Windows 8?

[rebelcowboysnb]

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Well, 7 is awful, so if 8 is a step backwards, that's just wonderful.

They have made every thing in a way i don't like for any PC. They have gotten rid of the desktop as we know it.

They did kill the start button an menu.

The first screen that comes up once signed in is a app screen sorta like android or the Iphone. One of the apps is desktop. When you click it it looks like regular old windows but the start button takes you back to the app page.

 

[rebelcowboysnb]

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If you have windows 7 Pro you can download VPC an windows XP free to run inside windows 7 so your old stuff will work. You can do it with regular windows 7 but they dont give you a copy of XP. You have to have the disk.

 

[Chickerdoodle13]

I don't really care for the app look. It just seems too busy for me and it reminds me too much of my ipod. I have really come to love Windows 7, except for a very few things. I don't see myself switching over to Windows 8 until I buy a new computer, which hopefully won't be for a little while!

 

[woodmort]

I'm still trying to figure out MSDOS.

 

[rebelcowboysnb]

The only thing I ever learned to do in dos was make a rocket like this:

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Shoot up the screen over an over...

 

[seminolewind]

That's all why I've downloaded Ubuntu (Linux) along side windows. I can use either or, while I learn to use it.

 

[rebelcowboysnb]

I have a PC running Ubuntu an one running fedora. There ok for PCs you dont have to actually use like say, servers but worthless to the average user as a home PC. Almost everything I go to do on them it tells me I dont have permition an I have to type in a bunch of junk in the command line or hack they system to do basic stuff from the GUI.

 

[Runt Of The Litter]

Never used VM but I use VPC an when I tried to install on VPC I got an error.

I have stacks of PCs so I am playing around with it on a old laptop.

had to look up VPC as had never heard of it,everything have been reading so far about the developer version of windows eight,says its not compatible with VPC,heres a thread about it on microsofts developer network:
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Fo...l/thread/2392a693-ac76-4a2a-b0c4-32a55e5b19cf
that is quite funny,the official microsoft virtual manager wont even run their own OS,yet oracles virtual box will run it?


-ouch,an old laptop? hows it coping with the spec?
even the newest laptop of mine from last year barely copes with wind doze seven on basic aero settings,bet it needs a stick of RAM just to power the boot up splash screen.

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it does get irritating,especialy when a lot of updating and installing is being done,but there is a good reason for asking for permission when wanting to install,update etc.
if are permenently logged into a super user/root account,it is far easier for malware and hackers to take advantage of destroying the most essential important files and considering people are fleeing windows like rats on a sinking ship,its probably a good thing to have a limited account for the majority of use.
linux is getting easier to exploit,virus and hack into,especialy with the likes of metasploit framework,people are starting to see linux as a viable source for targetting.​

 

[rebelcowboysnb]

I would not mind having to sign on as root to do some things but the root user account is blocked completely for GUI an can only be accessed by the command line. An simple things like Apaches web page folder is blocked. It makes for a good OS for someone that does nothing but surf an for super hackers that dont even need a GUI but useless for the average user that is somewhere in the middle.


Windows 8 is running pretty good on this old laptop though. But its a celeron M 1.30GHz 1.30GHz with 512MB ram. Its old but not that old.


As for VPC. There are a lot of illegal things you can do with software like that so I dont think Microsoft wanted VPC to be all that useful.

 

[fuzziebutt]

I have DOS and COBOL and Assembly down pat, but HTML is kicking my buttox. I love 7, and will probably put 8 on my laptop as soon as I can. Aside from 7, Win98 Second Edition was the best Windows ever.