Windows 8 Consumer Preview 2/29
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Windows 8 Consumer Preview 2/29
Microsoft will release Windows 8 Consumer Preview on 2/29 @ 9am ET.
http://www.neowin.net/news/reminder-win ... e-tomorrow
http://www.neowin.net/news/reminder-win ... e-tomorrow
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REMINDER - *** Windows Media Center Will NOT be in the Windows 8 Consumer Preview ***
I may blow away my HP Pavilion Laptop with Ubuntu 11.10 for this.
I may blow away my HP Pavilion Laptop with Ubuntu 11.10 for this.
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Is anyone actually looking forward to this?
I tried the developer preview and it seemed like another Vista.
I tried the developer preview and it seemed like another Vista.
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I don't know if I'd say I am "looking forward", but I am curious. I currently have a Mango device, so I am curious to see the metro UI on a laptop. I also have the computer available, so why not?sgip2000 wrote:Is anyone actually looking forward to this?
I tried the developer preview and it seemed like another Vista.
of course, if I don't get it in time (I am in Pacific Time, so 6AM, and I am not waking up early just to get it) I won't lose any sleep over it.
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I have no interest in Windows 8 right now. I am curious to see what they end up doing with WMC, but it looks like I'll have to wait a while to find out.
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I installed the Developer Preview in VMWare ESXi 5.0 Hypervisor last night. There's a hotfix from VMWare you need to install to get it to install.
No need to blow away anything to test it out. The newest VMWare Player and other free VM software will run it.
I do not like the tablet screen that pops up when you click on start. I haven't had enough time to play around with it yet. I think I'll fire it up now and take a better look.
It's really no use to me anyway since it doesn't have media center included yet.
No need to blow away anything to test it out. The newest VMWare Player and other free VM software will run it.
I do not like the tablet screen that pops up when you click on start. I haven't had enough time to play around with it yet. I think I'll fire it up now and take a better look.
It's really no use to me anyway since it doesn't have media center included yet.
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true. but that laptop is really only used for web browsing. It can be blown away, and once I am done with windows 8, I can find something else to load on it. Maybe a fresh ubuntu install + XBMC... you know.. just in case.KHTPC75 wrote: No need to blow away anything to test it out. The newest VMWare Player and other free VM software will run it.
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I'm looking forward to it. My interest has been piqued by the details being given on the Building Windows 8 blog. There are a lot of new ideas in W8, so I am curious to see how they work out in practice.sgip2000 wrote:Is anyone actually looking forward to this?
I tried the developer preview and it seemed like another Vista.
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Media Center has to be in Windows 8 Consumer Preview since PlayReady PC Runtime for Windows 8 Consumer Preview is listed on Microsoft Download Center as of 2/27/2012.carljanderson wrote:REMINDER - *** Windows Media Center Will NOT be in the Windows 8 Consumer Preview ***
I may blow away my HP Pavilion Laptop with Ubuntu 11.10 for this.
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Thanks for posting a screen shot. I wonder if Windows 8 Media Center will contain the 29/59Hz bug!
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The bug is in the content, not the program that you use to view the content. There's a wiki on WEC that explains it. Ultimately there is nothing Microsoft can do that is actually correct, which I suspect is the reason they declined to do anything.
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Okay, so the Verge article lied way back when that caused the earlier bruhaha.Venom51 wrote:
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Has there been any word what they are planning to do with Media Center? What is in the Consumer Preview is basically what we have now. I would have expected an UI update to make it more like the Xbox dashboard look and feel.
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I would expect them to move it out of the current programming language and into something that is a lot less of a pain in the ass to develop in.
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Would you mind quickly running over obvious changes (if any) from win7 media center?Venom51 wrote:I would expect them to move it out of the current programming language and into something that is a lot less of a pain in the ass to develop in.
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They changed the copyright stamp to 2012. That's about it.nxsfan wrote:Would you mind quickly running over obvious changes (if any) from win7 media center?
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It has what I call an interface for dummies like an apple product. I want to be able to tell the computer what I want to do, not have it tell me what I want I can do. The only difference between this and an ipad is I can change the start button to be more like Windows 7. It's definintely not designed for a computer expert.
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I killed Media Center!!!!
I installed Internet TV and NetFlix, and then I went to the Extra Gallery and selected Cinema Now and as I was browsing, Windows Media Center stopped responding.
How I yearn for the days of GPF's.
I installed Internet TV and NetFlix, and then I went to the Extra Gallery and selected Cinema Now and as I was browsing, Windows Media Center stopped responding.
How I yearn for the days of GPF's.