Just when you'd gotten nice and cosy with Windows 7--certainly the finest version of the operating system in many a year--Windows 8 swaggers in, clad in a shiny but questionable new interface. Microsoft announced yesterday that it'll launch on October 26, available only in upgrade form or in a new PC.
Along with the new Metro interface, Windows 8 boasts faster startup times, Xbox Live integration, a new app store, PIN and picture authentication options, a revamped File Explorer, native USB 3.0 support, and more stuff detailed over on Wikipedia.
If you're running Windows XP, Vista or 7, you can upgrade to Windows 8 Pro for only $39.99, which seems awfully reasonable.
Look, here's a demo of the recent Consumer Preview build, running on a tablet and a laptop:
the first thing what I will do if I even install win8 on a test partition is: - disable metro All of the other things...
Trainwreck
Nice, I'm looking forwards to this and I'm kinda excited about metro. If the whole "tablets are the future consoles" and...