Windows 8 - Release Date?

[Dave \Crash\ Dummy]

All Microsoft software are buggy when first released; You need to
wait until SP1 comes out to get any semblance of "stableness"

Also, as you may remember, windows Me wasn't good but XP was pretty
good;

Apples and oranges. Windows ME was the successor to Windows 98 and the
last of the DOS based Windows systems. Windows XP (a.k.a. NT 5.1) was
the successor to Windows 2000 (a.k.a. NT 5.0) which was the best Windows
ever.

 

[Gene Wirchenko]

[snip]

There's always a catch, isn't there? Anyway, I am not gona cry just
because I can't have a cheapie Win8. I've got Win XP, the annoying Vista
and Win7 already. I don't want to get throughly and utterly confused by
adding a Win8 machine, do I?--

Why go halfway? <EG>

I have both an XP and a 7 box on my desk. The differences are
often unnecessary. For one, compare what one has to do to update the
time manually according to a time server and then checking what the
time was set to. In XP, it is clean. In 7, it requires about twice
as much clicking. Why the change?

Sincerely,

Gene Wirchenko

 

[BillW50]

In Gene Wirchenko typed:

[snip]

There's always a catch, isn't there? Anyway, I am not gona cry just
because I can't have a cheapie Win8. I've got Win XP, the annoying
Vista and Win7 already. I don't want to get throughly and utterly
confused by adding a Win8 machine, do I?--

Why go halfway? <EG>

I have both an XP and a 7 box on my desk. The differences are
often unnecessary. For one, compare what one has to do to update the
time manually according to a time server and then checking what the
time was set to. In XP, it is clean. In 7, it requires about twice
as much clicking. Why the change?

Sincerely,

Gene Wirchenko

I believe it is known as progress. ;-)

 

[G. Morgan]

Except those cold boots in Windows 8, aren't really cold boots.
Windows 8 has "kernel hibernation".

http://www.windowsitpro.com/article/windows8/hibernation-windows-8-143523

So there's another flavor of hibernation at work, which accounts for some
time saving. If you manage to disable all of that, you might see something
closer to a traditional Windows boot time.

Very interesting, thanks. I'm getting to learn it before the release
too. I have a feeling the questions and service calls are going to be
abundant come November.

Keep your eyes open, and you might also catch the machine booting back
into Windows 8, when you were expecting one of your other OSes to boot.
My machine seemed to think it was in "Hibernate", when I was in the
process of booting into another OS, and I ended up with no control
over the machine, and it booted back into Windows 8 again. Tricky.

I'm thinking that will be a minor problem since most non-tekkies are not
dual-booting. That does not mean it wont mess other stuff up though. If
hibernation is saving states, when you install something new you may
*need* to re-initialize the whole system. I suppose you can put
"powercfg /h off' and "powercfg /h on" in a batch file for that.

I'm not liking the pseudo "Microsoft Kernel Debug Network Adapter
" NIC it installs one bit. I disabled it and bandwidth went back to
normal.

I'm using the RTM, so it's the same thing that will be released sans the
OEM crap. If anyone wants to try it there is a 90 day Enterprise
version for free if you don't have access to MSDN.

 

[Char Jackson]

I'm not liking the pseudo "Microsoft Kernel Debug Network Adapter
" NIC it installs one bit. I disabled it and bandwidth went back to
normal.

That's normal? It's approximately HALF of what you said you're paying
for. Surely, that can't be acceptable, can it?

I'm putting aside, for the moment, that you tested with an
Internet-based speed test site. That's not an accurate test, but
still, it shows that you're miles from where you should be.

 

[Robin Bignall]

You will need the following to qualify:

You should expect to provide information such as:
Name
Contact Details
Email address
Phone Number
PC purchase details
PC make / model
Purchase date
Retailer / PC Manufacturer

Additional information may be requested to enable your registration to
be validated, including the Windows 7 product key for your qualified PC.

That doesn't seem very helpful for those of us who build our own PCs. I
just built quite a fast one and doubt that I'll build another in that
time frame.

 

[choro]

In Gene Wirchenko typed:

[snip]

There's always a catch, isn't there? Anyway, I am not gona cry just
because I can't have a cheapie Win8. I've got Win XP, the annoying
Vista and Win7 already. I don't want to get throughly and utterly
confused by adding a Win8 machine, do I?--

Why go halfway? <EG>

I have both an XP and a 7 box on my desk. The differences are
often unnecessary. For one, compare what one has to do to update the
time manually according to a time server and then checking what the
time was set to. In XP, it is clean. In 7, it requires about twice
as much clicking. Why the change?

Sincerely,

Gene Wirchenko

I believe it is known as progress. ;-)

Progress or in other words, one step forward, two steps back!--
choro
*****

 

[SC Tom]

[snip]

There's always a catch, isn't there? Anyway, I am not gona cry just
because I can't have a cheapie Win8. I've got Win XP, the annoying Vista
and Win7 already. I don't want to get throughly and utterly confused by
adding a Win8 machine, do I?--

Why go halfway? <EG>

I have both an XP and a 7 box on my desk. The differences are
often unnecessary. For one, compare what one has to do to update the
time manually according to a time server and then checking what the
time was set to. In XP, it is clean. In 7, it requires about twice
as much clicking. Why the change?

"If it ain't broke, redesign it!"

 

[Muad'Dib]

Is there any truth that Windows 8 will be released on 26th October 2012?
I have received an e-mail from Microsoft saying that I will be able to
place an order for windows 8 on or after 26th October 2012 at a special
price of £14.99 for a digital version and additional fee for the media.
It says:

"Beginning on 26 October 2012, registered customers will receive an
email with a promotion code and instructions for purchasing and
downloading the software. The promotion code can be redeemed during the
upgrade ordering process to receive the promotional price."

I have registered and told them about my new Dell computer with Windows
7 and so I am getting very excited to get windows 8.

Who cares, from my tests, (and others), it sucks long hairy donkey
dicks. Really? Do you truly want that crap? Have you actually checked it
out? I have been testing it, nope, not impressed.