I spewed fire at Windows 8 when it was announced and after installing the Consumer Preview/beta. Ran it till RTM came out and installed it the day it came out. Recently I realized I went days, probably a week or more, without seeing the Metro/tile start/interface at all.

The OS would suffer form bad app design though, it's already evident many app designers are phoning it in completely and there are other apps that are pretty cool

As for getting out of an app... Windows key on the keyboard to get out of apps or mouse in the top/bottom left corners

Why? Windows 7 is so much better.

So you buy Windows 8 and then buy software to make it look like Windows 7?

Everything you just named there is NT. Win2k is NT 5. Vista, 7 and 8 are versions of NT 6.

Wink2k and XP are practically the same OS. Win2k = NT 5.0, XP = NT 5.1.

*facepalm*

:1orglaugh I never did it...

Windows 7 is a fantastic operating system and works really well.

I tried the Beta of Windows 8 --- and I also had trouble with basic functions and getting around.

What the fuck is wrong with you Microsoft?

Fuckin Windows 8, iPhone 5, I'm just going to kill myself.

:Oh crap

:1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh

No, thanks....

What's wrong is they have tried to combine a desktop OS and a tablet OS into one.

I think it works well on a tablet. Not so much on a desktop.

nope thank you

Like iPhone, iPad, OSX. MS playing catch up. About 5 yrs late.

I have been using it pretty much since the day the beta was released. Its good but the lack of a "START" button will confuse at first.

Just make shortcuts to your most missed start button applications and it works like a dream - I haven't tried to click the non-existent start button for months :).

lol - I remember trying to turn the computer off in Win 8 for the first time - I had to Google it.

I never ever see the Metro crap BTW.....

I might try Windows 8, just want to know why i would try it. What does it do that Windows 7 can't? Give me a few reasons to install it.

I would say that Windows 8 is a 'Power User' upgrade. It has pretty low hardware reqs compared to other upgrades but as an example if I put it in front of my mum so she could buy cheap handbags on EBay I doubt she would know where to start (excuse the pun).

It runs faster on low spec machines (for me anyway) than Win 7, just use the normal Desk Top.

If you use Metro then its a different story, it is SO slow it hurts.

Sorry about the random thoughts - Had a few beers :)!

Great, now give me a few reasons to install it.

Do what you like - I was just sharing my experience.

Use it if you know your way around Windows (or if you have never used Windows).

Sounds strange but I know what I mean.

The Metro interface is pretty irrelevant, the only time I see it is if I decide to start up the Netflix app.

Windows 8 is really good with multi core systems. We installed it on a 3930k machine, did a couple of tests with Sony Vegas and found it was maybe 20% faster than Win 7 running on the same box.

Disk i/o seems a lot better and the way it handles and looks on high DPI displays is really nice.

We just installed it to test it out and never went back to Win7.

Well that explain why i had deja vu when i saw metro interface first time.

This guy can show you how.