What are the expectations from MS Windows 8

I expect it will be quite expensive I expect it will be full of bug I expect it will have a service pack almost imediately which will break 5% of Machines using it I expect it will come with loads of super smart defaults which take weeks to switch off I expect it'll mean the end of support for windows XP I expect I just having a bad day :(

Wow. They don't exactly let the grass grow under their feet. I have only just got Windows 7 and I find it excellent. I don't know what more they can put on Windows 8. But I guess they have to keep upgrading with new more sophisticated software and heardware coming on the market. _Derek

I want to make a distinction between what I expect and what I want. First what I want. It would be great to return to the XP ways, where most things are compatible, software run smothly and easily even on low resource PCs. Hope that they undo the great changes involved in Windows 7, like the much harder to use control panel, the ugly start menu, the file types tab on Explorer setup, among others. Also great would be to have was the ability to run on older hardware, without recurring to fake versions. The most important change I want to see is compatibility, for both previous and maybe future programs. And why not a free, express version, like what the do with SQL Server? Next what I actually expect from Micro$oft, more from the same like the previous versions. It will eat 10 times more times the resources than the previous version, be much slower and more incompatible with existing software, forcing you to change some or most programs and PC. I expect them to shuffle all the options around, making them even harder to access, and the default configuration to be even more trouble than helpful. And, of course, for every update they make, you'll see the message "this is a non legitimate copy....". And more fancy graphics and animations. What I don't know is the line of programming it will follow. Will it be just another remake of Vista, like Win7? Or a completly brand new OS?

I just want it to have similar to Win 7 or lower system requirements. And most importantly, the included Microsoft drivers should be compatible with older hardware as well. I don't want to buy newer hardware every time MS releases a new OS!

ARM support

What we know about Windows 8 is still incomplete and unofficial - garnered from job postings, rumours and the slides allegedly leaked by a software engineer at HP responsible for OEM relations (available through the Italian Windows Ette site). The slides include plenty of marketing ideas rather than technical details, they show that Microsoft has its eye on what Apple is doing to make its operating systems so popular and they declare themselves a work in progress. Not only is every page marked 'this is not a plan of record' but the opening discussion includes the line "reality: there are currently more ideas than there is time to implement them". That's especially true if Windows 8 release date is as soon as we think it might be.

I liked the last one, Seven that was a better version of Vista (a terrible OS). I hope they follow the line of the W7 and make a OS that is not too Heavy, with nice graphical resources and in my dreams i think they can finnally take a close look to the security.

no idea, i have used it. please talk about it with you .