Thread: Windows 8. Anyone taken the dive yet?

Not yet huesph, but I've seriously thought about it!
I will interested in the opinions...
How is the experience so far with it on your laptop?
I've heard the "tiles" layout is a bit different..

I don't use the tiles much. There are ways to avoid having to use the "Metro" interface, which was designed for touch screens. I find myself flipping between "Metro" and the classic desktop mode. There is a "Classic Windows Shell" for Windows 8 that I like to use. It works well and gives you the start menu back and it's customizable. You can style it after Windows XP if you want to. I just go back to the Win 7 style start menu. The Apps are nice. You can install a lot of free apps. Two particularly that I like are N-Track Tuner which is a very nice and surprisingly accurate chromatic tuner and TuneIn Radio which gives you feeds to many stations from all over North America.

Things I don't like is that it is largely dependent on the cloud. There are a lot of live feeds which show up on the start screen: Email, News and the like. Of course you don't have to be online for Windows to work but seeing all those 404 errors makes me feel uneasy.

Otherwise, it's a pretty peppy OS. Much easier on the CPU.

Originally Posted by hueseph

Things I don't like is that it is largely dependent on the cloud.

"The Cloud". A wondrous thing. Safe, secure access...fewer worries about hard drive crashes and lost data. All stored on huge banks at central locations for easy access. Bits and bytes floating around through the air with wireless devices, and into these huge databases. No longer relying on physically secured storage media, disconnected...but everything all in real time, to and from, at undisclosed distant locations.

I mean...what could possibly go wrong? Maybe they'll name the massive central one (the one connected to all others) "Syrinx"?

Kapt.Krunch

I've been reading mixed messages on it. A lot of people say they are seeing 10 to 30 percent increase in performance over 7. That's pretty impressive. Samplitude/Sequoia 12 are windows 8 ready now and engineers like it, so I'm thinking about it. But some drivers aren't ready and all it takes is one thing to reek havoc to mess everything up. My greatest fear.
Looks like this OS is going to be a good one but I'm thinking 6 months or more for me until I'm certain everyone is on par.

The upgrade price is right that's for sure....

I'm going to wait a bit for Win8. Audition 6 doesn't play perfectly with it sometimes and now that my daughter is 3 I don't have the time to mess with it. I am guessing applications that have issues with Win8 will likely be because of the graphics UI's. As to performance improvements, if the computer is already highly tweaked I wouldn't imagine one gains 30%. If one hasn't tweaked it is possible that one might see a huge improvement.

Originally Posted by Kapt.Krunch

"The Cloud". A wondrous thing. Safe, secure access...fewer worries about hard drive crashes and lost data. All stored on huge banks at central locations for easy access. Bits and bytes floating around through the air with wireless devices, and into these huge databases. No longer relying on physically secured storage media, disconnected...but everything all in real time, to and from, at undisclosed distant locations.

I mean...what could possibly go wrong? Maybe they'll name the massive central one (the one connected to all others) "Syrinx"?

Kapt.Krunch

or "Hal"... ;)

I reading on the Samplitude Private Forums people are using Classic Shell with W8

It is so great to have both old and new menu options, especially since 8 hides certain setting on certain windows...confusing!