In Windows 8, 16 years after the taskbar first hit our computers, we’ll finally be able to span the taskbar across multiple screens, without needing third party applications or special drivers.
I’m sold on it. I want.
It’s pretty strange, I’ll give it that. I can see myself almost immediately disabling the new interface and sticking with a traditional start menu. I’m pretty sure having all these boxes constantly flashing updates as my “desktop” would give me A.D.D. worse than Fry. The way all the built in “apps” launch and have no simply way to be closed, instead just being listed as “suspended” in the task manager when you switch away from them reminds me a lot of iOS. Navigation on the new main screen seems really tilted toward touch screen interface and is not very intuitive for a keyboard and mouse.
Oh, and when I took the computer’s bishop putting it in check in the new chess app the app locked up and refused to make another move. It would however allow me to restart the game so I know the app didn’t crash. Maybe Windows 8 just doesn’t like losing?
Hey look, another double post.
Haha what a sore loser.
I was just happy to see our credit union software ran on it without even needing a recompile. That made my 2012 look a bit brighter.
windows nt ftmfw
2000 pro and xp are the same thing xp just has eye candy, windows 7 pro is really pretty sweet IMO
http://www.reactos.org/en/index.html
ReactOS® is a free, modern operating system based on the design of Windows® XP/2003. Written completely from scratch, it aims to follow the Windows-NT® architecture designed by Microsoft from the hardware level right through to the application level. This is not a Linux based system, and shares none of the unix architecture.
looks like the xbox 360 dashboard…
Downloaded it today and set it up on a spare machine. You still have an almost standard windows 7 under the GUI. The new GUI is nice for an All-In-One touchscreen computer, but for something to work on, I don’t like it. Should work very well for tablets though.
Do normal apps install on it cleanly or will it require developers to release new versions like when Vista came out?
JayS said that his credit union software fired right up without re-compiling it.
Our software installed just fine and even created a tile on the fancy new home screen (albeit a very ugly one since our icon is designed to be standard icon size). What was interesting was when I ran it the OS basically switched to the windows 7 interface and ran in a normal windows state with close/maximize/minimize buttons. I assume if you want your software to run in the new “app state” like say the news feed or chess apps windows 8 came with it would have to be written to support windows 8’s suspend/task switching architecture.
Ok cool. That is what I was curious on if you needed to explicitly compile apps for Windows 8 or would it auto switch and still support the Windows XP/7 features if someone didn’t release it.
This part is interesting tho. Seems like Flash may finally be dead since Apple is against it, Google is on the HTML5 train, and now MS is not supporting plugins.
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2011/08/31/browsing-without-plug-ins.aspx
The sooner flash is dead the better.
I wonder who will be officially dead first… Steve Jobs or Flash?
Too soon?
Anybody got a good tool to burn an iso to a USB stick?
Supposedly it runs pretty well on them, so I’m going to try it on an eeeeeeeeeeeeee pc 900 I’ve got at home.
ImgBurn