A Windows veteran looks at Win8 Consumer Preview

If you download and install Windows 8 Consumer Preview, released late last week, I can almost guarantee that you won’t like it.

I know only a handful of experienced Windows users (who don’t work for or with Microsoft) who say they like Windows 8. But it’s the future, eh?

Microsoft is not building Windows 8 for the garden-variety Windows expert. You and I aren’t being ignored, exactly, but we’re not at the top of the Win8 food chain. As perplexing as it might sound, aiming Windows 8 at a different demographic is probably a good decision. But it still might lead to Windows’ demise.

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[lehnerus2000]

Perhaps it does depend on the hardware

I see a few people seem to imagine win 8 is somehow faster.

Mine isn't - I don't mind - I wasn't expecting it to be at this stage.

Strange how a few people think it is.

Perhaps it depends on your system.

On my PC it seems to be about the same speed as W7.
Windows Explorer is possibly more responsive.

It definitely uses less RAM (800 MB vs 1200 MB).

 

[4rtt64ressss]

I see a few people seem to imagine win 8 is somehow faster.

Mine isn't - I don't mind - I wasn't expecting it to be at this stage.

Strange how a few people think it is.

Perhaps it depends on your system.

Somehow my primary disk was heavily fragmented after a clean install. It wasn't running well at all at that moment. But after it finished indexing and defragmentating it started to show its snappiness. It uses less resources and handles RAW files way better in Lightroom/Photoshop than Win7. Gaming performance seems to be equal to that of Win7.

 

[SIW2]

Great - I am looking forward to seeing those things in the final version.

Shame they cripple it with the ghastly Metro thing.

I am having a few issues with it atm - a lot of things are quite slow - some of my apps. ( I made myself ) won't run - I think it might be overenthusiastic security.

Hoping they will have sorted that out in the final.