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I had my hands on Windows 8 Media Center (officially), and I have to say it is the worst Operating System invented ever.
I have people with Windows 8 computers asking me to install Windows 7 for them... It is that bad!

Not surprised at all. Windows 7 is fantastic as far as Windows goes.

I've been using windows 8 pro for a few months now and I can honestly say that it is a sidegrade, not an upgrade or a downgrade. The things that people hate about it can be very easily changed/removed. It takes the same amount of time to install firefox/chrome as it does to remove the modern UI and bring back the start button.

What I'm amazed at is the compatibility issues that I have been having with certain applications. Nowhere near as bad as vista when that first came out but I'm still surprised considering how minor most of the changes were between win 7 and win8. You would think that any application that works with win 7 should work just as well with win 8. Yet I've already encountered a number of devices that I have with no working win 8 drivers and a number of applications that run perfectly in win 7 yet have win 8 exclusive issues in win 8 that range from minor to crashing on startup. In a week or two I'm going to be reformatting my main HDD and installing an SSD in its place, when I do I'm going back to win 7. Win 8 will be a fine OS once this stuff is ironed out but until then anyone considering it should definitely stick with win 7.

I was pretty excited for Windows 8 and even thinking of buying it (I never before bought an OS when the old one was still working) but since my little brothers got a Windows 8 PC for Christmas and I could lay my hands on it, I changed my mind. It is not bad of course and some of the changes under the hood are pretty sweet, but the standard configuration is pretty confusing, with metro and desktop in parallel and unintuitive gestures. I decided to wait for the next Windows or Service Pack or whatever Microsoft is planning to do now and see if all those little problems have disappeared by then.

There is a general confucion about window 8, Microsoft announced that it is now a replacement. but went and spent tablest phones to a market that Microsoft has lost and want to trace. I have installed windows 8 x64 and really works very well and very stable using your own antivirus. I have installed all the programs I had in windows 7 and it works really well and maybe a little faster but there is not much difference. and then clarify that all windows are similar to changes graphics and engine but with a similar distribution always so always use is intuitive.

http://www.zdnet.com/amazons-top-selling-laptop-doesnt-run-windows-or-mac-os-it-runs-linux-7000009433/

While I have my doubts that the tide is turning from Windows to Linux, this is definitely an interesting bit of news...

Got a free legitimate license for Windows Server 2012 Standard Edition last week.

I scratch your back, you scratch mine. Rewarding philosophy indeed.

I’ve been using Server Operating Systems since Windows Server 2003 and they’re great for desktop/gaming usage if configured and tweaked right but also when you work as a system developer and code every day.

With the exception of Windows Server 2003 which was NT 5.2 and Windows XP which were NT 5.1, Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 is built on the Windows NT 6.2 kernel just like Vista/Server 2008 and 7/Server 2008 R2 were built on 6.0 and 6.1

Windows Server 2012 is built from the same code base as Windows 8; therefore, it shares much of the same architecture and functionality.

Only things missing for me were Bluetooth and Media Center, which BTW costs money in Windows 8

That was two easy problems. By using the Toshiba Bluetooth Stack, I modified the .inf file so it matched my dongle. Had to disable driver signing though enable to install it but after that I had Bluetooth working.

And with Bluetooth enabled I could install MotioninJoy to connect my PS3 controller.

I installed VLC Media Player, and poof I had the ability to watch DVD’s again.

Every PC Game, every Emulator works perfect. Dolphin especially

Windows Server 2012 is Windows 8 without the bloat and is lightning fast. Heck I installed it in less than 10 minutes.
Startup and Shutdown times are very very impressive and file transfer times between hard drives too.
So migrating from Windows 7 to Windows Server 2012 was easy as pie.

If you remember my old Windows 8 RP screenshots I posted last year, I got it too look something similar like that.
Nice and clean just as I want it. It feels great and hopefully I don’t have to go back to Windows 7 again.

Now start flaming me if you want, I don't care

Do all games and applications that work on Windows 8 also work on Windows Server 2012?

(01-09-2013, 09:33 PM)dEnigma Wrote: [ -> ]Do all games and applications that work on Windows 8 also work on Windows Server 2012?

It depends on what you mean by that.
This is the list of games and emulators I use to entertain myself with:

Emulators:

bsnes v091
DeSmuME 0.9.8
Dolphin 3.5
Dolphin 3.0-243 (Emulated Motion + build for Skyward Sword)
Kega Fusion 3.64
Project64 1.6
VisualBoyAdvance 1.8.0 beta 3
SSF Ver0.12 beta R3
Turbo Engine 0.32
ePSXe 1.8.0
PCSX2 1.0.0
Jpcsp r2953
ScummVM 1.5.0
(
Jnes 1.1
Snes9X 1.53
XEBRA 110425
)

PC-Games:

Crysis 2
Duke Nukem Forever
Fallout New Vegas
Resident Evil 5 (Had to install a updated GFWL client before I installed the game since the game installs a older version of the GFWL client which isn't supported on Windows 8/Server 2012)
Star Wars - The Force Unleashed
Star Wars - The Force Unleashed 2

Misc applications:

GTK Runtime (gpuBladeSoft 1.41 ePSXe plugin)
Java Environment Runtime (Jpcsp)
SonicStage (Jpcsp)
DAEMON Tools Lite
Phoenix (SID-unpacker)

Everything that I used in Windows 7 on a every day basis works perfectly fine on Windows Server 2012 without problems.

My biggest worries before installing were with Dolphin due to lack of Microsofts Bluetooth Stack. But even without Bluetooth, Dolphin works just fine unlike Server 2008 R2 where it failed.
I was also worried about MotioninJoy but even that worked perfectly.

Not only do I have a faster OS, but a better and more fluid user experience overall.

So my tip to you if you're interested in this, is to research and find solutions to the problems you might have. I fixed the problems I had easily.

Nice, now I only need to get Windows Server 2012 (and cheap^^)