Windows 8 Initial Experience

Whether you like Windows 8 or not. Thanks to the powerful virtual machine technology, the old man installed a copy in fusion. He wanted to experience Windows 8 and Visual Studio 2012's Windows Phone 8 mobile development environment.

The installation process is smooth. Enter the serial number applied by Microsoft and activate it automatically after installation. Only one local account is created during installation, but no Microsoft account is bound. In particular, the full screen interface before login is very beautiful and exciting. I have read some articles before, but I'm not impressed with them, so I stumbled during the trial. Gradually familiar with the mouse in the upper left, lower left, and upper right, lower right two features, the former will lead to the Start Screen thumbnail window, if you move your mouse down the center of the vertical line on the left of the screen, a thumbnail list of the running application will appear. You can click to switch the application, the latter displays a system-level shortcut button bar, including search and setting buttons. It is said that Microsoft has a special term to call it. I don't remember it. When the mouse moves to the top of the screen close to the edge, the pointer will become a hand-shaped, then click down drag down to place the current window to the left half of the screen or the right half. At this time, the half screen is not complete, which is much smaller. The remaining half of the screen can be used to start another application. That is to say, you can tile two programs on both sides of the screen, one by one. Double-click the split column between the two to make the big or small, or vice versa.

Switching to a traditional desktop is very simple. There is a post on the home screen that says "desktop". Click it. Of course, as a senior Windows user, I still like the win + D shortcut. In the traditional desktop, I am still more familiar with it. I looked at the resource manager and the task manager. Although they all changed, I was very familiar with it.

Working on a new desktop style makes me feel helpless. Because all applications on the desktop are displayed in full screen, that is, Microsoft's so-called "immersive", in the App Store for several minutes, I did not know what I should do at one time. It seemed that I had to sit and wait there. Later I found out that in this environment, the traditional alt-Tab key combination can work, which slightly reduces my anxiety. Another problem is even more strange: I cannot find the Internet Explorer record on the home screen! I have seen countless Windows 8 home screens on the Internet, all of which have the blue E magnetic posts, but I don't have them. Later, I used a work und to open
Bing's application searches for a URL and then opens it. Check in the task manager, and the iexplore.exe process appears. The command line contains a parameter-servername: defaultbrowserserver. The window of this ie process is a new Windows style, while I run ie on the traditional desktop and it will automatically display it on the old interface, even running according to the preceding parameter is not displayed as a new style. I have carefully observed that their images all point to the same executable file, so I still do not know its mechanism. The problem with this situation is that even if I paste iexplore.exe to the main screen through the association menu in the resource manager, it is also an old window that runs when I click it, this frustrated me. By the way, after switching to a traditional desktop
The status of the IE process in the Task Manager changes to "paused", which seems to save resource usage.

I downloaded the WP8 SDK CD image on the Microsoft website. Previously, it was reported that Windows 8 could directly support mounting an ISO file as a drive, but all my attempts failed. When I double-click it, the system prompts "file cannot be loaded: virtual hard disk files cannot be mounted through an image file or removable media that is not formatted using the NTFS file system. ", Alibaba Cloud.

The last thing I have to mention is the input method. The improvement of this item is remarkable. If the focus is in an input box, you only need to click shift to switch between English and Chinese, instead of using Ctrl-space or Ctrl-shift in the old system to start the Chinese input method. In a traditional desktop, the input mode of both Chinese and English is still in the lower right corner of the taskbar. If the input mode is in a new desktop style, the focus is obtained in the input box, there is a floating prompt in the lower left corner, and then slowly disappears.

After some hard work, I feel that if you haven't prepared a touchable screen, you don't have to worry about Windows 8 and continue using Windows 7. If you are a programmer and want to write a Windows Phone 8 program, Microsoft will force you to install Windows 8, which must be 64-bit.