Windows 8.1 public preview download availible!!!...?

[greenroost1445]

Well windows 8.1 is revealed publicly... good or bad?

http://hexus.net/tech/news/software/57261-download-windows-81-public-preview-version-today/

 

 Everyone must by now be aware of the headline changes including a Start Screen button, 50:50 split screen modern UI multitasking and boot to desktop options. There’s a lot more changes within the OS which arethoroughly detailed on Microsoft’s Technet.

 

boot to desktop option are now available but Modern UI is still dominate. Should Microsoft do something else with Modern UI or keep it around?

[Loe]

Well windows 8.1 is revealed publicly... good or bad?

http://hexus.net/tech/news/software/57261-download-windows-81-public-preview-version-today/

Start menu might be back and boot to desktop option are now available but Modern UI is still dominate. Should Microsoft do something else with Modern UI or keep it around?

Start menu isn't back at all.

[Chevaishr]

meh i cant download 

[M-ursu]

Already posted, so this is going to be locked.

[samuel]

EDIT: posted on the proper thread.

[Ralms]

Well, Ive been using Windows 8 since release and honestly when I look at all the new features from this update I feel like Microsoft did nothing again.

 

From all that massive list we have 1 good thing which is more Tiles sizes. The rest is just more useless crap. Again Microsoft doesnt listen and doesnt improve the desktop environment again. 

 

Im not asking for the old, slow and annoying to use start menu but more synergy with the new UI, more customizations get windows to have the normal advanced control it has with easy to use access.

[ajoy39]

Installing it right now actually. Also, guys, the start button does serve a purpose.

[TheRisingMyth]

Well, Ive been using Windows 8 since release and honestly when I look at all the new features from this update I feel like Microsoft did nothing again.

 

From all that massive list we have 1 good thing which is more Tiles sizes. The rest is just more useless crap. Again Microsoft doesnt listen and doesnt improve the desktop environment again. 

 

Im not asking for the old, slow and annoying to use start menu but more synergy with the new UI, more customizations get windows to have the normal advanced control it has with easy to use access.

 

At least there's tweaks to the UI, i woudn't expect that from a service pack, at least they're renewing the experience each year with their new approach to updates rather than giving us a hard time waiting for 3 years to get some damn options to work properly.

 

Finally they got the search right, hats off Jensen.

[Ralms]

At least there's tweaks to the UI, i woudn't expect that from a service pack, at least they're renewing the experience each year with their new approach to updates rather than giving us a hard time waiting for 3 years to get some damn options to work properly.

 

Finally they got the search right, hats off Jensen.

 

Well, I can't agree with you at all.

 

Microsoft failed 1 of their main objectives with Windows 8 release which was having developers interested on the new "modern ui" which requires its own apps. Guess what no one cared about it and you probably know that if you are a user, the only apps on the store are useless 1 utility apps, nothing serious. All apps that 1 guy alone at home does it.

 

What do they do at the first service pack? 80% of features are for developers to try get their interest. Guess what will happen? nothing, no one will care anyway.

 

Now 1 year for that? Honestly, a group of 10 open source people would have done 2 times more than Microsoft and way better.

 

There is only 1 thing Im at Microsoft side, innovation, we needed it, we needed to change windows, but not like this. I love how Windows 8 has better performance than 7, its faster, lighter, has a easier start menu but everything else is more annoying to use.

 

I just hope that Microsoft with Windows 9 or whatever the name will be to have something in consideration, the FREAKING DESKTOP ENVIRONMENT, The enthusiast side, because atm there is no good windows for enthusiasts or professionals.

[ajoy39]

Well, I can't agree with you at all.

 

Microsoft failed 1 of their main objectives with Windows 8 release which was having developers interested on the new "modern ui" which requires its own apps. Guess what no one cared about it and you probably know that if you are a user, the only apps on the store are useless 1 utility apps, nothing serious. All apps that 1 guy alone at home does it.

 

What do they do at the first service pack? 80% of features are for developers to try get their interest. Guess what will happen? nothing, no one will care anyway.

 

Now 1 year for that? Honestly, a group of 10 open source people would have done 2 times more than Microsoft and way better.

 

There is only 1 thing Im at Microsoft side, innovation, we needed it, we needed to change windows, but not like this. I love how Windows 8 has better performance than 7, its faster, lighter, has a easier start menu but everything else is more annoying to use.

 

I just hope that Microsoft with Windows 9 or whatever the name will be to have something in consideration, the FREAKING DESKTOP ENVIRONMENT, The enthusiast side, because atm there is no good windows for enthusiasts or professionals.

Okay, even if you don't believe windows 8 is a good environment for enthusiasts or professionals, it's failings don't change that 7 was great for both. Hyperbole. The goal of modern UI was to create the first unified desktop-laptop-mobile device user interface. That's never been done before, there were bound to be detractors, and there isn't a lot of margin for error. Metro can work with some tweaking and I hope they stick with it because it's their best chance at long term success right now. Desktop will never die, but it also isn't going to be big enough in the future to support a company the size of microsoft anymore. 

[mvitkun]

I installed windows 8 on my old pc in April or something because I thought "maybe it'd be better for something like a media pc."

It boots faster, it's convenient that it enlarges the time when you move the mouse in the corner and the onto the charms menu,and it uses a bit less ram than Vista and 7.........and that's it.

I still hate the Modern UI bull crap, the Aero glass feature is gone,I had driver issues where my realtek sound drivers were screwing up for a while,never happened on Vista or 7.
I bought startisback,and it made the experience way better,but windows should come with the start menu.
windows 95 had a start menu,and all of them until 8 did.
microsoft did great,the start menu was a great interface.

[Kuzma]

Am I like one of the only people that likes modern ui? It barely bothers me :/ especially since I use Windows key combinations to launch most things

[EricX2]

Am I like one of the only people that likes modern ui? It barely bothers me :/ especially since I use Windows key combinations to launch most things

Are you actually using it on the PC listed as your current? If so, that is one reason you don't hate it. On a 26" monitor at 1920x1200 it is a lot of wasted space. On a higher res screen it is even worse. Live tiles are actually small, and icons look giant. Here is a screenshot of how my tiles look, I haven't even spent time organizing them, there are so many it's easier just to go to search to run anything.

 

[kuddlesworth9419]

I'm gonna wait until Windows 9. Like Microsoft has always done every other OS is a pile of horse crap and the one in-between is the best OS ever made.

[ajoy39]

Are you actually using it on the PC listed as your current? If so, that is one reason you don't hate it. On a 26" monitor at 1920x1200 it is a lot of wasted space. On a higher res screen it is even worse. Live tiles are actually small, and icons look giant. Here is a screenshot of how my tiles look, I haven't even spent time organizing them, there are so many it's easier just to go to search to run anything.

 

windows 8.1 adds a couple sizes, you can make icons smaller and live tiles taller now. 

[Kuzma]

Are you actually using it on the PC listed as your current? If so, that is one reason you don't hate it. On a 26" monitor at 1920x1200 it is a lot of wasted space. On a higher res screen it is even worse. Live tiles are actually small, and icons look giant. Here is a screenshot of how my tiles look, I haven't even spent time organizing them, there are so many it's easier just to go to search to run anything.

 

Fair enough but I personally really like how that looks? O.o even with the wasted space

[BeardedFreak]

I have windows 8 and like it I downloaded a free start menu app that allows me to boot to desktop then I set my security settings tobypass the login password, and changed the registry to bypass the lock screen.

[TheRisingMyth]

I have the impression that people hate Windows 8 just because the rest of people does so.

 

I had it since launch (having tried the Enterprise x64 Trial via TechNet) i had no doubt about the goals that Microsoft have set for themselves, and they mainly targeted my concerns and my problems with Windows 7, performance optimisations, less cluncky disk scan, faster boot, native support of latest standards (4G, USB 3.0...etc), better file transfers... it's a truely genuine upgrade from Windows 7.

[Over]

Kuzma, on 30 Jun 2013 - 06:56 AM, said:

Am I like one of the only people that likes modern ui? It barely bothers me :/ especially since I use Windows key combinations to launch most things

I'm looking forward to using Windows 8 and its Metro UI. I already use Fences in my Vista, as I like to have lot's of shortcuts in the desktop, organized in groups. But for those who don't like Metro, there's a desktop interface, so what's the real problem?