Windows 8 First Impressions whats yours

Started By Greg Welch, Sep 13 2011 07:59 PM

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#1 Greg Welch

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Posted 13 September 2011 - 07:59 PM

Loaded extremely fast

Had to find the Tile for the desktop to get behing the start page

Didnt find my nic card during install

I got stuck in control panel (don't laugh) till you try it,

didnt find my ELO touch screen during install

these arnt complaints its not ready yet

Did i say i " REALLY LIKE IT " and i want more

the coverpage over the sign in has the time and date, i like that

i total revamp for sure,

Internet explorer hase 2 way to view desktop and a Metro touch

Did i say i " REALLY LIKE IT " and i want more

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Posted 13 September 2011 - 08:36 PM

Wow, didn't realize they were releasing to general public. What is the link?

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#3 Greg Welch

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Posted 13 September 2011 - 08:40 PM

http://dev.windows.com

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Posted 13 September 2011 - 08:40 PM

Here:

http://msdn.microsof...s/apps/br229516

#5 jmwills

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Posted 13 September 2011 - 09:05 PM

It's a Developer Build...not even a Beta. There is little chance of this getting adopted by Enterprise users after Win7 was/is so widely accepted. The cash just isn't there.
Will I run it later next year....of course I will. It will be on TechNet (i.e. free)

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#6 Greg Welch

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Posted 13 September 2011 - 09:07 PM

Will I run it later next year....of course I will.

Download, Download , come on just hit the download button :rolleyes:

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#7 jmwills

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Posted 13 September 2011 - 09:18 PM

Not worth the effort right now.

A 24 hour download for me.

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Posted 14 September 2011 - 12:19 AM

Downloading now. Now to find something to put this on.

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#9 jmwills

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Posted 14 September 2011 - 02:25 AM

Run it as a VM.

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Posted 14 September 2011 - 06:46 AM

Loaded extremely fast

Had to find the Tile for the desktop to get behing the start page

Didnt find my nic card during install

I got stuck in control panel (don't laugh) till you try it,

didnt find my ELO touch screen during install

these arnt complaints its not ready yet

Did i say i " REALLY LIKE IT " and i want more

the coverpage over the sign in has the time and date, i like that

i total revamp for sure,

Internet explorer hase 2 way to view desktop and a Metro touch

Did i say i " REALLY LIKE IT " and i want more

Are you running it on separate HW? or in some sort of VM?

#11 Greg Welch

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Posted 14 September 2011 - 06:52 AM

I loaded it on a bare metal that had a touch screen attached, ill do a VM tonight

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Posted 14 September 2011 - 07:07 AM

I'm downloading it now from MSDN they added a few extra bits. 4.7 gig. I'll shrink my C drive on my PC to install. I'll also try to add the WHS v1 connector.

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Posted 14 September 2011 - 08:28 AM

I am really pleased with Windows 7 right now...no need to try and test another piece of software. If I get ahold of an extra/spare machine I might try but I don't have enough time now.

As for being adopted by Enterprise users...I am still on Windows XP Pro at work...waiting for a new laptop with Windows 7. Doubt they would update to Windows 8...I know I probably will at home though

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Posted 14 September 2011 - 02:02 PM

Tried running it on Hyper V without much luck. Going to throw it on dedicated hardware tonight to see what happens. Very interesting OS.

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#15 Greg Welch

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Posted 14 September 2011 - 02:59 PM

You gotta check out task manager
Its totally remaped with new graphs and indepth service specs

I'll give it a shot tonight, where did it fail?

I'll give it a shot tonight, where did it fail?

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Posted 14 September 2011 - 07:35 PM

I managed to put it on my netbook and spare desktop. Leaving in a few hours for a week in Colorado,
so I will check it out on the netbook. So far the paradigm shift is quite significant. The "start" button looks different
and functions differently for sure. After a quick search couldn't figure out how to turn it off so used
the power button. At the moment I'm not sure "I'm feeling it", but will keep playing with it to figure it out.

#17 Greg Welch

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Posted 14 September 2011 - 09:59 PM

I said the same thing till i started poking around, check out task manager pretty cool

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Posted 15 September 2011 - 06:50 PM

Are you running it on separate HW? or in some sort of VM?

I'm running it in a VM [VirtualBox] on my Win7 Main Client -- works pretty well -- check out "DroboWin8-Win7Jim"'s excellent write-up on setting up WHS-2011 in Virtual Box -- it's fun. Win8 is pretty interesting! [I'm also doing WHS 2011 in a VM on my Main Client -- I think I might of blown it up trying to install ForeFront on it -- whoops -- I should have taken a snapshot before that.]

Some things are apparently disabled in Win8 -- like printing.

You gotta check out task manager
Its totally remaped with new graphs and indepth service specs

I'll give it a shot tonight, where did it fail?

I'll give it a shot tonight, where did it fail?

Love the re-vamped task manager.

Edited by Joe_Miner, 15 September 2011 - 06:57 PM.

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Posted 15 September 2011 - 08:15 PM

atta boy , fix , break, rinse, repeat

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Posted 15 September 2011 - 09:15 PM

A lot of the things you see now may or may not be there at the end. I remember see the Developer Build of Vista and that looked nothing like the final product, Enjoy it now knowing that it will change to be sure.

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