Win2K was NT5, it was rock solid but never intended for home use. I ran it for a while because it supported dual CPUs and 98SE didn't. It ran anything intended for Win32 pretty much fine, older stuff presented compatibility problems.

What I find amusing is that people don't realise that xp only came out about 6 months after win2k

Everyone thinks it came out with win2k3.

XP is over a decade old now.

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I installed the customer preview on my netbook and really hated it, on a tab yer it may work but to get that they have made it horrible to use with a keyboard and mouse :/

Could use my 360 controller on it I suppose

So the gist of it is that the Consumer preview is a big load of balls, the developers one was alright because you could switch off Metro, which means really no one is going to know if the final product is actually any good until it becomes downloadable? 

Very true.  Hopefully the Metro UI will be reserved for touchscreen users and a stock desktop interface for the rest of us.

It wouldn't surprise me if the stock Windows UI wasn't massively different to the current Windows 7....Aero excluded.
That said, I'm bored now of Windows 8.  It's not "doing anything" for me.
I'm going to play with Ubuntu 12.04

Loving how you can use the  net while it's installing

Quote from: Clock'd 0Ne on May 27, 2012, 23:12:05 PM
So the gist of it is that the Consumer preview is a big load of balls, the developers one was alright because you could switch off Metro, which means really no one is going to know if the final product is actually any good until it becomes downloadable? 

Roughly, yes 

They took the Aero interface, which was entirely adequate for a desktop, and created a new Metro one for pads. These would have been good, if kept separate...

Unfortunately they removed the Start button from the standard Windows interface and attempted to patch on Metro as some form of replacement - the result is something like a cows body that has a dragon's head tacked on, swan's legs and elephant's ears. The head always coughs smoke to confuse you while the tail produces poisonous burning sh*t.

Metro isn't good on a desktop, the apps are all meh and you can only have 2 visible at a time. I use a PC with multiple apps running, and quite often I want three or four of them visible on screen.

Got Windows 8 installed on my second PC.  Quite simply, I hate it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOQ8IRVp2qs

Quote from: bear on July 02, 2012, 01:30:40 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOQ8IRVp2qs

They removed the ability to do that in the recent releases.

Indeed wouldn't be so bad if you could still do that. Stupid decision by M$

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Looks Like Microshaft is trying to improve on its Windows Vista (A view of the sewage works edition) disaster by following it with Windaz 8 (Hard to swallow tablet edition) 

Do they ever learn? 

I will add this here rather than starting a new thread...

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Valve boss Gabe Newell calls Windows 8 a 'catastrophe'

Operating system Windows 8 will be a "catastrophe" for PC game makers, according to Valve Software's boss.

Speaking at the Casual Connect game conference in Seattle, Gabe Newell said the next version of Windows could mean big changes to the PC market.

Many took his comment as a criticism of the changed user interface in Windows 8 as well as its built-in Windows Store.

The Windows Store could dent the success of Valve's own online market, Steam, through which players buy games.

Hat tricks

Mr Newell, who worked for Microsoft for 13 years on Windows, said his company had embraced the open-source software Linux as a "hedging strategy" designed to offset some of the damage Windows 8 was likely to do.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-18996377

Some personal interest but still relevant.

I can't see anyone actually wanting to upgrade tbh. I mean what is Windows 8 bringing to the table that Windows 7 doesn't other than some too cool for school touch bollocks no one wanted or asked for? What will be new and improved is sweet F.A as far as I can see other than a few snappy explorer changes like multiple & pausable file copying dialogues. The fact that they are buggering the OS overall means I will not push for a copy as I did with Windows 7, and my recent shafting over memory support with Win7 is leading me even further down the f**k giving them a chance route.

This is this decades Windows Me (and I still rate Me FWIW)

I know of people already talking about upgrading, the masses won't actually know whats in store for them, its just another case of keeping up with the Joneses for most that are not knowledgable enough to make their own decision.