Great review Canouna, thank you very much! I still don't like the Metro/Aero mix in the Desktop App (desktop icons - Computer and Server are Metro, others are Aero? Does Computer have a Metro icon in Windows Explorer too?; glass effects are still present etc.), but nevermind, I guess it's better than nothing. EDIT: Plus, Help and .txt files in Apps list, seriously? It doesn't say Files, it says effin' Apps. What do you guys think, will they introduce new Paint, Notepad, Wordpad etc. apps, too? Like, the Metro version of them and delete the old ones?
Thank you Canouna! Your review was awesome! I am very anxious to try Windows 8 CP! In fact, I am building a new computer this weekend or early next week and I will install it as my primary OS on the new computer. These are very nervous, but exciting times for Microsoft and all of us!
Was beginning to lose faith in Canouna but really, wow! The last WinUnleaked post is so cool, the screenies are very nice. What about the hardware icons in the Metro Control Panel (Devices tab). Did they get an update?
So what is this dippyforum thread you were all on about? Is this guy going to leak? Or is he trolling?
I just left a comment on Canouna's review. The aesthetic improvements on Immersive are a plus; however, the performance improvements are a bigger one. Why? First off, the WDP was, in and of itself, easily the equal of, or in a LOT of cases, faster than, 7+SP1+hotfixes+up-to-date patches. Now, it appears that the WCP is going after the long-perceived performance champ - Windows XP. If it can even get close to XP performance (non-x64 hardware, of course) - let alone beat it - what excuse will there be for sticking with XP other than niche uses? The next fourteen (or however many days) until the CP arrives are definitely going to be a nail-bite-fest.
Dear Canouna. I have newstipped the redaction of tweakers.net. A dutch computer/gadget/electrionic discussion site. This is great stuff my friend.
Sensible - a typical OS install .WIM is a Big Five .WIM (goes back to Windows 2000/NT5); even .WIM files targeted strictly for the US support all the Big Five languages. That's not really news. The performance improvements however, are. But because I noticed that the WDP smacks around 7+SP1+hotfixes+up-to-date-patches on my hardware, I really gotta ask, Fraggy - did the WDP perform better, or worse, than 7+SP1 on *your* hardware?
If you look at the original page it's torko, if you translate it using goolgle translate it becomes tork
You can connect to your network the SAME way in the WDP that you do in 7 (clicking on the Network icon in the WDP TaskTray brings up the Network charm, which shows *all* the available networks - wired or wireless). What excuse do you have for *deliberately* going around the long way?
Canouna please could you tell me if you can use a desktop app on one screen, and still display the Start Screen on the other? In the WDP when you were using an desktop app on one screen, the Start Screen would close, and go back into the last Metro app you were using.