Scratch

It's supposed to be able to go onto a USB drive.  I mean put the whole OS onto a USB drive bring with you and use on OS X, Ubuntu, etc.

Hmm. I installed the VBox Extension Pack and checked the USB 2.0 driver box in the Win8 VM's settings, and it did the exact same thing, except VBox didn't throw a Guru Meditation...weird.
What happens is that Win8 says "Loading files..." and the progress bar fills up like normal. Then, after a few seconds to a minute on a black screen, it says "Windows(R) Developer Preview". Then, it throws an errors saying the computer needs to restart. The error code is as follows:
0x0000000A
Parameters:
0xFFFFFFE6
0x0000001F
0x00000000
0x81B4663B
The error is redrawn line by line, then wiped and redrawn again. After it does this a few times, some of the characters turn into unidentified ASCII characters (the squares), the line saying to hold down the power button is missing, and only the first 4 letters of the word "Parameters" are visible. The error is redrawn a few more times, then the final time it is drawn the slowest, and VBox throws a Guru Meditation...except it didn't this time. Really strange.

maxskywalker wrote:

Win7 is great, but from what I know about Windows 8, it's got all the reasons I abandoned Macs, and no perks.

Better test and then say :3 lol .. i am coding Metro Apps on it and i love it .. its way beyond power of mac lol.

and 1 more thing

"Heard" ... um the internet is filled with microsoft haters who soil the work of MS by rumours (yes MS actually do work sometimes)

fanofcena wrote:

maxskywalker wrote:

Win7 is great, but from what I know about Windows 8, it's got all the reasons I abandoned Macs, and no perks.

Better test and then say :3 lol .. i am coding Metro Apps on it and i love it .. its way beyond power of mac lol.

and 1 more thing

"Heard" ... um the internet is filled with microsoft haters who soil the work of MS by rumours (yes MS actually do work sometimes)

I meant that I don't like how the OS's are becoming more like mobile devices, and my info comes from videos that are meant to showcase how great it is, and Wikipedia.

maxskywalker wrote:

Now that I've done some research, Win8 might actually be a good idea- for a tablet or smartphone!  Total fail for desktops, or, in my case, laptops.

Yep.

LS97 wrote:

Now, most importantly, you'll need virtualization enabled on your BIOS! I already had it enabled from my (not completely legal) Mac tests, but I've read that without it the OS fails completely in VBox.

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wulfmaster wrote:

scimonster wrote:

LS97 wrote:

Now, most importantly, you'll need virtualization enabled on your BIOS! I already had it enabled from my (not completely legal) Mac tests, but I've read that without it the OS fails completely in VBox.

   

lol.

Yeah, I've tried running (legal) Mac OS X in VBox, but it pretty much failed. 
Anyway, I'll try those things on the Win8 VM, LS97.
Edit: Dang! All I can check are IO APIC and PAE/NX! D:

Last edited by meowmeow55 (2011-09-18 10:53:38)

fanofcena wrote:

veggieman001 wrote:

Ew. I hate Win8.

what the ???


Did u even tested the Metro Style APPS ?? i bet u have no clue on how powerful the Windows is    all alone its sooo much powerful!

just because it looks fancy and junk doesn't make it good

i have seen then and used them
i know how powerful it is

and i hate it
every little bit of it
i will stay with ubuntu and xp, okay?

i don't care about how powerful a computer is
i don't know what makes it a good computer for me, but they just have a certain feel and style

macs and windows vista-8 just don't please me at all
they don't seem computer enough
at all

i don't believe that any computer company ever wants to go back to how xp was
i may use a more recent os if they do, but they won't
so i'm using xp and that's what i like

and ubuntu too

Harakou wrote:

fanofcena wrote:

maxskywalker wrote:

I meant that I don't like how the OS's are becoming more like mobile devices, and my info comes from videos that are meant to showcase how great it is, and Wikipedia.

um how can u actually forget metro style apps in win 8 ??? they have made it epicly powerful its the most HTML 5 and XAML specification fullfilling platform i have tested yet :3 .. it just rocks for me even on my laptop i find it very intresting on how it works and the ease of the use with Metro :s but well yeah they changed the whole desktop idea so its gonna be hard to change for sometimes :3 ... as a developer i think its wayyy to awesome! and well talking about wikipedia ( i sometimes dont trust on the articles they are quite much biasedish sometimes)

Most developers are actually really not happy about this change, and I can't blame them. They've spent decades building upon the classic tools for building Windows applications and all the intertwining elements (.NET, C, etc) and now they have to start from scratch.

I'm not saying a fresh start is all bad (you have to move on eventually) but it certainly is going to make things difficult for quite a few years until everyone can make the jump.

well the change is being bought since long    dont u think CSS 3 and HTML 5 are actually way better and coder friendly ???? then .net and C ??? i wrote apps in C and .net aswell and trust me i find JavaScript and HTML / CSS / SVG way too coder friendly    .. not to mention smaller footprint , easy updatable , POWERFUL

talking about the JUMP .. i think JaVaScripters are gonna be lucky in a while lol :3 and well the insanity is

If google brings a chang u love it

if the same is brought by Microsoft u hate it ???


WHY!?!!?!?!!?!?!?!?! IS THIS GENERAL RULE TRUISH ?

Last edited by fanofcena (2011-09-24 11:56:45)

fanofcena wrote:

Harakou wrote:

fanofcena wrote:

um how can u actually forget metro style apps in win 8 ??? they have made it epicly powerful its the most HTML 5 and XAML specification fullfilling platform i have tested yet :3 .. it just rocks for me even on my laptop i find it very intresting on how it works and the ease of the use with Metro :s but well yeah they changed the whole desktop idea so its gonna be hard to change for sometimes :3 ... as a developer i think its wayyy to awesome! and well talking about wikipedia ( i sometimes dont trust on the articles they are quite much biasedish sometimes)

Most developers are actually really not happy about this change, and I can't blame them. They've spent decades building upon the classic tools for building Windows applications and all the intertwining elements (.NET, C, etc) and now they have to start from scratch.

I'm not saying a fresh start is all bad (you have to move on eventually) but it certainly is going to make things difficult for quite a few years until everyone can make the jump.

well the change is being bought since long    dont u think CSS 3 and HTML 5 are actually way better and coder friendly ???? then .net and C ??? i wrote apps in C and .net aswell and trust me i find JavaScript and HTML / CSS / SVG way too coder friendly    .. not to mention smaller footprint , easy updatable , POWERFUL

talking about the JUMP .. i think JaVaScripters are gonna be lucky in a while lol :3 and well the insanity is

If google brings a chang u love it

if the same is brought by Microsoft u hate it ???


WHY!?!!?!?!!?!?!?!?! IS THIS GENERAL RULE TRUISH ?

If you're talking about Chrome OS, that's different. It's intended to be a lightweight OS with web apps, not a full-blown OS for power users. 

Yes, in my opinion, the more "traditional" languages have definite advantages. JS, HTML5, etc were never meant to be for desktop applications. Regardless of what some people are able to do with them, they're just not there. Sure, they're great for a neat little news app or something, but what about applications like graphics editors and games?

You really have to understand just how big of a deal it is for major developers, and I'm seriously concerned that this will slow development of applications. Until the majority of users make the move to Windows 8, there's going to be a lot of hesitation from developers to write everything in this new system, and they'll have to either choose between developing natively for Windows 7 and below or Windows 8. Since programs written for Windows 7 will run in 8, I'm guessing that we'll see a significant period of time before a large number of apps become Windows 8 native.