Windows 9 Preview possibly next month  

I'll let you know if my computer blows up.

-Chuck

Phone Man, post: 35532, member: 66 said:

No one is complaining about performance and security of Win 8, most people big complaint is the GUI.
Windows 8 is great, just needs a different shade of lipstick.:kiss:

Jim

I agree!

Phone Man, post: 35532, member: 66 said:

No one is complaining about performance and security of Win 8, most people big complaint is the GUI.
Windows 8 is great, just needs a different shade of lipstick.:kiss:

Jim

I'm not complaining... but making the performance better is always a good thing in my mind.

Well I haven't had any problems with mine, it came as an OEM install on this Asus and it's done the upgrades without problem.

If we get a beta to try out I'd have to do it on my desktop as I'd be able to split off a partition for it on there whereas on the Notebook I wouldn't be able to. It's only got a 320GB drive which came split with C: and D: but the upgrade put another partition between them as a recovery one so I don't really have the room to play with.
I shall be keeping an eye out for developments.

I would normally just drop a beta into a VM until satisfied it's stable enough to do proper testing - reason being at that time drivers are usually not yet compatible and boot type errors may ensue as well - having said that, the proper way to test it is on a real machine - which is also OK as long as a backup has been made prior.

Seems the next few weeks will be longest ever...

I think I'm going to put my spare hard drive in my desktop PC and install to that. I'll unplug the others and do a clean install. Then I'll just use my BIOS one time boot menu to switch between 8 and 9. No dual boot left overs to mess with.

I think I'll try to set up duel boot.