Baring some setting I have missed, then limiting internet connect in Win8 to DHCP is, as far as I know, an undocumented change in behavior from Win7. If there is documentation and reasoning involved, will someone please point it out, in which case I would
like to present my case for maintaining the ability to connect up to fixed IP addresses. Otherwise, I would like to submit it as a bug. At the very very least developers should be able to connect up to fixed IP addresses in the non-Metro environment just like
for Win7.
RT
Well, there is something I missed. Leaving the setup alone overnight, letting it sleep, the fixed IP address is now working. This is good news, but I do not know why the setup needed so much time to ripple through. No need for this posting then except to serve
as a precautionary tale for other fixed IP developers who run into the same thing. That is, expecting the fixed IP address to take effect immediately upon closing the IP address settings menu.