Why Microsoft is pushing windows 8

Though the world would like to use windows 7 and continue running their computers the way they are used to , and continue being familiar with their desktops and computing atmosphere.

Microsoft will not let that be the option. they will pay all of the cnets and zdnets and mashables and verges to do reviews that say how fantastic some stupid function is.. like siri and it’s ability to misspell on apple products (dif company same tactics) . Bad pr is still pr.
They will make you want that one stupid tiny function so bad, you will settle for the assream the rest of the o/s has.. and it will be so idiotic, like mine sweep will have purple background… or something useless.

Why does Microsoft want to go this route? Why does Microsoft want to go the “apps’ route and touch screen and big puffy buttons?

because the apple and Microsoft court case where Microsoft had to prove they were not ripping off apple, and Microsoft was just a software company.. not a computer company. so the courts forced Microsoft to agree to never make computers.

Now Microsoft is in the telephone and tablet business.
When they bought Nokia, they confirmed it.
because they aren’t computers. They can’t make computers.. but they can make tablets.
as long as they don’t call them computers.

but this is just Microsoft rolling back to the windows 3.01 look. Minus Program manager.

Are you ready to jump to Windows 8 yet?

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What measures have you taken to prepare yourself for the best Windows 8 transition experience possible?
Have you purchased a touch screen capable monitor?
Have you bought the latest motherboard,processor,memory and Solid state hard drive?

Yeah, me either.
Maybe I will wait a couple years for the computers to start shipping with windows 8 already on them. Not the ones that say “Windows 8 ready” or “windows 8 upgrade for free”. The machines built for Windows 8.

Typically when the new operating systems come out, we find later that current hardware is less than able to run the operating systems and soon after come new and improved hardware. Most often is ram/memory. but the inevitable is processor. with a new CPU it’s usually a good idea to get a new motherboard also. or you will be left behind.

The part you have to prepare for is, what is available now, at it’s max is usually just barely above minimum requirements of what ever software or operating system that has just been released. Like say, ddr2 memory was the highest we had when Vista came out. That memory capped out in it’s time at 2 gigs per stick. many motherboards have only two slots. Wouldn’t you know it, 4 gigs memory is optimal for windows 7. That’s not how it was announced but that’s what we have come to learn on our own. This will be the same case with windows 8. Now with Windows 7 out we have DDR3. Which has a cap of what I think is 8 gigs per stick. Count on DDR5 becoming the common with in the next year, and the first bloat pack (service pack) coming out and everyone realizing that new optimal for windows 8 will be crazy high like 8 gigs. best performance 32 gigs.

So hold out on your upgrade to any new operating system for a few months. let the new hardware come out. Let the first few updates come out. Let the internet swell with complaints. Don’t buy parts until you see the crying stop. Prices should level out to a fair cost. If you buy any parts or computers now, you are basically buying off the junk that the stores are trying to get off their shelves. They too know how it works. Every single time.

Fear Monger
Basically, based on past experience, if you are running DDR2 or older, you will be left behind. That mouse of yours is antiquated, and that video card you have that is the top of the line, is now ….. just cute. That 250 gig spinning hard drive will be pointless. Of course because the numbers are higher on everything, we will bloat out our videos and music. Count on songs becoming 1 gig minimum. So that one TB hard drive you have in the external case, will be antiquated, 50 TB hard drives coming with in the next two years. Easily. (not easy task, but is a must). Well at this rate . What does this mean?  It means your 250 gigs a month cap from Comcast, will easily be reached. Your 2 gig cap from at&t is less than laughable now. Just wait until ALL of your software is apps based and you begin to agree that cloud storage is the only logical option. That 250 gigs a month will be less than a week to break.

This of course is one hundred percent plausible fiction.

but as always. Software should always excel hardware. That’s how we evolve. If not for something to push the hardware to be better, faster, stronger, we would be complacent. We would not innovate. When we have greater speeds and storage, we can then come up with ideas that seemed farfetched and impossible.

I admit that I am currently satisfied with Windows 7, fearful of what Windows 8 could mean, and skeptical of any positive claims we see in the next 5 months of Windows 8.

So no.. I am not ready.

Windows 8 Developers Preview Released

Screen shot windows 8

Screen shot windows 8

Windows 8 is released to the developers. there is a 32 bit version released and a 64 bit version released.
Some people who already have windows 8 developer’s are complaining about not knowing how to disable “aps”. They say that you start something, it just drops out of view but does not completely shut off.

Macinfake?

Some have found that by renaming a DLL file in the windows 32 folder, you get your taskbar. not sure about it.. Haven’t been home to test it yet so do your research. I think the DLL statement was false. There is an option to use taskbar . but when you hit the start button, it just starts the windows 8 Metro user interface.
Here is a funny comparison picture of how people are saying windows is making us stupid :-). Far right is the Windows 8 default screen.

windows 8

windows 8

As you see. Some people do not like having simple big smushy button tiles as their only option.

Here is a picture of Windows 8 install procedure, and it crashed.

install screen crash

install screen crash

The Evaluation period is until December if you installed today

picture of evaluation period expiration date

picture of evaluation

Picture of the Task Manager in Windows 8. Looks to have streamlined a bit and made it look a small bit less confusing. The way that taskmanager has been on previous versions of windows has always been a bit misleading. This probably still won’t help.

Task Manager Windows 8

Task Manager Windows 8

 

search on windows 8

search on windows 8

 

The file for the search picture, looks a bit fishy, I will investigate later.

and here is the error screen also known as the blue screen of death

Blue Screen of Death

crashed windows 8

And here is the

windows 8 crashed

blue screen of death windows 8 vm

Windows 8 Crash screen while running in virtual machine

Peak at Windows 8

Windows 8 is the code name for the next Microsoft operating system.
This new Operating System looks to be very tablet focused. Windows 8 operating system is focusing quite a bit on the ap structure that all of the tablets and cell phones are using. Kind of reminds me of the Sony playstation mixed with android. I don’t see much gaming function in what they present. Hopefully there will be a way to turn this back into a taskbar operating system. And lets just see how much closer to windows 3.1 this gets. Because it looks like a windows 3.1 with better icons. i mean tiles as they call them now.

Windows 8 looks to be jumping on current trends. As far as operating systems go, this one does not look like it is in for the long haul. Let’s see what it does to your resources. Would be nice on the Xbox.
Let’s see how hard they push us with cloud computing, during a time when internet providers are going to set caps of how much you can use in a month’s time.