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Microsoft offers free Windows 8 RTM eval to everyone | |
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| Time: 15:20 EST/20:20 GMT | News Source: ComputerWorld | Posted By: Robert Stein | ||
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"Downloading Windows 8 Enterprise now, with an Enterprise Multiple Activation key," said Ken Schannen, in a message posted on the TechNet discussion thread. "I also see Windows 8 Pro with 3 keys available." |
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| #1 By 143 (74.133.136.62) at Sunday, August 19, 2012 04:15:55 AM |
| Wow, InfoWorld does not like Win8. "Windows 8 review: Yes, it's that bad" |
| #2 By 8556 (173.29.0.102) at Sunday, August 19, 2012 03:46:08 PM |
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#1: The Infoworld article praises than damns Win 8. I have the RTM (TechNet) installed and activated. When booting press Win+D keys just as the Start screen shows and Metro can be ignored. The utilities I primarily use are now faster to access than with past Windows. Drag cursor to the lower left screen and RIGHT mouse click for a nice menu of utilities including Admin Command Prompt. The menu saves a lot of time trying over using the same function in Metro. I now have Win 8 set up with faster access to everything I use and I like it. Six months ago I disliked it as I found it jarring and missed the Start button. I like a clean desktop. So what I use now is all program shortcuts that I went to off the Start button are now accessible from the Desktop Toolbar, which replaces the Start button with what I want on it. Desktop icons are still hidden. This OS is highly customizable and practical. MS tweaks have pushed Win 8 into a business functional desktop OS that just works for me. Shutdown is simple, set the power button so that pressing it turns off the machine. Simple. This post was edited by bobsireno on Sunday, August 19, 2012 at 15:48. |
| #3 By 28801 (129.33.202.164) at Tuesday, August 21, 2012 01:25:03 PM |
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#2: I agree with much of what you said, however, I just use the metro (aka Windows 8 UI) as the start menu. You can group items, label the groups and add shortcuts to desktop items on the metro screen. For me it is much more useful that the Window 7 menu.
The problem I see is that when using the Metro UI, I seem to be mesmerized with the active tiles and the sheer beauty of the interface. I want to stay there and read my personal mail and the smart tile articles that pop up on the various news apps rather than get work done. One more big issue is the dearth of apps. I know VS was just released but there are probably under a thousand apps available as I write this. Hopefully this will increase before Oct. 25th. Bob, have you figured out how to add a search shortcut to taskbar? |
| #4 By 28801 (129.33.202.164) at Tuesday, August 21, 2012 01:46:16 PM |
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Found how to create search shortcut:
http://helpdeskgeek.com/windows-8/create-a-desktop-shortcut-to-all-apps-in-windows-8/ |
| #5 By 8556 (173.29.0.102) at Monday, August 27, 2012 12:13:43 AM |
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RX: What I've been doing is clicking on the Windows Explorer shortcut and then typing in the upper right Search box. Metro still not needed to do this.
I had to put Excel templates on my desktop (I hide desktop icons as I like to use the dekstop as a "photo frame") and select them from the desktop shortcut bar as Excel 2013 preview makes it very tedious to open your existing templates compared to Office 2010. Of course, one could also do this with any template in older versions of Office. |
