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The Verge gave it a pretty solid score (8.8/10): http://www.theverge.com/2012/10/23/3537710/windows-8-review The Surface, not so much (7.0): http://www.theverge.com/2012/10/23/3540550/microsoft-surface...
i.e. Windows 8 got a good score, Windows RT not so much.
The most interesting thing will be in cheap tablets area.
i like how the kids look super into the new surface (pic 4).. i bet those peeps were either "paid" to be there, or set up so that they would all look so interested in that device.. srsly, why would someone buy a surface?
Unless by putting "paid" in scare quotes, you were implying something slightly less scrupulous...
However I can't say I am any more productive than I was with Windows 2000.
I've been running Windows 8 since they release the RTM version to TechNet subscribers on my primary laptop (about a month now). Short version - outside of Metro it's basically Win7SP3 and it works great. Metro is every bit the usability disaster that people have claimed when not running on a touch screen. The good news is that you really don't have to interface much with Metro at all. It replaces the start menu, but…
Metro reminds me of the Acer Computer Explorer (I think that was the name, I was 11 at the time) that was installed on my very first computer (windows 95). The computer booted up to a home screen with icons for all of your programs, and you had to click exit to desktop to get into windows.
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I suspect that you can buy a used license for Windows XP, Windows Vista or Windows 7 easily. Really, just visit a friend/relative and find a dusty old PC that has a license sticker on it and ask if you can have it.
Windows OEM licenses aren't transferrable from the PCs they're sold with. Retail licenses are transferrable to another person, once.
Well looks like this is judgement day for MS then. The price is much lower than for previous versions of Windows, this makes me suspect that we should start expecting new releases of Windows much more frequently, similar to how Apple does it. With the radical changes going on in Windows 8 it wouldn't surprise me to see a tweaked and improved Windows 9 in less than 2 years.
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You don't have to install anything. Click the giant button that says Desktop, and woah, it's like Windows 7 all over again.
Uh... except for the Start Menu, which is what the parent comment was referring to.
http://www.bing.com/search?q=windows+8+start+menu+replacemen...
(First result for me was "Stardock’s Start 8 Windows Start Menu replacement to cost $4.99")
Quick question: Which build is released as consumer version now? There's already been a release preview, I wonder if they are the same.