Windows 8
Anyone downloaded the Windows 8 Developer Preview yet?
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/apps/br229516
I did. Other than the half-baked stuff that's intended for tablets and such, the core of it actually looks like an improvement over Win7.
Diskless installation was pretty much the same as Windows 7. Unlike Ubuntu, it did not offer a nice and easy way to install to an iSCSI target.
Just like Windows Server 2008 and Win7, it has a bug in it, where it will try and route all iSCSI requests through the default gateway, rather than directly to the iSCSI server on the same subnet . Only going in and fixing the routing table in Win8 actually corrects this problem .
IE 10 seems to be more fluid than IE9.
Multi-monitor support is better. Only very minor changes have been made to the GUI (other than the tablet stuff -- which hopefully can be disabled!).
All my hardware except for my Nvidia graphics card was detected and drivers installed out of the box. Windows8 downloaded Nvidia drivers from Windows Update.
Remote Desktop into a Windows8 machine works like a dream! It actually sends the Aero desktop over the network (to my Win7 computer!)!!!!
People running Linux/Samba servers to share Windows files will need to cajole Win8 to even recognizing the machines through the network.
Anyone else have any experiences?
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/apps/br229516
I did. Other than the half-baked stuff that's intended for tablets and such, the core of it actually looks like an improvement over Win7.
Diskless installation was pretty much the same as Windows 7. Unlike Ubuntu, it did not offer a nice and easy way to install to an iSCSI target.
Just like Windows Server 2008 and Win7, it has a bug in it, where it will try and route all iSCSI requests through the default gateway, rather than directly to the iSCSI server on the same subnet . Only going in and fixing the routing table in Win8 actually corrects this problem .
IE 10 seems to be more fluid than IE9.
Multi-monitor support is better. Only very minor changes have been made to the GUI (other than the tablet stuff -- which hopefully can be disabled!).
All my hardware except for my Nvidia graphics card was detected and drivers installed out of the box. Windows8 downloaded Nvidia drivers from Windows Update.
Remote Desktop into a Windows8 machine works like a dream! It actually sends the Aero desktop over the network (to my Win7 computer!)!!!!
People running Linux/Samba servers to share Windows files will need to cajole Win8 to even recognizing the machines through the network.
Anyone else have any experiences?
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