Run Windows 8 commitment-free in a virtual machine

On the Start Screen, type "Paint". Literally start typing on the Start Screen!

This new start screen is NOT GOOD. I have a Nokia Lumia 800 with Windows Phone 7.5 and this start screen feels like my cellphone with the lack of touch...really awkward in other words. Also the implementation of the menu system of the later Office suites into the Explorer is really bad. I usually like new stuff but this I really wont be using...

Installed this Consumer Preview and hated the Metro UI. It's built for swiping with fingers not the accuracy and actions of a mouse. Really awkward to use and find anything (had to google to find out how to close anything). Too basic for serious users.

I was asking this when I tried the beta for Windows 7.

Needless to say, it had the same answer: You don't.

This is why I still use Vista, even though Seven Classic Start exists, all the other pointless UI changes make me stay away from 7 (especially ClearType being forced on)

Hey guys, i have a problem installing this.

After the system restarts during installation, the installation does not continue and makes me start it again.

Any help?

And don't get me started on Windows Explorer and the Ribbon...

Does anyone know how to make it use my full screen size... I even tried adding in a customeVideo setting in the command line and it did not work.

I have a Nvidia graphics card with at least 1G of video mem, and I gave the virtual machine 4G of Ram... it only will take up a portion of my 1080 screen

Use the VirtualBox config manager to “enable PAE/NX” when setting up the Windows 8 virtual environment.

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_8-windows_install/when-installation-starts-in-virtual-box-i-get-the/e14f4e64-bcdb-4d50-8df6-106cafc0b1af

Too bad that windows 8 is already a fail

windows 8 = Windows me

It's something nice to know, but I have no use for this really.

if i uninstall them both Windows 8 and Virtual box will it free my ram and hdd space which i allocated for windows 8 on virtualbox

I'm frustrated that Windows 8 won't work when I install it in VirtualBox. I picked VirtualBox because it worked well when I tried Windows 7 beta in it. After I try the steps mentioned above and Windows 8 reboots after installation, it gets stuck at the boot screen or shows an error. I've tried several times, checking settings and still have not been able to try Windows 8. My Win7 machine has 150GB of free hard drive space and 2GB Memory. Please help!!

A VM doesn't work well if you're demo'ing on a tablet because you lose the touch features

Installed VM, set it up, the Win8 window flashes by and then stopped by the Shell window, said I have a
Audio error, I unchecked audio, and still receiving the error, the list of audio in the setup, does not list
Realtech audio.. any magic fixes out there.??

sorry! but product key! is not working it's shows unable to verify! please help!