Window 8 Upgrade

[AB Editor]

Morning,

I've just upgraded to Windows 8 - as it is only £25 for the next little while.

First impressions:

Faster
Better Looking
AnswerBank works well on IE10 :)
You can ignore the metro stuff, more or less.
You'll need to reinstall most of your app, but it's fairly painless.

One problem I've encountered is the way it wants to hook you in to all your social stuff, inboxes and so on. This would be excellent on a computer solely for your own use, but this being my work PC makes all this linking a bit tricky in terms of retaining a certain separation of identity.

If you have any questions about Windows 8, or anything you'd like me to test, I'd be happy to.

OR, if you've upgraded and you'd like a moan, then you could do that here too :)

[Old_Geezer]

Just amazed about the "better looking" comment. From every picture I've seen of it, that appears not to be so.

[AB Editor]

There's no accounting for taste! Although, I've always thought there should be auditing for it.

[rojash]

"way it wants to hook you in to all your social stuff, inboxes and so on"

This is MS learning from Apple. You don't own the system, the system owns you.

[AB Editor]

Not quite how I see it Rojash. For me it's all useful integration - or would be on my personal computer, or a dedicated AB one. I'm not sure how the system "owns me" in which way, any more than me syncing things up on my phone, or just being logged in to any/all of the social sites.

[Mattk]

I will also be doing this at some point. I think the deal runs until end January.
There is a checker that can be used to check your pc's readiness for people thinking about the upgrade. Mine passed muster fine with all my progs being ok. The only one that failed was BT's desktop help.

My PC takes an absolute age to get going so the faster start-up is music to my ears.

[AB Editor]

It certainly was quicker to start. Saying that however, I have only started it once, so I can't comment on it properly yet. The whole system manages to feel faster than my win7 machine.

[gingejbee]

I'm following this advice, and staying with W7:

http://www.computerac...soft-windows-8-review

[bazwillrun]

i've been using it since the first preview releases and think it works well, I just dont use the Metro interface.

my only real problems so far and they werent unexpected is that a lot of my specialist music recording software and associated digital instrument software wont run .

Definitely runs pretty well and uses less resources judging from tests against another PC on Win 7

[rojash]

"that a lot of my specialist music recording software and associated digital instrument software wont run . "

Well, I was gonna try it on my studio machine, but baz just changed my mind.