Thanks for that.
Makes absolute sense.
I modify the power settings for maximum "greenness" on all my OSs, and that explains why this happened once, before I'd got round to making my customizations.
That's obviously one of the reasons why "fast boot" has to go back to square one if you choose an alternate OS from its menu, and why I got hit.
I don't allow W8 to do the multi-booting. I control it all through grub4dos, and on that first use of W8 it left itself suspended without properly shutting down, crippling everything else.
I think the problem is MS's usual parochial attitude, failing to acknowledge the possibility of "other life" existing outside the Universe of Redmond. In the case of W8 this has intensified rather than loosened. They have made the corporate decision that W8 is it, and already are making noises that W7 is no longer persona grata and will be allowed to wither and die with little more than security fixes in the future.
With that in mind, they have not even bothered to make it play nicely with their own legacy software, let alone anyone else's.
It's essentially a stand alone system, and perhaps best left out of a multi-boot environment, and used only on the adolescent's toys it's really designed for.
It belongs in the world of tweeting your every move, uploading that hilarious picture of a dog weeing for universal consumption, squinting at a widescreen movie on a 3" screen whilst announcing to everyone within earshot "I'm on the train, watching Star Wars" for the benefit of an unseen third party, who could easily have been told when actually seen one minute later.
It seems that MS have perceived the future as i-shaped and have decided to slug it out with Apple for the 18-30 market, even at the cost of the total abandonment of their core constituency.
Rant over.
Makes absolute sense.
I modify the power settings for maximum "greenness" on all my OSs, and that explains why this happened once, before I'd got round to making my customizations.
That's obviously one of the reasons why "fast boot" has to go back to square one if you choose an alternate OS from its menu, and why I got hit.
I don't allow W8 to do the multi-booting. I control it all through grub4dos, and on that first use of W8 it left itself suspended without properly shutting down, crippling everything else.
I think the problem is MS's usual parochial attitude, failing to acknowledge the possibility of "other life" existing outside the Universe of Redmond. In the case of W8 this has intensified rather than loosened. They have made the corporate decision that W8 is it, and already are making noises that W7 is no longer persona grata and will be allowed to wither and die with little more than security fixes in the future.
With that in mind, they have not even bothered to make it play nicely with their own legacy software, let alone anyone else's.
It's essentially a stand alone system, and perhaps best left out of a multi-boot environment, and used only on the adolescent's toys it's really designed for.
It belongs in the world of tweeting your every move, uploading that hilarious picture of a dog weeing for universal consumption, squinting at a widescreen movie on a 3" screen whilst announcing to everyone within earshot "I'm on the train, watching Star Wars" for the benefit of an unseen third party, who could easily have been told when actually seen one minute later.
It seems that MS have perceived the future as i-shaped and have decided to slug it out with Apple for the 18-30 market, even at the cost of the total abandonment of their core constituency.
Rant over.