spursmaddave Posted February 29, 2012 Posted February 29, 2012 Anyone else installed it yet Very tablet orientated.... takes a bit of getting used to Quote
geoff-r Posted February 29, 2012 Posted February 29, 2012 Might explode my laptop if I installed it mind you it's run better on Win 7 than it ever did on the terrible Vista it came installed with. Quote
spursmaddave Posted March 1, 2012 Author Posted March 1, 2012 Its only a beta version and I can see a lot of people not upgrading....! It would be great on a touch screen but really doesn't work on a normal screen with a mouse.... Probably lots of changes before it goes retail anyway Quote
Zugara Posted March 1, 2012 Posted March 1, 2012 Is it a free download dave might give it a bash just to see. Quote
lrh Posted March 1, 2012 Posted March 1, 2012 They're purely tarting up Windows 7 so it can be used on tablets. Vista = NT 6.0 Win 7 = NT 6.1 Win 8 = NT 6.2 Quote
ashyk36 Posted March 1, 2012 Posted March 1, 2012 dual booted it with windows 7 on my laptop. got to agree it will be great on tablets, bt pc's and laptops im not so sure. Quote
spursmaddave Posted March 1, 2012 Author Posted March 1, 2012 Was windows your idea Dave and are you a PC? I am a window licker and definitely not PC Quote
maxi-glasgow Posted March 1, 2012 Posted March 1, 2012 Might give this a try on my laptop as it's got a multi-touch screen... Quote
spursmaddave Posted March 1, 2012 Author Posted March 1, 2012 Might give this a try on my laptop as it's got a multi-touch screen... Should work well with that The gui is based on the new Xbox one that came out a few months back... Quote
Chris`I Posted March 1, 2012 Posted March 1, 2012 Might give this a try on my laptop as it's got a multi-touch screen... Should work well with that The gui is based on the new Xbox one that came out a few months back... Which in itself is based on the phone GUI, they are trying to present one GUI for all Windows family products. Not sure how well a PC will work with touchscreen gestures, think I will stick to W7 unless they have significant performance increases for SSDs etc. Quote
spursmaddave Posted March 1, 2012 Author Posted March 1, 2012 Might give this a try on my laptop as it's got a multi-touch screen... Should work well with that The gui is based on the new Xbox one that came out a few months back... Which in itself is based on the phone GUI, they are trying to present one GUI for all Windows family products. Not sure how well a PC will work with touchscreen gestures, think I will stick to W7 unless they have significant performance increases for SSDs etc. Indeed, I was just curious.... so installed it on my laptop, it does let you view a 'normal' desktop but the settings are all over the place... keeps asking me to sign into my Windows Live account so I can visit the appstore.... no thanks Quote
rabbitstew Posted March 1, 2012 Posted March 1, 2012 Was windows your idea Dave and are you a PC? Quote
spursmaddave Posted March 1, 2012 Author Posted March 1, 2012 Is it a free download dave might give it a bash just to see. Sorry mate missed your reply, yeah free download Linky - http://windows.microsoft.com/en-GB/windows-8/iso Quote
sasha@lazytrips Posted March 1, 2012 Posted March 1, 2012 Windows 7 is the only decent thing that came out of Microsoft since XP Pro and judging from the pictures Win8 is really not what I need for a complex multi-monitor set up so think it's gonna be a pass for now. Quote
Dblock Posted March 2, 2012 Posted March 2, 2012 IMO microsoft is never any good at playing catchup. They need to innovate and I think win 8 was pretty kneejerk and just to tie into their mobile/touch screen market with windows mobile. Looks like too little too late IMO. Quote
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