2.0 in Windows 8

**Valmonte** · 01-10-2013 01:27 AM

the only thing W8 does better than Vista/7 is the drastically decreased I/O overheard and activity, this makes the system much more responsive.

**WinnipegJet** · 01-10-2013 01:46 AM

I have it on good authority from an alpha tester friend of mine that he was able to run the new client without a single compatibility issue or even crash.

And yeah, I wasn't in alpha so I'm not talking about myself.

**Molly_Millions** · 01-10-2013 01:48 AM

Originally Posted by Naraku_Diabolos

You know Windows "Blue" (supposedly 9) is coming out this summer, right?

Some quick searching on google seems to show that windows blue is just a future update to W8, not what I could consider W9.

**Alhanelem** · 01-10-2013 01:51 AM

Originally Posted by Dhalmel

Why does every person who uses this every other OS excuse ALWAYS forgets to list Windows 2000?

I also like how people who bash 8 probably didn't try out the 2012 server edition and see how much better it is to the older 2009.

Because 2000 isn't a home version OS. It was not made or sold for the home user market. It came in pro/server versions only.

**Soukyuu** · 01-10-2013 02:11 AM

I really, honestly tried to get used to win8. In the end, I couldn't find any noticeable performance increases everyone has been praising which would justify upgrading from win7. Boot time difference was about 2 seconds with my SSD, not really noticeable.

The major issue of win8 is not the modernUI by itself, it's the fact they're forcing it onto hardware that doesn't support it. ModernUI is great for tablets/smartphones, but it's useless for touch-less devices. Their retarded reasoning of forcing Metro on desktop users being a compromise is what breaks it. Even if you only work on the "legacy" desktop, you're constantly faced with Metro dialogues. Ever tried to put your taskbar to the left side of the screen? Try clicking on network connections and see where the metro menu opens...

The whole experience is way too fragmented. If they went for desktop being default with metro apps running on it, that would have been the real compromise.

Another thing is that if you're still use some legacy software (FFXI/windower, for example), you will run into troubles with administrator rights. In win7, you could just turn UAC off or start it as admin... now what win8 does is, if you turn it off, it's not really off, so the program thinks it has admin rights but it doesn't -> crash. There is a registry setting that shuts UAC off for good, but doing this will kill ALL metro apps (this includes the metro control panel btw).

All in all, win8 is another experiment just like vista was. Win9 won't make Metro go away, but maybe they will at least fix the overall fragmentation of the two user interfaces so that they work together in a less jarring way. The new improvements to windows explorer/task manager etc are nice, but not something you can't add to win7 via 3rd party plugins. As such, I don't see a reason to upgrade from win7 just yet.

**Quesse** · 01-10-2013 02:36 AM

Yesterday's CES quote from Gabe Newell of Valve (steam) about Windows 8:

"The thing about Windows 8 wasn’t just [Microsoft's] distribution. As somebody who participates in the overall PC ecosystem, it’s totally great when faster wireless networks and standards come out, or when graphics get faster. Windows 8 was like this giant sadness. It just hurts everybody in the PC business. Rather than everybody being all excited to go buy a new PC, buying new software to run on it, we’ve had a 20+ percent decline in PC sales — it’s like "holy cow that’s not what the new generation of the operating system is supposed to do." There’s supposed to be a 40 percent uptake, not a 20 percent decline, so that’s what really scares me. When I started using it I was like "oh my god..." I find [Windows 8] unusable."

http://www.theverge.com/2013/1/8/385...ture-of-gaming

**Dhalmel** · 01-10-2013 02:43 AM

Originally Posted by Alhanelem

Because 2000 isn't a home version OS. It was not made or sold for the home user market. It came in pro/server versions only.

It doesn't make it any less valid, it was the first windows OS I owned when I built my first system.

**indira** · 01-10-2013 03:11 AM

people still support winXP, im gonna use win 7 till its not worth using anymore or till microsoft pulls an apple and make you buy hot fixes/service packs and call it a new OS.

**Dhalmel** · 01-10-2013 03:16 AM

Originally Posted by indira

people still support winXP, im gonna use win 7 till its not worth using anymore or till microsoft pulls an apple and make you buy hot fixes/service packs and call it a new OS.

Windows users are not sheep so it will never happen, even if they did linux will be more apparent by that time.

**Molly_Millions** · 01-10-2013 03:21 AM

Originally Posted by indira

people still support winXP, im gonna use win 7 till its not worth using anymore or till microsoft pulls an apple and make you buy hot fixes/service packs and call it a new OS.

sounds like they are going to do that starting with windows blue

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