{"id":537,"date":"2012-08-27T12:41:18","date_gmt":"2012-08-27T12:41:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thestupidbox.com\/blog\/?p=537"},"modified":"2021-06-25T04:09:01","modified_gmt":"2021-06-25T04:09:01","slug":"windows-8-visual-studio-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thestupidbox.com\/blog\/windows-8-visual-studio-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows 8, Visual Studio 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi,<\/p>\n<p>Started using Windows 8 and Visual Studio 2012 from today. Its the MSDN subscription release.<\/p>\n<p>Installed on my office PC. The upgrade option from Windows 7 was not successful.<\/p>\n<p>Had to overwrite Windows 7. I really felt some serious improvement in the operating system. You can expect a series of post on these two topics.<\/p>\n<p>Going to attend the Metro App. development Boot camp next week in Dubai.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Usually I wait for around 2 minutes to boot into Windows 7 at home. Today it just booted within few seconds. Awesome. It was never like this before.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Initially struggled a lot to navigate through. Some of the short cuts of traditional windows remains the same. like<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Alt + Tab<\/li>\n<li>Alt + F4<\/li>\n<li>Alt + [Space] (only in Desktop mode)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Found hard to close any application. Either u can use Alt + F4 or drag from the top of any app. and drop in the bottom of the screen.<\/p>\n<p>Browsing experience is so far good. Liked the metro style apps.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;You have no choice. you will be using this in another few months, for sure.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See you in another post.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi, Started using Windows 8 and Visual Studio 2012 from today. Its the MSDN subscription release. Installed on my office PC. The upgrade option from Windows 7 was not successful. Had to overwrite Windows 7. I really felt some serious&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[157,158,156],"class_list":["post-537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technical","tag-visual-studio-2012","tag-windows-8","tag-windows8"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thestupidbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thestupidbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thestupidbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thestupidbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thestupidbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=537"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/thestupidbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":540,"href":"http:\/\/thestupidbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537\/revisions\/540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thestupidbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thestupidbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thestupidbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}