Windows 8: The Thread

metro is awesome. you have to let it be "your thing", totally worth it. windows phone 7 user since day one, can't stand the aero desktop, ios, android and everything else with a ui anymore.

grüsse nach d-land btw

as always, no design is for everyone. but so far, everyone who has used a wp7 phone for a while (or mine) loves the way it works and looks. from geeks to moms (my mom wants to get mine once i get a new one, my dad who does not want to have a cellphone at all would like to use mine, if he had the choice. and both don't like the iphone for example, at all. not because of me, of course... )

 

that was epic conference the amount of efforts was insane i did love the 5000 free tablets lol
cant wait for the the download links \0/

 

The download is still not available for me from that link booboo12 have provided. davepermen is it sorta fully functional. Can you install and run normal software like Office, Steam and so on? Have you totally removed W7?

 

Correct, the dev site won't be up until 8 PM Pacific Standard Time.

Dave was referring to Windows Phone 7, you can't install Steam on it for obvious reasons.

 

Oh ok, I didn't quite get him then. I though that he had W8 downloaded (like he mentioned he was doing in post nr. 151) and installed.

 

Wow there is so much going on right now. I am so hype for Windows 8! Almost makes me wish I got an X220T instead of my plain old X220...

 

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This will be interesting....

 

So the dev preview coming out tonight will run on all current pc's?
If so, I'm installing it on my HP TM2 tonight.
Anyone knows if the feature where they pull out stuffs on the sides and the top will work too?
I'll find out soon enough though.

 

It looks like its out now as I am downloading the 32bit version(maybe I should be trying out the 64bit?).

 

I'm snagging the 64 bit version now.

 

I'm snagging the dev version.

Seems to have a bit of extra software too.

 

Same here and I'm not a Dev by any means. Just want the extra stuff to play with.

 

I'm currently holding onto 2 ssd's to be shipped to a friend overseas. I think I'm going to install the dev version on one and play for a bit.

 

It's possible to install and boot this off a flash drive correct? Would 64bit somehow be more stable in beta form vs 32bit, or should I stick with 32bit as that the version of W7 I am running? Thanks.

 

It really doesn't matter what you use to install it, but it's not a "LiveCD/LiveUSB" thing - this requires installation like Windows always has. Yes, Windows 8 will support (at some point in the development, probably the late beta stages) creating a "Live" CD/DVD or USB stick for truly portable operation, but not the Developer Preview. This is not considered a public beta, to be honest, not like the Windows 7 public beta was.

They're not at the beta stage yet, that's still months away, but I expect to see an actual "Windows 8 Public Beta" by January 1st, if not sooner.

The keynote this morning was bland but that's to be expected. It got interesting with the hardware demos and then the ending section where Sinosky was showing off actually using the OS in the typical situations, especially multiple monitors.

My downloads are a few minutes from completion and I have a blank laptop drive ready to go on my Dell Latitude D630, just takes a few minutes to transfer the installation ISO contents to a USB stick with the Windows 7 USB DVD Download Tool that Microsoft provides then I'll get it natively installed and spend the rest of the evening tinkering around.

Wish I had a nice tablet at this point to do real actual touch-based operation, but... right now the focus is on learning what the OS can and does do. Those Samsung tablets they gave away to the BUILD attendees is a wicked evil cool machine, would love to have one but, it just wasn't meant to be.

Kudos to Microsoft, however, for making the Developer Preview Release completely free, no activation junk required, and the tools too. I'm not even a coder but I'll probably grab that ISO as well just to have it and tinker around.

Where Windows 95 sparked a new era in personal computing, Windows 8 looks to be ready to explode and bring the touch-based computing paradigm into the true forefront of today's world.

Good job (so far), Microsoft.

 

is anyone else's download really slow? I picked the one w/out the development environment, but with all the metro apps.

 

Considering that people are now discovering that the preview is available earlier than expected and there's probably a few hundred thousand people (or more) trying to download it, it's not really a big issue I'd say.

My downloads are ... well, done, actually, just as I started this particular sentence, average speed was about 1MB/s on the 64 bit ISO and 1.7MB/s on the 32 bit, took 14 minutes to get both, now I'm off to do some testing.

Patience, everyone will get it... but as the night goes on the downloads will obviously get slower as more people realize "Hey, it's up, they said later tonight, guess I better grab it now" and that sentiment spreads fast.

 

Sucks you can't VM this.

VMware fails to recognize the system files associated with Win 8 installation iso.

Guess no option for VM'ing this.

 

I'm still computing how I feel about Windows 8. =s

 

The developer preview is live folks...

Windows Metro Style Apps Developer Downloads

EDIT: LOL. Booboo beat me to it... by a LONG time.

 

I was successful at using this on VirtualBox but can't seem to make the screen bigger on it and "Install Guest Additions" doesn't work(which I suspected).

Was about to try this on VMware myself.

 

I think I read that the latest beta of Parallel works with Windows 8, but I think that's OSX only? If we can get this to work via VM, can I put it on an external and use it via VM that way?

 

It looks awesome! I want to use the dev release...

 

Wonder if someone'll figure out how to dual boot this and windows 7.

Got a strange feeling switchable graphics is gonna choke pretty hard unless windows 8 can just use windows 7 drivers without issue (like how vista drivers work in 7 usually)

 

Turns out, it was my router all along, apparently the wireless is flaky. I hooked my netbook up to it via eithernet and the download is downloading fast.

Wait, one can't install it via a partitioning scheme?

 

So I just played with it for 30 minutes, I love it. Kind of really wishing I got the X220T instead of the regular X220, but oh well. Battery read almost 6 hours and this is without any Lenovo drivers, on Balanced, and brightness high up. Lots of fun trying stuff out, can definitely see this will be good on touch devices.

 

Oh, I wish my internet were working properly. I use a friend's network that's up and down. Right now, it's on the down, so I'm tethering through my phone. So slow. boo

 

So far I'm not really impressed compared to W7 which is already a good OS.

I do like the new look of Taskmanager.

 

Indeed. I got the entire ISO in about 8 minutes.

I've NEVER seen a dev-preview download that fast. Windows 7's preview was painfully slow to download...

 

can anyone help me get this running on my T400 using a virtual machine?

i've tried vmware and virtualbox, but both have given me errors when attempting to install.

edit: looks like others are having issues too. damn.

 

Forewarning: Good luck trying to install this on your Macbook Pro, The system simply will not let you. Some times I hate this thing. Wonderful track pad for awesome tricks in win 8 and it will not install. I have a netbook install readying, but, you know.

 

I'm pretty sure it's possible without using bootcamp.

 

Anyone feel the start menu is a bit clunky for a mouse+keyboard? I'm having trouble adjusting. I really like the basic theme for some reason though.

Also is there any way to see or kill running apps short of using the task manager?

 

well, what can i say.. good morning, and downloading.

all remember, it's a dev preview. none of the apps that we'll see in the beta and or shipping products are yet in this product, with exception of ie9. including a possible taskmanager.

but the metro style apps don't need a taskmanager per se, as they don't run while not in use, anyways. w8 is, technically, nothing new, if you know wp7. it's just the same, but like "what could you do with wp7 if you had huge screens, and much more resources?". which is great

18min till the 32bit version is down. the 64bit ones are both about dead for me right now, i'll download them laters..

 

To answer my own question, pulling stuffs out from the border of the screen works on my HP.
I'm gonna keep it installed for a while.
I'll try installing some programs tomorrow to see if they work.

 

Hey Dave, I downloaded the 64 bit, but won't get to play much with it on my tablet for a few days. Please let us know what you think about it as you play with it. I think it has a lot of potential for us, and can't wait to play with it. Thanks in advance.

 

Thatoe, please let us know how it works for you. Thanks.

 

Are tablets to include the FULL VERSION of W8 or just a tablet version?

 

Hey, anybody know what the size of windows 8 is?..

I need some numbers on what to set the partition size...

 

This includes IE10 Technical Preview. It also contains a tablet optimized version of IE10 with the Metro theme.

Full Windows version, AFAIK.

My ISO is about 3.6GB but I got the 64-bit version. It requires a minimum of 10GB to install... I wouldn't go any lower.

 

The full developer preview asked for something like 12.5GB. If you have anything larger than that, or if you got the smaller versions, it should be plenty.

 

Downloading and installing.

 

Well, the ATI preview drivers from MSFT won't install for me because I have an "engineering sample" video card.

 

Has anyone successfully installed Win8dev to a separate partition and dual-booted with Vista or 7?

 

Why bother dualbooting?

At that point just VM it.

 

With what VM software is it working with right now? Can I keep the VM data on an external. I think I was able to do it with Parallel, but that was a while ago.

 

^It doesn't work in a VM, apparently.

Sidenote:
Try installing an app that has the same function as another app... like Chrome. A nice little popup will come up asking which you'd like to use as default. Or when opening a zip with WINRAR installed, it will ask you if you'd like to open it with WINRAR or Windows Explorer... AWESOME. I've been asking for this feature for a LONG time.

 

Yep, I just did...it's working swimmingly. Just partition before installing the OS.

I love the new OS boot list...very visual and you can change which one is auto started right from that screen.

Anyone using a Windows Live ID to login to Windows 8?

 

one version to rule them all. but non-x86 based tablets (intel has shown yesterday at idf that they focus very hard on getting arm-like tablet-performance out of x86), means all the stuff that android runs on right now, won't be able to run old apps, of course.

but windows will be the same everywhere. it's not clear yet if there will be the tons of versions like today, but technically, win7 is the same everywhere, too. it's just a licensing thing.

 

Well I read on another forum people were having success installing it through Parallel on their Apple computer, so I would have thought it be just as easy on a Windows machine? :\