Windows Developer Preview 8 in practice

Windows Developer Preview 8 in practice 

On the "Build" Keynote promised Microsoft's Windows chief Steven Sinofsky, Windows netbooks run even on old 8 and often require less resources than Windows 7 In fact, leaving the head of the company, according to Steve Ballmer already distributed more than 500,000 times on old hardware developer preview also a useful impression. However, we were able to specify Sinofsky RAM usage of only 280 MB on a netbook with 1 GB of RAM running Windows 8 is still not reproduce, for us it was almost on par with Windows 7. 


Windows Developer Preview 8: Memory usage of a freshly booted Netbook (1 GB of RAM). 
Our initial measurements indicate that Windows 8 will start actually faster than Windows 7 This is true only for a true cold start: When shutting down Windows while only the end user's session, the system itself is however sent into hibernation, which saves a few seconds the next time. 

With keyboard, mouse and trackpad surface is to use the new metro is no real pleasure. No wonder then, that users were looking for a way to reactivate their usual Start menu and find it was. Flight in the system registry is a changed one by one 0, even the desktop user feel at home again. Even the old Task Manager (taskmgr.exe) is activated again, the new fancier but still can be reached by calling TM.exe. 

The use of the old start menu is not in Microsoft's interest to be silenced but the indignant users who felt deprived and therefore its already discouraged from Windows 8 - more than a year before the expected launch. The ultimate goal of an early test version of Windows, published 8 is clear: It is primarily concerned with "the developers tools and interfaces for programming apps for the Metro-surface to give a hand." 

Serves 8 to Windows via (Multi-) Touch, Metro reveals its merits and can forget their fingers barely operable traditional Start menu.The developer preview even breathed a new life and our WeTab went pretty smoothly. However, one can only wonder whether the users will take advantage of the possible division of the screen between Metro and Windows desktop use.