Dallas says:

Hope they fixed the coffee tray thingy. In older Windows it kept going back in when the mug was removed

Ryan says:

On the pc I saw this on, the only way to bring up the menu was to hit the windows key on the keyboard. Maybe we were missing something but the preview we saw was terrible no one would want Windows 8.

Chris Mac says:

it’s always fun when the comment numbers get lower

wtf dvoraks kids

Glenn E. says:

After watching the painful Pirillo clip, I discovered a Win-8 demo clip made by Microsoft, explaining how the screen corners were the easiest locations to activate or recall certain functions and running apps. Actually I dispute this idea. Corners might be the most convenient dead areas for Microsoft to place these functions, out of the way. But screen edges have always been the easiest to reach. Corners take the most effort to reach, being the most distant from screen center, and each other. XP and OSX use edge bars or docks to locate quick launch applications and tools. Why did this have to change for Win-8? Because the Tiles philosophy has taken over. And keeping critical feature as far away from the center mass of Tiles, is crucial for Microsoft’s agenda, to force users to accept them.

What’s so important about Tiles to Microsoft. Besides whatever else they do, they’re marketing tools. Just as screen icons were once bundled software, cluttering up the screen in Win98. Now they’re back, presenting and advertising their use and brand name, on the Win-8 screen. Like little interactive billboards. And, according to Microsoft’s Win-8 demo clip (8 min. long), it’s integrated to the “Cloud”.

Which mean, as I believe to understand them, that adding applications to a Win-8 PC is only adding an interactive link to software stored on a Microsoft server. You don’t download the actual applications, just the front end that lets you talk to it. Microsoft keeps the main code, you just buy a lease of its use, remotely. And whatever data you crunch with those apps, also ends up in the “Cloud”. Which means Microsoft gets to hold onto it for you, and perhaps use at their own discretion, if it appears commercially valuable to them, in some way. I for one, wouldn’t trust anything patentable or copyrightable to the “Cloud”. Who knows what data mining they might be doing, for what justifications (such as DMCA policing).

Anyway. If integrating the “Cloud” (Microsoft’s Cloud) to Win-8, means what I believe it does. Thinks only work as long as you have a reliable broadband connection 24/7. This does have a few advantages. Software is updated and patched by Microsoft, as the need arises. And hacker attacks are largely shifted to their Cloud server farms. And one’s PC or tablet isn’t burdened with storing and running these applications. Taking up Ram and storage drive space. Apparently Win-8 Explorer is one of the few things resident to the user’s PC. And perhaps also, your documents, photos, music, and videos are also stored remotely. Saving drive space on the users Win-8 device.

Microsoft isn’t exactly making this 100% clear at this time. Perhaps the believe it will scare away users, not yet confident of the whole “Cloud” philosophy, yet. Unless they can show that everything they’re holding onto of ours is securely encrypted beyond their access and scrutiny. And the server connection is a lot more reliable than current. And temporary outages won’t be effecting millions of users, throwing a monkey wrench into daily business, every so often. Then maybe I’d trust the “Cloud”. But I do think it’s a bit too soon to do that. Maybe for Win-10.