Windows 8 - Your Thoughts and Opinion

There is always resistance to change .. only time will tell if windows 8 will be accepted or not (like vista)

Eh, in all honestly, after using windows 8 for a while, and with the start menu that I provided a link to on the previous page, windows 8 feels like windows 7 to me. Don't see any problems now with drivers being up to date as well working on Windows 8.

I like a couple of features of windows 8. Like the new bsod , task manager and couple of icons. But it really takes a while to get used to. :-( and its more optimized for a touch screen :-(


I'm not a fan of all the tiles and all. Looks a bit too bulky for my taste

With windows 8 you can create a pool of hard drives that show up as a single drive letter. It is my understanding that you can over-provision and assign it a higher volume( say 25TB) than you actually plug in at the time (say 4 - 2.0TB).
When you first set this up, it will re-format the drives. Now say after adding data onto this group of drives, I have the need to increase its volume, will I lose my data if I add more hard drives if I stay below the 25TB threshold I originally set up?

I'll wait for at least 3-6 months before shifting from 7 to 8. Right now there are bugs and cases of unsupported hardware. A friend is having problems with his gaming mice since its software doesn't support win8 yet. The mice is functioning but he cannot setup macros for now. Those things are still present now from mice to printers and other devices. It would be wise to check compatibility of your existing hardware first before shifting to windows 8. I have an Asus ThunderFX external audio card and right now it doesn't have drivers for windows 8...

Well I had problems with the ASUS Xonar drivers because those don't support Windows 8 either. Need to wait for that as well. But then again I haven't checked if they put those up yet, because last time I played around with it was 2 months ago. I got a separate driver I found that some guy modded to work with Windows 8. But all the rest of the hardware I hve works just fine.

Best friends grandma bought a new Windows 8 laptop to replace her old HP desktop. He went over there to take off the bloatware and do a few other things for her. Needless to say, there was a ton of profanities being texting to me about Windows 8. I lold.

Lol, sounds like the first few hours of my Windows 8 experience. :P Not joking, even though I like it now.

I got those Raptor drives. I'll probably put the OEM copy of 8 on them tomorrow if I'm not busy doing benches, typing up the article, or playing with my 98 box.

to answer peti1212 (#30)
I put Win8 consumer preview on a fresh build, then upgraded online from Microsoft for $40. My understanding is that Microsoft allows this because the vast majority of those upgrading from the preview editions had a previous version of windows running on them.
It has not asked me for a Win7 licence but if it does i'll use the one from my laptop, which recently had the motherboard die in it.

BTW, those who would like the Start menu back, you'll have to install a 3rd Party Software like "Classic Shell" to get a start menu. That's sad :(

Windows 8 Pro X64 fresh install with only Nvidia drivers installed, 1GB higher RAM usage than my Windows 7 installation. After disabling several services that I disable in Windows 7 I still have the same RAM usage both with swap disabled.

http://img.techpowerup.org/121109/fail.jpg

I've been using Windows 8 since launch date, and I've definitely warmed up to it. The Start Screen is just a more visual extension of the typical Start button. I like Windows 8 quite a bit. I built a new system and upgraded from Windows XP to take advantage of cheap pricing. Totally worth it!

Just wanted to add that my ol Core 2 Duo E8400 from my sig was pretty sluggish in Vista, less in Win7 and i was thinking of getting rid of it till windows 8. Amazingly the system is running pretty fast and smooth in Win8

I have 4 machines running W7, a WHS11, F@H box on Vista and a laptop running XP. Not going to change until W9 comes out. Everything runs *knock on wood* pretty darn well, at this point.