stevebt

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Anyone using it? I have a copy installed on my pc and I have to admit its a bit of a pain. I'm still trying to work my way around it as the software seems more suited to their touch screen phones than a pc. I will suffer with it a bit more to see if I can get used to it and if not its back to Windows 7 ultimate.

mike1210

Yeah it takes getting used to. Love the face that you can now run Hyper-V on it. Running it on a dev box and VM atm. Seems to run smoothly but "start menu" takes getting used to.

ALi-B

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Always the way with a new OS. Look forward, and don't look back.

I had to do some techy/networking stuff on a XP machine earlier and it felt like a limb had been chopped off.

And I found some of the win7 stuff annoying at first (i.e the task bar and storage location of user files) when compared to Vista, but soon got used to it.

stevebt

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Mike, I don't even know where the start menu is, I pressume I now have to click on apps??

belliott69

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Just downloaded it and am really enjoying it, certainly a step in the right direction from Microsoft. Start menu is now gone, though apparently on the actual released version there will be an option to have it back. Marketplace is a brilliant idea and I can't wait until a lot more of the phone apps make it over.

ScoobyJawa

You can reg hack it back to the Win 7 interface, the fancy stuff is just a gui layer!

StiX

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I think it looks ****e, and is obviously marketed towards touch screen.

Doesn't the window key act as the 'Start' button? I don't have it but some of my students are using it on their laptops and spend forever 'throwing' windows away - yawn.

Saint AAI

I'm using it, find it difficult to find some of the things I'm used to using from the start menu. Other then that, I like it.

Markus

I've only seen it on a tablet. First impressions were that the Windows GUI side of things didn't make sense on a tablet, but the Metro (think that's the term for the funky new GUI thing) side of things did make sense on the tablet. The reverse seems to be true, Windows side ok on desktop, Metro not so much.

madmerlin

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When we first installed it the first thing everyone said was "Still Windows 7 Then"

So we are all being conned into buying ANOTHER "New os" when actually all it is is 7 with a front end slapped onto it!

mike1210

Feature list isn't too shabby

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/sho...php?t=18381377

Ant

Feature list is quite good , .iso mounting is a good one (long over due)

Liking the hyper-v too

stealthy55

seems a bit like big bhp, if you cant use it why have it

ScoobySteve69

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You wanna try working here. We`ve only recently UPGRADED to XP ffs

madmerlin

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ScoobySteve69

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Seriously, I work for a bluechip company (Cadbury) and we`ve been using Windows `95 up until about 6 months ago

Brun

Small world - we supply Cadburys in Poland with butterscotch for the G&B bars.


.......anyways, **** 8 and **** 7 - i know how to work XP and i'm sticking with it

stevebt

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I have suffered with it abit more and I'm getting more used to it but its like moving from windows to ios/android as nothing is where you want or expect it to be.

stevebt

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If you install it it installs as a new upgrade of windows and the easiest way to get rid of it is to reinstall your previous windows and all your software

Saint AAI

Someone's made a new start menu, feels much more normal now.

http://www.stardock.com/products/start8/

Edit: On second thoughts, gone back to standard Metro. Stardock seems a bit poor.

Littleted

yeah i installed it on my FREE dell precision m6600 with multi touch screen, felt nice, but i have to admit i didnt have time to figure out how to set it up, and when i could click games i sacked it LOL. but after looking at work, you can give it the same feel as win7, as i feel without a touch screen for most its a ballache.

i did run a few games in the end and all ran fine. I like the way you swipe across for more info.

boxst

Loaded it in a virtual machine. It looks 'different'. Works stangely in that IE for example can be launched from the start tiles and also from the desktop but seems to invoke different instances and I can't figure out the mouse use to swap between them.