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brotkasten
Member
Searching in Blue makes sense, if you don't use the desktop.
How so?
Anton Sugar
Member
Sorry if this was covered: when you move from 8.1 preview to RTM, you have to reinstall all your apps. That's just modern apps, right?
No, it's everything. It's a clean install with data migration.
StudioTan
Hold on, friend! I'd love to share with you some swell news about the Windows 8 Metro UI! Wait, where are you going?
That's the only reason I don't want to install the preview, I have so much stuff installed, I don't want to go through it again. Hmmm, maybe I'll just make an image of my current OS drive so I can go back to it before the actual release.
I'll definitely install it on my tablet though.
Remember that the preview itself is still just a beta product and has issues of its own. So ignore the fact that you'll have to reinstall everything if you go from the preview to the final - if it's your main machine that has all that stuff installed on it, it's probably not ideal to upgrade it to the preview unless you have a full image backup.
On a Surface or similar tablet it's a different story. Especially for the Surface, since app roaming will make it trivial to go from the preview to the final.
On a Surface or similar tablet it's a different story. Especially for the Surface, since app roaming will make it trivial to go from the preview to the final.
brotkasten
Member
Can I finally drag and drop text from an app to a desktop application? It's just the usual difference between efficiency of windowed applications vs fullscreen apps. I assume it's much easier to copy text, pictures, quotes or results in general off a windowed application (such as a regular browser) than to do that from the Windows 8.1 search.
That said, Bing on the web is going to be pretty cool.
brotkasten
Member
The Public Preview drops in few hours, the final in October.
The Great British Chefs app is beautiful you should all take a look:
http://apps.microsoft.com/windows/en-us/app/great-british-chefs/00276318-565e-43a1-96ed-2dbf0df2bb6e
Probably the prettiest thing I've seen in Metro, it's also really data heavy.
http://apps.microsoft.com/windows/en-us/app/great-british-chefs/00276318-565e-43a1-96ed-2dbf0df2bb6e
Probably the prettiest thing I've seen in Metro, it's also really data heavy.
Anton Sugar
Member
Ugh, that sucks. If I skip out on the preview, when it is released to production, will I still need to do a clean install or can I upgrade?
Almost derailed by the Win8/Android Combo's. Surface is dead!
brotkasten
Member
And by the usual suspect, too!
I know. It is all in fun though.....
José Mourinho
cocknose
Me too.
AMD 8.1 preview drivers:
http://support.amd.com/us/kbarticles/Pages/AMDCatalystWIN8-1PreviewDriver.aspx
http://support.amd.com/us/kbarticles/Pages/AMDCatalystWIN8-1PreviewDriver.aspx
I keep getting about 35% into the download then I get a store error
What error?
cool
Next time it happens I will give you the error. It will. ask me to try again or cancel.
Cool thing in Windows 8.1: You can add folders on removable media like USB keys and SD cards to libraries. The system will automatically index them, and those indexes will seamlessly appear/disappear when you add/remove the media.
So this means that the Music/Video/etc. apps can easily show all your content on that removable media.
So this means that the Music/Video/etc. apps can easily show all your content on that removable media.
yay. figured that was the case when the info about Xbox music and SD cards leaked.
You think hours or days?
Incidentally, it doesn't work on my Surface RT. Surely that shouldn't be affected by driver issues?!
José Mourinho
cocknose
So have we figured out if the preview isn't available on English UK installs? Seems to be the case.
Steelyuhas
Member
Anyone have the preview running yet? I've been thinking of running it on my main machine (re-installing isn't that big of a deal for me in the fall), but I just want to make sure that it's stable and all that jazz before I pull the trigger.
Also curious to hear impressions from people with RT devices. My mother has a Surface and I think I might install it for her assuming things seem all good, especially considering that re-install on an RT device will be a snap.
Also curious to hear impressions from people with RT devices. My mother has a Surface and I think I might install it for her assuming things seem all good, especially considering that re-install on an RT device will be a snap.
started downloading only a short time ago. will give impressions when done. Also the consumer preview was pretty stable, so I expect this to be similar.
No idea.
You can still go ahead and install the preview since it's a normal x86 device, but you might just have some unexpected driver issues.
Steelyuhas
Member
Yeah I expect it to be rock solid, but I just want to make sure.
LukasTaves
Member
Just finished installing and restarting a few times on my surface, it says now that it's setting up a few more things, but it's going very quickly.
Ugh, I'm still having problems.
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/...-to-your/342136ba-1f64-42c4-a344-d7e7e33ea868
That "answer" has got me to the Store but the servers are being hammered so can't actually start the download yet. The garbled text is because English-US isn't being used. Because, you know, only people in the USA use Windows according to Microsoft.
That "answer" has got me to the Store but the servers are being hammered so can't actually start the download yet. The garbled text is because English-US isn't being used. Because, you know, only people in the USA use Windows according to Microsoft.
LukasTaves
Member
I left it there and after a while it started redownloading by itself.
Just finished installing, will test a little before posting more impressions, but I can already say that the new keyboard is awesome!
Anton Sugar
Member
Wha? Why would they do that?
LukasTaves
Member
Yes, I didn't even had to click on the retry button. Just restarted on its own.
Steelyuhas
Member
Let's do this:
