Easy to start with Windows 8 Consumer preview version Experience

Microsoft officially launched Windows 8 Consumer preview in Barcelona, Spain 22 o'clock last evening, and what is the difference compared to Windows 7? Sina Digital First time to download and install. Through a few hours of use, Sina Digital found that the Windows 8 Consumer preview version of the traditional interface and window 7 difference, users can quickly start, the Metro user interface is more suitable for the use of touch screen devices, Windows store application has been localized. Download Windows 8 Consumer preview: http://down.tech.sina.com.cn/content/52383.html test Environment: test computer for Acer S3 Hummingbird Super, Intel Core i5 2467M processor, 4GB DDR3 memory, 500GB hard drive. We download the 32-bit Simplified Chinese version of ISO,2.6GB, prepare a 4GB u disk, and then use the UltraISO software into a U disk installation boot disk, and then set in the BIOS to boot from the U disk, save and restart it. The installation process is similar to Windows 7 installation, first enter the Product trial key: DNJXJ-7XBW8-2378T-X22TX-BKG7J, then the system will copy and extract the installation files, and then the system will reboot, then you need to pull out the USB drive, the system will automatically install, Can be completed in about 20 minutes. Image: Windows 8 Consumer preview version of the traditional desktop installation to enter the system, you can see the Start screen from Windows logo into a bubble of small goldfish, the time to enter the system about 12 seconds, not imagined fast, some disappointment. Image: System score default desktop wallpaper is also this small goldfish, the lower right corner display this version is the evaluation version, Bulid 8250, users can use to January 16, 2013, and the Windows 7 system The biggest difference is that the start button is gone, and press the "WINODWS" button on the keyboard, You can switch to the Metro user interface. At the same time, we found that the Windows 8 Consumer preview version of the accelerator is basically the same as Windows 7, and its system score is fully inherited from Windows 7, the evaluation of the computer finally divided into 4.3, the bottleneck is still a graphics system. Image: System Information Windows 8 can identify most of this computer's hardware, no need to install additional drivers, in use we found that the compatibility of other software is also very good, including Input method, screenshot tools, etc., can be formally used. The Metro user interface map is: Windows 8 self-play: 3D Pinball Metro user interface for users who have used Windows Phone system, the Metro user interface is very intimate and familiar, and you can see that Windows 8 is an Xbox Live Games (including a 3D version of pinball), weather, maps, calendars, contacts, SkyDrive cloud storage, music, readers, photos, financial instruments and so on. You can also use the mouse to drag and drop these applications with different color blocks from the permutation combinations. Financial applications you need to log on to your Windows Live ID, the reader adds support for Adobe PDF files, and users do not need to install Adobe Reader. Picture: System Integration IE10 Browser Windows 8 is set into IE 10 browser, and IE9 use is not much different. The Task Manager diagram for Windows 8 is: The WIN8 process Management diagram is: The Performance interface diagram is: The application History Enhanced Resource Manager is significantly enhanced by Windows 7 compared to Windows 8, and you can view the CPU memory for each application and background process in detail Disk/network resource consumption. Summary: Because of the time to experience this, the Windows 8 consumer preview version of the traditional interface and window 7 is not significantly different, users can quickly start and run faster than Windows 7 to improve, the Metro user interface is more suitable for the use of touch screen devices, The application in the Windows Store has been localized, but for some reason, the downloads on this computer have not been successful. (Yangliang)