Windows 8 Consumer Preview. I’ll pass.

Yeah, straight to my point; I have tried it and I don’t like it so far. I’ll pass and wait for the final release. I don’t have an exchange account at home for my personal email. Not I want to use Exchange, Gmail or Hotmail to do email either. Services such as Windows Live puts your e-mail accounts and calendars into the same program, making it easy to add events from your inbox. In the Consumer Preview of Windows 8, there’s no integration between the Mail and Calendar applications.
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Windows 8 Consumer Preview – Installation Tour

Windows 8 Consumer Preview is now available for download. Yes, it’s free, and anyone can download and install it on their computer.

Download Windows 8 Consumer Preview (ISO Versions)

Before I go any further, I want to make sure I share Josh’s video review with you, comparing Windows 8 vs. iPad2. It is interestingly oriented in gestures, multi-touch capabilities and of course, a very tablet oriented version of Windows. Continue reading »

Windows 8 Developer Preview Installation Tour

If you are wanting to see what the install process looks like for Windows 8, here it is.

Very similar to Windows 7 during and after the installation process. Though, there are some changes I must add. The entire installation process took me about 15 minutes and this was running in VM environment.

With all and all, there were no issues with the installation AFTER upgrading to  VMware Fusion 4. So far, it has been a good experience, not forgetting that this is an early build of the OS.

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