Over the weekend, I installed it to various vitual machines, running on Hyper-V, VMware, and SunBox. The one that ran the best was on Hyper-V. Family, I guess!
I installed it directly to hardware yesterday, and it rocks! It boots up from a powered off machine to logon prompt in 12 seconds!!!!
The Metro interface sucks without a touch screen, though. You can use the mouse to scroll and select but it's not a smooth. I find it impossible to close or stop a Metro app unless I use task manager to kill the process. Anyone knows how to do so; PLEASE reply!
Tomorrow I'm going to try to boot to a VHD with Win 8. This is lots of fun!
“I find it impossible to close or stop a Metro app unless I use task manager to kill the process.”
I’ve noticed this too, but I think it’s a feature not a bug. I think Metro apps are just meant to sleep when they’re not in use, so you don’t close them.
Same with Windows 8, really. It’s not obvious how you shut it down (ctrl-alt-del!) but that’s probably because you don’t want to shut it down. Just snooze and resume.