Sorry I don't know, at least for now. Take all these as rumor: the original plan was Project Threshold would provide Windows 8.2 next Spring, with Start Menu and windowed apps, now it seems MS changed plan and policy, there won't be 8.2, and update3 features would be spread over the coming Update-Tue's, so: - I don't know if next Spring would be a roll-up called Update3, or whatever MS would name it. - I don't know if start menu and others would be added to win8.1 as planned. btw, just saw your last post, I feel funny that people asks MJF to "verify" info's from a MS guy, she has no access to corpnet, and the tiny bit of "leaked infos" from her "sources" are carefully monitored by MS.
Some NVIDIA Drivers gave us a 10-40% performance boost in certain games. There is an issue with massive input-lag, if a game doesn't use direct / raw mouse input and there is a USB-Polling-Issue as well. Certain on-board sound chips are causing cut-outs when watching a video. The DirectX-Support changed, which led to a smoother overall game-play. Anti-Virus changed ... Certain apps / games still refuse to run or properly run under 8, but have no issues under 8.1 . Some games can't be even installed on both without strange errors, not even in compatibility mode, but run fine under 7 or in a VM. The forced restart after certain updates got introduced. That are only a few things which come into my mind. Vista had a quite crappy out-of-the-box driver support. Windows-7 was much better in that point. Spare-Part's from HP are after 12month mostly not available anymore, even for higher-end hardware.
You refer to a screenshot found on FB as access to corpnet....LMAO. Where's your proof that person actually has any connection to MS besides that stupid screenshot you treat like gold? A lot of your "leaked info" and "sources" have come from MJF articles that you try taking credit for months later when you think people don't remember or can't find them. I keep telling you that someone may be purposely feeding you BS and it goes right over your head why I would bring that up and bother "warning" you. Keep ignoring that LMAO Soon....soon Oh and don't try acting as if you found the furniture reference that bdsams used. People can view twitter and see exactly who brought that up. Again with taking stuff from others. You just can't stop can you?
Can't wait to see what Brad's "well-sourced sources" and/or "access to builds" has inspired him to write about next! And to believe he doesn't have access to corpnet! How "amazing"! How does he do it? But kidding aside, what is corpnet?
TBH there is surely an improvement from w8 to current w8.1, I am not very familiar with the details, I ran w8.1 altogether 8 hours, not more. Why should I bother with an OS I don't like and when I have w7 licenses already from my employer? When Vista had been released I was disappointed, also when w8 had been... But retrospectively I have to say. The changes at Vista have been made in the name of tech and desktop improvement. Vista paved the way for w7. Vista created the needed time for the OEMs to develop drivers, especially for the x64 architecture. At w8 I only recognize their need to integrate apps and to worsen desktop use..... BTW: What are HP spare parts??? I mean hardware components are standardized.... There are SATA-III drives, DDR-4 memory, ATX mainboards, Socket 1366 CPUs and so on… If one buys proprietary stuff then one cannot complain to have become dependent on them…
If you build your own PC you never know if there will be something that is flawed/defective but with the wealth of info online and reviews of others experiences you can for sure limit it with a bit of reading to educate yourself. If you build your own IBM clone then it is a matter of switch out (picking) parts until you get what you want, case, power supply, motherboard, cpu, ram, drives, video cards, sound card, etc. can all be switched out and even to different manufactures, intel, asus, gigabyte, amd, NVidia and so on. With your own PC and educated choices you can count on companies such as intel and such make chipset drivers for a new OS. You buy a dell, hp or something of this nature you get inferior quality for the same money. They make machines that they count on you doing a total upgrade, that is how they make money. Why would you do that or complain about it? The dell laptops that I installed take me a day to source what's in there and driver sources (other than dell site) for them. This thankfully is not something I do often and if you need portable do a cheap tablet. Desktops are the powerhouses and for most this worktop will not change for some time to come. I do not want to carry my 30" monitor around and have no need to, but for sure will not give it up. By the way it is a dell and I will not be upgrading or fixing it any time soon . Regards
Yeah, that's true. But you will at least try to minimize the need for unnecessary upgrades and you can't always wait or go for the latest tech. I usually hand down my stuff to my wife when I replace something, but this time it didn't work out as I planned it, because I cut myself a bit short back then, when I went for the P8P67. I just wanted to hand down my "old" 2x GTX680-SOC-2GB + 900Watt PSU, but the P8P67 can't take them both. Now I have to sell one of the GPU's which isn't really worth it, because I will possible make a huge loss. So at the end I tried to save maybe ~100 bucks on the MoBo back then and will now possible loose ~200 bucks on the GPU, but to simply get a better MoBo is not worth it either, as I will possible hand down my actual MoBo + CPU to her next year and new / good Socket-1155 MoBo's are already very rare. It's always a bit of a gamble, but still better than going for that "off-the-shelf" boxes. Some of the Sound-Issues came actually from Realtek-Chip's which I thought should be fine, at least better than all that other strange Brands, but you usually get what you pay for. I saw Dell's, where you couldn't put a MoBo from a different Manufacturer in their case, because the part where you had to screw the MoBo on was specially made for their Home-Brand-MoBo (some cable ties and a piece of cardboard fixed that for me). Or when they connected the front-panel via special connectors and cabling to the MoBo. There is always a way around for yourself, but you can't fix things that way for a customer.
It looks like an µATX MoBo to me...you could replace it with a similar. Yes PSUs have been always special from them, but why? You have named the 2 worst companies Dell and HP I'd newer buy a thing or sell if you are a seller.... HP = Compaq. That's the only way to stop that... BTW: I never had a problem upgrading my own assembled PCs, I have trusted brands... And I also need no windows 8 certificate on it...I can run what I want...
Thanks. Btw: Sorry to have moved a bit off topic....originally it started with OS development why the changes and the difference to Vista...I hope I have not disturbed the postings of breaking news of win9 and threshold...