer Preview Will be out at 8 PT!
I'm still using Windows 7.
Never found the need to click the 'update' button in the window that always pops up. I'm too used to 7.
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#6 2011-09-13 20:47:08
- meowmeow55
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Re: Windows 8 Developer Preview Will be out at 8 PT!
OH SNAP I NEED THAT NAO RAWR
Hopefully my comp can handle me putting it in a VM. 
And it's 3.6 GB too (at least the x64 version; the x86 version is only 2.8 GB)...yeah, I'm not DLing that on my crummy DSL
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Yawn.
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#7 2011-09-13 20:47:55
Re: Windows 8 Developer Preview Will be out at 8 PT!
GravityCatisalie wrote:
I'm still using Windows 7.
Never found the need to click the 'update' button in the window that always pops up. I'm too used to 7.
Erm, 7 is the latest version.
And you really should update Windows when updates are available. Some can be pretty important.
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#8 2011-09-13 20:49:11
- GravityCatisalie
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Re: Windows 8 Developer Preview Will be out at 8 PT!
Harakou wrote:
GravityCatisalie wrote:
I'm still using Windows 7.
Never found the need to click the 'update' button in the window that always pops up. I'm too used to 7.Erm, 7 is the latest version.
And you really should update Windows when updates are available. Some can be pretty important.
Oh wait -smacks head-
I mixed up Internet Explorer with Windows.
-smacks head again-
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#9 2011-09-13 20:57:46
Re: Windows 8 Developer Preview Will be out at 8 PT!
Woo
I know what my next VM will be c:
Pretty Hate Machine, Broken, Closer To God, The Downward Spiral, Further Down The Spiral, The Perfect Drug, The Fragile, And All That Could Have Been, With Teeth, Year Zero, Y34RZ3R0R3M1X3D, Ghosts I-IV, The Slip, Pretty Hate Machine 2010
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#10 2011-09-13 21:10:14
- jji7skyline
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Re: Windows 8 Developer Preview Will be out at 8 PT!
I'm going to install it on my Mac using VirtualBox 
Downloading now 
I have no idea what it's going to be like
I don't know why you say goodbye, I say hello!
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#11 2011-09-13 21:21:20
Re: Windows 8 Developer Preview Will be out at 8 PT!
GravityCatisalie wrote:
Harakou wrote:
GravityCatisalie wrote:
I'm still using Windows 7.
Never found the need to click the 'update' button in the window that always pops up. I'm too used to 7.Erm, 7 is the latest version.
And you really should update Windows when updates are available. Some can be pretty important.Oh wait -smacks head-
I mixed up Internet Explorer with Windows.
-smacks head again-
You're still using IE7? O_O I guess since XP users can't use IE9...
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#13 2011-09-13 21:55:26
- videogame9
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Re: Windows 8 Developer Preview Will be out at 8 PT!
8?
What the heck happened to original names?
QUOTE OF THE RIGHT NOW: why are we arguing about dead babies? -videogame9
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#14 2011-09-13 21:57:19
- agscratcher
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Re: Windows 8 Developer Preview Will be out at 8 PT!
Let's rename it Windows Black
After the new "Black Screen of Death." :p
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#15 2011-09-13 21:58:22
- meowmeow55
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Re: Windows 8 Developer Preview Will be out at 8 PT!
videogame9 wrote:
8?
What the heck happened to original names?
Why don't you go and say that about Windows 1 though Windows 2000?
Yawn.
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#17 2011-09-13 22:01:03
Re: Windows 8 Developer Preview Will be out at 8 PT!
meowmeow55 wrote:
videogame9 wrote:
8?
What the heck happened to original names?Why don't you go and say that about Windows 1 though Windows 2000?
Yeah. Most Windows releases were just "Windows" with a number after it.
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#18 2011-09-13 22:02:09
- videogame9
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Re: Windows 8 Developer Preview Will be out at 8 PT!
meowmeow55 wrote:
videogame9 wrote:
8?
What the heck happened to original names?Why don't you go and say that about Windows 1 though Windows 2000?
Windows 1? What's that?
Also, there was Windows Millennium Edition,
Windows XP,
Windows Vista,
etc.
Now it's just getting dumb. "Windows 8" doesn't sound very professional at all.
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#19 2011-09-13 22:22:55
Re: Windows 8 Developer Preview Will be out at 8 PT!
videogame9 wrote:
meowmeow55 wrote:
videogame9 wrote:
8?
What the heck happened to original names?Why don't you go and say that about Windows 1 though Windows 2000?
Windows 1? What's that?
Also, there was Windows Millennium Edition,
Windows XP,
Windows Vista,
etc.
Now it's just getting dumb. "Windows 8" doesn't sound very professional at all.
For Windows releases with numbers for names, there's Windows 1.0, 2.0, 2.1, 3.0, 3.1, 95, 98, 2000, 7, and now 8. By comparison, there are actually fewer major Windows releases with actual names. ME, XP, and Vista are the only real major consumer releases to have an actual name other than a number. (There's Windows Server/Home Server, CE, and WinMo, but those aren't mainstream consumer desktop OS'es.)
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#20 2011-09-13 22:29:03
Re: Windows 8 Developer Preview Will be out at 8 PT!
Cool. I'm downloading the 32 bit.
My processor is 64 bit compatiable but my motherboard isn't 
I can also install the 32 bit on all my machines as well.
My site Find someone post count. Click posts under username. Find number of pages. Times that by 40 for min and 60 for max and you have a rough estimate of post count.
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#21 2011-09-13 22:58:15
- veggieman001
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Re: Windows 8 Developer Preview Will be out at 8 PT!
will the beta release have to be installed /instead/ of your current os
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#23 2011-09-13 23:30:29
- veggieman001
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Re: Windows 8 Developer Preview Will be out at 8 PT!
Harakou wrote:
veggieman001 wrote:
will the beta release have to be installed /instead/ of your current os
Nah, you can install on a separate partition and multi-boot just like any other OS.
ok cool
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#24 2011-09-13 23:35:41
Re: Windows 8 Developer Preview Will be out at 8 PT!
veggieman001 wrote:
Harakou wrote:
veggieman001 wrote:
will the beta release have to be installed /instead/ of your current os
Nah, you can install on a separate partition and multi-boot just like any other OS.
ok cool
Actually, after reading around, it looks like it's not *technically* supported, but as others have pointed out that's likely just in case they change something major in the bootloader and all that. There's really no reason it shouldn't work. I'll be installing on a completely separate hard drive just in case though.
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#25 2011-09-13 23:37:58
- veggieman001
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Re: Windows 8 Developer Preview Will be out at 8 PT!
Harakou wrote:
veggieman001 wrote:
Harakou wrote:
Nah, you can install on a separate partition and multi-boot just like any other OS.ok cool
Actually, after reading around, it looks like it's not *technically* supported, but as others have pointed out that's likely just in case they change something major in the bootloader and all that. There's really no reason it shouldn't work. I'll be installing on a completely separate hard drive just in case though.
bluh okay
i'd do that but i don't have a free hard drive
my 3 are being used by xp, ubuntu, and my giant music collection
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