The Windows 8 and other failed Microsoft products thread - Windows 8 "relaunches" Feb

[Jelly]

hi there, jcap here. for the past several months i have said a lot in irc about how much i care about windows 8 but nobody else was caring so i post it here but also still in irc for som reason

[Con]

some1 pls give a car

[DarkHalo003]

So I'm assuming W8 is getting worse?

[arbiter901]

● In a dual boot scenario, the ability to directly boot into another OS besides Windows 8 is slowed down because the new Windows 8 boot shell/loader reboots to load the other operating system.

I fixed this in the release preview by setting the other OS as default and it takes me directly to the windows vista/7 bootloader.

[Kornman00]

● The Windows Error Reporting dialog for reporting/debugging crashes does not save the state of "View details"

WTF? Well in that case OpenSauce isn't supported on Win8.

[Warsaw]

The only reason this OS will succeed is because it will be on every single new computer and customer choice will be either restricted or eliminated.

Whooo, Applesoft.

[nuttyyayap]

Well, at least I know I'll never use this damn OS!
Maybe W9 will be better.

[jcap]

I fixed this in the release preview by setting the other OS as default and it takes me directly to the windows vista/7 bootloader.

Can you explain this further? What do you mean by default?

As I understand it, the Windows 8 boot menu is essentially an operating system itself. It has a boot screen and all, which takes a good chunk of time to load. God forbid you even have to enter safe mode repeatedly.

[arbiter901]

When you're at the at the Windows 8 bootloader select "Change defaults or choose other options".

(old screenshot I randomly googled)
Then click on "change default operating system"

Then end result should look like the classic 7 loader with Windows 8 under the 7 option.


It will probably not work as I had XP installed on this drive before and never wiped the old boot sector.

[jcap]

Not 100% sure if this is true, but I'm fairly confident it is...

User on SA in yospos posted:

we got a laptop from intel with windows 8 this week. It has a trackpad and a touchscreen. When the new windows 8 new user interface experience is up the tracks doesn't work and you have to use the touchscreen

http://forums.somethingawful.com/sho...#post406224837

(Disclaimer: He also said a few posts later that he only had a minute with it and he will double check next week to be sure)

Though, if this really is true, then