I have to agree with what you're saying about flicking between apps. And
you've got a tablet - it's even harder with a mouse!
As far as I can tell, you have to go so close to the left border of the
desktop and then it seems to only show the previous view/app you were using.
I would have thought it would show all the apps that you currently have
activated (but are probably suspended) allowing you to slide between the
various apps.
Also, it took me a while to figure out that the start button was still
available because it was so far down in the bottom left corner that I'm
surprised I actually stumbled across it with the mouse.
I know it's early days and it's designed for touch - but I'm worried it's
going to upset a lot of people if they don't work out how to make that more
intuitive. There's is a lot of existing hardware that it's going to have to
run on that is not touch ready.
T.
From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com]
On Behalf Of David Burela
Sent: Saturday, 17 September 2011 5:54 PM
To: ozDotNet
Subject: Re: Microsoft BUILD / Windows 8
For those wanting to play with it inside a virtual machine, i'd recommend
you instead boot directly into Win8 as a VHD instead.
Here is a guide from Scott Hanselman
http://www.hanselman.com/blog/GuideToInstallingAndBootingWindows8DeveloperPr
eviewOffAVHDVirtualHardDisk.aspx
One of those annoying things I'm finding with the new tile interface, is
trying to swap from one app to another. You need to keep flicking your
finger from the left to cycle through the apps. It makes it really difficult
to know if your app is still actually in the back stack, or where exactly it
is. I keep flicking through, cycling through twice only to discover that my
app isn't open any more, or I keep missing it and need to keep cycling
through again.
Having a way to switch apps with say, similar to how you can quick switch on
iOS would make it so much more functional.
-David Burela
On 16 September 2011 16:33, Grant Maw grant@gmail.com wrote:
No, Win7 64 bit host. x64 Win8 preview.
On 16 September 2011 14:36, Winston Pang winstonp...@gmail.com wrote:
Grant, were you doing it on a 32bit host environment? installing the x64
Win8 preview build?
On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 2:27 PM, Grant Maw grant@gmail.com wrote:
To get it working on VirtualBox (assuming you had the same unexpected
error that I got) you need to do this :
In the settings for your virtual box, motherboard tab, make sure you have
selected Enable IO APIC, then on the Processor tab, make sure Enable
PAE/NX is selected.
I have also read somewhere that people are having trouble getting the
networking to work properly. I didn't have this issue but the current wisdom
for this is to go into settings and on Network-Adapter1-Advanced choose the
generic (Intel PRO/1000 MT) network card.
Hope that helps
Grant
On 16 September 2011 14:19, Winston Pang winstonp...@gmail.com wrote:
Ah, nice, thanks Ken, I was using virtual box, but it crapped itself. So I
thought it was across the board.
On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 1:27 PM, Ken Schaefer k...@adopenstatic.com wrote:
Applications like VMWare Workstation will let you run 64bit VMs even if the
host OS is 32bit
Cheers
Ken
From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com]
On Behalf Of Winston Pang
Sent: Friday, 16 September 2011 10:58 AM
To: ozDotNet
Subject: Re: Microsoft BUILD / Windows 8
Man it totally sucks.
I wanted to install x64 on a VM but forgot that my current install of
windows is 32bit, so it wont run the Windows 8 x64 version, which is the
only version that has the VS2011 express dev tools, GAHHH
And that link requires MSDN subscription only.
On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 12:01 PM, David Kean david.k...@microsoft.com
wrote:
Please also play around with the developer tools, I'd suggest downloading
the Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview
(http://blogs.msdn.com/b/jasonz/archive/2011/09/14/announcing-visual-studio-
11-developer-preview.aspx) over the Express edition.
One thing you should be aware of is that we only have a certain amount of
time to react to feedback before the Beta - so please, please tell us what
you think.
Although Windows 8 seems to be getting the most attention, if you use TFS,
there's a bunch of goodness in this release which I've been dogfooding for
the past 6 months; Agile tools to manage stories and tasks, My Work which is
basically a Pending changes on steroids, and a new built-in Code Review
tool.
From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com]
On Behalf Of Stephen Price
Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2011 6:23 PM
To: ozDotNet
Subject: Re: Microsoft BUILD / Windows 8
I installed it on my Asus eee slate last night. First attempt left me in an
endless boot loop telling me there was a problem. Maybe it was because I
installed it in a pub? Backed up hard drive and formatted it,
