2012-09-02, 15:21
(2012-09-02, 06:32)ibleedspeed Wrote: pardon my ignorance but what exactly is great about windows 8? I am pretty happy with windows 7 and from what i have seen so far windows 8 looks like a cruel joke played by MS... i Mean what is with the stupid tiles page? the graphics look like something from 10 years ago.. most of the reviews on youtube make windows 8 out to be the stupidest os ever made. i think its fine if you want to run it on a tablet but who needs touchscreen functions on a desktop?
can anyone list anything about windows 8 that gives it a leg up on windows 7? i was considering trying it out until i looked at all the youtube reviews from what they showed its laughable...
This thread is about using Windows 8 for a dedicated HTPC, it uses xbmc as the shell, therefor your comments about the startscreen is irrelevant. You won't see the startscreen, you'll boot directly into xbmc.
Some points of the top of my head where Win8 has an edge over Win7 in HTPC scenarios:
1) Faster boot (especially if you have UEFI)
2) Uses less resources
3) Storage Spaces (virtual drive pools similar to what the early versions
of Windows Home Server used, without having to resort to RAID)
4) Better media perfomance (decoding and encoding)
5) Better power managment
6) Networking improvments (including SMB improvements which is relavent to xbmc)
7) Support for USB 3.0
