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Author Topic: Windows 8 pre-beta released -  (Read 1263 times) Bookmark and Share
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« Reply #15 on: 16 September, 2011, 11:11:22 »
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I've installed Windows 8 on a second partition on my PC. I love the Metro IE layout; I'd love to have a copy of FireFox or Chrome with the same UI. Even on a desktop I think it works great, and is one of the few fullscreen browsers I like.

Otherwise I'm not massively impressed. I think if I had it on a tablet then I'd love it, but on a desktop it feels really dumbed down. For example the new Start menu is practically useless. Although Metro works surprisingly well with a mouse and keyboard, it's much more work. Like you have to drag the login screen up to sign in. I'm also finding it _very_ unstable; lots of the Metro apps randomly freeze once I have opened more then 2 or 3, and it has blue screened literally about 15 times.

I have a dual screen setup with my main monitor flipped to be vertical. As a result boot loaders and the BIOS are normally shown rotated by 90 degrees on the smaller monitor. But in the new boot loader that comes with Windows 8 it syncs with Windows to get your monitor layout, and so displays it correctly on my bigger, secondary monitor. It's a really nice touch.
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