Windows 8

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Windows 8 – just the beginning

This entry was posted in Review Software and tagged VMWare Windows 8 on March 1, 2012 by HAL

At the end of play last night I set about downloading the iso images for Windows 8 Community Preview. Together the 32 and 64 bit variants are around 5GB. This morning I fired up VMware workstation 8 and created a new VM with Windows 7 32Bit as the OS type. Now about 30 minutes later […]

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Take the leap with Windows 8

This entry was posted in Review Software Virtualisation and tagged Windows 8 on February 24, 2012 by HAL

The anticipation is building with the announcement that we should see the consumer preview of MS next big thing on the 29th of February. Given the leap nature of the day and the need for an unusual launchpad – it should be auspicious beginning to the platform that Microsoft will hope gives users a whole […]

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Windows 8 developer preview not playing nicely with ESX(i)

This entry was posted in Review Software and tagged Windows 8 on September 15, 2011 by HAL

Amongst lots of other things yesterday I downloaded the preview iso of Windows 8. I was more that a littel surprised that Microsoft would issue a preview so early but I guess that they learned from Windows Vista and Windows 7 that the longer you wait before showing it to the the people who will […]

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Goodbye Multiboot – we loved you – Hello Windows 8 Desktop Virtualisation

This entry was posted in Comment Software and tagged Windows 8 on September 9, 2011 by HAL

If like me you went through the phase of having multiple operating systems on machines to allow you to switch at boot time – then its likely to be the end of the era. No more will we be competing to see how many different operating systems we can get on to one machine ( […]

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