Nope. Win 8 developers preview ran ok under the bootcamp for 7 though. And the installer seems to be working ok for others.

Just tried a USB install. It only got to 11% that time. 

Ah well. I'll leave it a few days and have another poke around the internet to see if any other people are getting the same thing. There's no massive hurry to get it installed.

Just taken the plunge and put it on my main PC.

The graffix look much nicer on a decent screen. Gutted that Pinball FX isn't pulling in my bought tables for free. But much to expect I suppose.

I was mighty impressed by the fact that upon opening Music it listed all of my songs from the other PC and let me play them. That's all songs, not just Zune pass stuff. MP3s and Zune Pass stuff.

The PC in the kitchen with all the files on isn't switched on, so there must be some form of cloud matching thing happening, which I didn't think was switched on yet.

Oh, and IE now has an inline text auto correct and spellchecker. Thank fucking god. At last.

(and it knows fucking is a word)

BBC -we love Apple more than life itself and dumb shit down to the point Maggie Philbin would blush- Click? You're all right ; )

I've been using it since the start of the year so I'm used to flipping round between views/open apps/charms etc using a mouse and keyboad. It doesn't take too long for it to become natural.

Loving having previously browser based interfaces like Netflix come up as apps instead.

I saw that Click. There were quite even handed I thought. One thing they brought up though that does seem a bit rubbish is that Internet Explorer has two separate distinct versions, the open tabs, history and all the rest of it, don't sync between the two. 

That seems pretty rubbish.

Also I went through to some online MS tech support live chat thing earlier. I said I was trying to install on a bootcamp partition and they were still trying to help me sort it out. I was a bit worried they'd say something shit like "We don't support that at this time".

Anyway they're going to do a remote connect to my PC at some point when I can spare the time to boot into it and let them do their shit. Reasonably impressed with what I assumed would be a diabolical service.

monkey wrote:

I saw that Click. There were quite even handed I thought. One thing they brought up though that does seem a bit rubbish is that Internet Explorer has two separate distinct versions, the open tabs, history and all the rest of it, don't sync between the two.  That seems pretty rubbish.

If Click wasn't aimed at children and OAPs they might have gone into sandboxing and integrity levels and explained why sharing across desktop apps and Metro apps wasn't possible. Hey, they might have even explained why there has to be two different versions (plugins, sandboxing) in the first place. But it isn't aimed at anyone that would understand that so I'm assuming they didn't.

Err you think anyone who doesn't know or care what sandboxing is or about integrity levels must be a child or an OAP?

Mod74 wrote:

Yes...but it's not the default view, and you can't boot into it automatically.

Are you sure about this? You can create a custom start menu type thing, but no real "classic mode". There were a couple of hacks to reveal the classic mode in some of the early releases, but I think these were pulled.

If there was a classic mode, I would go for it as is very slick running OS. And I like the file transfer thingy as someone else has mentioned.

JMW wrote:

Err you think anyone who doesn't know or care what sandboxing is or about integrity levels must be a child or an OAP?

Nice switchero, but what I actually said was that because it's aimed at children and OAPs they wouldn't cover it.

if you buy the update does it have to install 'now', or can you just keep your activation key and update when you want later?

Exciting Installation Update:
Still no joy. Last night an "AnswerTech" (some sort of online MS assistant person) remote connected to Windows 7 on my laptop. I let him get on with it. He uninstalled some MS Security Essentials (which I'd only re-installed after attempting to upgrade but never mind) and tried again. Sure enough it failed at 30%. He then had another go, killing some background processes, and some other configuration stuff that I couldn't really keep up with. 
Failed at 30% again. 

My status has now been upgraded to 'B'. I can expect to be contacted by the escalation team within 24-48 hours.
Wooooooh!

Actually the service is ok so far. Obviously this is the first step to clear out the simple issues that cause 90% of the problems. If I had to guess I'd say it may be something to do with the conflict between what Windows wants to do and the amount of access that Apple allows to the hardware. Which is only going to be fixed by Apple or MS by a patch or something. 

I'll probably have to do a straight install from a Win 8 boot disk. I'll either start trying to demand this from MS if their resolution process fails, or just see if I can pay the difference.

If I installed this to a Windows 7 powered lap top plugged into my telly would I be able to use a Wiimote to control it?

I use Max for playing with WiiMotes and windows. All my WiiMotes are here in uni and I don't have a win8 machine. Max might look complicated but you can assign the controllers and accelerometers to whaterver you want anything you want.

Worth having a play with if you like that sort of thing. Oh you'll need some infrared or tea lights. And bluetooth.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_(software)

There's probably an more direct way of doing what you want but Max is generally more fun. Virtual drumkits have been a fave for example.

A wireless mouse/keyboard combo is probably your best bet right now. Unless anyone else has any other suggestions. The Xbox is their under the TV solution.