[TheGeek]

I have my site "up" still needs refined as webdev aint really my deal. But it is there.

Www.richardallan.name

Feel free to come along amd critique.

So where are you all?

Geek

[Bragi]

Hi TheGeek. Nice clean site. If you mean online, I'm here: http://janbogaerts.name/ and here http://bragisoft.com/. If you mean in real life, I'm from Belgium.

[Art]

Jan,
The bottom most image is not showing on your site. Just a nudge....

BTW Geek, I'm from the east coast of USA...more exacting would be the Peoples Republic of Maryland.

[Bragi]

thanks. It's supposed to be a video. probably one of the plug-ins not working.

[Freddy]

It's working here.  I read that post of yours about Metro last week, seems like a nightmare.

And I'm from England in the UK.

[Bragi]

I read that post of yours about Metro last week, seems like a nightmare.

It was a big disappointment. I just can't understand why MS would change the programming interface in such a way that it breaks code compatibility with regular windows, and that for basic things like files and threads. There is even less compatibility between metro and regular win 8 compared to android/linux and win 8. I guess they are trying to force something,... I don't think metro has much of a change of survival, especially if it has to compete against regular win 8

[Sybershot]

I was thinking about making a metro/Rt app. after reading your post Bragi, I may just reconsider that thought.

My websites home http://www.scriptedintelligence.com
Country: United States
State: Rhode Island

[TheGeek]

I havent put much effort into learning the metro and rt API. But I am annoid at microsofts dump of the xna API.

Geek

[Freddy]

Me too Geek,  XNA was pretty good.  I made a 3d animated head with it.  I was going to dive back in again, but then read they had abandoned it, so I won't bother now.

[Art]

Personally, my friends and I are and have been avoiding Windows 8 like the plague!

Sometimes these "improvements" seem to happen when things simply weren't broken to begin with.
It's all about the money.

[Bragi]

Personally, my friends and I are and have been avoiding Windows 8 like the plague!

I've been using win 8 for a month now. It took an awful lot of hacking, but I managed to get it to look and feel mostly like win7/vista, and I must admit I'm starting to like the speed.
There are currently 3 things different from my older OS:

• The 'explorer toolbar' where you could place all the shortcuts besides the start-button: that's currently on the right side, can't seem to move it back to the original pos just besides the start button.
• No aero/transparent look like vista/win7  but I don't mind that very much.
• sometimes I stil accidentally start a typical win 8 app like 'weather' getting out of those is a nightmare if you don't have a touch screen. for this reason, I kept the 'side actions' active: if you move the mouse all the way to the left/right upper corner, you get some win8 speicif stuff to manage apps, which is the only way I know off to close those pesky touch-only apps.

Other than that, the most important thing you notice is the speed, it's A LOT faster than vista. It's like having a new pc, but for 30$. I waited a little while until after I loaded up most of the applications that I use, cause well, you know, a fresh os is always fast, until you put on VS, office and a bunch of other crap. But this time, speed appears to be holding, so I'm pretty happy.
All in all, I think MS 's major error with the win8 release is that they went 'touch' crazy.

[Sybershot]

I personally like windows 8 a lot as well, I have not used any hacks unless you call Ultra Hal, Rain Meter, and a few batch files hacks I just need to get organized a bit better and create some directories in-order to stop creating desktop icons that clutter my desktop. old habits are hard to break

sometimes I stil accidentally start a typical win 8 app like 'weather' getting out of those is a nightmare if you don't have a touch screen.

Though there is no button to close them, I don't find it a nightmare to close them. I move my cursor the top of the screen, click and drag app till your cursor is at bottom of screen and release mouse button. Takes some effort, but not a nightmare for me. though I rarely ever use the windows 8 apps with one exception, I the Skype app daily. I mostly leave it open in a side window to the right of my desktop.

in my final statements I will say that windows 8 is not for everyone, and if you have a os that does what you need, and your content with it, there is no need to change.

[Art]

Bragi "... it's A LOT faster than vista. "

EVERYTHING is a lot faster than VISTA!!

I was referring to (and still using) Windows 7. It works fine without a burp or bump in the road.
Win 8 was MS hoping to change the feel to a more "APP LIKE" environment. A lot of people didn't
fall for it.
Yes, to each their own...heck I even have a Linux box running without a hitch and it "just works!"

There are many vehicles one can choose to ride while on the journey.

[systemshock]

window 8 shudder... and all for there surface project...win 7 ultimate 32 or 64 for me..and  hehehe xp for some of my clients still.

[Data]

Windows 8 does have an SSD optimisation (TRIM) built in, quite a good reason to have it.

If you are using HDD only than probably not worth the up-grade.