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| 1226234 | 2011-08-26 02:52:00 | Currently there are rumors and actual facts going on about windows 8 , like new a New Interface , operating system to work on tablets , mobility , arm processors ,etc but i wanting to find out whether the microsoft lovers thinks the current pc specifications will needed to be upgraded because of the total change over and if yes , what actual parts of the p.c . Take a guess if you dont know the answer to this question . I honestly think , yes becaue of the new arm processors , tablets . | Nhashon (16466) | ||
| 1226235 | 2011-08-26 02:54:00 | If your pc can run Win7 it should run Windows 8. I see it also supports USB 3 natively as well | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 1226236 | 2011-08-26 05:32:00 | No. It's an Sp disguised as a new release IMO. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 1226237 | 2011-08-26 07:22:00 | Based on history, you'd expect any new release to require another 200-300Mhz, another 500MB RAM, an extra 500MB on the HDD. But just maybe they'll improve the whole rendering engine and make Aero more efficient (I disable it anyway), in which case it shouldn't need anything more than a bit more space on the HDD for the system. The day will come when it'll be 64 bit systems only, closely followed by demanding extra processor cores with each upgrade.... dual core, minimum, then quad core minimum, 8 cores... My uneducated and ignorant predictions... take 'em or leave 'em. I reckon we may see embeded DirectX support become the norm at some stage as well as a minimum requirement. |
Paul.Cov (425) | ||
| 1226238 | 2011-08-26 07:48:00 | If it can run 7 well it should run 8 well. No one really knows about full support. Hopefully they step away from pretty looks and make the kernel more efficient, devs have been getting slack with plentiful power available in modern CPU's and RAM being cheap as dirt they dont make apps as effecient as they could be. To be fully awesome the windows kernel needs a full rewrite however that is un feasible and unlikely to happen since it would take ages and open lots of new bugs etc |
The Error Guy (14052) | ||
| 1226239 | 2011-08-26 07:57:00 | More news should be announced at the BUILD conference from September 13, not long to wait now. The best way to follow the news is probably the "Building Windows 8" blog by the engineers working on Windows: blogs.msdn.com cheers W |
waldok (15185) | ||
| 1226240 | 2011-08-26 08:06:00 | No. It's an Sp disguised as a new release IMO. And will charge another couple of hundred $$ for the SP.. |
paulw (1826) | ||
| 1226241 | 2011-08-26 08:50:00 | If it can run 7 well it should run 8 well. No one really knows about full support. Hopefully they step away from pretty looks and make the kernel more efficient, devs have been getting slack with plentiful power available in modern CPU's and RAM being cheap as dirt they dont make apps as effecient as they could be. To be fully awesome the windows kernel needs a full rewrite however that is un feasible and unlikely to happen since it would take ages and open lots of new bugs etc It's not so much the kernel, it does an alright job, but its the likes of the desktop UI and the other "add ons" and features that make it slower / bloated. The UI is being modified, but there's only so much you can do without breaking backwards compatibility. EDIT: Look at the size of the linux kernel. The raw amount that's in it has grown significantly, the amount of code has increased astronomically since a decade ago. It was fast then, it's still fast now, but other things like the UI also hamper the speed. Take a look at the likes of Gnome vs Enlightenment e17. e17 is fast as with a ton of eye candy. Try Macpup for example which is a distro with e17. If you want speed, check out things like the Openbox WM... But speed != user-friendliness (Not always), nor functionality. |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 1226242 | 2011-08-26 10:15:00 | It's an Sp disguised as a new release IMO . Imagine telling that to the 1,000 software engineers who worked on that "service pack" for three years . :devil :crying cheers W |
waldok (15185) | ||
| 1226243 | 2011-08-27 09:44:00 | If it is only a SP then people will not buy it. Remember Vista, not many people (and no corporations) upgraded to it as it did not do much more than XP. So they will need to make 8 much better and desirable than 7 otherwise no one will buy it, except people buying new machines from a shop. And yes I'd love them to work on the kernel making it smaller and smaller and tighter and tighter. |
Digby (677) | ||
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