What's up guys I got drunk and installed this tonight just so I could treat it like the final thing and trash it on the forum

Well, I was peasantly surprised, this version of Windows is a lot more usable than the previous versions! For example you can now snap windows to ALL 4 CORNERS of the screen just like in KDE or a tiling window manager! If you have 2 windows open, you can finally scroll the unfocused one without using hacks like 'WizMouse'!! The command prompt finally supports Ctrl-C/Ctrl-V keyboard shortcuts!! And of course Virtual Desktops are nice!!

Here comes the bad part though, WATCH OUT!!

My WazHack performance has PLUMMETED!! I'm using the latest Intel drivers, I even activated the "high performance" power plan! Normally I can get 55+ fps on the "fantastic" preset in Wazhack, but here I only get 20 fps!!


Currently downloading BL2 and CS:GO...............

smh, how do ppl even use this?? ACCESS DENIED, randomly

How about some useful info, steev!!!!

what do you want to know, upm8?

It is better, FLATTER, FASTER Windows 7. The metro apps are a lot better on the desktop now that you can run them windowed. More sexy and more secure (w/ sandboxing,etc) than the "legacy" win32 apps, I just wish there were MORE OF THEM!  Slightly annoying, some of them want you to scroll sideways but my scroll wheel doesn't go sideways, so I was forced to use the touchpad!! But the touchpad gestures feel much more responsive for me now. IDK why, but on Windows 7 it would sometimes take me multiple tries to get 2 finger scrolling to work!!

Overall I think it will be a good release for Windows 7 fans to upgrade to.

The only dealbreaker I saw was WazHack performance (other games I play ran fine), but I reported the issue to Microsoft so I'm sure they'll fix it ASAP!

Do you have any experience with Windows 8.1? Also I am too lazy to Google, is this the early dev build or a consumer alpha?

It is "Technical Preview for PC experts"
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/preview-faq#faq=tab0

No, I never used 8.1. I used 8 briefly and didn't like it.

They brought back the awful start screen from the initial Windows 8 release?

The start screen is OFF by default (live tiles are pinned to the start menu), but there is an option to turn it back on.