I've not really followed WIndows launches before, do the upgrade versions tend to stay in production?
Gonna be building a new PC in the next few weeks but want to stick with 7 for the time being until compatibility for 8 is not an issue. Just want to know if I should pick up the upgrade pack from 7 to 8 now or just hang on.
I've not really followed WIndows launches before, do the upgrade versions tend to stay in production?
Gonna be building a new PC in the next few weeks but want to stick with 7 for the time being until compatibility for 8 is not an issue. Just want to know if I should pick up the upgrade pack from 7 to 8 now or just hang on.
I believe the $40 upgrade price is going to be available until January or so.
I've not really followed WIndows launches before, do the upgrade versions tend to stay in production?
Gonna be building a new PC in the next few weeks but want to stick with 7 for the time being until compatibility for 8 is not an issue. Just want to know if I should pick up the upgrade pack from 7 to 8 now or just hang on.
I believe the $40 upgrade price is going to be available until January or so.
Do you know if there would be any issues activating a copy after it was taken off shelves?
I can't imagine so but I'm always a bit paranoid about these things.
I'm finding the score a lot more amusing than it should be: 8.8.
Nice.
I haven't installed Win8 on any hardware yet, just virtual machines, but I'm itching to get my copy and put it on my laptop. Hoping my multi-touch capable touch pad will work with the new gestures for Win8.
Eh, it's got the Windows 8 start area, but the Server Manager itself is where the meat of the product is and a bit more traditional (though it is definitely a big departure from 2008 R2 Server Manager, mostly because it's built around doing a *lot* of remote management).
Powershell is still a great idea to learn, though, given the new focus on deploying Server Core as the best practices behavior.
I'm finding the score a lot more amusing than it should be: 8.8.
Nice.
I haven't installed Win8 on any hardware yet, just virtual machines, but I'm itching to get my copy and put it on my laptop. Hoping my multi-touch capable touch pad will work with the new gestures for Win8.
Single riskiest project Microsoft has ever embarked on...
Really? Really? I can think of a few things I think were, when you get down the meat of it, riskier. Don't get me wrong, 8's redesign and reapproach to OS is a risky endeavor in its own respects, but...riskiest project ever? When, in the end of the day, if 8 were received as Vista was (mediocre to moderately well among consumers), Microsoft would still be sitting pretty between 80 and 90% of the OS market share overall? At least?
Color me unconvinced. The warnings concerning the lack of legacy support in RT, and what that might entail in consumer confusion, were noteworthy though. It repeats Microsoft's weird position of being pretty much the broadest, longest. supporter of legacy applications ever in the commercial market, and RT's abrupt change from that.
I was thinking about setting up a 'sacrificial' server that runs the gui and all the other ones being just core installs.
But you are right, learning powershell would be a good idea. Just not looking forward to it.
Yeah, that's basically their recommended practice. Make a farm of Server Core servers, then setup one server with the GUI to manage them all. Of course, if you don't have that many servers it's not all that hard to just enable the GUI on demand on a server if you need to manage it.
I've still got a long way to go on powershell myself -- I get the core concepts, but just don't have enough hands-on time with it to gain decent command knowledge. Best way to do it would probably be to just make one of my development servers as core (say, a SQL server) and force myself to learn.
I was pleasantly surprised with the positivity of The Verge's review. With the vitriol I've been hearing around the web I was sure that Windows 8 was going to be completely hammered in reviews.
The recent update to the Xbox Music app has made it way more functional and it's beginning to show progress in syncing with other devices. When the new system updated my music was automatically populated with matches and streaming content for songs I had got free from my 10 free songs with the Zune software. My biggest complaint is apparently losing those 10 free songs as they don't really have a way of redeeming them in Xbox Music, as far as I can see, and the Zune software stopped connecting to the service for me.
I'm still really happy with Windows 8 and can see a lot of potential if the product becomes popular.
Everything's in order with my Zune HD and my WP7, and the Zune software. I was expecting a big software update (to accompany the re-branding), but nothing yet.
No reason to touch Zune until Windows Phone 8 comes along, since that last update that discontinued Zune HD apps. Windows Phone 8's official consumer unveiling will be on 10/29, so expect to know more at that time.
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FairchildRabbit used short words that were easy to understand, like "Hello Pooh, how about Lunch ?"Registered Userregular
Will the Surface be available in Microsoft stores on Friday, I wonder ? They just opened one near me and at the moment it's mostly full of salespeople standing around.
AbsalonLands of Always WinterRegistered Userregular
edited October 2012
Man, I just realized I registered my Asus Zenbook on this "Buy a 'puter with 7 now and you get an upgrade to 8 for almost naff-all". I hope that goes smoothly tomorrow considering I am having an internship right now and I need my rig to work well with all the 7 computers my colleagues are using.
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syndalisGetting ClassyOn the WallRegistered User, Loves Apple Productsregular
Man, I just realized I registered my Asus Zenbook on this "Buy a 'puter with 7 now and you get an upgrade to 8 for almost naff-all". I hope that goes smoothly tomorrow considering I am having an internship right now and I need my rig to work well with all the 7 computers my colleagues are using.
Wait until the weekend, make a disk image of your computer, and do the upgrade then.
If shit goes south, you have two days to roll it back.
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Let's play Mario Kart or something...
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AbsalonLands of Always WinterRegistered Userregular
Installed Win 8 already. Nothing's gone south, if you overlook the fact that my touchpad no longer has multi-touch. I have no idea what a disk image is anyway.
Should be able to sort out the touchpad multitouch by locating new drivers. Uninstall any that you already have (to ensure you're reverted to default drivers), then check to see if Asus has any updated ones available. Chances aren't bad that they'll be available through Windows Update.
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AbsalonLands of Always WinterRegistered Userregular
Yeah, that should do it. The fn+F[number] commands work anyway.
I'm going to swing by Best Buy tomorrow, on the very slim chance they have something related to Surface. They had an actual Windows 8 tablet (from ASUS) last week.
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Apothe0sisHave you ever questioned the nature of your reality?Registered Userregular
Installed Win 8 already. Nothing's gone south, if you overlook the fact that my touchpad no longer has multi-touch. I have no idea what a disk image is anyway.
Multitouch is probably provided by the (currently Beta) Synaptics driver. Take a look at that.
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Apothe0sisHave you ever questioned the nature of your reality?Registered Userregular
In other news, I just ordered a Surface. I am excited.
I'm going to swing by Best Buy tomorrow, on the very slim chance they have something related to Surface. They had an actual Windows 8 tablet (from ASUS) last week.
Doubtful, I believe Microsoft has stated the only source of Surface will be through them.
I'm going to swing by Best Buy tomorrow, on the very slim chance they have something related to Surface. They had an actual Windows 8 tablet (from ASUS) last week.
Doubtful, I believe Microsoft has stated the only source of Surface will be through them.
That sounds about right. Oh well. Check out that Cloud Atlas movie instead.
Haven't tried out Skype, but Jetpack Joyride works great. Gotta get the achievements! Also looks like Rowi is updating quite a bit -- it's probably the best third party Twitter client on WP7, I expect it'll be good on Win8 if you really want one.
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AbsalonLands of Always WinterRegistered Userregular
edited October 2012
My only real problem now is that my usable partition on the 128 GB SSD has 40 gigs or so available now. I have few files and fewer programs - does anyone know of a good program for over-viewing everything that takes up space and whether you can delete it or not?
Edit: Wow. I hate not knowing about things like that utility. Thanks!
edit edit: The culprit for my lack of space is a pachyderm of a folder called windows.old, which is basically everything from the old OS. Now I just need to figure out which parts of that file I need to save before I delete the bastard.
Does anybody know if you can upgrade to windows 8 using a MSDN version of Windows 7?
I've a copy of Windows 7 ultimate from an account that expired awhile back but I haven't had any problems using the key when I changed computers in June.
And probably a really stupid question but if you have to do a clean install of an upgraded windows do you have to reinstall the base os or does the upgrade assistent download everthing and just use the old key for activating?
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nope the largest laptop they have is 17"
Acer and Dell have some 18.4" models, but I don't think anyone offers a 20" laptop.
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Gonna be building a new PC in the next few weeks but want to stick with 7 for the time being until compatibility for 8 is not an issue. Just want to know if I should pick up the upgrade pack from 7 to 8 now or just hang on.
I believe the $40 upgrade price is going to be available until January or so.
Do you know if there would be any issues activating a copy after it was taken off shelves?
I can't imagine so but I'm always a bit paranoid about these things.
EDIT: while we're here,
The Verge just posted their review of Windows 8.
I'm finding the score a lot more amusing than it should be: 8.8.
Nice.
I haven't installed Win8 on any hardware yet, just virtual machines, but I'm itching to get my copy and put it on my laptop. Hoping my multi-touch capable touch pad will work with the new gestures for Win8.
Powershell is still a great idea to learn, though, given the new focus on deploying Server Core as the best practices behavior.
But you are right, learning powershell would be a good idea. Just not looking forward to it.
Really? Really? I can think of a few things I think were, when you get down the meat of it, riskier. Don't get me wrong, 8's redesign and reapproach to OS is a risky endeavor in its own respects, but...riskiest project ever? When, in the end of the day, if 8 were received as Vista was (mediocre to moderately well among consumers), Microsoft would still be sitting pretty between 80 and 90% of the OS market share overall? At least?
Color me unconvinced. The warnings concerning the lack of legacy support in RT, and what that might entail in consumer confusion, were noteworthy though. It repeats Microsoft's weird position of being pretty much the broadest, longest. supporter of legacy applications ever in the commercial market, and RT's abrupt change from that.
Yeah, that's basically their recommended practice. Make a farm of Server Core servers, then setup one server with the GUI to manage them all. Of course, if you don't have that many servers it's not all that hard to just enable the GUI on demand on a server if you need to manage it.
I've still got a long way to go on powershell myself -- I get the core concepts, but just don't have enough hands-on time with it to gain decent command knowledge. Best way to do it would probably be to just make one of my development servers as core (say, a SQL server) and force myself to learn.
The recent update to the Xbox Music app has made it way more functional and it's beginning to show progress in syncing with other devices. When the new system updated my music was automatically populated with matches and streaming content for songs I had got free from my 10 free songs with the Zune software. My biggest complaint is apparently losing those 10 free songs as they don't really have a way of redeeming them in Xbox Music, as far as I can see, and the Zune software stopped connecting to the service for me.
I'm still really happy with Windows 8 and can see a lot of potential if the product becomes popular.
Wait until the weekend, make a disk image of your computer, and do the upgrade then.
If shit goes south, you have two days to roll it back.
Let's play Mario Kart or something...
Multitouch is probably provided by the (currently Beta) Synaptics driver. Take a look at that.
Surface RT looks like a wickedly built piece of hardware. I'm just worried about how the app support for it will be.
That sounds about right. Oh well. Check out that Cloud Atlas movie instead.
Edit: Wow. I hate not knowing about things like that utility. Thanks!
edit edit: The culprit for my lack of space is a pachyderm of a folder called windows.old, which is basically everything from the old OS. Now I just need to figure out which parts of that file I need to save before I delete the bastard.
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My favorite thing so far is built in Hyper-V. No need to dual-boot, just spin up a virtual machine.
I've a copy of Windows 7 ultimate from an account that expired awhile back but I haven't had any problems using the key when I changed computers in June.
And probably a really stupid question but if you have to do a clean install of an upgraded windows do you have to reinstall the base os or does the upgrade assistent download everthing and just use the old key for activating?