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Posted February 29, 2012
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kavazovangel: Connection is great, actually. Some users on Neowin are reporting 3-6 MBs per second download speed.
That's fast. I thought that it would be a lot slower than that. I suppose I could download it at home. At 10 kbs but it will only take me 3 1/2 days : D
Posted February 29, 2012
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ovoon: Personal opinion:

It's absolute trash.

It's like using a tablet OS minus the touch screen and on my desktop. And Metro looks like crap.
can't you turn it off? it does seem impractical but unfortunately i cannot check it myself.
Posted February 29, 2012
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ovoon: Personal opinion:

It's absolute trash.

It's like using a tablet OS minus the touch screen and on my desktop. And Metro looks like crap.
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lukaszthegreat: can't you turn it off? it does seem impractical but unfortunately i cannot check it myself.
Hit the windows key it goes to normal desktop I believe.
Posted February 29, 2012
By the way, Visual Studio 11 Beta and .NET 4.5 Beta have also been released. :)

EDIT: Internet Explorer 10 Technical Preview 5 was also released.
Post edited February 29, 2012 by kavazovangel
Posted February 29, 2012
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SimonG: If I learned one thing in the army, than not to be the first in a column.

I'll check the thread again in a month ;-)
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liquidsnakehpks: wow , you need to train us more here , well said
5th column? ;)
Posted February 29, 2012
Does the Setup work like Wubi for Ubuntu? If not, what would be the best way for me to install it without losing my current OS (Vista)? I have an empty hard drive (D:).
Posted February 29, 2012
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Aridoom: Does the Setup work like Wubi for Ubuntu? If not, what would be the best way for me to install it without losing my current OS (Vista)? I have an empty hard drive (D:).
You can also download an installer / setup that will directly update your Vista OS to Windows 8.

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-8/download

I think this is what you're looking for.
Posted February 29, 2012
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Aridoom: Does the Setup work like Wubi for Ubuntu? If not, what would be the best way for me to install it without losing my current OS (Vista)? I have an empty hard drive (D:).
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kavazovangel: You can also download an installer / setup that will directly update your Vista OS to Windows 8.

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-8/download

I think this is what you're looking for.
No, I want to keep Vista and have 8 too. When I've tried Ubuntu with Wubi, it allows me to choose which OS I want to use on computer start-up.
Post edited February 29, 2012 by Aridoom
Posted February 29, 2012
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Aridoom: No, I want to keep Vista and have 8 too. When I've tried Ubuntu with Wubi, it allows me to choose which OS I want to use on computer start-up.
Well windows systems are kind of control freaks, just use Virtual machine (VirtualBox supports win8 and is fairly easy to set up)
Posted February 29, 2012
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Aridoom: No, I want to keep Vista and have 8 too. When I've tried Ubuntu with Wubi, it allows me to choose which OS I want to use on computer start-up.
Well, either that setup, or the ISO could allow you that. I've no idea, as I'm still downloading it.
Posted February 29, 2012
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Aridoom: No, I want to keep Vista and have 8 too. When I've tried Ubuntu with Wubi, it allows me to choose which OS I want to use on computer start-up.
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Fenixp: Well windows systems are kind of control freaks, just use Virtual machine (VirtualBox supports win8 and is fairly easy to set up)
Windows always lets you dual boot with other versions of itself though.
Posted February 29, 2012
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Aridoom: No, I want to keep Vista and have 8 too. When I've tried Ubuntu with Wubi, it allows me to choose which OS I want to use on computer start-up.
You can boot off of a VHD, which is a virtual hard-drive (a file that sits on your hard-drive). This allows you to install Windows without having to create separate partitions or have another drive attached.

A tutorial on how to do it can be found here; it was written for the Developer Preview, but should work exactly the same for this version as well.
Posted February 29, 2012
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kavazovangel: You can also download an installer / setup that will directly update your Vista OS to Windows 8.

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-8/download

I think this is what you're looking for.
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Aridoom: No, I want to keep Vista and have 8 too. When I've tried Ubuntu with Wubi, it allows me to choose which OS I want to use on computer start-up.
You can install Windows 8 CP to its own partition. (Use Device Manager or a better partition manager to make a free partition for it.)

When you then install Windows 8 CP, install it to that partition. It will install its boot manager, which will be set up to boot Windows 8 by default.

You can mess with BCDedit (ugly!) or get a third-party BCD editor to rearrange the boot manager, so you can present OS choices in the desired order or boot the one you want by default.
Posted February 29, 2012
It looks like a tablet OS. I want a desktop PC OS.
Posted February 29, 2012
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Navagon: It looks like a tablet OS. I want a desktop PC OS.
It is a desktop OS, tablet OS, and very soon, it will be an OS for smartphones.
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