The Metro screen

Microsoft has abandoned and now deprecates the term Metro. Reportedly this is the result of a trademark infringement threat from another entity.


Since no other name has so far caught on, I would like to propose that we call it WIATSOMS view:
     
    What Is All This S??t On My Screen

Metro is now called Modern UI, we will know for certain tomorrow though when it is released.

I installed a third party free utility, Classic Shell, to boot into the desktop.

Am hoping the solution that Lance posted will work for the Octa capture as the win 7 drivers definitely do t work on win 8. Googling produces no Roland win 8 driver results for me at the mo.
Bibs

I am curious about this. The introductory price sure makes this tempting. I am extremely happy with win7 and scared to death about the touch centric stuff in win8, but I am very interested in this skydrive integration. Just read a review that this was even more elegantly implemented than Apple's iCloud, which is pretty neat. And Skydrive works like a charm on my iThingys as well. 

I'm thinking I will buy the two lisences I need, try it out on one machine to begin with and see how it is to use before I make up my mind. In the future it will probably be great to have the upgrade path anyway...

I plan on migrating for the more even workload distribution across all four/eight cores.

Has anyone tried it with a Saffire interface? I like my pro24dsp (although latency could be better) and can't find anything about Win8 on focusrite's website...

Now my w8 looks like OSX I can work again....





(Kiddin...)

I tried to purchase the windows 8 download but the install assistant would not accept my billing information. I kept complaining that the zip was not the correct format even though it is. Oh well, I will wit for a while I think their servers are being overwhelmed at the moment. LOL

I just bought the DVD of Windows 8 Pro. I should be running it sometime next month. 

I have been playing around with the preview and there are things to like about it. 

I do think it will be a good OS. 

I actually haven't touched it at all! Win7 I was testing long before it was released and worked on it until I could purchase a lisence. I was reluctant to upgrade but the more I read about the new ecosystem the more interested I'm becoming. I'll buy the upgrades next week to check it out. It's too cheap not to!