I hate the new metro interface, but i like some features like: easy restore (refresh and reset), windows to go, virtualization, shorter boot times and newer windows display driver model. Let's see how it does
Windows To Go is only available on the Enterprise edition, therefore for most of us it's useless.
That worked for me on my Toshiba laptop, I needed to do it anyway to install 64bit as it stupidly came with 32bit installed. Got the ISOs from some link to digital river.
In my *limited* personal experience Hibernation is the feature that works least well on Linux vs. Windows. Whilst I use Ubuntu as my main OS on desktop and laptop, both are slower to hibernate and slower to resume on Ubuntu than Windows 7, and Linux frequently fails to hibernate at all. I find resume from hibernate to be 3-5x slower on Ubuntu than Windows 7. That said, I still prefer Ubuntu (and will be trying out some other Linux flavours on my various machines in the near future as well), and although it's inconvenient and not desirable that hibernation is buggy/slow comparted to windows, the cost of the OS and the other desirable features outweigh this rather minor disadvantage.
But surely it's not difficult to strip out that metadata. Not saying that Google might not be planning some sort of 'locker' service, but using it to detect piracy/infringement? It would be unworkable IMO.
Anyone dumb enough to put music they've downloaded illegitimately on there?
So how do they know my music is illegitimate? I'm pretty sure ripping CDs is considered Fair Use in some jurisdictions. How do you propose they would distinguish between my bought and paid for ripped library, and Joe Bloggs torrented collection. Merely storing mp3s or whatever there couldn't constitute evidence of illegal downloading etc.
Hadn't noticed that, but the new behaviour is definitely the way it ought to be IMHO, the number of times that I opened a link in a new tab and the tab bar zoomed frantically to the end so I had to scroll back to find my place in my open tabs was infuriating!
Unfortunately some people still sell 32bit chipsets. My laptop which supports 4GB of memory and has a 64bit Core2Duo, has a crippled 32bit chipset thus making the move to a 64bit OS pointless, since this will not allow me to reap any of the benefits of the extra RAM etc.
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I hate the new metro interface, but i like some features like: easy restore (refresh and reset), windows to go, virtualization, shorter boot times and newer windows display driver model. Let's see how it does
Windows To Go is only available on the Enterprise edition, therefore for most of us it's useless.
Should probably have added this was Windows 7 I was talking about (anyone using an older version of Windows should really upgrade - it is worth it!)
That worked for me on my Toshiba laptop, I needed to do it anyway to install 64bit as it stupidly came with 32bit installed. Got the ISOs from some link to digital river.
In my *limited* personal experience Hibernation is the feature that works least well on Linux vs. Windows. Whilst I use Ubuntu as my main OS on desktop and laptop, both are slower to hibernate and slower to resume on Ubuntu than Windows 7, and Linux frequently fails to hibernate at all. I find resume from hibernate to be 3-5x slower on Ubuntu than Windows 7. That said, I still prefer Ubuntu (and will be trying out some other Linux flavours on my various machines in the near future as well), and although it's inconvenient and not desirable that hibernation is buggy/slow comparted to windows, the cost of the OS and the other desirable features outweigh this rather minor disadvantage.
But surely it's not difficult to strip out that metadata. Not saying that Google might not be planning some sort of 'locker' service, but using it to detect piracy/infringement? It would be unworkable IMO.
Anyone dumb enough to put music they've downloaded illegitimately on there?
So how do they know my music is illegitimate? I'm pretty sure ripping CDs is considered Fair Use in some jurisdictions. How do you propose they would distinguish between my bought and paid for ripped library, and Joe Bloggs torrented collection. Merely storing mp3s or whatever there couldn't constitute evidence of illegal downloading etc.
Hadn't noticed that, but the new behaviour is definitely the way it ought to be IMHO, the number of times that I opened a link in a new tab and the tab bar zoomed frantically to the end so I had to scroll back to find my place in my open tabs was infuriating!
Unfortunately some people still sell 32bit chipsets. My laptop which supports 4GB of memory and has a 64bit Core2Duo, has a crippled 32bit chipset thus making the move to a 64bit OS pointless, since this will not allow me to reap any of the benefits of the extra RAM etc.