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PanteraGSTK · Sep 13, 2011

Windows 8 pre-beta preview

Hey guys. I just got through with AnandTech's windows 8 preview and it is pretty interesting to see what is to come. Check it out. Hopefully this won't be another ME or Vista. Windows 7 is rock solid for me so there would have to be some pretty compelling features for me to even dream of upgrading.

Tablets seem to be the main focus at this point.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/4771/microsoft-build-windows-8-pre-beta-preview

gigabit · Sep 13, 2011

down load it here
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/home/

gigabit · Sep 13, 2011

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/home/

Im downloading it right now and im gonna install it on my extra SSD

SeanBest · Sep 13, 2011

Awesome, downloading now.

SeanBest · Sep 13, 2011

SUPER SLOW download

klear · Sep 13, 2011

Yep, ~150kb/sec

Will be fun to VM this in the morning

unijabnx2000 · Sep 13, 2011

If it downloads tonight, ill make it a vm tonight.

SeanBest · Sep 13, 2011

My download finished. Installing to a VM now.

nd4spdbh2 · Sep 13, 2011

http://www.overclockers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=686330

duplicate threads.

downloading now at ~1.2MB/s ... i dont think im going to like the tile (metro) interface, but we will see.

unijabnx2000 · Sep 13, 2011

SeanBest said:
My download finished. Installing to a VM now.

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Automata · Sep 13, 2011

I'm also grabbing a copy for the heck of it. Thanks for the link.

SeanBest · Sep 13, 2011

Installed, created my user, but it just sits at the Welcome screen logging in. Been over 15 minutes.

SeanBest · Sep 13, 2011

Closed VirtualBox and restarted it, looks like it's going to work now, preparing PC instead of just Welcome ...

PROGRESS!

unijabnx2000 · Sep 13, 2011

what setting did you use when you went to install?
Did you get x64 or x86?

SeanBest · Sep 13, 2011

I did x86. Installed as Windows 7.

wingman99 · Sep 13, 2011

Where is the windows 8 preview on that site and how do i install on my extra hard drive.

unijabnx2000 · Sep 14, 2011

SeanBest said:
I did x86. Installed as Windows 7.

i got the x64 and tried to install as windows 7 x64. and it failed :sly:

SeanBest · Sep 14, 2011

Woah. It's so weird. Gonna take A LOT of getting used to. From what I read somewhere you can disable the whole metro tile thing and use it more like regular Windows. Gonna have dig through some settings tomorrow.

ssjwizard · Sep 14, 2011

Well I throughly hate MS. However, being an IT person I suppose its my duty to inform myself about the new nightmare thats coming... Off to download it.

nd4spdbh2 · Sep 14, 2011

god, this whole metro interface is SO not conducive to a desktop environment.... a tablet interface ya sure i get it... but this "almost to easy to use" bs makes it so hard to do anything worthwhile on the desktop....

hell it took me a good 3 min to find the button to shut down the computer.... hover in the bottom right > click settings > power > shutdown

this was running in a virtualbox vm (set it up as windows 7) ... creating an image of my laptop, so i can shrink the win 7 partition to install this win 8 to truly give it a go in a proper environment. (but really, im shrinking the partition so i can install ubuntu for school work programming) haha.

Edit - i knwo this is just a developer beta version... but i dont think this interface is going to change much.

Edit - after installing on my laptop (core 2 duo 45nm p6600 4gb of ram) it ran decently fast after i installed chipset and vga drivers. but god, the user interface is SO hard to navigate to do anything worthwhile past open up explorer / internet explorer.... looks like ill be sticking with 7 if the RTM of 8 is anything close to this dev release.

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