Boot to the Windows 8 Desktop...directly

[jmwills 284]

You don't have any XP machines running? Blasphemy you speak!!

[Joe_Miner 254]

You don't have any XP machines running? Blasphemy you speak!!

 

Does virtually count?

 

Actually, I'm fixing up an old eMachine for my Sister that had been running XP -- I killed it by formatting the OS drive and installing W8RP which actually runs pretty well with just 2G of RAM. I plan to upgrade it to W8 for $40 in Oct for her. All she wanted was something to work on Word papers for some classes she's taking -- she can do it in Skydrive & keep her doc's in the Cloud (and thus no backup worries) and use Word via her Skydrive account. What I really liked is that W8 seems to really locks down security and hopefully I will not have to constantly clean "crap" off her computer like I've been doing since "forever".

[jmwills 284]

Virtual is as good as physical. Of my, ahem...18 machines, only four are physical.

[Joe_Miner 254]

Virtual is as good as physical. Of my, ahem...18 machines, only four are physical.

 

I've go 15 VM's plus 7 real (not counting the eMachine) -- should I also count our iPad?

 

Oh, crap -- I've got too much hardware!

[jmwills 284]

Now you speak of blasphemy! The "i" word.