# Windows 8 Dev build

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/windows-8-dev-build/324895
**Category:** random
**Created:** [September 14, 2011, 2:15pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/windows-8-dev-build/324895 "2011-09-14T14:15:21Z")
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### Author: ![tpspoons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b4bc9f/32.png) [@tpspoons](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/tpspoons)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2011, 2:15pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/windows-8-dev-build/324895/1 "2011-09-14T14:15:21Z")

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Is anyone else using it?

I just finished installing it and I’m just playing with it now. My impressions so far:  
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[_]Doesn’t appear any faster/slower than Windows 7. Will see once I’ve installed everything I use.  
[_]It’ll probably be nice with a touchscreen, but with a traditional mouse/keyboard setup the metro UI is really annoying. Simple things that I used to do all the time (i.e. open up my computer or search for a program) take twice as long since the start menu is gone.  
[_]You learn very quickly to try and avoid pressing the start key at all, since the whole desktop will be covered in the Metro UI, which like I mentioned is just plain pointless for a keyboard+mouse setup.  
[_]Having a taskbar on both screens is great.  
[_]The new task manager has a lot more info which is always good.  
[_]The new Explorer looks unecessarily complicated - what was wrong with the old one?? I’ll reserve my judgement on this for now, I might prefer after a while.  
[\*]The metro UI itself has some weird quirks. For example when you scroll it scrolls all the scrollable areas on the page, not just the area your hovering over.  
[/LIST]Not particularly impressed so far.