Conflow Posted March 3, 2012 Report Share Posted March 3, 2012 Hi All,For those of you who are considering the purchase a New-PC or an upgrade of your Existing-PC youmight like to know that Microsoft have released a "Consumer-Preview of Win-8" and a "Free-Issue"download of an "Evaluation Test-Program" which checks your existing PC for compatibility issueswith Windows-8. This utility lets you know if your current PC is suitable for a Win-8 Upgrade.Below is a Zip-Link to these Utilities via Snapfiles.com (This Link can connect to Microsoft)And some Screenshots of Win-8 opening Screens. I hope this is of some use to Forum-Members whoare considering an upgrade of their existing PC-System to enhance their PTE-Program usage.Brian.(Conflow) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Conflow Posted March 4, 2012 Author Report Share Posted March 4, 2012 Tom,Its always a pleasure to get your comments and as far as I can determine Win-8 seems to be a vastly improved version of Win-7 with better stability and a (new) "MAC-Clone Interface" which seem's to encourage the Usertowards the modern "Apps Culture" of doing things. The absence of the 'Start-Button' and 'Shutdown' and the'Mac-Type Interface' will no doubt confuse many Windows users ~ but like it or not its the way things are going.Tom, if you have some time could you examine the "Windows to MAC" compatibility issues as I had heard thatMicrosoft had talks with Apple about this....there might be some truth in it ~ but I cant confirm it.Many thanks,Brian.(Conflow) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Conflow Posted March 4, 2012 Author Report Share Posted March 4, 2012 Hi Tom,Many thanks for the 'Tech-Backup Data' ~ much appreciated.I absolutely agree with you that this new 'Common-Interface' trend is certainly on the Books and Win-8 is no exception. You may not know that Microsoft developed Win-7 here in Ireland, they have big Software-Utilities here in Co.Dublin.The local software-gossip certainly pointed to some form of agreement between MS & Apple in trying to get sometype of 'Cross-Platform Adaptor' up and running so to benefit both Corporations ~ I think that would be a greatadvantage to both parties and their Worldwide-Customer base. To me some form of 'Bootcamp' might emerge.There seems to be a lot of interest in the "Win-8 Preview-Program" because up to today there has been an amountof downloads from my No#1 Post above. Respectively 67~85~77~50 of each Image and 20 Program downloads.Best of "Luck" with your intended future choice of OP-System ~ I dont envy you with that job.Brian.(Conflow) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ken Cox Posted March 4, 2012 Report Share Posted March 4, 2012 Brianseehttp://www.picturestoexe.com/forums/index.php?/topic/14407-windows-8-and-picturestoexe/page__view__findpost__p__93844maybe you should join your thread with Igorsken Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ken Cox Posted March 14, 2012 Report Share Posted March 14, 2012 seehttp://www.pcworld.com/article/251585/windows_8_two_operating_systems_barely_on_speaking_terms.html#tk.nl_sbx_h_crawlken Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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