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[xeonox]

Stekkz_, on 16 September 2011 - 17:34, said:

It is windows 8... There is also a desktop version..;

thank god there is

[PGHammer]

mudslag, on 07 February 2012 - 05:04, said:

Maybe Im still not getting it or I just havent played with metro enough to grasp it fully. I hardly ever use the start button, 98% of the programs I use are sitting in my task bar. My desktop is pretty much empty. I just dont see the need to have a separate screen to launch everything. Specially when you have to take the extra step to get to the metro screen to find the program you want to launch. To me that seems like unnecessary clutter but again maybe Im missing the bigger picture.

I was referring to the Start menu - the most despised part of Metro because it's been pruned.

Control Panel, for example, I can launch from my keyboard (no mousing around at all) - most of the addons that folks complain are missing from Metro's rudimentary menu are found in Control Panel (which is otherwise a clone of Windows 7's Control Panel, which has all the same features). My most used programs are either on my desktop (as shortcuts or QuickLaunch - which remains untouched) or, since I know the executable (as is the case with all of Office 2010) I can launch them from the Run box. It's largely why I don't use the Superbar any more (and I stopped well before the first leak of Windows 8).

So I hardly see the StartScreen at all. (In Windows 7 I hardly see the Start menu, either.)

I was referring to *Start menu clutter* - not desktop clutter.

[obiwankenobi]

PGHammer, on 06 January 2012 - 18:49, said:

A bit of a quick-snap...IE10 (desktop, not Immersive) windows with Aero Lite Glass enabled, and Outlook 2010 full-screen in the background.

(Yes - that's the Neowin Forums open in IE.)

Wow, I must be special, LOL! (j/k)

[subcld]

i'll post mine when windows 8 consumer perview released still 13 days to go =)

[Shaun]

I'm really holding myself back to installing the DP and not waiting for the CP. My PC has been due a reinstall for ages and its really starting to get on my nerves. 8 more day's! Will my OCD keep away for another 8 days? I hope so as I would only have to reinstall again next week

[+Detection]

Shaun, on 21 February 2012 - 15:52, said:

I'm really holding myself back to installing the DP and not waiting for the CP. My PC has been due a reinstall for ages and its really starting to get on my nerves. 8 more day's! Will my OCD keep away for another 8 days? I hope so as I would only have to reinstall again next week

I know what you mean, I resolved my temptation by reminding myself how unimpressive the DP is compared to 7 by installing it on my laptop instead of this PC

Time seems to make me remember bad OS's as somehow great, I install Vista and ME in VMWare now and then to fix my brain

[Shaun]

2 days!

[bogas04]

Time has come to fill this thread

[PGHammer]

Windows 8 Consumer Preview (upgraded from 7 Ultimate + SP1) x64.

Same hardware (traditional desktop) as previous WDP screenies.

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[BoDEAN]

Upgraded? You are running this as your MAIN os instead of Windows 7? Y I K E S!

[Colin McGregor]

Also only running windows 8 as only os and dont plan on downgrading.

[CMG_90]

Half the people don't post the screenshots that the thread started asked for.....

[b@nned]

yeah, i'm gangsta

[PGHammer]

BoDEAN, on 01 March 2012 - 03:06, said:

Upgraded? You are running this as your MAIN os instead of Windows 7? Y I K E S!

Actually, not so yikes.

Remember, practically *all* the complaints about Windows developer Preview had diddly to do with application or even driver compatibility - the gripefest was centered around the (admittedly) different UI (specifically, the lack of a Start menu).

Other than niche drivers, the one application complained about (and the issue itself was not universal) was Skype.

In other words, non-Metro applications (those that had no issues in Windows 7) had no issues with the WDP, either - I, like quite a few others, had no issues with Skype. (Amazingly, the same was also true of gaming on the WDP; it was mostly as solid as, if not better than, Windows 7.)

The real issue with the WDP (and now with the WCP) is *user compatibility*.

[th3r3turn]

My current Windows 8 install.

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