Quote:
Originally Posted by firepages
hmmmm put Windows 8 on a VM last night
|
Mind me asking how? - I tried it in VMWare and the installer just kept rebooting
Admittedly it's an older version of VMW but even so, as long as it provides a virtual disk I wouldn't have thought it would matter really. What did you use?
I've not heard a lot of good about W8 myself. It seems that M$ have a two OS cycle where they release a good, bad, good, bad etc. To prove that..:
Win95: Good
Win98 (inc Win98SE): Bad
WinMe: Good IMO but the rest of the world said bad even though it crashed less than 98
WinXP: Good
Vista: Bad
Win7: Good
Win8: Logical conclusion? - Bad - Hold out for Win9 instead
I personally like Win7 a lot however for sheer wonderfulness you just can't beat XP. Not only was XP pro rock solid, XP home is also very stable too - I have it on my netbook and rarely bother to restart it but just hibernate it. What I would say about Win7 is that I like the newer version of the task manager which lets you see more and do more and despite being Win7 HP, like XP home it also has a system service controller so that I can install my custom services that I create rather than trying to run hidden programs in the background like on Me / 98. The day MS introduced system services on a home OS was a very happy one for me
