Happpy happy day day! Been running XP at home since
forever. Gotta love Win8 Pro for $40!
GofBorg,[color=blue]
Happpy happy day day! Been running XP at home since
forever. Gotta love Win8 Pro for $40![/color]
Good at last a lonely brave soul that can betatest the nev Novell
client 
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Anders Gustafsson (NKP)
The Aaland Islands (N60 E20)
Have an idea for a product enhancement? Please visit:
http://www.novell.com/rms
Good at last a lonely brave soul that can betatest the nev Novell[color=blue]
client :)[/color]
LOL, well it’ll be my home machine so no…
BUT, I have been using the dev edition of Win8 in
a VM here at work with the Novell client and seems
to work a treat…even with my Legacy Netware 6.5 server.
Hey Anders Gustafsson,
[color=blue]
Good at last a lonely brave soul[/color]
My son, a computer engineer and linux geek has had to run it for some
work projects. He says it takes a little getting used to, but once you
do, it’s not a bad OS.
–
Kim - 10/26/2012 12:23:30 PM
GofBorg wrote:
[color=blue]
Happpy happy day day! Been running XP at home since
forever. Gotta love Win8 Pro for $40![/color]
I bought it as well today. Now I’m just debating… do I go ahead and
try upgrading my Win7 machine or not? Hmmmmm…
–
Does this washcloth smell like chloroform?
kgroneman wrote:
[color=blue]
My son, a computer engineer and linux geek has had to run it for some
work projects. He says it takes a little getting used to, but once you
do, it’s not a bad OS.[/color]
What a rave review.
“Windows 8: It’s not bad.”
As soon as I install it I’ll be turning off as much Windows 8 UI stuff
as I can. I heard Samsung has an app to bring back the old start menu
to Windows 8.
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Does this washcloth smell like chloroform?
Hey Joseph Marton,
[color=blue]
Now I’m just debating… do I go ahead and
try upgrading my Win7 machine or not?[/color]
Do it. I’ll watch and THEN decide if that’s what I wanna do.
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Kim - 10/26/2012 12:40:24 PM
[color=blue]
“Windows 8: It’s not bad.”[/color]
LOL! I love it.
You have to think of the ‘metro’ portion as the start menu,
once you get past that it all seems to work. However, all the
flipping between ‘desktop apps’ and metro start menu is dizzying.
They need a less flamboyant effect. I think someone fell in love
with compiz/kwin and said ‘Hey we need this!’…actually, you don’t.
[color=blue][color=green]
Happpy happy day day! Been running XP at home since
forever. Gotta love Win8 Pro for $40![/color]I bought it as well today. Now I’m just debating… do I go ahead and
try upgrading my Win7 machine or not? Hmmmmm…[/color]
That’s what vmware is for…
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Paul
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[color=blue][color=green]
“Windows 8: It’s not bad.”[/color]
LOL! I love it.[/color]
Considering how windows has been in the past:
http://www.searchenginejournal.com/microsofts-500-million-vista-marketing-campaign/4339/
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2286065,00.asp
“It’s not bad” may be all they can hope for in this case. I’ve seen
some fun sites showing the good/bad/good/bad release cycle.
http://orclev.tumblr.com/post/18555141412/why-windows-8-will-suck
By most accounts windows seven is better than worse (or at least better
than vista)… so that makes windows eight here just in time for the
“bad” side. Guess I’ll wait for the next one.
Good luck.
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GofBorg wrote:
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You have to think of the ‘metro’ portion[/color]
Hey! Be careful, in a moment you’ll have helicopters flying over head
and guys in black suits at your door. It’s “Windows 8 UI” not “Metro.”
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Does this washcloth smell like chloroform?
Oh right, the ‘interface formerly known as Metro’.
Maybe they’ll just try using a symbol for it?
“Windows 8! With the new ~|~ interface!”
GofBorg wrote:
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Gotta love Win8 Pro for $40![/color]
Don’t forget your free Windows 8 Media Center Pack add-on.
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-8/feature-packs
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Does this washcloth smell like chloroform?
On 10/26/2012 2:24 PM, kgroneman wrote:[color=blue]
Hey Anders Gustafsson,
[color=green]Good at last a lonely brave soul[/color]
My son, a computer engineer and linux geek has had to run it for some
work projects. He says it takes a little getting used to, but once you
do, it’s not a bad OS.
[/color]
The main thing that drives me nuts is that it was totally designed for
tablets (touch). Especially since server 2012 shares the same code as
Win8. It needs a really easy way to disable “charms” etc and substitute
a more usable interface for non-touch screen users.
On 10/26/2012 2:51 PM, GofBorg wrote:[color=blue]
[color=green]
“Windows 8: It’s not bad.”[/color]
LOL! I love it.
You have to think of the ‘metro’ portion as the start menu,
once you get past that it all seems to work. However, all the
flipping between ‘desktop apps’ and metro start menu is dizzying.
They need a less flamboyant effect. I think someone fell in love
with compiz/kwin and said ‘Hey we need this!’…actually, you don’t.[/color]
I can see where it is spiffy if you have a touch device but it is really
clunky if you don’t. And even more clunky if you are using a touch UI to
manage your server 2012 box.
On 10/26/2012 2:56 PM, Paul Lamontagne wrote:[color=blue][color=green]
[color=darkred]
Happpy happy day day! Been running XP at home since
forever. Gotta love Win8 Pro for $40![/color]I bought it as well today. Now I’m just debating… do I go ahead and
try upgrading my Win7 machine or not? Hmmmmm…[/color]That’s what vmware is for…
[/color]
For sure. But dual boot also works My notebook runs Win7 but I have VHDs
attached so I can boot into server 2012 to play with Hyper-V running
natively.
George wrote:
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The main thing that drives me nuts is that it was totally designed
for tablets (touch).[/color]
Yup. I can see having the same codebase across all types of devices.
It’s definitely an interesting concept. But you have to tweak the UI
for the different types of input, and touch on a tablet is much
different from keyboard & mouse on a desktop/laptop.
The most annoying part to me is just getting to the Windows 8
equivalent of “All Programs” in the old Windows 7 start menu. I
actually can’t remember how I got to it yet but I’ve found it and not
only is it non-intuitive to find but it’s also unwieldy to use. I know
I can just go to the new “start menu” (the live tiles home screen
thingy) and just start typing the name of an app, but I’m not sure just
how intuitive that is either.
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Does this washcloth smell like chloroform?
In the future I just do not see the keyboard or mouse as being the most
efficient way to communicate with the computer. I believe OS architects
should consider this right now. I envision the transition for the user
will be much like the transition faced by people when they had to move
from reading scrolls to reading books.
Bob
On 10/26/2012 11:13 AM, GofBorg wrote:[color=blue]
Happpy happy day day! Been running XP at home since
forever. Gotta love Win8 Pro for $40![/color]
“Bob” <RoNSbert@SchweinA_NS_.com> wrote in message
news:mVUis.154$_b1.130@kovat.provo.novell.com…[color=blue]
In the future I just do not see the keyboard or mouse as being the most
efficient way to communicate with the computer. I believe OS architects
should consider this right now. I envision the transition for the user
will be much like the transition faced by people when they had to move
from reading scrolls to reading books.Bob
On 10/26/2012 11:13 AM, GofBorg wrote:[color=green]
Happpy happy day day! Been running XP at home since
forever. Gotta love Win8 Pro for $40![/color][/color]
Are you still reading books?!
Bob wrote:
[color=blue]
In the future I just do not see the keyboard or mouse as being the
most efficient way to communicate with the computer. I believe OS
architects should consider this right now. I envision the transition
for the user will be much like the transition faced by people when
they had to move from reading scrolls to reading books.[/color]
Ah, a keyboard. How quaint.
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Does this washcloth smell like chloroform?