Windows 10

I know exactly what it is, its the future platform for Windows OSs going forwards, and I can get in for free.

Feel free to stand your ground and refuse to update, but don't come crying to us when your Windows 7 is out dated and getting into Windows X is going to cost you £100.

I swear Microsoft are getting more pathetic complaints from people being stubborn for the hell of it now they are giving it away for free than they ever did with any of the OSs they made you pay for!

The lengths people will go to is pretty funny.
 
I'm honestly not going to cry over £100... to be a bit vulgar while I'm not the richest person in the world £100 is neither here nor there to me.

It might be the future platform for Windows OSs going forwards but that doesn't make it a good (or bad) thing... neither does the price. It falls far short of what it could achieve in terms of customisation of the start menu/screen - even your average college student could do better in visual basic, has poorly thought out functionality at almost every level with a mis-matching mess of different styles, random use of ribbon functionality, even the basic stuff settings/control panel etc. is a mixture of stuff ripped from previous OSes in a haphazard manner combined with a poorly designed UI visually that makes even stuff like RISC OS, Amiga OS, etc. look sophisticated...
 
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I agree with Rroff. The styles are mismatched and the previews seem to have got graphically worse. I also think the icons are awful.
 
Thing is being a preview/beta you kind of can forgive some stuff for being placeholders/functional over form... but they randomly update some of the icons which had perfectly functional if completely ugly versions with new completely ugly versions and they are mostly close to or the same as Windows 8 so I can't see it being radically different come release.

Honestly completely puzzled how people find it acceptable - the aesthetic level and mis-match of approaches and functionality is kind of what I'd expect in early versions of a Linux GUI environment not from a cutting edge Windows desktop.
 
Oh lawd, there are so many dramatic whinge babies in this thread who don't know the difference between something being pitiful or awful, and disliking them.

It's also incredibly and ridiculously obnoxious to suggest that people who like Windows 10 are blind to "reality". Your view isn't the default objective truth.


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Its not really a matter of opinion - large amounts of the OS are factually a mis-match of approaches and bad design elements by any standard... and I honestly don't get how anyone can defend it unless they are blind to just how it stacks up compared to a variety of other OSes as in an objective comparison it really would not do well.

It isn't my intention to be dismissive of other people's opinions even if it effectively is that, with many years experience using many different OSes including Windows 2, etc, RISC OS, various *nix environments and so on I can't get my head around how people could think Windows 10 is remotely acceptable in its current state unless they have limited experience of other operating systems or have some kind of personal attachment i.e. a MS developer.
 
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I couldn't care less if it was all mismatched. I spend 99% of my time using applications, not using "windows" so in that regard it could be an aesthetic and graphical pile of **** and i wouldn't care - as long as it fundamentally works under the hood it doesn't matter to me.
 
spoffle said:
Oh lawd, there are so many dramatic whinge babies in this thread who don't know the difference between something being pitiful or awful, and disliking them.

It's also incredibly and ridiculously obnoxious to suggest that people who like Windows 10 are blind to "reality". Your view isn't the default objective truth. ***
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This.

"I don't like it" doesn't mean its crap. People are going on massive rants about the cosmetic looks of an OS, which at the end of the day is entirely subjective and rather irrelevant in terms of how the OS performs and functions.

It's like all those people complaining super models are ugly because they have pointy elbows :p.

I don't think I've ever really "liked" the look of any OS, I just get used to it and then it just faded into the background.

Also, lol at the "I've used loads of OSs so I know better" rant. :rolleyes:. Imagine if you werent allowed to have an opinion on ice cream until you had tried every single flavour there is...
 
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I don't have an issue with Windows 10 from what I've see so far. But no Microsoft OS has ever had a consistent style carried throughout the OS - there are always chunks of it that still look like it belongs in the release from 5 years back.

Just looking at the start menu in my Windows 10 installation, we have icons styled in the Vista way (Paint, Snipping Tool, Sticky Notes), stuff in the Windows Phone style (Maps, Windows Store) and then the even flatter/more abstract Windows 10 stuff (Get started, Calculator, Spartan, the stupid squares that represent the Task view). If you think that is all going to be unified by the release date then you have never used another MS operating system.
 
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I don't have an issue with Windows 10 from what I've see so far. But no Microsoft OS has ever had a consistent style carried throughout the OS - there are always chunks of it that still look like it belongs in the release from 5 years back.

Just looking at the start menu in my Windows 10 installation, we have icons styled in the Vista way (Paint, Snipping Tool, Sticky Notes), stuff in the Windows Phone style (Maps, Windows Store) and then the even flatter/more abstract Windows 10 stuff (Get started, Calculator, Spartan, the stupid squares that represent the Task view). If you think that is all going to be unified by the release date then you have never used another MS operating system.
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The look and feel of management console snapins hasn't changed since 2000.
 
And I don't think stuff like that is a problem. I don't really mind that much that Windows is generally an incoherent mess when it comes to design, or that Windows 10 has two control panels that do different things. But the glasses have to be seriously rose-tinted to claim that 'it isn't mismatched'.
 
Yeah that was my point, its not like W10 is the first MS OS to have a few different styles going on. So why such push back this time round?
 
It's probably difficult for people to separate it from Windows 8, which was utter garbage until 8.1 fixed a lot of issues.

I don't think it's unreasonable for MS to be expected to make an effort to have their OS presenting the same design language throughout though, really.
 
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Yeah that was my point, its not like W10 is the first MS OS to have a few different styles going on. So why such push back this time round?
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Presumably because people hope things will improve as they progress, rather than stay static or go backwards? Really, how much trouble would it be to make it look as good as it works? There's nothing wrong in wanting a professional, slick-looking (as well as functional) product.

Most people want a pretty car as well as one that works, they like well presented food as well as food that tastes nice, they like clothing that looks nice as well as clothes that are functional. This could be no different if MS could be bothered.
 
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Most people want a pretty car as well as one that works, they like well presented food as well as food that tastes nice, they like clothing that looks nice as well as clothes that are functional. This could be no different if MS could be bothered.
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And a lot of people also add other things to personalise it. The enthusiast modifies it. So, in that respect the OS is no different to the car.
As we all have different tastes and like different things, then how do you expect MS to accommodate everyone. As long as Win 10 is functional and does what I require, then I am happy with that. If I don't like some of the features, icons, etc, then I will modify or change them.
 
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