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gabranth99:
--- Quote ---Win8 is not a massive reworking of the Windows kernel, it is a major overhaul of nearly everything else
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great so a buggy windows vista/7 with a new face that will cost a couple hundred quid to buy no thanks microsoft maybe windows 9 will turn up with a working filesystem cache
bloody000:
Here're the images:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/apps/br229516
You don't need any account or license to install this. I heard it doesn't like VM at this moment.
edit:
I got it running on my laptop.
I will say two good things: it's smooth and they finally got rid of that fat border padding and corner rounding. Ten bucks on MS killing the Aero look completely by public beta.
And people think the 7 start menu is bad.
CvP:
Imma replace my win7 with this tonight :D
krumm:
I know this is just a preview, but that Gui is trash. I only spent a hour playing around with it and all I can say is wow. I did not see anything i liked. VM's do work but you need to use Virtualbox. This is just a preview so I'm hoping it is just a cut down version. I'll probably play around with this a little more tomorrow when I am more awake, but I think this is just for developers to try out the new and useless for users.
Mirgond:
--- Quote from: krumm on September 15, 2011, 05:22:37 AM ---I know this is just a preview, but that Gui is trash. I only spent a hour playing around with it and all I can say is wow. I did not see anything i liked. VM's do work but you need to use Virtualbox. This is just a preview so I'm hoping it is just a cut down version. I'll probably play around with this a little more tomorrow when I am more awake, but I think this is just for developers to try out the new and useless for users.
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It's targeted at Tablets and Touchscreens, since MS thinks that normal PC will use Touchscreens too in one or two years...
It's not that bad, but Apps are only put to sleep and not closed if you go to another one. They would have to implement another solution for that so that you can really close them to free up RAM.
But a nice sideeffect: Firefox uses less RAM.
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