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Time:
10:41 EST/15:41 GMT | News Source:
ActiveWin.com |
Posted By: Robert Stein |
A repost of our Windows 8 review we originally published 9/26/12.
Andre Da Costa, Byron Hinson and I have posted ActiveWin.com's final review of Microsoft Windows 8 RTM. The 45-page review covers many different aspects of the operating system and includes over 40 new screenshots. The review is the capstone of our coverage culminating the four previous previews we have written of Windows 8 with our final thoughts as we approach the release date. ActiveWin.com has written more on Windows 8 than any previous operating system - over two hundred pages in total. An excerpt:
After 3 years of development which included an 18 month process unveiling it, 11 months of public evaluation and feedback, Microsoft will once again release a new version of its operating system called Windows 8, the successor to the massively popular Windows 7 operating system. Windows 8 is a significant upgrade in the company’s history and represents a drastic departure from previous generations of the operating system. Deprecating 17 years of user interface technology and investment to nothing more than an app while advancing and investing in new technologies and user experiences to bring the Windows platform forward in a world where users have embraced mobile devices in most facets of their lives. Microsoft describes Windows 8 as Windows ‘reimagined’ along with other descriptions such as ‘fast and fluid’, Windows 8 does indeed live up to those words. The ActiveWin Team has been evaluating the final release over the past month and we have come to some conclusions. Read on to find out if this is a release worth upgrading to, especially from the mighty Windows 7.
The Tablet PC, a device heavily promoted and guided by Microsoft for many years. If you look at the Company’s role in tablet computing, you could pretty much say, it has been a long sought after goal of Microsoft to be successful in the market. Products such as Windows Pen Computing and the Windows XP Tablet PC in more recent times have been the early attempts by Microsoft to move Windows and computing beyond the traditional PC form factor (keyboard and mouse). They have all failed, failed in the sense that they just did not garner the same attention like mainstream devices, even the traditional PC form factor itself continues to be a remarkably popular product after 30 years on the market and it will continue to be strong in its traditional sense of system unit, display, keyboard and mouse. The thing is, the PC is not the center of our lives anymore, people are not stationary, they don’t believe in doing things in one place while the world passes them by. It’s all about real time communication, instantaneous activities from social networking, news, music, videos, meaning today’s society is measured by one thing, an always on, always connected culture. If you are not in it or attempting to be in it from a software developer or hardware manufacturer’s point of view, then you are pretty much irrelevant.
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#1 By
28801 (129.33.202.164)
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9/26/2012 9:01:17 AM
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I found Job's quote interesting "It has a stylus. As soon as you have a stylus, you’re dead."
That's one of the main things I wish the ipad had. For me, note taking via handwriting recognition on a tablet is key. I hate those Nerf darts you have to write with on the ipad that wear out after 30 days of moderate use. The stylus that comes with the samsung series 7 slate is sweet and works well in Win 8.
I find the Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 with the S-Pen intriguing as well.
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#2 By
840774 (82.181.14.59)
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9/26/2012 9:49:04 AM
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89.5% verdict for an operating system that is atrocious to use with a keyboard and mouse, where your productivity will drop radically when everything you want to do in metro requires your mouse to move to the other end of the screen and where discoverbility has been completely thrown out the window.
A metro interface that is only 25% done, with mail, calendar and picture apps that are in early alpha stages with only a fraction of the features compared to what you can do if you use your web browser to go to the same service online (hotmail.com, skydrive.com). A skydrive app that cannot even move a file from one folder to another, let alone share a file with others, one of the main reasons for skydrive's existense. No, again you have to go to the internet to skydrive.com to do that.
Of course there is still the old desktop, but Metro is put front and center for everyone since windows boots into metro start menu. I am very suprised at this verdict when all the new interface details are clearly not even close to being ready.
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#3 By
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9/26/2012 11:58:51 AM
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The thing is, it offers the best of both worlds, you have the classic desktop apps you can fall back on. If you the built in Modern Metro app in conjunction with the Skydrive desktop app, you can still retain a local copy of your personal files. Windows 8 will take some getting use to, but its not a mountainous experience. I have been using the OS exclusively for 12 months and its not daunting as some would believe. The Modern interface should be used in context. If you are on the go, in an airport, moving around a lot, the Modern UI is more flexible, don't expect to do precision work with it, that is what the desktop app is for.
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#4 By
143 (74.133.136.243)
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9/26/2012 1:34:42 PM
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More clicking is not an upgrade.
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#5 By
28801 (129.33.202.164)
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9/26/2012 1:37:15 PM
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#2: I will concur that some of the apps need more work and there is currently a worrisome dearth of apps in the app store. However, I have no issue with navigating with a mouse in the Metro environment. The mouse wheel scrolls left or right and the left mouse button clicks things. What's the issue?
Something that does bother me however, is the homogenization of apps. Every news app looks and operates identically. The same can be said for all of the recipe apps. In fact, all Moden UI apps look alike. I don't know, Is that a good thing? The only apps that really stand out for me are the Cocktail Flow and Onenote apps.
So as a developer, how do you set your app apart from all of the others? Since Modern UI is all about content, once you are in the app it all looks the same.
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#6 By
8556 (173.29.0.102)
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9/26/2012 3:56:48 PM
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Power Menu lets you access all shut down commands when right clicking the desktop in the form of a menu choice.
I bypass Metro and only see it when a reboot is required. Since I use a laptop I have no need of Metro and get past it quickly. I use Windows 8 Enterprise (activated). Its not very hard to press the Win+D key at start up. The Start corner has a great right click menu that lets me access all the commands I normally would use.
I found Win 8 annoying last November. Now, it is my primary OS and I'm not looking back. It's faster, easier to use (once it's tweaked), and boots in ten seconds from hibernation, half the time Win 7 Pro took.
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#7 By
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9/26/2012 7:06:59 PM
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I just do not understand how Windows 8 will excel in a business environment...but I haven't used the Enterprise version yet.
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#8 By
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9/27/2012 2:37:10 PM
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#5 - that is one of the downsides as i see it too - i like apps to differ in looks, what is the point of them all looking the same. Some of the best apps on android and ios are the ones that different to everything else out there.
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#10 By
28801 (129.33.202.164)
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9/28/2012 7:14:17 AM
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Hey Bob, Why don't we drive more discussion on this site rather than directing AW users to a competing site to play?
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#11 By
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9/30/2012 2:35:00 PM
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Working on that, but it is few and far between we get an article with that much coverage, so it was worth posting the link. We are making some very good progress on new activewin....we just deleted over 300,000 SPAM accounts! It feels real good.
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#12 By
143 (74.141.164.110)
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10/27/2012 4:18:51 PM
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"Carnac the Magnificent" predicts Windows 9 in the near future...
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#15 By
929175 (147.255.37.211)
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11/26/2012 3:50:36 AM
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