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    Question Who's running Windows 8?

    Hi,

    Are any of you guys running Windows 8?

    Is it stable?
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    Default Re: Who's running Windows 8?

    Tried the Developer Preview version last week.
    It's really geared up towards touchscreen devices and ruins the experience for normal desktops IMO.

    It lasted about 3 hours on my PC before I wiped it and went back to 7. The desktop environment is there, but feels like an after thought.

    It's not terrible, just very different to using Windows 7 and will take some getting used to. It's not going to have the same impact as Windows 7 did with Vista.

    As for your question, I didn't have any real problems with it for the 3 hours I tried it.
    Just took some time to get used to, I would say stable enough to use, but is still early days.

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    Default Re: Who's running Windows 8?

    The Developer Preview is almost 6 months old now. The consumer preview is out on Wednesday and should show a much more finished product

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    I ask as I'm lookin to bin freeNAS and run this instead as it has nice storage controllers apparently.

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    Default Re: Who's running Windows 8?

    Full win8 install is a bit of overkill just for storage IMO.

    I ran the dev preview as well for a few months on a netbook, and it was okay. Hated metro tho. Definately more for touch screens in that respect.


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    Default Re: Who's running Windows 8?

    Just downloading win8 now will run for a while to see what I think


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