I was using it as a VM. I had issues setting up the LAN stuff and adding a USB flash drive to the machine. I didn't spend an incredibly long time on it, I just kinda said "hell with this" and went back to vmware. I'm sure it's not bad once you set it up correctly and install the tools and such.
It's hilarious when people get angry over leaks not happening. They actually feel as if life is over and some start throwing guilt trips out there as a sad attempt to get someone to leak it. Oh and the guys that pose as women and beg for the leaks, that's beyond pathetic lol. It's rumored a preview may come out on the 30th. It's only the 19th. If the rumor is true, just forget about it and go on with life. Before you know it, the preview is out and installed on your system. When you become obsessed over a leak happening, not only is that very pathetic, but it makes the time just drag by even slower because you can't stop thinking about it. No operating system is worth obsessing over. Your life has to be pretty empty if something like this takes up your day.
I see. For me it was the other way around. In VMware WS I've always been unable to install IPCop (Linux Firewall distro) to separate my virtual environments from my physical environment. IPCop just refuses to show me my network adapters. In Hyper-V I just remove the network adapter, add two legacy adapters and IPCop shows me my adapters. But you have a good point about the USB flash drive. I remember VMware WS and VirtualBox being able to mount or redirect USB storage devices to the virtual machines. And I definitely miss that feature in Hyper-V...
Its actually not about Windows, well it is but it's more about activation SDK within the partners / OEMS possession so if a leak does happen they can trace it before it goes amass cause of sticky fingered people I don't blame MS but fack I just want the OS!
It only seems to be a small handful of people that do this for some reason. In an unrelated situation; I kind of like Linux for this reason; you want to see the new features in a (popular) distro, you go pick up the latest daily install image or just update your packages against the test/daily ones. There is no "waiting" game for a new distro
No, I wouldn't! I think we've just said the same thing. I deliberate on the reason why people aren't going to get Windows 9 Technical Preview leak any time soon until the Microsoft planned release date(September 30th). Maybe my expository tone seems to make people see my argument as though supporting the opinion to leak it to the public. If you have read most of my posts back into this very discussion you would see where I have always been on the critical side of views not to do so for security reason. I wouldn't risk even a penny not to make mention of my job for a leak that people would have within some weeks from now, sir. I repeat, No, I wouldn't!
I too have tried my hand on the Hyper-V with a little success due to its hardware demand (one of my ultrabooks I intent to use it has 4GB RAM non-upgradable) and I have to make a registry patch to get it working effectively. Indeed, I would! I would love to try the upcoming Windows 9 Technical Preview on Hyper-V in such machine but I have to consider the risk of running it under a minimum hardware requirements. I wish to do that with the other system which has a RAM that can be upgraded from 8GB to 16GB.
Wasn't referring to anyone here (well, maybe one person who I know for a fact is begging his little butt off right now to get a copy on another forum) was mainly referring to people I see on other forums. They're hardcore about doing whatever they can to get someone to leak it and act as if life actually depends on getting that build leaked. Is it cool to play with an OS that you really shouldn't be using yet? Sure, I can see that. Do I feel the need to beg to get access to it? Nope. I'm just a very patient person. If I really wanted to I could most likely get access to a build if I really wanted to, but it would involve people I don't talk to much anymore and it would be obvious that's the only reason I contacted them and that wouldn't be right lol. Although I would have a lot of fun showing one person how I can get it and he can't. I'm not THAT immature though...lol
we already know the risk of running alpha and beta software. thats why we are here in the first place. to play with and test the hell out of shat.