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Thread ID: 124960 2012-05-30 03:25:00 I'm warming to Windows 8 (sort of) Tony (4941) PC World Chat
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1278434 2012-06-01 06:18:00 And as yet there is no way to get opera.

Been using Opera since the early 6.00 Series,Opera installed on Consumer Preview

Be surprised if you can't use any other Browser
Lawrence (2987)
1278435 2012-06-01 06:19:00 Has anyone finished the download? Mine says 0.0% I had the smae problem with opera, fine when I shifted to firefox.
Use thishttp://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-8/release-preview in firefox, downloaded fine for me.
Nick G (16709)
1278436 2012-06-01 07:11:00 Getting 700kb/s using free download manager ! sahilcc7 (15483)
1278437 2012-06-01 08:17:00 Getting 700kb/s using free download manager !
better than my 50kb/s:(
Nick G (16709)
1278438 2012-06-01 08:22:00 And better than the 500 bytes/sec I got at uni :lol: pcuser42 (130)
1278439 2012-06-01 08:25:00 And better than the 500 bytes/sec I got at uni :lol:

500 bytes/sec. Oh.My.God.
Nick G (16709)
1278440 2012-06-01 08:45:00 500 bytes/sec. Oh.My.God.

Just goes to show how bad the wifi is ;)

The number of hours remaining was three digits :p
pcuser42 (130)
1278441 2012-06-01 08:46:00 Just goes to show how bad the wifi is ;)

The number of hours remaining was three digits :p
Now I see why you couldn't download win8.
Nick G (16709)
1278442 2012-06-03 05:23:00 Well, I've had the new toy for a couple of days now, and it is definitely better than previous incarnations, but still nothing there to make me want to pay for it. I also had a weird bug/feature that I've seen reported in a couple of other forums. When I booted up, I was shown a logon for "Other User", which then proceeded to fail. I could go "back" to my logon, and that worked OK. If went to Users" in control panel, it said there was only one user - me. I suspect it is something to do with installing with a live account and then switching to a local account, as I eventually re-installed and went straight to a local account and the problem has gone away. Tony (4941)
1278443 2012-06-03 05:40:00 Well, I've had the new toy for a couple of days now, and it is definitely better than previous incarnations, but still nothing there to make me want to pay for it. I also had a weird bug/feature that I've seen reported in a couple of other forums. When I booted up, I was shown a logon for "Other User", which then proceeded to fail. I could go "back" to my logon, and that worked OK. If went to Users" in control panel, it said there was only one user - me. I suspect it is something to do with installing with a live account and then switching to a local account, as I eventually re-installed and went straight to a local account and the problem has gone away.

I also haven't been finding it that bad, but still wouldn't pay for it. Now I've used it, I have five main problems I'd like M$ to fix.

More metro apps!!! Particularly browsers, the metro ie is really bad!
The messaging app to be more user friendly, still haven't worked out how to get it set up with google talk.
I want to be able to turn it off in desktop.
More consistency, I don't like having to switch between metro and desktop
I also don't want to have to have a win linve account to use it.

What I do like about it
Takes a bit of getting used to, but metro is actually pretty nice, as are the (few) apps there are.
Stable for a release preview.
The desktop isn't too much unlike win7.
Nick G (16709)
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