Windows 8 Compatibility

[Alhanelem]

Original design of Windows? Windows 1 couldn't even support overlapping Windows.

I lumped 3.11-prior together here, as microsoft has. If you include versions prior to 3.11, there are really 10 major home-use versions of windows and they should be calling the current one windows 9 and the next one windows 10. The mark of a real versions shift is at the point of the switch to the NT/95 style itnerface.

I'm running it in Windowed mode and it crashes with that stupod device lost error message everytime I try to run an executable.

I already explained how to solve that problem above if the crash is because of UAC prompts.

On windows 7 I deactivated UAC, but Windows 8 needs it activated or a lot of stuff doesn't work anymore.

Disabling UAC is a huge security risk. It's like telling someone the root password in linux. Most UAC crashes can be solved by disabling the "dim the desktop" (secure desktop) feature.

When you disable UAC, *ALL* programs run with administrator rights. "You want to rob my house? here's the key!"

[Dragon]

No. Metro is overall a better interface. Explorer is clunky. Face it... most everything people use is located via a shortcut on THE DESKTOP. Metro simplifies this.

I don't agree. Explorer is useful as it is on Windows 7 for K/M, MetroUI is not.

The Metro interface is presently used on the Xbox360 as it's primary UI and the Xbox360 does not use a touchscreen interface. And I hate to break it too you a tablet with a touchscreen UI isn't much different than desktop mouse driven UI.

They're made for different userbases. Not to mention for the Xbox 360, you're not using a K/M, but a gamepad. For one, a touchscreen UI makes it more efficient to just click with your... fingers! Imagine that. Secondly, the K/M userbase has a much larger screen.