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Windows 8 Developer Preview: “The Desktop”
However, the Desktop isn’t completely gone. I feel it’s being very slowly fizzled out, but it still exists! Doesn’t this look familiar? Of course! It’s the same UI as Windows 7, with the exception of a different looking Windows logo on the bottom left. That …
Read MoreWindows 8 Developer Preview: The “Start Menu”
Start Menu is in quotations because it’s received a complete redesign. It appears to have been completely replaced with the new “tiles” (aka Metro UI). Which fairs a striking resemblance to Windows Phone 7, hmm, wonder why? Windows Phone 7 was highly based of the …
Read MoreWindows 8 Developer Preview: First Boot Part 2
You’ll go through this wave of settings (if you opt to do custom settings rather than the express settings) You’ll notice that the “Use Windows Error Reporting” is turned off by default. Maybe Microsoft is finally starting to come out and say “We never check those, so …
Read MoreWindows 8 Developer Preview: First Boot Part 1
Getting the system ready for it’s first launch after installation! The folks at Redmond are getting even more clever every day. This has to be the simplest Terms of Service agreement (or license agreement) I have ever seen for a Windows Machine!
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