Windows 8 Installation #FAIL

[werfie]

DOH!!!

http://postimage.org/image/mept6mkyj/

My choices are infinite, I probably should use the Help Me Decide link... :wtf:

 

[bekdik]

This is standard for beta tests

 

[Arthur]

That's probably because you selected an upgrade of an existing XP or Vista system, whereas the Release Preview only does upgrades from Windows 7. Or you have an unorthodox Win7 installation that beta software doesn't support.

Read the requirements, or is that a Read Fail that now makes you blame Microsoft?

 

[werfie]

That's probably because you selected an upgrade of an existing XP or Vista system, whereas the Release Preview only does upgrades from Windows 7. Or you have an unorthodox Win7 installation that beta software doesn't support.

Read the requirements, or is that a Read Fail that now makes you blame Microsoft?

I'm upgrading from Windows 8 Consumer Preview. They can write years of code for new OS, but not a single line that skips a completely redundant screen where there are no options to decide on or no other option to allow you to proceed other than selecting "Nothing" (how appropriate)?

 

[Arthur]

The documentation specifically says you cannot upgrade from CP to RP. I made the same mistake, and then retored a Win7 image to the laptop that had CP. RP now fine.

Mine was a Read Fail.

 

[MrGray]

That's probably because you selected an upgrade of an existing XP or Vista system, whereas the Release Preview only does upgrades from Windows 7. Or you have an unorthodox Win7 installation that beta software doesn't support.

Read the requirements, or is that a Read Fail that now makes you blame Microsoft?

Just because it's logical in Microsoft's world doesn't make it a sensible user interface, or any less absurd. It's just plain stupid to present a single radio button when there are no other options. It means that, in typical MS fashion, some programmer was just too lazy to handle the eventuality that there was nothing available to keep (whatever that means, anyway) and either skip the option or display some text.

In fact, and this is what irks me in so many places with MS, if the reason for this is as you state then why didn't the developers pull out a finger and write that, instead of the usual cryptic MS UI.