Windows 8 Beta coming in January 2012 – what do you want?

Better Security would be my number on issue. I like the look so far but,  I would like to get my hands on it to give real feedback,

LEAVE THE START MENU ALONE!!!!!!!

I use the start menu on a daily basis. Im not a 14 year old who needs metro UI to facebook my friends that I am bored in math class...

Angry , yes..but still excited about windows 8? Yes. =)

Will this new Operational System  be more friendly and less agressive with hungry recurses. Everytime MS gets out a new version requires more and more recurses, more HD, more Ram, and more CPU power. Will be the same in this case?

Mr. Onuora Amobi, As a follow-up to my earlier post and having since given the developer issue of Windows 8 a quick test run, I'd like to add that whereas '8' is certainly an improvement over '7', the built-in reliance on the 'cloud' leaves me thinking or begging the simple question - "how many subscriptions will the average consumer wish to pay for?". It seems the small chip by chip at any person's finances will eventually topple that same consumer. By the time all the various e-services ranging from anti-virus, data backup and storage, office and media software and more are debited to the consumer's bank/credit accounts - eventually the whole scheme will fall apart as people realize that the sum of the parts is far greater than the whole. Or... it was much more economical to just buy a working suite of software, do the business of keeping tabs on one's own data via their own efforts with their own hardware - sans the risks of a a major server shut-down or malicious attack - will stand them in a greater stead.

In addition, as the rise of good and free open-source; if not freeware offerings, of software readily available it would be more attractive if Microsoft would just include suites of software in the issues of the various proposed versions of '8' as parts of the packages. Consider the economic times all are now living in. A good bargain from the outset can't help but yield a more satisfied and plentiful public acceptance and potential purchaser base.

Mr. Onuora, Does windows 8 is good for gaming???, cause when i try to install my games in the developer preview, my games are not working properly. like "DOTA"

It's a Developer Preview. It's not ready for you to install working software on.

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Windows 8 just works fine for my acer tablet. A lot smoother in the touch sreen than w7. Best irovement though: the screen keyboard (cloned from apple), but a lot better than the w7 one. Booting an power management seem a lot better as well. Now running 8 hours on a battery.

I don't see yet, what the new metro user  interface adds. I miss the old start menu very much.

Henk

Please apologize, but I could not install the program, professionals and I can not pay. Due to my illness ten months all my money on treatments and drugs to spend. The program is really like, so painful to me that I do not know English, the translation is incomprehensible. I'm sorry that I can not express an opinion, just my passion, I send my respect for the artists. Please continue to inform, at least in the Hungarian language program is displayed. Sincerely welcomes: Claire Cross

I want to be able to set specific power-options for for all HD:s individually.
So that you can, for example set the system-disk to always be on and your Documents HD can hibernate and all other HD:s can sleep.
As it is now all HD:s is always on, because if you want to open a document on a HD that is asleep all HD:s has to start before the document opens.
And that takes to long.

Well i am quite satisfied of the developper preview but i expect some significant improvements with the beta version.
I expect:
1) Virtual desktops, especially if desktop is an application i don't see why there can't be several instances of the desktops running at the same time. Another solution would be if the desktop and the taskbar work like Windows Phone hubs, enabling to have the desktop split in several virtual desktops.
2) A much more pleasant to watch start screen and Tiles. Seriously the start screen is just ugly and the Tiles are currently too unappealing. Moreover it would be great if both were very customisable. I don't see why there should be only twice size for a Tile.
3) Unless in quite a few cases (Hub like applications), it is not optimal to have a Metro apps being on full screen mode on a rather big screen (24", Full HD for example), thus it should be possible to have up to 9 metro apps, at the same time onf the screen.
4) It would be interesting to have the Metro equivalent of tool such as the task manager, because on a slate it would be rather annoying to go in desktop mode just to access the task manager or advanced settings.
5) Easier way to shut down the O.S.

I like the lock screen i like the start menu ... the only thing is i want to change the background not just the colours i wish u can have some metro background that fits u the PC user u know make it comfy for ur needs.  I want flash in ie 10 lol i notice i didnt have any flash for the new ie explorer not like i care for ie explorer im more of a chrome browser user but yeah that would be cool.. i want the new windows live in it .. i want a nice media player that says FUCK U to itunes and winamp something amazing for music and light on ur memory like winamp be nice to have something built in with the metro for the media player im sure thats an idea they have in mind... i want HD play back and all supported codecs in media player so that people can fuck off VLC .. if microsoft want people to use their software well make is light weight and very productive for the people.. make more software free to the public... show that apple computers are stupid to charge them for all their software show that microsoft have more balls and not to be so greedy...  oh yeah all the feature in the ui on the start button should have more settings more stuff u can play with .. make windows 8 more fun and not boring like mac os x lion i think that shit is retarded and old school.. microsoft is known for one thing its orginal and im not just saying that... linux and mac are both x windows system and very unix like very old school OS style... windows have always been pc style and always been orginal maybe not back then but i find since windows 7 microsoft really shaped up alot.. i use to always put MS down and use linux and show it off like its so fucking cooler than windows ... well before they had Vista which we all know that OS suck balls right... but since windows 7 i've been using windows alot and gaming just got alot better on windows good job i don't do console and will never support it.. im a windows gamer and i find games work good on windows 8 but some don't .. please fix that... oh maybe have some more themes not like changing the colours like actual GUI themes different looks and stuff and maybe have themeing for the metro ui hey its an idea.. but the Security in the BIOS efi boot up good job snappy fast boot up time very impressive i must say.. windows 8 even works great on low end computers such as Netbook i tried it out on my acer book and works alot better than windows 7... windows 8 is new from the ground up and i see that i see that they got their anti virus builtin VERY nice i think windows 8 are doing alot of great stuff and a big computer user like me is smiling because of their style and taste.. microsoft got taste i know all u mac fans / linux fans gonna say windows this and that.. but honestly a computer user can't lie that windows 8 works fast its stable even the pre beta is working amazing i have it as my main desktop i never had any problems and my desktop is a 4 year computer i build myself a simple asus mother board a amd 64 x2 4600+ with 8 gb of ram nvidia graphic no BSOD nothing everything working out of the box fine and dandy i was impress even i had some problems at first with windows 7 when it first came out with drivers and got some BSOD and it was the RTM build to... so i am impress that i had no problems at all with windows 8 DP 64bit ... works good i mean they can go with a RTM now if they wanted to.. thats how well i think its stable.. thats my personal experience some may have problems i dont know but with me its working good..  i just want the RTM out and buy this new os because i love it... nice job i wonder what will be next from microsoft... cheers ms crew u people are doing a very good job... 

Gary

Hello, I think that Windows 8 looks good but I have run into a problem with the Windows help, mainly I have an internet connection problem that can't be resolved by Windows because it kicks out as quick as you start to search. Internet connection works only for Windows Update but not for all others, why is this?
As far as the rest if you don't have to use Windows Support you are OK.
Mine you, I have an old computer and I have no issues with Windows 7 and any other before it as far as Windows Support and getting online, can someone guide me in the right direction or maybe the download was corrupted for a 32 bit computer which is what I downloaded. Of course I had to remove it from my computer which was a shame considering that I liked it.
I have tested you last 2 Windows, Windows Vista which was OK but it was a resource hog and then Windows 7 which I had on my computer for 8 months with no problems what so ever.

Wow. I now have the equivalant of an I-Phone on my desktop. What an original idea for a new OS.

Give me back my start menu and look for some original ideas.

Metro should stay, its an awesome change. It really makes it feel good, but it would be nice if it were customizable. Some people will probably like the old start menu! Metro app should be more useful not the current boring ones. And we are looking for Windows 8 not 7 so there must be some major changes!