brianmcdoogle
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so is the cheapest way for me to get windows 8 100 bucks?
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so is the cheapest way for me to get windows 8 100 bucks?
$70 on Newegg for a full version of the regular one.
I think the coupon code expires soon.
There's also another way on SlickDeals.
Yeah I spent more time watching the ad then playing the challenge, although I gave up as I could tell I didn't have the intellect to solve it.
Jzero
Member
Yea it's crazy that we've been testing it for so long and it's barely coming out next week.
Yup, same here. I've been using it as my main OS since the Developer preview.
heh yeah. I used the developer preview over a year ago.
Steelyuhas
Member
Same, weird feeling that everyone will finally be purchasing Windows 8 devices in stores and upgrading their machines.
A lot of friends of mine have seen ads for Surface and Windows 8 and think it looks awesome.
I assume you mean consumer preview. I only did the dev preview in a vm, that was buggy as hell.
yeah the metro look is a lot better than just static tiles like on iOS and the widgets on Android. Should get noticed when people browse best buy etc... The only problem I have with the tiles is that it doesn't look as good on larger screen, aka when its about 6-7 tiles in a row.
it seems like having great artistic designers or whatever is really important with these applications. They can be really ugly or really good looking.
What apps in particular are you talking about?
Metro as a design language is very tricky to get right. Just look at most of the third-party Windows Phone apps vs the first-party apps.
Jzero
Member
Nope i actually used the buggy developers preview as my main OS since i wanted to get familiar with it as fast as possible. It did suck since there was practically nothing to do on it at that point.
lol goddamn dude.
Well ... pretty much all of the default ones. I mean, compare an app like the Stocks app (Win 8) to the Zune desktop software or anything on WP7. The Stocks app is horrific looking with a bunch of boxes arranged in a 3x4 format. It's like the whole design language changed or something from Zune -> WP -> Win 8.
The Stocks app doesn't exist anymore...? Are you talking about Bing Finance?
Yeah, Bing Finance.
It's a different style of Metro, but I wouldn't exactly call it ugly. It was a bit polarizing at first coming from Windows Phone but I find it pretty nice now.
polyh3dron
Banned
Wow, the trackpad gestures are a complete ripoff of OSX.
i like every bing application except for the weather application. I love the big images that you are presented with when opening the application too. The sports application really needs college sports though and I don't really like some of the news sources going to the website. If you can't get the news in that clean layout then i'd say don't bother with it. And the weather application is annoying with the scrolling, the live tile is nice though.
Jzero
Member
What do you expect them to do? Make little square and triangle and other totally different shapes instead of the easier gestures? lol
there is a third party Pandora application in the store. http://bit.ly/TVNwFI pretty good, the tile is god awful though.
Most of those are custom Logitech gestures AFAIK. Windows 8 only includes:
Tap to left click
2-finger tap to right click
2-finger scrolling
Pinch to zoom
Right edge swipe (Charms bar)
Left edge swipe (application switcher)
Top edge swipe (application menu)
Yeah the cover image is fine but most of the apps are just a bunch of pretty ugly boxes once you scroll past it.
Is there anywhere with info as to how I can install Windows 8 upgrade?
I am currently running Win7 Enterprise and I cannot use that as an upgrade path but I do also have my WinXP Pro disc which I believe I can upgrade from. I want to know what I have to do in order to get Win8 installed, is having the disc and key enough or do I need to actually install XP and upgrade from it?
I am currently running Win7 Enterprise and I cannot use that as an upgrade path but I do also have my WinXP Pro disc which I believe I can upgrade from. I want to know what I have to do in order to get Win8 installed, is having the disc and key enough or do I need to actually install XP and upgrade from it?
I hope I'll finally get it with GA. All the departments at my university have had access to it for a while through Dreamspark, except of course the Computer Science department...
They have their own server for Dreamspark content and still can't get it.
Yeah, anyone know the answer to this?
I heard you can do a clean install with a formatted drive, but there does have to be a qualifying OS on the drive first which gets formatted during the upgrade process..
yn-neko hates a cat
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Yeah... I didn't get that either. They made it sound like it was a matter of the kind of content discussed on GAF that made it illegal in the Windows Marketplace. It doesn't make sense to me that an application would be on the hook for user-generated content. If that were the case then aren't RSS readers, aggregators, image viewers and just about anything that can consume and present internet content illegal?
runningjoke
Member
GAF doesn't have an API layer. I bet nobody wants to parse HTML to make it more presentable.
It's a quality change, great OS.
LukasTaves
Member
My Gamerscore is only 330 so far.
It has begun.
Before you notice you will be buying games you don't even like just to increase that by a few inches... errr... points
It has begun.
Before you notice you will be buying games you don't even like just to increase that by a few inches... errr... points
My friend thought gamerscore and Microsoft Points were the same thing for about a year.
yn-neko hates a cat
Banned
Hate to double dip but I thought it would be nice to post this link to the blog entry that talks specifically about the marketplace here as well.
Skype launches on the 26th. Looks really great.
http://blogs.skype.com/en/2012/10/skype_for_windows8.html
http://www.theverge.com/2012/10/22/3529600/skype-for-windows-8-screenshots-release-date-october-26th
http://blogs.skype.com/en/2012/10/skype_for_windows8.html
http://www.theverge.com/2012/10/22/3529600/skype-for-windows-8-screenshots-release-date-october-26th
The Elite
BOSS
I have my PC hooked up to my TV. Methinks I'm going to get a webcam and conference with my mom Captain Kirk style via Windows 8. I know I can do it now but dat interface.
Looks good, but god, do MS's simulation videos suck.
Interesting read about Sinofsky
For some reason I had the notion that Sinofsky was someone who was trying to have more interoperability between the groups at MS. Apparently, it is the opposite. Sounds like a man who can get projects done extremely well, but the job that gets done might be squashing innovative people and ideas.
For some reason I had the notion that Sinofsky was someone who was trying to have more interoperability between the groups at MS. Apparently, it is the opposite. Sounds like a man who can get projects done extremely well, but the job that gets done might be squashing innovative people and ideas.
AgentP
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My buddy was showing me Win 8 non his HTPC. He is a guy that works exclusively with MS software.
First he needs to show my the screen with the seemingly random colored and sized boxes, not sure why that exists, but he calls it the start screen I think. Then he shows me how easy it is to switch to the desktop. Fine. I ask why the other screen exists then, he talks about tablets and phones. Great.
I ask about the store and he opens it. So this is just MS using one monopoly to maximize profit in another area? He says probably. But he is happy, he wants more apps for his Win 7/8 phone. Seems like an anti-consumer position to have, but that sums up MS.
Then he wants to demo something else, but he can't remember how to do it. After fumbling around he realizes it was just right click on the desktop. Forgot what that even did, but the fact that he is stumbling around is funny, so intuitive!
I dunno, the whole experience looked like some 3rd party skin on Win 7. Completely unnecessary. Of course it is cheap to upgrade he assures me. Well ya they want to get me into their store, which will never happen. So I'll stick with Win 7 for gaming and Linux for work. I can only hope Win 8 crashes and burns Vista style so MS can get a course correction. I don't want a tablet interface to my PC, thanks.
Steam big picture mode is all I need
First he needs to show my the screen with the seemingly random colored and sized boxes, not sure why that exists, but he calls it the start screen I think. Then he shows me how easy it is to switch to the desktop. Fine. I ask why the other screen exists then, he talks about tablets and phones. Great.
I ask about the store and he opens it. So this is just MS using one monopoly to maximize profit in another area? He says probably. But he is happy, he wants more apps for his Win 7/8 phone. Seems like an anti-consumer position to have, but that sums up MS.
Then he wants to demo something else, but he can't remember how to do it. After fumbling around he realizes it was just right click on the desktop. Forgot what that even did, but the fact that he is stumbling around is funny, so intuitive!
I dunno, the whole experience looked like some 3rd party skin on Win 7. Completely unnecessary. Of course it is cheap to upgrade he assures me. Well ya they want to get me into their store, which will never happen. So I'll stick with Win 7 for gaming and Linux for work. I can only hope Win 8 crashes and burns Vista style so MS can get a course correction. I don't want a tablet interface to my PC, thanks.
Steam big picture mode is all I need
Jzero
Member
My buddy was showing me Win 8 non his HTPC. He is a guy that works exclusively with MS software.
First he needs to show my the screen with the seemingly random colored and sized boxes, not sure why that exists, but he calls it the start screen I think. Then he shows me how easy it is to switch to the desktop. Fine. I ask why the other screen exists then, he talks about tablets and phones. Great.
I ask about the store and he opens it. So this is just MS using one monopoly to maximize profit in another area? He says probably. But he is happy, he wants more apps for his Win 7/8 phone. Seems like an anti-consumer position to have, but that sums up MS.
Then he wants to demo something else, but he can't remember how to do it. After fumbling around he realizes it was just right click on the desktop. Forgot what that even did, but the fact that he is stumbling around is funny, so intuitive!
I dunno, the whole experience looked like some 3rd party skin on Win 7. Completely unnecessary. Of course it is cheap to upgrade he assures me. Well ya they want to get me into their store, which will never happen. So I'll stick with Win 7 for gaming and Linux for work. I can only hope Win 8 crashes and burns Vista style so MS can get a course correction. I don't want a tablet interface to my PC, thanks.
Steam big picture mode is all I need
Shit son you don't have to damn a whole OS just because you don't want to use it. No one is forcing you to go in their store. Windows 7 will still be around for a long time so you could stay there until Microsoft stops giving you security updates.
Unfortunately, that's GAF, and they don't know how to make threads. They just know how to shit up current ones.
Whatever it was, if it was a right click on the desktop in Windows 8, it is a right click on the desktop on Windows 7 to do the same thing.
The proof will be in the adoption but I think if Sinofsky is responsible for getting everything under the Windows roof then he deserves a lot of credit for it because as far as I'm concerned it's made Microsoft's services appealing to me as an ecosystem for the first time ever.
Like the article says, Microsoft's problem is that they'll innovate the same thing in 3 different teams at the same time and then wonder why no one buys into any of them. Can you imagine if Live did have a separate cloud storage solution to Windows 8?
Companies as big as MS need people who are prepared to get things cut just because they don't fit their vision, because it's once the company loses the singular vision that everything becomes disparate and when that happens you lose the advantage that scale is supposed to give you.
As an aside, installed Netflix for Win 8 yesterday, wow the interface is brilliant, makes me excited to get a new tablet next month. Xbox Music has a way to go though, definitely sticking with Spotify for the foreseeable.
So I am seeing that in May, Mozilla (and later Google) complained about Windows RT effectively locking out third-party browsers. Has there really been no movement on this? I am extremely disappointed MS would be so short-sighted, browser choice would be a great counter-point to iOS and really the direction where RT should be heading (not quite full Windows 8 but close.)