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Today I suddenly can equate a similarity between Surface and the Sega Saturn. The circumstances are not exactly similar, but close enough for me to construct a post. Surface As previously mentioned above: Sega Saturn In a slightly different approach, originally the initial prices for Surface was $199, which would have put it into competition with the Android tablets. This price came from Microsoft or someone at Microsoft or affiliated with them. Prior to pricing for the Saturn being announced, the speculative figure came from industry analysts and was expected to retail for $500 in the US. Then this happened: The quote comes from SegaBase. I am aware that a lot of info on SegaBase has been refuted, but the E3 story is pretty solid and worth sharing. So I can see that Microsoft has made itself a problem by initially preparing to create a Surface tablet to compete in the Kindle/Android market by offering a low cost product. They should have realised that those devices are actually in competition with the tablet market as well. So I think it is a mistake to only create a Surface device to compete with Apple and maybe the high end Samsung tablets and totally ignore the low cost market which is ripe for the picking. Sony Playstation Apple iPad mini Sources SegaBase DigitalSpy

Tihiy has abandoned Ex7forW8 tool, so I doubt it will ever be fixed.

Please adjust your post and topic title appropriately.

Ah ok. You need to either add the modify permission for your user account on that file, Or you can open an elevated Notepad, then open that file and you should be able to save just fine.

I never quite liked the idea of the single-jack surround setup that Realtek uses on motherboards. I wonder if it is emulated or maybe the quality isn't as good?

Its a joke really. I haven't delved too far into Linux but it isn't a real priority for me.

I'm not sure you even want to sacrifice your USB device for Virtual Memory. They are made primarily for reads and not so much writes. Using a UFD for Virtual Memory will kill it after some time. Isn't this the same idea as ReadyBoost? I've killed 3 UFDs before I stopped trying to use ReadyBoost. Its a nice idea but doesn't work out well in practice.

I certainly have gotten used to Windows 8 interface by now, but only as a requirement of developing for it. No other reason for me to actually use the OS for a workstation or personal use. I have no problem with the pop-outs and hot spots and whatever else... but I realise through my usage that I never use the Start Screen for anything! So I see Windows 8 a little like Vista for me, I never really "used" Vista either. I may change around if there really is a $200 Surface tablet, I'd get one of those.

Coffee in a clear cup? What an odd guy.

I only know how to FTP in Linux.

Don't use the tag, it doesn't work very well. You can still find old posts that use it, and the code just runs off the side of the page.

Well of couse Steam spies on you... its not really any secret. I disagree that hosts is hard to edit by the user. As for checking your connections, you can use the netstat -b command to show you connections to IPs and what process is using them. Its best to do this when you have no browser or IM program open.

What packages? What did you remove them with?

I don't really see how there is a "hack" involved here, other than changing the hosts file. Game distribution and control still has its flaws. Sooner or later I would expect MS to make something like Steam, maybe tied in with the App Store.

Not all recent programs show up in the recent list as you'd expect. The only ones I see are the ones I launch from either the Desktop or the Start Menu iteslf. Other often used programs I open from the Taskbar do not appear in the list, for whatever reason.

x86 is going to disappear not because of popularity. Even now, I am doing absolutely nothing with x86, only amd64. The reason for this is that while MS came to manufacturers with the new "requirements" for Windows 8, they didn't implement all of them. The important one is the UEFI 2.3.1 firmware for SecureBoot. The problem is that x86 version of Windows (any Windows) isn't supported on UEFI firmware. So x86 will have a small footprint because most manufacturers primarily only have EFI hardware available. Now, we'll see some x86 Windows 8 show up from OEMs on tablets and such... but only because of the WindowsRT lockout for a year. OEMs won't want to be left out and only those 5 ARM Partners being able to put out mobile devices. But those x86 products won't support SecureBoot either.

The SRT package never really worked anyways. Isn't the winre.wim a WinPE 4? I think it is but I never looked. Maybe let's start from scratch here. What exactly do you want your image to do?

I've had this happen before with a virus or something that cleaned the virus. Did this happen recently? Some virus will hook into the shell and when you remove it, Windows won't be able to start normally. Typically it looks like Explorer.exe isn't loading as your default shell.

I was too. I found it on Register yesterday and thought of posting it.... but seeing the date of the article made me think "someone MUST have posted it already." Oh well. I'm not too sure I'd be saying that Windows 8 is as important or revolutionary as Windows 95 is warranted. When Windows 95 came out, that surely did something that hadn't been done yet. There were some other products available that were on the right track, such as OS/2 Warp or NextStep OS... but that Start Menu was the real difference. It ended up getting copied all over, especially with X-Windows in Linux and later with just regular desktops in Linux like Ubuntu, etc. Windows 8 UI changes aren't really revolutionary since those types of touch interfaces already exist in other products. Microsoft just made a copy of them. Unlike Motorola or Samsung, at least MS is smart enough to make enough changes so that they won't get sued by Apple. Square shapes? Win? It could go two ways... if Ballmer is saying that Windows 8 is a turning point for Microsoft like Windows 95 was, that could be. But Windows 95 turned them from zoom to boom. Windows 8 (so far) looks like the turning point will go from boom to doom.

I would say that when this hits "gold" version, you should submit it to the Windows 8 app store... but they'd probably reject it. (Yes you can submit "desktop" apps to the App Store too)

My numbers are different. They start with 159... this number seems to be a timestamp. How did you go about this already? I found that Windows won't let me personalize anything unless the OS is activated. Kinda hard to test that way if you ask me. I searched the registry for a place that maybe I can change what "wallpaper" is on the "ImmersiveShell" but there wasn't really anything that stood out.

Ok silly question now. How are you posting in this thread?

All WinRE is just WinPE with Setup.exe and Recenv.exe. You can get those in the winre.wim from a Windows 8 installation. I haven't looked at what is different from Windows 7 yet.

Not in my experience. Make sure your hardware is compatible with it to be sure, although I've run Server 2003 Standard on non-server hardware without a problem.

Here be (probably) another complaint about the Start Screen (read Metro UI thing) is that it is in the way! I am now working on getting driver and application automation working properly in Windows 8 and have run into some problems. Since you can't boot to the Desktop, you can't see anything going on there. So, where my previous scripts would show a progress bar, or "please wait" animation in Windows 7, they do not "work" in Windows 8 because the Start Screen is there. I've already had to make changes since MsgBoxes break the Desktop... had to remove those... That is OK! BUT. Problem #1: How to get a progress or some thing to appear on the Start Screen during an installation operation? Maybe even change the UI color temporarily? Any ideas how to do this? Reason it is a problem: The installation period and the after reboot (install done) has the same appearance. Interrupting the operations during the installation period could cause something to fail. Problem #2: Anything that can't be automated, such as the Unsigned Driver dialog, won't appear or cause Start Screen to lose focus. You never see it and it appears to time out. I tested this with Synaptics TouchPad software which doesn't seem to install. In my case, I can't get rid of the Start Screen prior to launching the apps is because I run things primarily in Audit Mode. So sysprep.exe is running on the desktop.