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Building Windows 8: An inside look from the Windows engineering team
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Damon Bennet
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beta fish
put that in the quote tag, so it doesnt mess with the page width, please
it was in WinUnleaked.tk's W8 Gallery so i assume its real. then again the bing page had this one it awhile ago http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEsMglMetjc so maybe the fish will have a more traditional look.
edit: from neowin forums
I partitioned my drive. I don't think I've booted into W7 since.
brotkasten
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Of course there will be a new thread. This one is actually about the blog posts on the building windows 8 blog. Just in case you didn't read the thread title or the OP.
Yes because obviously this thread only discussed what was written on the building Windows 8 blog. It may have been the original intention of the thread, but it seems to me that it quickly turned into a general Windows 8 discussion thread.
It was a simple question, and I expected a simple reply, which thankfully other members provided.
Is it me or do they moved the peek/show desktop button to the left? If that's the case, I hope you can move it back to the right. It would be hard to change the habit now.
Yes because obviously this thread only discussed what was written on the building Windows 8 blog. It may have been the original intention of the thread, but it seems to me that it quickly turned into a general Windows 8 discussion thread.
It was a simple question, and I expected a simple reply, which thankfully other members provided.
Ease up there Mr.Serious Business.
brotkasten
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They removed the button, you can still peek with the corner and win + space.
Barkley's Justice
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so new google ui in windows 8. still looks good tho tbh
Treefingers
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I wish Google's designers could make something half as good-looking as that
Anton Sugar
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Barkley's Justice
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just add sepia!
brotkasten
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Check out the settings page for Chrome. They're getting there.
It's still a bit too much Zune, though.
Treefingers
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Admiral Bone to Pick
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You rang?
I am ashamed that I've just learned about Win + Space combo.
But if they removed the peek button, what's the button (the thin vertical block) on the left for?
What version of Chrome are you using? Settings page doesn't look like that in my Chrome and I've got the latest stable version.brotkasten said:
There's still some issues with whitespaces and margins. For example the space between "Settings" label and radioboxes, and "Appearance" label and buttons is different. But overall it indeed looks nice.
start button, it shows a preview of the start screen/desktop when you mouse over to the left on either screen.
When was the consumer preview released and when will the retail version ship? I know late 2012 has been the word, but anything closer than that? I've had this macbook for 5 years now, and I'm dying to get back to Windows and get a new laptop, but only if it's ready for Windows 8.
Anton Sugar
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Consumer preview releases tomorrow.
Well yeah I guess I did come across a bit too serious. Oh well, water under the bridge and all that.
What do you mean "ready for Windows 8"? I'm running Windows 8 on my over 3-year-old notebook and I have no problems with it. If a laptop can run Windows 7, it will run Windows 8 without any troubles.
Unless you're talking about notebooks with touch screen.
Yeah, I was thinking about touch screen capabilities. I know most Windows 7 capable laptops will be able to run 8, but I just want to make sure I make the right choice for my next laptop purchase.
Macs have made me pretty computer illiterate. Can anyone tell me the difference between the 32 and 64 bit versions of Windows 7 and will there be a similar thing for 8?
Complex Shadow
Cudi Lame
windows 8 have three different versions, ARM, 32, and 64. just stick with 64 imo.
64 bit allows for more than 4GB of memory.
brotkasten
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I don't think you can buy new 32-bit machines anymore.
SapientWolf
Trucker Sexologist
I keep hoping that MS will drop the 32-bit version on their latest OS release but they never do.
Aren't most chips 32/64?
brotkasten
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Server 8 is only available as 64-bit version and we all know Windows Server leads the way for the next consumer version. No more 32-bit Windows with Windows 9.
Yeah, I was talking about the installed OS. Should've been more specific.
Just partitioned my drive in preparation for tomorrow. For those of you who haven't partitioned a drive before in Win 7, here is a nice step by step website.
http://www.windows7news.com/2009/09/23/how-to-create-a-partition-in-windows-7/
http://www.windows7news.com/2009/09/23/how-to-create-a-partition-in-windows-7/
My Sedatives
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Well that is awesome, thank you so much. I was debating whether to clean wipe or not.
This laptop has like 600gigs I'm not using.
Damon Bennet
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can I run the windows 8 beta from an external hdd? (i have exactly no idea how stuff like this works)
Bitmap Frogs
Mr. Community
Jesus they're still using their crappy icons.
For the love of god, hire some guys to do it and flush the old ones. Metro is good, abuse the heck out of it ffs =/
For the love of god, hire some guys to do it and flush the old ones. Metro is good, abuse the heck out of it ffs =/
As seen in some of the recent pictures, the icons are starting to be revamped. I doubt we'll see them until the RC though.
Best way to do it is by partitioning your drive. You don't want to be running the OS over USB.
Bitmap Frogs
Mr. Community
Good!
My Sedatives
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I'm at 23gigs and I have Win7 and about a dozen programs installed that I access daily (like office, a couple of games and some other bs.)
Not sure how you have almost filled 64gb with just windows 7.
Anywho, I think you are good with 64gb. If you are on a laptop and you don't have access to a secondary drive, then I would suggest getting a portable HDD or just upgrading to a 128gb if you feel tight.
Right now I am running 64gb ssd with 750gb for programs, music, and whatever.
It's in the chrome beta channel.
Well In reality its about 40 gigs, but stuff tends to pile up and I have to go in and do some cleaning. Is there any way to move my user folders off of that drive? Or have the default program files folder be somewhere else?
ThatObviousUser
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Vanillalite
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Super Excited! I can't wait to do a reinstall of Win 8 to upgrade from the dev preview to the beta consumer preview tomorrow!
bigtroyjon
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So I did all that and then it says
Should I continue or will this not allow me to have Windows 8 on there?
Hmmm, I'm not sure. That didn't happen to me. Anyone else know??
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