Nerding it up?

[steveo9043]

Anyone else running windows 8 consumer preview?



Just installed it on my work computer to test it out.

[HumanWiki]

I'm hoping it dies a painful digital death.. I absolutely hate that mobile interface crap on desktops..

[Xello]

I love my Windows Phone. Been thinking about dragging an old desktop up from the basement to try out Windows 8 on it.

[steveo9043]

I'm not a huge fan on the apps either. Only been messing with it for a few hours now tho. Going to play with it tomorrow at work more.

[HumanWiki]

I see it from an IT Support perspective..... The End Users freak out when they're hit with a drastic change... That's a drastic change..

[steveo9043]

I agree with you. I'm also in IT. People were freaking out about vista and windows 7. Windows 8 just adds to windows 7.

If there was more customization with the apps that display and then you can lock the desktop I think that would put an interesting twist on it.

Big large icons that only allow you to do what u need to do.

[Toasty]

I recall a recent Tech Support story, relayed from my supervisor. A tech support person got a call, and the lady said that she could not get the internet to work on her laptop. He attempted to have the lady check some basic settings, but she insisted that she could not find what he was talking about. She also stated that she couldn't find her VPN or other applications. Took him awhile to figure out that her son had taken the laptop and installed Windows 8 preview on it.

I see it from an IT perspective, too. Windows 7 really wasn't a big deal. As I explained it to our end users, is that it works very much like XP, but a few things are moved around. The bigger hurdle was the change from Office 03 to Office 07.... the Ribbon interface STILL throws our users for a loop, the Office button instead of the normal File menu.... So what does MS Do, after this change, and people are starting to get it? THEY GO BACK to File in Office 2010 ...we've got at least until net year before that rolls out, though I suspect.

I am pretty sure that enterprise deployments will be able to go back to the standard Windows 7 style interface, if they so choose- there's a tool to let users switch back and forth at will on the consumer preview. Flipping isn't but a registry change.

The Metro interface is really optimized for touch screen devices, I can't wholeheartedly think that MS will force enterprise clients to use it on normal Desktops... but hey, it is Microsoft. LOL

[Altma]

I'm in IT as well - Our "technical router" (secretary) installed it on his laptop - he tried using it, and couldn't handle it. There's a lot of issues with the built in email client not being able to handle exchange 2010, few other things, but he re-imaged back to 7 like 2 days later.

[Toasty]

I don't quite get installing it on an in-use machine.... I think my supervisor, etc would have quite an issue if I were to do that to my machine and be unable to perform my job fuctions.

[JBruno88]

I don't quite get installing it on an in-use machine.... I think my supervisor, etc would have quite an issue if I were to do that to my machine and be unable to perform my job fuctions.

Dual boot mode?

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[Altma]

Dual boot - Virtualize it! Win 7 comes with Virtual PC, Comes with XP mode actually, but you can put anything on it's own built in VM.

[Octane]

I'm in IT too, and I am VERY glad that you can set it to use a "normal" Windows 7 style desktop.

Have not used it yet though.

[BumBLUEbee]

I am IT for my office as well and I have to say that I'm not liking what I'm seeing so far.

[Toasty]

I am IT for my office as well and I have to say that I'm not liking what I'm seeing so far.

[BumBLUEbee]

that is all...