Windows 8 Compatibility

[Antipika]

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.

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

[Velhart]

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

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.

[Cthulhu]

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.

[Nahaara]

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

[Kagato]

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

[Molly_Millions]

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

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.

[Zenaku]

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

[Alhanelem]

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?

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.

[Deatheye]

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

[Molly_Millions]

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

so does windowed mode, fyi.