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Brandon,

Is there a way to add POP3 e-mail accounts to the Metro Mail app? If there is, I don't see it.

Why not simply use the same e-mail application you had been using (Outlook 2010 x64 in my case)? Unless the developer really screwed the pooch, it will still work.

I did one clean install of Office 2010 x64 (WDP drive upgraded to WCP) and did a Windows 7 upgrade in place, Outlook works as nice as you please in both.

Its actually 100,000 different shades of blue you can now choose from...

I must admit I'm curious to try this out tonight on my little netbook; no intentions of using it as a primary OS: mainly to play around with and see how it works as I've had WP7 on my Dell Venue Pro for a while now and freaking love that interface and usability...it sounds like this will really be best used on tablets which is where I see it going anyway in the IT world.

So far, the only part Ive been unimpressed with is the Metro apps, they are buggy and often unresponsive. I cannot add my @me. account to the mail app, because it only supports Hotmail, GMail and Exchange.

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Did you miss the "App Preview" displayed at the top of your screen? :laugh:

I can imagine my parents trying use this LOL took my 5 minutes to find restart.

:laugh: Me too, I was like "Erm how I shutdown?" :D

Incase you haven't found it yet, if you move your mouse to the top right corner of the screen no matter what window you have open, it will open the charm bar on the right > move down to settings > all the power options are in there

I still have to stop for a second to remember that though :D

how in the world do I run applications since the old school start button is gone? my first impression is that this is a mess.

I'm not keen at all with this Windows8. How do I access my games? I feel like i'm in a car without a steering wheel.... :cry:

Haha. I suppose you could go to Apps under Metro interface. It is supposed to display all installed applications so games should show up there. From there you can pin it to taskbar or metro start menu, not sure how to make shortcut to desktop. I guess you could drag from taskbar to desktop. It is a ****ing mess. I don't have Windows 8 installed but i assume this is how MS people designed it. Again you could always open windows explorer find physica *exe files and from there make shortcuts to your desktop which is probably what most people will end up doing in order to avoid metro start menu.

so it kills me that every blog site out there is saying how wonderful and amazing Windows 8 is, yet everyone of them are using some tablet that was given to them to use it on.

So misleading when 97% of your user base is going to be on a desktop....... sigh

Sorry - I've been running first the DP, and now the CP, on a standard desktop. No touch anywhere.

From what I've seen here, the vast majority of the complaints and nerdrage are about the Start menu (from 7 and Vista) being gone.

:laugh: Me too, I was like "Erm how I shutdown?" :D

Incase you haven't found it yet, if you move your mouse to the top right corner of the screen no matter what window you have open, it will open the charm bar on the right > move down to settings > all the power options are in there

I still have to stop for a second to remember that though :D

I am sure people will write application to mimick Classic Start Menu :)

If anyone asks, I'm hiding in the Antarctic after the public release of Windows 8.

Supporting it on normal desktop PCs or laptops is going to be a nightmare. Ugh. I consider myself an advanced user and was confused by the inconsistencies. Why for instance can't I set the screen resolution in the Metro-style PC settings? Why do I have to go to the desktop for it?

Why did I have to find which hot corner triggers which action by accident?

Why is there no way to make the titlebars smaller?

Sorry, but Windows 8 is going to make a lot of people very unhappy on PCs. For tablets it's fine.

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@+Brandon Live, I like the metro pictures app so far, but I miss the layout and photo edit options of Windows Live Photo Gallery. Has thought been put in to combine the two?

Most likely not. It is duplication of everything you have on Desktop like IE10 etc.

If anyone asks, I'm hiding in the Antarctic after the public release of Windows 8.

Supporting it on normal desktop PCs or laptops is going to be a nightmare. Ugh. I consider myself an advanced user and was confused by the inconsistencies. Why for instance can't I set the screen resolution in the Metro-style PC settings? Why do I have to go to the desktop for it?

Why did I have to find which hot corner triggers which action by accident?

Why is there no way to make the titlebars smaller?

Sorry, but Windows 8 is going to make a lot of people very unhappy on PCs. For tablets it's fine.

Yes. MS literally took a **** on PC and what Desktop means.

The more I play around with it the more I like it, but I couldn't see myself using it on a daily basis on my laptop. It's just too touch-centric for my liking, with the big buttons and tiles etc. As much as people complain about Apple turning OS X into iOS, they seem to be going about it in a better way than what MS is doing to Windows. Thats just my opinion.

I can't get the boot camp installer to run (tried all compatibility tricks). I have snow leopard so it must be pulling in boot camp 3.3, right? Is there a way I can download boot camp 4.0 from apple in snow leopard?

No, Boot Camp 4 is only for Lion.

I just ran the Boot camp assistant and installed it through that. I already had the drivers for Windows 7 on a CD from a previous install. All the Windows 7 drivers installed with no problem. An update to my Intel HD graphics was available in WU.

Supporting it on normal desktop PCs or laptops is going to be a nightmare. Ugh. I consider myself an advanced user and was confused by the inconsistencies. Why for instance can't I set the screen resolution in the Metro-style PC settings? Why do I have to go to the desktop for it?

I an also going to have nightmares about this. God help us all.

I an also going to have nightmares about this. God help us all.

I wonder about Windows 8 Server UI, perhaps turning Server into Workstation is a better option. Perhaps Server will have option to enable classic Start Menu. I bet it is still there in Windows 8 through registry hack.

Did Microsoft do any user studies to see how straight old people keep the mouse pointer when they click? They click and then jerk or jerk and then click. I can't see them keeping it that straight in the corner.

Of course. The hit target for the click isn't one pixel, once you've triggered the preview. And getting to the corner is literally the easiest thing you can do with a mouse. There's no targeting required. You don't even need to look at the screen.

I wonder if anyone else is having the same problem I'm having running Outlook 2010 in the W8 consumer preview.

Everything was great until I went to software updates and there were some updates to install. After I installed them I am not able to download my email.

Anyone else experiencing the same issue?

I wonder if anyone else is having the same problem I'm having running Outlook 2010 in the W8 consumer preview.

Everything was great until I went to software updates and there were some updates to install. After I installed them I am not able to download my email.

Anyone else experiencing the same issue?

Was Office SP1 one of the updates? You may need to restart for that to finish (not sure, just taking a guess here).

There aren't many apps in there, I'd say less than 100 at a guess unless I've missed a screen

I'm still curious, and that's not bad a number considering it's only been open for about 9 hours and nobody can submit apps yet.

Or can you submit apps since today?

I'm right now in the customer preview, so far... not bad except for the start menz that it's verz much needed...

Questions:

How do I run a program? as in the very nice "Run program" or the search bar that the start menu had?

How do I disable UAC? Control Panel already found

Installed firefox right away, works wonders. IE metro crashed, froze my pc.

Testing...

I'm right now in the customer preview, so far... not bad except for the start menz that it's verz much needed...

Questions:

How do I run a program? as in the very nice "Run program" or the search bar that the start menu had?

How do I disable UAC?

Testing...

Start typing.

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