I love that I can open Office documents so fast without even having Office installed. Click on SkyDrive, click on the document. Wait a second or two, boom, it opens! (requires internet, though)

Many games run faster on Windows 8, yey!

Examples:

"Alan Wake 7 to 12 FPS more
Skyrim 6FPS more
crysis 2 10 FPS more
LA Noire 4FPs more then windows 7
Farcry 2 7FPS more then windows 7
WoW 10-15 FPS more"
Desktop version. Some less-than-a-second-visible glitches when switching between tabs and slowdowns on The Verge when playing Flash videos (might be a The Verge / Flash problem).

Windows 8! Please add to GOG! Good graphics and game good!


Are we not just doing this everywhere? No? Never mind.

Woa, GOG getting into the dev funding business? :)

uTorrent, VirtualBox, 7-Zip, nVidia's GPU drivers, and Adobe Flash work just fine.

You won't need to install Adobe Reader anymore, as there is a preinstalled Metro app called Windows Reader that can open PDF and XPS files. Of course, if you need the additional functionalities of Adobe Reader, you'd need to install it, but just for reading casual / normal PDF and XPS stuff, Windows Reader is okay.

You also won't need MSE as every feature of it is integrated into Windows Defender.

edit:
so no need for adobe flash and adobe reader now for 95% of users?

Flash auto-installs (well, asks you if you want to install it) in IE10 desktop version as soon as you visit a webpage that has flash content.

AFAIK flash in the Metro UI of IE10 is still a no-go as no plugins are allowed there.

As far as I remember, they did say Flash would be available in Metro (that was after the "no plugins whatsoever" statement).

Not sure, seems a bit familiar but I honestly can't find anything on the internet confirming that. On the upside, you'll always be able to install Firefox and use it both in Metro and the regular desktop which should support plugins. via Building Firefox for Windows 8 Metro.

Let's have a look at the source then, this is something tangible that I could like.

It's to be expected honestly considering that Windows 8 has a lower memory & CPU footprint than Windows 7.

I must admit I probably focussed too much on my distaste with my feeling that Metro is more about Mobility than desktop use. Doesn't really help that most of the press don't seem to talk about much else either. Having looked at http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/default.aspx?PageIndex=1 , I'm beginning to see it has a lot more than a new frock.

Think I'll try it out.

i mean that with html5 no flash would be needed. so slowly internet will move away from it or does it have advantage over html5 which cannot be replaced at this moment?

From a subjective point of view, hardware acceleration on HTML5 is just horrible (watching a 1080p HTML5 vid takes my processor to around 30% while the same on Flash keeps it at around 3% doing offloading to the video card).

From an objective point of view, the thing which will keep flash alive the longest is the fact that there's no way to add DRM to your content on HTML5. Anyone can download your video or assets or link to them from anywhere on the web, and this makes it impractical to be used on websites such as Hulu or the online HBO website and so on.

There are other aspects of HTML5 which currently lag behind Flash (and lots of them are not based on technology but on politics, like the h.264 vs Theora as a web video standard, or the almost exclusive use of WebKit prefixes in CSS for mobile, which means that if you're browser doesn't adopt them the webpage will be displayed like crap) but those can be more or less fixed with time, as long as politics manage to get pushed to the side.

It wouldn't make that much sense for MS to allows un-managed code on WP8 (More prone to memory leak, security issue and a lot lot harder to validate). Of course they could make the phone/tabled version of WinRT fully managed but then rewriting Dosbox for it would take as long as to rewrite for Silverlight.
For now only for now...

Right side Charm - Settings - Power - Shutdown, but yea it is a bit faster in 7.