I must admit I haven’t done extreme testing or anything hectic with it yet but there are a couple of irritating things about the Windows 8 Developer Preview. Hopefully these will only be issues that is due to the ‘test\/beta’ status of Windows 8 and that they improve some things along the way.<\/p>\n
At the moment I have two big’ish issues with the Developer Preview.<\/p>\n
1. The Metro interface – I don’t have an actual problem with it as such except that you don’t have the option to easily disable it and return to the more classical Windows 7 desktop. It may be great for tablets or other portable devices with touch screens but not on a work related PC – and definitely not for legacy applications.<\/p>\n
2. Internet connectivity is absolutely required – Not everyone has super fast and uncapped connections – even today. For me the problem is even worse because I have to run it inside a VM (VirtualBox) on a network where it is not allowed to have such test stuff accessing the Internet. The problem it creates is that this developer preview ‘absolutely’ requires a connection even to do something as simple as adding Windows components (through the add\/remove programs control panel). Why it has to go to the Windows Update site just to get something that should be on the local install media is beyond me!<\/p>\n
On the positive side I’m really impressed with the boot-up speed. General performance\/response is really good (yes, even inside a VM). I only have 2GB memory allocated to it and it doesn’t feel too sluggish – but yes, I’m not running any hectic applications inside it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I must admit I haven’t done extreme testing or anything hectic with it yet but there are a couple of irritating things about the Windows 8 Developer Preview. Hopefully these will only be issues that is due to the ‘test\/beta’ …<\/p>\n