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Windows 8 - Microsoft Does It Again (Groan)


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I came across this article in the Wall Street Journal Online this morning. The writer says that older computers can have problems, even if it meets the requirements for Windows 8. I hope it provides helpful insight:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323936804578229682529360570.html?mod=lifestyle_newsreel

 

Windows 8: Not for Old-at-Heart PCs

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Sadly the fact I have a life greatly impacts negatively on my gaming. :(

Unfortunately I have to spend far too much free time socialising, drinking and enjoying the company of women with loose morals when I should be devoting it to trawling articles on Tom's hardware and debating the merits of different brands of DIMM modules...

It's a curse it ell you, a curse!

 

:P

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Unfortunately I have to spend far too much free time socialising, drinking and enjoying the company of women with loose morals

 

I don't like you now. :angry: :P

 

First serious problem I encountered with my WP8 phone is that it won't talk to my car. Both have Microsoft software but they won't talk over bluetooth. Should have expected this...

OK I can still use my WP7 phone fine to stream music but now I can't use the steering wheel and voice controls to take/make calls since that phone SIM is now disabled. Pretty sad.

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MS Surface Pro goes on sale in a couple hours. Was supposed to be revealed in NYC at midnight but the blizzard cancelled that. From everything I'm reading (including all the negative reviews) it does sound exactly like the device I've been waiting for for a long time. Just a couple things stop me from getting it outright:

- it's overpriced; but the alternatives aren't any cheaper really

- it's a version 1.0 device. In a few months there will likely be a better version, especially when Haswell comes out.

But still I'm afraid I'll break in the next couple weeks and get one unless there's a flood of negative user reviews.

 

..............

 

 

So it went on sale and the 128GB version is already sold out pretty much everywhere and people are saying there were many customers turned away at the stores. Pretty stupid of MS, they could have sold many more units today if they were prepared but they got scared that the RT wasn't selling and decided to do a more limited initial run of the Pro. Which is dumb, the RT is far less attractive than the Pro and they should have expected higher, not lower, demand.

 

 

....

 

Here's the longest review I've seen (it's pretty enthusiastic) - http://betanews.com/2013/02/05/surface-pro-first-impressions-review/

You can google for a ton of negative reviews (which are all basically "it's great but it's not perfect", umm, ok).

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MS Surface Pro goes on sale in a couple hours. Was supposed to be revealed in NYC at midnight but the blizzard cancelled that. From everything I'm reading (including all the negative reviews) it does sound exactly like the device I've been waiting for for a long time. Just a couple things stop me from getting it outright:

- it's overpriced; but the alternatives aren't any cheaper really

- it's a version 1.0 device. In a few months there will likely be a better version, especially when Haswell comes out.

But still I'm afraid I'll break in the next couple weeks and get one unless there's a flood of negative user reviews.

 

..............

 

 

So it went on sale and the 128GB version is already sold out pretty much everywhere and people are saying there were many customers turned away at the stores. Pretty stupid of MS, they could have sold many more units today if they were prepared but they got scared that the RT wasn't selling and decided to do a more limited initial run of the Pro. Which is dumb, the RT is far less attractive than the Pro and they should have expected higher, not lower, demand.

 

 

....

 

Here's the longest review I've seen (it's pretty enthusiastic) - http://betanews.com/...essions-review/

You can google for a ton of negative reviews (which are all basically "it's great but it's not perfect", umm, ok).

Interesting review, I'm actually finding myself interested in the surface pro, first tablet-ish-type comuter I find interesting.

 

/R

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I was able to buy the Win8 license upgrade for $15 online. Its kind of a squirrelly process, but I was eventually able to download the installation media ISO. I've been running 8 with Classic Shell for a few weeks now; formatted the C: partition and did a clean install. Unsat as for as I'm concerned, will be wiping and reinstalling Win7Pro on the next rainy weekend. IE works poorly, Flash running within Firefox is hiccuppy, cannot disable UAC without losing access to Apps, etc. Restores from hibernation wicked fast, though.

 

Windows 9 may turn out to be a really good OS. ;)

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Oh look! Surface Pro sold out within hours of release!!

 

Then you go on ebay and find a ton still unopened, obviously all bought to be sold with $200-300 profit. Sadly there are enough suckers who will pay the premium for whatever reason.

 

Now here's a real serious tech review

 

http://www.anandtech.com/show/6695/microsoft-surface-pro-review/5

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I went out and was able to play with a Windows 8 laptop, and after about 15 minutes, I wanted to shoot myself. That interface SUCKS!!!! It is twice as hard to get to your programs, and unless you are using it for just facebook, myspace, twitter, social networking, games, it is useless for real business type work. And when you get to a real desktop, there is no F**king way to get to your programs to run them. I am getting Victoria a new laptop next week, and I am going to scrub Windows 8 and install WIndows 7 back on it.

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I uh... use Windows 8 and have no problems running real apps (Photoshop, Lightroom, Office, AutoCAD) on it without any problem. Once you log in, click on the desktop tile and you have your regular desktop--quick launch icons and all.

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I've read comments by power users that there is a learning curve but once you get the hang of it you can do stuff faster than 7.

 

15 minutes won't cut it.

 

I love Metro on my WP8 Lumia. Not sure how it would work for my PC so no rush to upgrade there but I do WANT a Surface Pro real bad.

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I have Victoria's new PC loaded with Office 2010, and Windows 8 is annoying me somewhat. I would love to have a start menu to find all the programs, including accessories, so without adding Classic shell, can someone tell me how to do that? Its not as bad as I thought, but man, will it take some getting used to. I just installed AVAST, unistalled Norton, found out that Spybot will not work on WIndows 8, and seem to have locked the system down for security. Any thoughts on Skype? This is the system I got her, and added a wireless mouse and backpack. http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=7637185&Sku=S203-156134 The Samsung won out over the HP, and I have been a big Hewlett-Packard fan for years.

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