How to uninstall Windows 8 Consumer Preview

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Well actually I have , I sent ms a long list of issues I have with it and issues that other have told me. I can't speak for the wider community, only those I've spoke to.

And at the end , I politely told them why I buy Apple products now.

:-)

I sick and tired of poorly written ms programs , rushed to meet a launch date and then patched to hell and back to make them run.
 
mjnurney said:
@justin

Well actually I have , I sent ms a long list of issues I have with it and issues that other have told me. I can't speak for the wider community, only those I've spoke to.

And at the end , I politely told them why I buy Apple products now.

:-)

I sick and tired of poorly written ms programs , rushed to meet a launch date and then patched to hell and back to make them run.
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well done you:thumbsup:
 
I don't eny ms, it's a big task getting a universal os to run on system a,b,c but after 25 years you would think they would of got the hang of it..
 
Well, I just spent three or four hours installing win8 CP on my x40, only to reboot and then find I have to run xp repair... after all that, xp was there still and no windows 8.:blink:

Turns out consumer preview won't run on these pentium-m's. Was I annoyed? No, I was actually rather impressed that the process left my machine perfectly usable :lol:. Its prerelease so I don't expect perfection, but the fact that they built something in to prevent a reinstall of the original os- I think that's good.
 
ratfink said:
Well, I just spent three or four hours installing win8 CP on my x40, only to reboot and then find I have to run xp repair... after all that, xp was there still and no windows 8.:blink:

Turns out consumer preview won't run on these pentium-m's. Was I annoyed? No, I was actually rather impressed that the process left my machine perfectly usable :lol:. Its prerelease so I don't expect perfection, but the fact that they built something in to prevent a reinstall of the original os- I think that's good.
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I assume that Windows 8 is 64-bit only. They already dropped 32-bit support in Windows Server 2008R2, so it seems logical that it'll also be gone by Windows 8.
 
There are still a lot of P4-era machines out there, especially in home and small-office environments. I'm not too surprised they're not willing to cut 32-bit support yet. (Especially since there really aren't that many situations where you need more than 4GB RAM.)

Though the inability to get the old interface back is probably going to hurt their chances with anybody divorced enough from computing trends to still be using Pentium 4 machines, but when have Microsoft ever hesitated to shoot themselves in the foot?
 
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