Windows 8 preview now available...

[VaporPunk]

Article on Win8 from CNET.

If some of you have an old PC around, or want to risk DB OSs. If anyone plays around with this, please let us know your impression. I'm look for a used PC with good enough specs before I try it out.

As per the CNET "review", its a mixed bag though we're still talking beta here. MS has a lot riding on this OS, so they are gonna do their damndest to make it work. Lets hope thats good enough.

[Kumabjorn]

Interesting, I wonder if it would be possible to migrate from ICS on my ASUS EeePad to Win8?

[HansTWN]

I have been using the developers preview for several months now. No need to be adventurous.

[morantis]

I tried it out when the last developer preview. Windows 8 is fully ready to be used on a touchpad screen. The Desktop and Explorer panes are a little hard to find. For me, it was ok, nothing to great, but for someone using a non-Touchpad and being a little non-tech, they may have some trouble finding their way around.

[Kumabjorn]

Will it run on a Tegra3?

[Steven Lyle Jordan]

The name of Microsoft's coming operating system, updated today to Windows 8 Release Preview, implies just another version of an OS once much loved and now much maligned. But Windows 8 means much more to Microsoft: It's a bold attempt to build an Apple-proof operating system with modern visual elements via the risky Metro design language. It's a salvo in the war for tablet relevance. It insists that touchscreens matter, and it sets the stage for upcoming versions of Windows Mobile.

For Microsoft to succeed with Windows on all platforms, Windows 8 has to work. The changes in today's Release Preview take a step in the right direction, tightening up the operating system and introducing new apps to showcase just what Windows 8 can do. But Microsoft isn't there yet. This is more "beta two" than "release candidate".

I think they've been pulling these two paragraphs out of the files, changing the numbers, and re-using them for the past 20 years...

[afv011]

Originally Posted by Kumabjorn

Will it run on a Tegra3?

Windows 8 RT should, it's the ARM version.

[BeccaPrice]

Am I the only one who doesn't like this trend to make everything a touch screen?

[taustin]

Originally Posted by BeccaPrice

Am I the only one who doesn't like this trend to make everything a touch screen?

No, you're not. I predict that Windows 8 on the desktop is going to bomb worse than Vista or 98ME did. It may bomb as badly as Microsoft Bob did.

[AndrewH]

Windows 7 only came out three years ago. Why do we need a new version already?

If I didn't have to use Windows for certain applications, I'd toss it in a second and use some flavor of Linux or BSD.

Originally Posted by BeccaPrice

Am I the only one who doesn't like this trend to make everything a touch screen?

Be honest now: I know that you are itching to write a novel using a touch screen keyboard!

[BeccaPrice]

Originally Posted by BWinmill

Be honest now: I know that you are itching to write a novel using a touch screen keyboard!

*shudder*

(my main problem with touch screens is that my hands are always cold, and frequently a touch screen won't recognize that I'm touching it. plus there's no feedback that you've touched something, so I can never tell whether the non-response is because it doesn't like my fingers, or I missed the hotspot, or the frickin' unit just isn't working. yes, I like that my keyboard clicks when I type.)

[silverraven]

It may bomb as badly as Microsoft Bob did

But I LOVED Microsoft Bob! Didn't you have a cool room?
S

[Elfwreck]

Everyone knows they'll never do better than Windows RG (Really Good).

Originally Posted by AndrewH

Windows 7 only came out three years ago. Why do we need a new version already?

To satiate gadget lust? To improve the bottom line for hardware and software vendors? To make it look like Microsoft is actively pursuing the tablet/phone market?