Welcome to Windows 8

[Nigel H-J]

it definitely is going to take a lot of getting used to.

O'err That's it then, mind made up....No Win 8 for me, the older I get the more senior moments I have and

Nothing is where you expect it to be

I have enough trouble in remembering normal everyday things let alone anything new that challenges an IT Manager!!!!!

Nigel

[TSR2]

Will Visual Studio .NET 2003 run in W8?

If not, my programming days are almost over.

Hi George, I've no idea as haven't got that far yet, but I think VS 2003 was retired a few years back, I'd need to check though.

[airboatr]

Its basically Windows 7 with a new front end.

Isn't that true of all versions of Windows, same as the previous version with a new front end

And we always get it in the back end, in the end.

[GHD]

Hi George, I've no idea as haven't got that far yet, but I think VS 2003 was retired a few years back, I'd need to check though.

Unfortunately that was the last version which supported MFC and I paid good money for it.

The only machine on which I can run it runs XP Pro. It won't work on my W7 64bit machine

[tonymadge]

Well MS are doing their level best to make PC O/S operate like an Apple Ipad, great for the casual user with limited knowledge, like my Dad who struggles with W7 I am his unpaid IT guy . However for the normal work around type of person its looking not good... I have W7 on this awful laptop I bought and I honestly hate it to bits, I have made it look like XP as much as possible (http://www.howtogeek.com/tag/windows-7/) but it still lacks a lot of what XP would do and you have to hunt around for work arounds.... I really think that XP Pro will be on this laptop before long making it workable...
I lost faith in MS when they decided to dump FS9 for that shyte FSX and XP for Vista, nothing has changed my mind since..... Now doubt I am a Luddite that wanted Win 95 back.... as stated in an earlier post.
Guys remember the emperors clothes story??
Quote of the day....Not all that glitters is gold.....

[AllanL]

same as the previous version with a new front end

As soon as someone invokes Katy Price you just know it won't end well.

[TSR2]

In the interests of hopefully providing some useful info, I'll crack on

I've managed to do everything (I think) that I could do on my Win 7 system on Windows 8. It seems a bit like two different operating systems. The first one is the Windows Metro (or what ever it ends up being called) home screen. You can download "apps" to the home screen, much as you would on a tablet or smart phone. Some of these are very convenient and well put together. Ideal for when you switch the computer on and just want to check your emails or browse the web.

The next one is pretty much identical to Windows 7 desktop (albeit without the start button) In there you have all of your usual apps, some of which are desktop versions of the applications on the home screen. So yes, there is some duplication of content which could have been done better (IMHO). The one thing I really miss is live Mesh. As anyone who uses it will know, you can set it up to sync any folder on your computer to the cloud and any other Windows PC or Mac. This has now become Skydrive, and this is a retrograde step as only the skydrive folder will sync and you can't point it at your documents folder for example, its a folder in its own right.

I like that when I log in, my setting are sync'd with other computers that I log into (i.e. favourites, settings for Office, Filezilla and other apps that I use) I wasn't overly keen on using my live ID to logon with, but I've changed that to a picture logon now, so I feel a bit more secure. The picture login is where you pic a photo of your choice and then draw three shapes on it, so for example, if you picked a picture of 6 cars, you might underline one of them and draw round the wheels on another. When you logon, you're presented with this picture and you just have to draw the three shapes on the picture in the correct place and in the correct order and your sorted.

I've installed FS9 and FSX without issue. The only problem I have is that my Daughter had been into the DVD's for GenX last week and seems to have hid the DVD1 from the North of England set so I can't install it.

I'm not going to bother installing P3D yet until 1.4 is released on Monday, so I'll let you all know how that goes.

[GHD]

All I can say Ben is that you are a glutton for punishment

[tonymadge]

When you logon, you're presented with this picture and you just have to draw the three shapes on the picture in the correct place and in the correct order and your sorted

Ben it seems a long way round and sounds stupid

[SkippyBing]

When you logon, you're presented with this picture and you just have to draw the three shapes on the picture in the correct place and in the correct order and your sorted

Ben it seems a long way round and sounds stupid

Dunno, seems a lot easier than coming up with a password that's at least 8 characters long, has at least one capital letter, one special character and one number, and then remembering it for more than two consecutive log-ins like most systems I use do.