Windows 8 beta (Consumer Preview)

[Chippiewill]

I just saw metro on a very large screen and it looks so good on that and nice to control. It really does seem like it works 30x better with Touch.

[Stephen!]

Microsoft releases Windows Server 8 beta

http://www.itworld.com/operating-sys...-server-8-beta

It's pretty much Windows 8 without the metro UI and a start menu! Might run this instead.

[Recursion]

Microsoft releases Windows Server 8 beta

http://www.itworld.com/operating-sys...-server-8-beta

It's pretty much Windows 8 without the metro UI and a start menu! Might run this instead.

It has the Metro UI, think I'll be sticking with 7/2k8r2 for a while.

http://arstechnica.com/business/news...domination.ars

[xxMATTGxx]

Metro won't be going anywhere any time soon - Although MS did once actually say to two bloggers there would be a way to disable the start screen for businesses but when asked again they claimed they never actually said that.

Been using the CP since the day it was released and I'm actually not complaining for once! Maybe I'm the only one.

[Stephen!]

Oh god. WHY????????????????????????

Why is it needed on a server OS?

[xxMATTGxx]

I'll post here for the people who like start buttons:

These guys did this in 24 hours but they'll spend more time on it once they are sure there is no "official" way of going back to that sort of way: http://frogboy.joeuser.com/article/4...button_returns

[Recursion]

I'll post here for the people who like start buttons:

These guys did this in 24 hours but they'll spend more time on it once they are sure there is no "official" way of going back to that sort of way: http://frogboy.joeuser.com/article/4...button_returns

I actually wouldn't mind that at all

[Stephen!]

When using the desktop in Windows 8 I feel like I've been placed in a sandbox and can't really get to anything easily without going through metro unless I place icons for every program I have on my desktop.

Anyone else get the same feeling?

[xxMATTGxx]

When using the desktop in Windows 8 I feel like I've been placed in a sandbox and can't really get to anything easily without going through metro unless I place icons for every program I have on my desktop.

Anyone else get the same feeling?

Not any more, I realised in Windows 7 after reading an article in regards of the "Start Menu" not being the same that I actually searched nearly most of the time for the stuff I wanted to open. So now in Windows 8 I just press the Windows Key > Start typing for what I want straight away and pressing enter again.

I also have applications pinned to the task bar that I use every day.

There is also Windows Key + X for some places you may want to visit now and then.

[Recursion]

When using the desktop in Windows 8 I feel like I've been placed in a sandbox and can't really get to anything easily without going through metro unless I place icons for every program I have on my desktop.

Anyone else get the same feeling?

Unfortunately, yes.

I realise on Windows 7 a lot of the apps I launch are pinned to my taskbar or on the desktop anyway, but I do feel like everything is in totally the wrong place, for example, the Shutdown/Reboot/Sleep is buried somewhere in the so called "Charms" menu.

I dunno... I think one of the problems is there are too many menus and everything takes double the amount of clicks to do than in earlier versions of Windows. It's definitely a tablet OS, mice and keyboards certainly seem like an afterthought. As for Metro UI replacing the start menu, it doesn't really work, I don't want my "start menu" to take up the whole screen whilst I'm trying to do something like, like watch a movie.