Windows 8 FREE Developer Build

Millennium · Sep 14, 2011

Love the smiley

hahaha

Don't love the memory usage at desktop though. I think Windows 8 is going to be a bit like vista where people wait for the next version to upgrade.

Mussels · Sep 14, 2011

new BSOD = SOS = screen of sad

Drone · Sep 14, 2011

that reminds of google chrome broken plugin smiley

95Viper · Sep 14, 2011

Have any of you ~~suckers~~, ur, I mean, adventurers/pioneers tried to dual boot this and windows 7?

H82LUZ73 · Sep 14, 2011

repman244 said:
Noooo...

http://img33.imageshack.us/img33/4742/857443.png

Is this the new BSOD?

yes this was the one in longhorn or xp way back when.

johnnyfiive · Sep 14, 2011

LAN_deRf_HA said:
Why is everything zoomed in on the browser? It set on granny by default?

I zoomed in. My contacts don't have bifocals built in so I have to zoom somtimes. :eek:

cheesy999 · Sep 14, 2011

Millennium said:
Don't love the memory usage at desktop though. I think Windows 8 is going to be a bit like vista where people wait for the next version to upgrade.

what's wrong with the memory usage, it's £30 for 4GB, anyone who doesn't, or cannot upgrade to at least 2GB of ram these days is not the sort of person that could upgrade a computer operating system

And where did you get Vista's high ram usage from?

that's just superfetch etc doing it's job

it's better to have things in ram that are dumped if the space is needed, then to just waste the ram

everytime there's a new operating system, people have always said it's bad, then they always start to understand how it works etc, and they come to like it

windows XP was criticized for high memory usage when it came out...

Frick · Sep 14, 2011

cheesy999 said:
what's wrong with the memory usage, it's £30 for 4GB, anyone who doesn't, or cannot upgrade to at least 2GB of ram these days is not the sort of person that could upgrade a computer operating system

But this OS will be on tablets as well that cannot be upgraded.

cheesy999 · Sep 14, 2011

Frick said:
But this OS will be on tablets as well that cannot be upgraded.

and what we all know already is

A)the tablet version is separate from the desktop version
B) superfetch only uses the resources available to it

i see no reason why a tablet optimized version could not operate on quantities of ram under 1gb

EDIT:After installing it in about 5 mins flat, and now using it for 15 (i have TPU open in my second monitor, i can say that i will certainly be buying windows 8, it's so fast and easy to use, i just showed it to someone i know (who knows nothing about computers) and they also agreed it's really nice to use

i really like the way i can switch between a sort of tablet/mobile phone experience, and a full desktop almost instantly
Double EDIT:Vista and windows 8 next to each other

stat comparison
VISTA 8
CPU 3% 4%
Mem 1.54GB 0.8GB

Triple edit:Vista stats are simply the Vista task manager stats, with windows 8 stats subtracted from them

Derek12 · Sep 14, 2011

I get a error that says KERNEL_DATA_INPAGE_ERROR (msfs.sys) at installation in Virtualbox.

EDIT: now it hangs in "Setup is starting"

EDIT2: rebooted the VM and now installation begins

What a POS it hangs on 5% in expanding files and the error again

cheesy999 · Sep 14, 2011

To all those that asked, i found the shutdown button

press the start menu, click setting, and then click power -->shutdown

i hope they move that at some point

mrw1986 · Sep 14, 2011

This is the pinnacle of all my posts ever, haha. I've never had so much feedback or as many likes in one post

I can't wait to get home and try this out. It finally gives me a reason to install the 1TB drive I have had sitting next to me for almost a year...

AsRock · Sep 14, 2011

repman244 said:
Noooo...

http://img33.imageshack.us/img33/4742/857443.png

Is this the new BSOD?

Love how it blames your PC.

Derek12 · Sep 14, 2011

Derek12 said:
I get a error that says KERNEL_DATA_INPAGE_ERROR (msfs.sys) at installation in Virtualbox.

EDIT: now it hangs in "Setup is starting"

EDIT2: rebooted the VM and now installation begins

What a POS it hangs on 5% in expanding files and the error again
http://img.techpowerup.org/110914/Capture019.jpg

nvm got it running

Now it doesn't want to boot any more appears the welcome screen then it makes the sounds like if I plugged a USB device and stays in a solid green screen does anyone know why

it respond s to the ctrl alt del and the task manager opens but nothing more WTF

Well the desktop appeared is the Metro thing that doesn't run who knows.

zsolt_93 · Sep 14, 2011

It's a bit laggy in the vm isn't it? I didn't manage to install any kind of video driver for the virtual adapter. Did you find one?

Derek12 · Sep 14, 2011

zsolt_93 said:
It's a bit laggy in the vm isn't it? I didn't manage to install any kind of video driver for the virtual adapter. Did you find one?

Yeah even the mouse pointer lags, no I don't installed the drivers yet (guest additions)I will try if I get the damn thing to boot LOL

Well at least Aero works

Millennium · Sep 14, 2011

cheesy999 said:
what's wrong with the memory usage, it's £30 for 4GB, anyone who doesn't, or cannot upgrade to at least 2GB of ram these days is not the sort of person that could upgrade a computer operating system

And where did you get Vista's high ram usage from?

that's just superfetch etc doing it's job

it's better to have things in ram that are dumped if the space is needed, then to just waste the ram

everytime there's a new operating system, people have always said it's bad, then they always start to understand how it works etc, and they come to like it

windows XP was criticized for high memory usage when it came out...

Regarding the memory usage, I don't mind the OS using ALL available memory if it brings improvements, just I think 1/2 a gig just to show the desktop seems a lot. Perhaps it includes caching system files opened at startup, I dunno. I agree memory is cheap now but as someone has mentioned it's not as easy to upgrade memory in all devices.

Regarding Vista, it was not as optimized as windows 7 and included a lot of new features, I was not referring to the ram usage in particular, just stupid things like no 2d acceleration which didnt turn up till windows 7.

I will probably try windows 8 but I may try and stick with 7 for my day to day computing needs, depending on what I think about 8 having actually tried the retail product. Until windows 7 I stuck with XP too.

Derek12 · Sep 14, 2011

Now I get this and can't do anything

cheesy999 · Sep 14, 2011

Derek12 said:
Now I get this and can't do anything http://img.techpowerup.org/110914/Capture022983.jpg

you need to log on

Frick · Sep 14, 2011

@Derek: It's a VM, of course it will not work as well as when installed. It doesn't work at all in VMWare Player. I will try Vbox now and see what happens.

cheesy999 · Sep 14, 2011

Frick said:
@derek: It's a VM, of course it will not work as well as when installed. It doesn't work at all in VMWare Player. I will try Vbox now and see what happens.

works in virtual-box

Derek12 · Sep 14, 2011

cheesy999 said:
you need to log on

How I log in it? simply I can drag up the image but nothing more, behind it appears the account and image I click/double-click on it but nothing happens :confused:

Frick said:
@derek: It's a VM, of course it will not work as well as when installed. It doesn't work at all in VMWare Player. I will try Vbox now and see what happens.

Yeah in virtualbox works "sort of" fine

it lags a lot (in my case) the guest additions don't work and I have trouble to boot it

Nevermind I rebooted but now the desktop is empty black and only I can open the task manager, seems that it need a lot of bug fixing or something!

Drone · Sep 14, 2011

Encountered a couple of annoying bugs in Windows Explorer and metro ui aswel. Also when I hit Windows Update it gives error

cheesy999 · Sep 14, 2011

Derek12 said:
How I log in it? simply I can drag up the image but nothing more, behind it appears the account and image I click/double-click on it but nothing happens

Yeah in virtualbox works "sort of" fine it lags a lot (in my case) the guest additions don't work and I have trouble to boot it

Nevermind I rebooted but now the desktop is empty black and only I can open the task manager, seems that it need a lot of bug fixing or something!

Drone said:
Encountered a couple of annoying bugs in Windows Explorer and metro ui aswel. Also when I hit Windows Update it gives error

i must be really lucky, i haven't come across one error yet :laugh:

Derek12 · Sep 14, 2011

Whoa the F8 menu is unrecognisable, now I'm "refreshing" it let's see if it works now

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Windows 8 FREE Developer Build

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