Windows 8 beta (Consumer Preview)

[Chris]

Ive tried it out on virtualbox. It's quite good, I like the apps but the one thing I miss is the start menu.

[Michael-]

Downloading it now, is it possible to run this and my current windows 7?

[GommeInc]

Totally agree with this tbh...

*snip*

His flip out in the middle was amazing

I do agree with him though. Metro and Aero both serve different computers and people. The problem with Windows in general is that they can serve different people and they are trying to fuse them together under one OS and interface, but to seperate the two interfaces for the different systems could be a waste of resources.

They need to have it so you can enter an option somewhere which disables Aero and ops for Metro and vice versa, rather than have both which would be problematic. From what I've seen so far Metro does look good, but it wouldn't fit the purposes I use my PC for. It makes you wonder why they didn't keep the taskbar, and have it fade out when not in use e.g. you put your mouse down to the bottom and it appears - and you can opt to keep it there permanently or not at all and use Metro which appears above. Just a thought

Either way, it's going to cause Windows users to have problems adjusting.

[Chippiewill]

The problem with Win8 is that when going between Metro and Aero it's a massively jarring experience either they need to fix that or stop forcing people to use the start screen on Aero. Once they do that it's actually fine.

[xxMATTGxx]

http://www.theverge.com/2012/3/6/284...rt-menu-how-to

[Stephen]

I want them to put that start button that was in dev preview back into it i liked that

[Mikey]

Does anyone have screenshots of this preview by any chance?

[xxMATTGxx]

Does anyone have screenshots of this preview by any chance?

Start Screen:


Metro App downloaded from the Store (Cut the Rope):



Desktop:



Example of Searching on Windows 8:



New Task Manager Design:



New Copy & Paste:

[Chippiewill]

I love how one of the biggest changes they've made to the desktop side is better copy and paste. Oh Microsoft, you silly oh you.

[peteyt]

Sorry to open an old post but wondered if Microsoft still takes feature requests or is Windows 8 locked.

I'm not sure if this is related to applications, but certainly there's an issue with some older games on pc's with more than 1 core as they weren't designed to work on multiple cores - setting the affinity to just one core usually fixes this but this has to be done every time.

With an updated design to the task manager I wonder if Microsoft would consider an option to allow some kind of remember function to make it easier when loading older programs, games etc.