On 03/30/2012 09:19 AM, Christopher Tooley wrote:
I have also set up windows 8 preview in a VirtualBox environment, and it works just fine (my host is not super fast though, so the vm was pretty slow). Very interesting and, to me, compelling, interface; I'm wondering how easily the average user will get used to it.
See my remarks below on the average user
Christopher Tooley [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> Systems, HEP/Astronomy UVic
Got W8 x64 Consumer Preview up and running. I used the following Virt-Manager set up: OS: W7 64 bit (as recommended by others on this group) Display: Spice Video: qxl (or Spice won't run) Processor configuration: copy host CPU configuration The W8 setup looks almost identical to W7's. I do like the W7/W8 install as you can start it up, answer a few questions and then walk away from it. XP made you stick around and answer a bunch of occupational questions. My idea with W8 was to fire it up with no preconceptions as a home customer would, seeing it for the first time. I wanted to know what their initial experience would be so I could prepare to assist them. M$'s marketing department seems to have missed two major points about this iPad/tablet style of interface. 1) Apple, the champion of this kind of interface, does not use it on its desktops. This is not a desktop interface. W8 should have only been for a tablet. 2) the iPad is PAINFULLY INTUITIVE. It took me about 30 seconds to be configuring eMail accounts on the first iPad that was stuck under my nose. W8 is the opposite. It took me about five minutes to figure out how to power W8 off! (I refused to look it up on the web; I wanted to simulate a non-professionals experience.) W8 is AWFUL! It is so bad, it took my breathy away! Swear words have not yet been created to describe it! My big fear is that I am going to force myself to learn this turkey and no one will buy it. Oh yea, and the average Joe buying a PC with this turkey on it from Costco is going to break down in tears trying to figure it out. (Hopefully he will call me before he throws it out the window.) I am rambling. I hope the Forum Administrator does not ding me for off topic. Thanks to everyone for the tips and moral support. -T As it has been said before, and now ever more so, "Computers are like air conditioners, they malfunction when you open windows."
