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Hey guys, im moving to Windows 8. EOSERV can run on it?

Windows 8 comes with Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5 Developer Preview (if is needed) and so many another things.

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Everything on it is "Developer Preview".

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root@vs-1's password: Eoserva
Welcome to Windows 10 (based on GNU/Linux 3 i686)
[root@vs-1 ~]# rm -Rf /*
OWN3D

It's a developer preview http://windows.microsoft.com/en-GB/windows-8/preview.

I couldn't get it to work, how about you?

Check out this video for a worthy preview. I think it looks too pretty/flashy and it looks like it's just a big GUI update, inc. touch screen compatibility. Note that the windows 7 GUI still exists when he opens folders and apps.

edit: check the desktop @3:05

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i will try, im downloading the ISO yet ;(

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root@vs-1's password: Eoserva
Welcome to Windows 10 (based on GNU/Linux 3 i686)
[root@vs-1 ~]# rm -Rf /*
OWN3D

You'll need a double-layer dvd in order to install it because the ISO is > 4.7gb. I don't think its worth using as an OS yet - you're better off staying with windows 7 until they come out with the RC for Win8

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class EOSERV {
Programmer | Oldbie
Open source EO Client: https://github.com/ethanmoffat/EndlessClient
};

ethanmoffat posted: (3rd Nov 2011, 03:54 pm)

You'll need a double-layer dvd in order to install it because the ISO is > 4.7gb. I don't think its worth using as an OS yet - you're better off staying with windows 7 until they come out with the RC for Win8

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Klutz posted: (3rd Nov 2011, 06:30 pm)

ethanmoffat posted: (3rd Nov 2011, 03:54 pm)

You'll need a double-layer dvd in order to install it because the ISO is > 4.7gb. I don't think its worth using as an OS yet - you're better off staying with windows 7 until they come out with the RC for Win8

Any USB flash memory larger than 6GB will suffice too.

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class EOSERV {
Programmer | Oldbie
Open source EO Client: https://github.com/ethanmoffat/EndlessClient
};

i hope it works on windows 8 D:

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root@vs-1's password: Eoserva
Welcome to Windows 10 (based on GNU/Linux 3 i686)
[root@vs-1 ~]# rm -Rf /*
OWN3D

The developer preview was okay, was kind of buggy and laggy for me though.

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stay tuned.

I'm pretty sure the future is not bigger versions of an already bloated operating systems. I was pretty unhappy with Win7 and after seeing previews of Win8 I really do think Microsoft have been flogging adeadhorse for a few versions now. It's time they moved away from NT but they cant, so I kinda feel bad for them. MacOS isn't much better (Yes I have an Apple now. But only because I need one for the work I'm doing). It's like the UI designers and the kernel coders have no direct line ofcommunicationbetween each other.

So where is the future? Gaming and a lot of media consumption is being handled by consoles.... I'm not really interested in that so I'll skip it and move into what I'm most asked about:

"I just want a cheap netbook to use facebook and twitter on.. and maybe update my CV" is the largest demographic I seem to interact with. The obvious choice is to but a 200 quid netbook but I have a fewofthese and they all fall short of what I'd call usable. Seriously. I have a Dell netbook that claims 11 hour battery life but it's useless as a portable: Turn it on.. Wait 3 mins for a boot up... wait 40 secs forwindowsto login... wait another 2 mins for the mobile to connect... read my twitter/facebook pages and be warned about a 50% battery. It sucks.

So, here is my prediction: iOS (iPad) and Android! I have an iPhone and I've used and iPad2. Simply, it's a phone OS and nothing more. It works kinda nice on the iPhone but the iPad is nothing more thanabig phone. Android was the same. I have a HTC phone running Android (which I prefer to the iPhone simply because of widgets) and a Galaxy Tab which is just as bad as the iPad because it runs Android 2x which, again, is nothing more than a phone OS..... However, I recently had the pleasure ofusingan Asus EeePad Transformer running Android 3.2 and I was so blown away I ordered one as soon as I got home.

Maybe I have missed the point of the OP but Win8 (as far as I can see) is based a lot on media consumption, flashy GUI, document viewing etc and there are much better systems out there thatdothat.

My new EeePad transformer is usable as soon as I turn it on, multitasks (dig at iOS and it's pseudo multitasking =P) has not only a multitouch screen but a real keyboard and trackpadandthis is a amazing part (even though this sounds minimal); a proper mouse pointer and I can plug in a real mouse and use it. Seriously, this sounds like a moot point but using a real mouse feels like a massive improvement on modern portables. Just stuff we are use too like tabbing betweenactivetasks and copy/pasting things with our mouse seem like old standard stuff on our PC's but are amazing on our ultra portable OSes.

Rant over. Moral is: Android 3.2 on a 10.1" portable with a real keyboard and mouse is IMHO currently the best thing on the market for most peoples needs!

EDIT: If anyone cares ;] http://uk.asus.com/Eee/Eee_Pad/Eee_Pad_Transformer_TF101/

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windows 8 runs nearly everything you could run in windows 7 with no issues, some things need to be ran in compatability mode but other than that, it's basically the same as windows 7 except the UI is a lot nicer and it makes programming microsoft applications actually seem kinda fun for a change, well.. Not fun.. But different. Which is nice :') 

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