Windows 8 Compatibility

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Originally Posted by Velhart

Windows 8 is mostly a media upgrade. It's technical improvements are very minimal at best and I am just going to skip to Windows 9.

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I wouldn't call improvement brought by wddm 1.2 "very minimal".

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Originally Posted by Ark_mage2

http://lifehacker.com/5841702/window...uch-everything

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Which comes back to "minimal", these numbers are only by a few seconds. I won't spend 200+ dollars on an OS that is only a few seconds faster. It also hasn't shown gaming improvements either, unless I missed it.

Of course there will be improvements over Windows 7, that is a no brainer, but is the upgrade significant enough to make me want to upgrade? In my opinion, no. Vista > Windows 7 was a dramatic OS upgrade. When Windows does something like that again, I will upgrade.

Yeah, 30 seconds shaved off of 10 min worth of tasks. Most of that was during boot. Not exactly compelling for the price they will be asking for the OS.

Ehem... http://www.theverge.com/2012/5/31/30...y-code-removal

I'll be skipping Windows 8 unless the OS looks more like a desktop computer and less like a tablet.

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Originally Posted by Nahaara

Ehem... http://www.theverge.com/2012/5/31/30...y-code-removal

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I'm not sure how I feel about the removal of the windows button, but Aero is an unoptimized piece of crap that hogs resources like they are going out of style.

I think window 8 should have been a Window 7 SP2 but you know that just me lol

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Originally Posted by Molly_Millions

I was gonna keep quiet, but this comment made me speak up. What exactly is the advantage of windows 8 over windows 7 on a desktop without a touchscreen? It's my understanding that W8 has huge advances in usability for tablet PCs, but what advantages does it have for non-tablet PCs?

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I don't know, that's why I made the comment. I've been told there are a lot of back-end (performance, resource management) improvements. Beyond that, I hadn't really heard much about win8 at all.

the original design of Windows (1) worked for the time. windows 95 was a stripped down badly butchered NT (2), 98 was much better (3), ME was LOL (4), XP was the biggest improvement to windows in a long time (5), Vista was terrible (6) Windows 7 made it a lot better (7) and now Windows 8.... well, we'll see if it breaks the pattern.

I wouldn't call a game that crashes every time UAC wants something from you compatible. Lucky 2.0 should fix that.

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Originally Posted by Deatheye

I wouldn't call a game that crashes every time UAC wants something from you compatible. Lucky 2.0 should fix that.

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so does windowed mode, fyi.