Windows 8

i dont know if it's about saving space. right now i use drop box to sync up a folder at home/work/iphone. that way i can edit a word document at home..and just finish it up at work. sometimes i just drag stuff i want to view on the phone into that folder..and it's easily accessible.

it would be nice to have it built in.

 

Do you guys not use Gmail, facebook or youtube? Guess what, that's cloud computing.

 

Windows 8 is nice and all, but I'm still getting a MBP.

 

Oh well, looks like someone bought into the hype. It's sad really, but go to town and pay 2x as much for last year's technology...

Anywho. I love this OS. It runs flawlessly on my tablet. It looks just incredible. I've got iPad owners turning heads on this one. I think Microsoft knocked it out of the park. I don't see how Mountain Lion can even compare to this. I think the only people with bad things to say about this OS are fanboys (albeit PC and Mac). The generic user loves the simple UI, the Xbox connectivity, the fact that now all Microsoft products integrate together perfectly. If you have Windows Phone, Windows 8, and an Xbox 360 it all just fits together so fluidly, I'm floored. The touch centric UI is just that, touch centric. It goes beyond the simple gestures of most tablets, it's intuitive. I feel like I've been using this OS for 20 years, and yet there's nothing on the market like it. This OS definitely puts the "win" back into "Windows". I can't wait to see how this thing runs ARM...

 

EDIT: ^^^ Pizza, wtf. For once I'd like to come into these tech threads without this fanboy or OS Warz drivel. You actually typed the sentence 'this puts the win back in Windows' FFS.


Anyhow, looks like the CP has finished downloading. Trying to decide whether or not to partition my system, or see if I have a spare laptop lying around somewhere...

 

Its not OS war fare, far from it. Even Gizmodo thought that mountain lion was underwhelming. Maybe its a corny tagline but it's the truth. This OS is a win. Basically its a win for all of us. Microsoft did two things: they listened to us and they ignored us. They listened to people on why they like apple, iOs and all the such. This OS is polished, its pretty to look at. They ignored us in that they finally made their core os touch oriented. They force you into it. Essentially they took all the best elements of apple, but cut the crappy sides of it. I can have a windows family of products, for half the cost of an apple family. That's a win for everyone.

 

smh


Anyhow, just realized my boss has my Iconia. I am much more interested in trying this out on that. Might just wait till this weekend....

 

Full of Win

Running this on a Dell Latitude E6400
No crashes
Slick as heck (no slowdowns)
installed some apps (fast)
Setup messaging, facebook
Browsed all my favorite websites (really like internet explore 10 look and feel)

I love how you can switch back and forth from the metro style to regular desktop. I can definitely see myself using a tablet and docking this into a keyboard/mouse mode for heavy duty work.

If MS continues to go in this path and starts refining stuff, I see tablet/PC as 1 device.

I was skeptical, but now a believer. I will continue to use this as my main OS....haha

 

I am not sure what Microsoft is trying to do. Windows 8 is most likely going to be ignored by the business community. There is no reason that a firm would upgrade from windows 7 to windows 8 really. Alienating one of your biggest sectors is never a good idea.

And also, Windows 8 is only good if you are on a touch screen device. Can't see people with current setups itching to upgrade to his when the functionality is actually less efficient from what i have seen so far compared to an experienced user.

I think Apple has the right idea, slowly and gradually combine the two OSes. Windows 8 is just cluttered, having two different desktops (one with live tiles, one regular) just makes no sense.

 

Oh are there tons of apps. The windows store in its infantile stages still has some damn good apps.

 

Talking about the video. Lost count on how many time he used the word apps in his presentation

 

How do you like that Iconia?

 

Eh, not so fast. I work for a Top 5 IT consulting firm and we are already knee-deep into planning our upgrade from Windows 7 to Windows 8. Further to your point about touch-screen devices; these are infiltrating the Enterprise at a rapid pace. Companies are having to re-write policy, review security, etc., all in the name of ensuring people are enabled to leverage their own tablet devices.

Companies are also looking into VDI which would result in device-agnostic environment in which the companie's custom OS can be run on any device that runs something, like the Citrix receiver. In other words, that iPad being used by the guy in the cube next to you is running Win 7/8 and accessing his data in the corporate cloud or SkyDrive.

 

Meh. Keep in mind I have the w500, and it's got Windows 7. I love Windows 7, but not as a touch based tablet. It just really isn't designed for it and is just clunky to use. It has a keyboard dock but really at that point I just use my work laptop. It looks like W8 will obviously be much more impressive on such a device.

 

Pretty sure Windows 7 was embraced by techies. It was in the circle of people I know anyway, as well as some of the bigger names in the tech news industry. The open beta/release candidate did a lot in that sense, I upgraded to Win7 the second it was available on my laptop and desktop.

 

Enterprises are are just starting to deploying Windows 7. Windows 8 is for the consumer and they are doing the right thing because apps made for tablets will also run on the desktop and visa versa. Even with the two different chip architectures, developers will only need to recompile and debug versus writing brand new code.

A common/similar experience across all platforms has always been the right strategy. Its the execution that was the question mark.