Windows 8 launch. Anything new?

[cleydemm Profile Private message]

I preferred to wait for the launch of Windows 8, to buy a new computer ... and I know that software developers are working on tests with the pre-release, as the system is on the market available for sale from now, October 26.
Any news regarding the Photodex?

Thanks,
Cleyde.

[BarbaraC Profile Private messageWebsite]

There's no news from Photodex, but it's a safe bet they've been very busy testing.

Barbara

[cleydemm Profile Private message]

Hi, Barbara! Thank you!

I'm dreaming with a top of line PC...and cheering for ProShow 64-bit

[bigsewed Profile Private message]

64 would be great!

[BarbaraC Profile Private messageWebsite]

I'm not sure Windows 8 will be any less irritating than Windows 7 (all of Microsoft irritates me), but a 64-bit ProShow? Yes, indeed! I have a major piece of extremely complicated software that's 64-bit, and it runs like a happy dream.

Barbara

[texan Profile Private message]

Microsoft went years without making too big of a stir with updates to its Windows operating system, but with only days left to the unleashing of Windows 8 upon the world, the early word is that some people will not be please with all the changes.

The new look of Windows 8 is supposed to tie it together with the Windows OS currently running on some tablets and smartphones, which may be the big problem, as Windows Mobile users are only a fraction of the mobile market dominated by Google’s Android OS and Apple iOS devices

“There are many things that are hidden,” said Raluca Budiu, a user experience specialist with Nielsen Norman Group. “Once users discover them, they have to remember where they are. People will have to work hard and use this system on a regular basis.”


One early tester tells the AP that not only did Windows 8 fail to speed up processes on his laptop, it required him and his family to re-learn many things they had spent decades using on previous versions of Windows.

“It was very difficult to get used to,” he tells the AP. “I have an 8-year-old and a 10-year-old, and they never got used to it. They were like, `We’re just going to use Mom’s computer.’”

And it looks like just about all PCs released after Windows 8 hits the street on Oct. 26 will comes with the new OS installed. This is just in time for the busy holiday computer-buying season, which means we’ll quickly get a feeling for how well millions of people are adapting to the changes.

“We’ll know a lot more about this 90 days from now,” says the CEO of Intel, which claims the response to Windows 8 has been universally positive for people who have tried it on ultrabooks with touchscreens.

For the remaining millions of us without touchscreens, we’ll be waiting to judge and hoping some of the early reviews are just being too picky.

[BarbaraC Profile Private messageWebsite]

My son is planning on getting a new computer in the spring, and since he's already experienced Win 7 on my computer (he uses XP) and despises it (I'm not overly fond either), he'll probably make sure our tech supplies Win 7, for which he can at least rely on me to supply help. His attitude is the same as mine: Fix what doesn't work well and please, please, please leave all the rest as is. As it stands, Win 7 has hidden away a lot of things that were obvious in XP (I never bothered with Vista), and it's this more than anything else that irritates me endlessly, so the notion that Win 8 increases the hiding activity tells me I probably won't go near it.

Barbara

[gpsmikey Profile Private message]

I think the M$ plan is to grab a big chunk of the tablet market and with the new introduction of W8 on the PC's which makes them much more tablet like in their feel, get a significant chunk of the PC users that are thinking of mobile devices to jump on the Microsoft based tablets since they will feel the same. I do know a lot of folks (me included) are considering tablets. 64 bit is also a consideration - there are getting to be quite a few different packages out there (like the new Sony Vegas Pro 12) that are now 64 bit only - it is no longer a choice of 32 or 64 bit versions. In general, I do like (mostly) Win 7 / 64 although I have run into a few quirks and things that are irritating (I'm afraid that like Barbara, it comes with my age ) - it's getting harder to train me - just ask my wife I think the whole windows 8 direction is to create a smooth/easy transition for folks from their PC to the mobile devices, thereby getting a good chunk of the emerging mobile device market - just look at the Microsoft based tablet ads that have been showing up on TV recently (if nothing else providing a refreshing change from the political "my opponent is a crook and I'm wonderful" ads !! )

mikey

[Merlin_AZ Profile Private message]

I'm not anticipating a huge issue.
I still remember when Windows 95 was released and everyone was complaining how different that was.
No one knew what a Start button was.
We'll learn over time.

[BarbaraC Profile Private messageWebsite]

<rant>
My problem with Windows is that it now behaves as a nanny might toward ignorant 3-year-olds. It took me a number of hours to tame it, which included getting it to stop telling me I was too stupid to delete my own files. Really?! Why on earth haven't they created two default settings, one for people who share their computer with no one, and another for those who share with their spouse and 20 children? I stopped needing a mommy many, many years ago, and I quite seriously resent the code-jockey crowd thinking I'm a total ninny.
</rant>

Barbara