Windows 8 revealed

[Thor.]

Well its Official windows 8 is revealed, so what do you think its going to be like or your Opinions of the touch capability.

 

Here is a nearly 2hour long video talking about it.http://www.thenexusforums.com/public/style_emoticons/dark/blink.gif

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiFmqp4jrEg

Edited June 4, 2011 by Thor.

[ccmechanic2]

thats 128 bit ME version, Just wait for 9 and see what happens, This is an insider tip.

[Thor.]

YAY128bit finally, cant wait for that.

 

hoping that the new amd 8 cores will be released then.

 

http://www.zdnet.com...unch-at-e3/5908

 

This brings back my geek insidehttp://www.thenexusforums.com/public/style_emoticons/dark/tongue.gif

 

I had a brake from that now i am back.

Edited June 4, 2011 by Thor.

[AurianaValoria1]

Great...I just now got Windows 7.... :dry:

[JimboUK]

I'll stick with 7, it's rock solid which is a rarity. I have no intention of fixing what isn't broke.

[evilneko]

I don't put much stock into anything Paul Thurott says. He's a Microsoft/Windows fanboy and will gush over anything with a Windows logo on it. While the touch baloney they were harping on is gee-whiz nifty, it isn't efficient and there are millions of PCs out there without touchscreens anyway. On a desktop, it is meaningless fluff.

 

Speaking of meaningless fluff the video sure had a lot of it. Probably spent maybe five or ten minutes on Win8 in the entire thing.

[nimd4]

The new OS is going to be jam-packed with useless stuff & that's the biggest issue.

 

While it'll probably have better memory/video/processor managament, the negatives will create huge annoyances. The new features won't be uninstallable, or the users won't be able to disable them, because of integration, etc. - but there's gonna be the usual option to "hide" them: which is so stupid anyway (nm if you don't know what I'm on about).

 

As usual Micro$oft will tell ALL its customers what's BETTER for them - because we're so intellectually inferior to their superb designs and ideas.

[XTR3M368]

What I hate is that microsoft assumes we are all stupid. Unless you turn off the UAC, you get asked a whole bunch of times if you REALLY want to do something....are your suuuurrrreeee?.....no, I just keep hitting yes because the button is shiney......geez. I do like one confirmation dialogue, but any more than that is an insult to our intelligence.

 

I would like it if microsoft would offer stripped down really efficient versions for gamers and other graphically intensive apps. I don't need a lot of the BS stuff windows adds and I am almost never on my desktop so I don't want all the fluff. I don't want ANYTHING to run in the background that isn't system critical or that I have chosen myself. most of the stuff that runs in the background will run when you start the application so having it running all the time wastes system memory. With today's faster machines, the reasons to have it already running all the time are gone.

 

I would still want that even if it means I have to download required files that normally would come installed. at least I have the choice.

 

*EDIT* ugh....TLDW too long didn't watch

I am surprised that guy's nose isn't actually brown considering how far up the sitting orifice of microsoft it is.

Edited June 17, 2011 by XTR3M368

[Vindekarr]

Auriana-same problem, only been on 7 about 3 months, and while I really like it(reminds me of XP, not quite as good, but still waaaaaay better than Vista, I miss XP, I want 8 to actualy be 128 bit XP)

 

I actualy think less is more with OS, I use my PC for writing(work and books) emails, and gaming, so all I need is the internet, a rock solid word proccesor, and everything else is just fluff that get's in the way of Gaming. Best OS I've ever seen is Streuth!. Streuth! is a British made version XP that's had literaly every piece of fluff and dustbunny pulled out and thrown in the bin, it's just the core OS, and everything that keeps the PC running smooth, anything else is BYO, including Mediaplayer and IE, but goodness me is it fast! And that's the point, the Streuth! OS is literaly less than half the size, takes up less than half the diskspace, and uses a disproportionately smaller amount of power to run, THIS is my sort of OS.

 

For me an OS is like a car: option extras are good, but what you actualy want is all that carpet, radio, cd player, airconditioning, back seats, ect fluff taken out! Every kilo you take off is about half an extra horsepower for your engine, if you rip it's guts out, even the slowest of cars can become a surprisingly nimble package, since engine power is irrelevent if it only has to pull a little bit of weight-that's why a 110 horsepower motorbike can out-pace a 350+ horsepower supercar, because the bike only has to pull you and itself, and it itself only weighs a few hundred kilos if even that.