Windows 8 Consumer Preview

Published on February 29, 2012 By Savyg In Personal Computing

Who's excited? I'm excited.

I love the idea of the Metro UI to remove distractions and make computers more efficient (suspended apps will be taken off the CPU scheduler and most likely the video resources will only be in virtual mem). It was a little awkward on the Dev Preview but that isn't what the CP will look like anyway.

Storage spaces is probably my favorite feature they've talked about so far. I'm not sure I want to ditch my Win7 install yet though, but it probably won't take long using 8CP before I do.

I do wish ReFS was in the client builds, but it doesn't sound like it will be. (At least in the final OS...don't know about the CP.)

I definately like the plugin free browser idea too. Most of the time you browse they're unnecessary anyway.

Otherwise it's mostly just more efficient, and I can't argue with that!

Comments (Page 5)

tazgecko

on Mar 05, 2012

Uvah

reply 60

Where can I get the dual boot tool. I want to run it on my laptop.

http://blog.laptopmag.com/how-to-dual-boot-windows-8-while-keeping-windows-7-as-your-default-os

GAIAStevef

on Mar 05, 2012

Having played with it for a couple of days now, I can definitely say that this when this finally becomes the "mainstream" OS for all new machines, it will be the OS that will finally push me to OSX or Linux.

I see absolutely no benefit to my personal workflow for Window 8, and in fact seems to make it an altogether painful experience to try to get actual work done.

Neilo

on Mar 05, 2012

GAIAStevef

reply 62

Why not just stay with with Win7? I mean the support for 7 will go on for some time, if the support for XP is any indication. I understand and agree with your sentiment though, but i suspect Start8 is not the end of what Stardock will be able to do with the new OS.

I dislike the Metro side of Win8, but whats under the hood does have me curious, only if Stardock can work some serious magic though.

Uvah

on Mar 05, 2012

tazgecko

reply 61

Quoting Uvah, reply 60Where can I get the dual boot tool. I want to run it on my laptop.

http://blog.laptopmag.com/how-to-dual-boot-windows-8-while-keeping-windows-7-as-your-default-os[/quote]

As usual I gotta run into problems. When I click on the link it takes me to the overview of the tool. Where's the download button?

Neilo

on Mar 05, 2012

Do you mean this?

Windows 7 USB/DVD Download tool
the link is under the sub heading, Create and Install USB Drive or DVD, which takes you to the Microsoft store online where the link i gave is located.

RedneckDude

on Mar 05, 2012

Uvah, the tool is included in the ISO. Boot from it, choose a partition other than your main OS partition. It'll do the rest.

Neilo

on Mar 05, 2012

Even better.

Uvah

on Mar 06, 2012

Thank you so much.

BTW - The reason I asked was because it looked as if they wanted bucks for the tool.

Neilo

on Mar 06, 2012

I thought that too at first, in the end i had to read the page...funny how that helps!!

c242

on Mar 06, 2012

[wrong thread]

JcRabbit

on Mar 06, 2012

Can someone here running Windows 8 install the trial version of Winstep Xtreme and see how the NextSTART component behaves in Windows 8?

If you don't know, NextSTART is a complete and mature (been in development since 1999) Windows taskbar replacement. If it works properly under 8, it kind of makes not having a Start Button in it a moot point. Especially because the Start Menu in NextSTART is fully functional, skinnable *and* configurable (you can add whatever you want to it, even new menus, via the built-in Menu Editor).

starkers

on Mar 06, 2012

JcRabbit

reply 71

Can someone here running Windows 8 install the trial version of Winstep Xtreme and see how the NextSTART component behaves in Windows 8?

Funny thing you ask that, I installed Win 8 earlier and was going to install Xtreme in the morning... well it's morning now [3.47am here], but when I get up later... as in I'm going to bed in the next 5 - 10 minutes. Will post back here with the result in a few hours.

JcRabbit

on Mar 06, 2012

Thanks!

I downloaded the consumer preview of Windows 8 but haven't had time to install it here yet because I'm currently too busy trying to get v12.2 out the door.

Uvah

on Mar 06, 2012

Okay....need some help please....so what velse is new.....I copied the ISO to a USB drive. Clicked on the setup.exe and got all the way to putting in the product key and had to stop. There wasn't an option, that I saw, to install it on a separate partition. What did I do or not do?

RedneckDude

on Mar 06, 2012

JcRabbit

reply 71

Can someone here running Windows 8 install the trial version of Winstep Xtreme and see how the NextSTART component behaves in Windows 8?

If you don't know, NextSTART is a complete and mature (been in development since 1999) Windows taskbar replacement. If it works properly under 8, it kind of makes not having a Start Button in it a moot point. Especially because the Start Menu in NextSTART is fully functional, skinnable *and* configurable (you can add whatever you want to it, even new menus, via the built-in Menu Editor).

Want me to try the full version?

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