Microsoft Signing Off on Windows 8 Build 8250 as Preview

Really looking forward to a full format and install. Just free me from this Vista contraption.

My favorites are "Windows To Go" and Hyper-V (on client editions).

All that money, all that programming, all those resources to draw upon...and the GUI looks like some secretary knocked it all up on PowerPoint.

confish21Really looking forward to a full format and install. Just free me from this Vista contraption.

Vista is pretty much stable now.

not looking forward to it. I love Windows 7. I'm not in a hurry to upgrade until the jury has reached a verdict on Windows 8. Windows Vista was so bad I was in a hurry to upgrade to Windows 7.

I'll rather see trolls in here than someone telling her best friend's step mom or whatever got money from fishy sites.

can't wait....my partition is waiting for it

Why don't they just call it windows tablet edition???? .... sheesh....

confish21Really looking forward to a full format and install. Just free me from this Vista contraption.

have you heard of win7....you should really look into it......it's the most stable OS Microsoft has produced

theconsolegamerVista is pretty much stable now.

Touche. I actually like the UI of Vista better than 7. But it's still a little slower, and we are on DX11 already, so yea...

memadmaxTouche. I actually like the UI of Vista better than 7. But it's still a little slower, and we are on DX11 already, so yea...

If I recall correctly, Vista supports DX11. The only real reason to upgrade from vista to 7 at this point is the UI improvements.

Well, I have a 12 years old desktop computer nobody uses. I wonder if W8 can run on a P3 processor with 512 MB of RAM and 32 GB of HDD?

I partitioned about 40gb of space just for Win8CP, man, talk about a long wait.

Does nobody here use VMWare ?

math1337If I recall correctly, Vista supports DX11. The only real reason to upgrade from vista to 7 at this point is the UI improvements.

There are some additional performance improvements and other odds and ends too. From the typical end user's point of view you'll probably only really notice the UI and UAC improvements. Performance is up a bit but probably only diehard framerate junkies will notice. It's not night-and-day earthshattering differences. So yes, if you already have Vista fully up to date, with good drivers that don't crash, there isn't much incentive to upgrade to 7.

At least for the home user. For business/IT purposes, there's a LOT of very noticeable improvements in Win7. There's better file searching, better remote access, much improvement management (scripting, troubleshooting, etc), security enhancements (including stuff like applocker, better smart card support, native biometrics, etc), and deployment improvements (dynamic driver provisioning comes to mind - smaller images, and fewer images needed. just have it nab drivers off the server). There's probably a lot more stuff I'm not thinking of.

A lot of those features are exclusive to Enterprise or Server editions, of course. They're useless for a typical home user, hence the removal of the features and lower price tag.

A Bad DayWell, I have a 12 years old desktop computer nobody uses. I wonder if W8 can run on a P3 processor with 512 MB of RAM and 32 GB of HDD?

Depends on clockspeed and GPU. If it has integrated graphics from that era, don't bother. Although with .5GB of memory and an unnamed PIII (500Mhz? 1.2 Ghz Tualatin??) I don't know that you're gonna be doing much more than playing around with Metro either way.

Am I the only one who looked at the picture and immediately thought of kids' puzzles? (It DOES look that childish - shows the intended customer base)