Windows 8 Consumer Preview is out

2012-02-29 10:44:29

#1

_j5689_: Dreads & Bergers; +364|6934|Riva, MD

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-8/iso

Hopefully this one actually lets you install drivers and games, it's supposed to be the beta apparently

2012-02-29 10:57:07

#2

Camm: Feeding the Cats.; +761|5186|Dundee, Scotland.

is there a virtual machine that allows us to install this yet? i know that when the dev preview was leaked i couldn't get it to run in a VM

for a fatty you're a serious intellectual lightweight.

2012-02-29 11:08:49

#3

jsnipy: ...; +3,276|6740|...

Camm wrote:
is there a virtual machine that allows us to install this yet? i know that when the dev preview was leaked i couldn't get it to run in a VM

installing it now using virtualbox

2012-02-29 11:22:12

#4

jsnipy: ...; +3,276|6740|...

jsnipy wrote:
Camm wrote:
is there a virtual machine that allows us to install this yet? i know that when the dev preview was leaked i couldn't get it to run in a VM
installing it now using virtualbox

Worked for me no issues using https://www.virtualbox.org/

2012-02-29 11:44:25

#5

jsnipy: ...; +3,276|6740|...

Yay another version of windows such exciting "technology"

2012-02-29 11:49:20

#6

FatherTed: xD; +3,936|6718|so randum

hi desmond O:

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Always raining and foggy
Use an umbrella

2012-02-29 11:57:12

#7

SonderKommando: Eat, Lift, Grow, Repeat....; +564|6877|The darkside of Denver

we ran the dev preview on a VM.

2012-02-29 13:14:35

#8

_j5689_: Dreads & Bergers; +364|6934|Riva, MD

nVidia has a Windows 8 section for x86 and x64 now for drivers, though I couldn't get it to load, probably because I always have an issue loading their pages with all the new flash crap they added to it.

But in any case, I think you can play games on this build, I can't wait to see some benchmarks

2012-02-29 13:27:31

#9

13urnzz: Banned; +5,830|6715

i started the d/l and got 600mb's into it, and then cancelled the d/l.

if i wanted to see poorly supported OS i can check out the Mac Book sitting on the desk next to me.

2012-02-29 13:30:01

#10

_j5689_: Dreads & Bergers; +364|6934|Riva, MD

It just got released today, of course it's gonna take a bit for drivers and stuff to be released for it

2012-02-29 13:30:35

#11

NeXuS: Shock it till ya know it; +375|6559|Atlanta, Georgia

Can i use this

https://www.virtualbox.org/

To run it?

2012-02-29 13:45:21

#12

aerodynamic: FOCKING HELL; +241|5971|Roma

jsnipy wrote:
Yay another version of windows such exciting "technology"

wtf?
did it become a phone?

https://bf3s.com/sigs/8ea27f2d75b353b0a18b096ed75ec5e142da7cc2.png

2012-02-29 14:11:49

#13

_j5689_: Dreads & Bergers; +364|6934|Riva, MD

NeXuS wrote:
Can i use this

https://www.virtualbox.org/

To run it?

Yeah, I think that's how jsnipy did it

aerodynamic wrote:
jsnipy wrote:
Yay another version of windows such exciting "technology"

wtf?
did it become a phone?

No, that's that Metro shit for tablets and I guess laptops too if you're so fucked up in the head that you don't prefer the regular desktop UI. I'm pretty sure there's a way to get to the regular desktop, one of the developers showed it happening in a Youtube video. It defaults to Metro because that's what would work immediately on a touchscreen although I would think they would've included the option to select which one you want during the installation

2012-02-29 14:17:46

#14

13urnzz: Banned; +5,830|6715

aerodynamic wrote:
jsnipy wrote:
Yay another version of windows such exciting "technology"

wtf?
did it become a phone?

lol

2012-02-29 14:19:16

#15

TravisC555: Member; +118|6437|Cox Convention Center, OK

NeXuS wrote:
Can i use this

https://www.virtualbox.org/

To run it?

Installing it now on VirtualBox.

2012-02-29 15:46:53

#16

jsnipy: ...; +3,276|6740|...

_j5689_ wrote:
NeXuS wrote:
Can i use this

https://www.virtualbox.org/

To run it?
Yeah, I think that's how jsnipy did it

aerodynamic wrote:
jsnipy wrote:
Yay another version of windows such exciting "technology"

wtf?
did it become a phone?
No, that's that Metro shit for tablets and I guess laptops too if you're so fucked up in the head that you don't prefer the regular desktop UI. I'm pretty sure there's a way to get to the regular desktop, one of the developers showed it happening in a Youtube video. It defaults to Metro because that's what would work immediately on a touchscreen although I would think they would've included the option to select which one you want during the installation

BUT that installs by default

2012-02-29 17:53:26

#17

_j5689_: Dreads & Bergers; +364|6934|Riva, MD

O.K. so according to twakguides.com

AMD has just released its Catalyst drivers here:

http://support.amd.com/us/kbarticles/Pa … ivers.aspx

And nVidia has had a Windows 8 version of its 295.73 drivers since last week so anybody wanting to try it should be good to go on either hardware.

I didn't know there was actually a WDDM 1.2 until I read that Catalyst driver page

2012-02-29 21:31:07

#18

tazz.: oz.; +1,338|6392|Sydney | ♥

Windows 8 is a hunk of anus.

It has some nice features...

Like the transfer speed graphs on copying / moving, and the heat maps on the task manager, and the animated style of some sections of the task manager.

However, the whole OS seems to be conflicting in it's UI. What do I mean by this... You're welcomed to a single coloured login and setup, true to the style of what has become known as the metro look. However once you're using the system, the only actual attribute that continues along with this style is the start menu. A full screen application that is poorly designed to say the least.

They've made explorer more complicated with a ribbon, all the buttons being the windows vista style look of gradient'd images, which conflicts heavily with the minimalist style of metro.

When you open an application through the start menu, it's almost always a full screen application. From this point you can never exit the program, and the only way I have worked out how is to either alt+F4, or hit the windows key, which doesn't actually exit the program, simply push it to the background.

I will never use windows 8. And if windows 9 follows much of the similar attributes as 8, I think windows 7 will be used for a longer duration than the likes of XP. Or perhaps a mass push will be moved towards the apple consumer, or even linux alternatives such as Ubuntu, however with the bloat that is lion and the aids that is Unity, I fear for the future of consumer user interfaces.

Last edited by tazz. (2012-02-29 21:32:30)

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2012-02-29 22:33:57

#19

_j5689_: Dreads & Bergers; +364|6934|Riva, MD

For the start menu application stuff, I think it expects you to do the swipe thing as though it were a touch-screen.

This really sucks from what you guys are saying. I was really looking forward to Windows 8 and I had a bad feeling about them trying to make it tablet-compatible from the beginning when it's already primarily supposed to be a desktop OS. I knew they weren't going to be able to pull this off without forcing the Metro shit down everybody's throat, everybody else was afraid of it too, but it sounds like they fucked up the UI even worse than I thought they would. Why would they be ADDING the ribbon to anything, I thought they learned how much people absolutely hated it with Office 2007, how is there any advantage to it other than doing away with what only they would consider "clutter", meaning important and already conveniently placed and un-intrusive buttons, just to say they'd made a change to explorer and pretend that it was actually a positive/needed one. It didn't even need fucking with, anything that had ever been wrong with explorer was corrected by Windows 7

Hopefully if enough people bitch about this, they'll implement a proper way to turn off the Metro shit entirely and you can just use it exactly like W7 with all the W8 advantages except for the dumbass ribbon

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2012-03-01 00:05:42

#20

aerodynamic: FOCKING HELL; +241|5971|Roma

Im sticking to win 7, never gave me a problem.

also to close an app you need to grab it from the top and drag it down to the bottom of the desktop. (this is with the mouse)

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2012-03-01 07:06:56

#21

Camm: Feeding the Cats.; +761|5186|Dundee, Scotland.

aerodynamic wrote:
also to close an app you need to grab it from the top and drag it down to the bottom of the desktop. (this is with the mouse)

Holy fuck that's just an unneeded faff.

Methinks they looked at apple and thought "hmm, yeah! We'll do that!"

for a fatty you're a serious intellectual lightweight.

2012-03-01 08:31:15

#22

bugz: Fission Mailed; +3,311|6529

Does it still take 7-8 steps to shutdown?

I remember that was one terrible thing about the dev preview.

Steam: http://steamcommunity.com/id/ebug122

2012-03-02 02:16:02

#23

Shahter: Zee Ruskie; +295|6993|Moscow, Russia

installed it on vm and - holy bagibas! - what a piece o'crap.

if you open your mind too much your brain will fall out.

2012-03-02 06:38:52

#24

max: Vela Incident; +1,652|6785|NYC / Hamburg

Installs on VMware Player. I'll have to play around with it a little bit more before I can say anything really. So far I'm just confused. Where did everything go?

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