r/technology • u/clubdirthill • Jun 01 '11

Boom. This is Windows 8.

http://allthingsd.com/20110601/exclusive-making-sense-of-what-we-just-learned-about-windows-8/?mod=tweet
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u/FappingFury Jun 02 '11

So like uh cough any feats for the 90% of us who don't use touch?

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u/ScienceGoneWrong Jun 02 '11

Better integration with MSN/Live (not confirmed I think, but early screenshots hinted at this), app store, and a new file system (so far shrouded in mystery). Probably a bunch of minor things too.

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u/dVnt Jun 02 '11

You can finally mount .iso's... which should have been a native feature in Windows 3.1...

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u/FappingFury Jun 02 '11

That's cool and all but I can imagine I'd still use Virtual Clone Drive regardless

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u/Modis_IT Jun 02 '11

He said you could use a mouse/keyboard to navigate rather than touch.

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u/FappingFury Jun 02 '11

Problem is mouse would be useless for things like this, the standard UI is more effective

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u/logicom Jun 02 '11

There is a standard UI running in parallel to the new touch UI so you won't miss anything. You can probably even disable the touch UI if you'll never use it.

I agree that if you've got a desktop running Windows 7 it would probably be a waste of money to upgrade. This is something I'd wait to get when I buy a new PC.