Windows 10

Glaucus · 30 Sep 2014 at 18:57

Got to say I'm happy with what I've seen, more customisation for those that want it.
Like the look if the new task view rather than a small black bar showing apps.

Seems all the windows family will be much more together.

Elevon · 30 Sep 2014 at 18:59

Tute said:
Win12, no?

Would not surprise me if they do a Win10.1 down the road like 8 had

,I guess we'll have to wait and see.

Chris_83 · 30 Sep 2014 at 18:59

Looking good. Can't wait to give it a whirl

Elevon · 30 Sep 2014 at 19:00

Glaucus said:
Got to say I'm happy with what I've seen, more customisation for those that want it.
Like the look if the new task view rather than a small black bar showing apps.

Seems all the windows family will be much more together.

I think that was their plan with Win8 to bring it all together,obviously with Win10,11 etc they can improve on that aspect.

afraser2k · 30 Sep 2014 at 19:01

Looks good, but as others have touched on I think I'll wait to see what's changed in the background before purchasing.

Glaucus · 30 Sep 2014 at 19:03

And that's it. They now get to play, and we'll get to play tomorrow.
I hope their won't be any driver issues with laptop. Wonder what time it'll be available,

bulldog147 · 30 Sep 2014 at 19:04

Glaucus said:
And that's it. They now get to play, and we'll get to play tomorrow.
I hope their won't be any driver issues with laptop. Wonder what time it'll be available,

And Windows 10 crashing BLUE SCREEN DEATH!

Cosimo · 30 Sep 2014 at 19:04

Can't wait to have a play.

Glaucus · 30 Sep 2014 at 19:04

Elevon said:
I think that was their plan with Win8 to bring it all together,obviously with Win10,11 etc they can improve on that aspect.

It was there plan all along. I'm just a bit surprised by the level of integration they stated. Will have to wait for actual details, as they were still talking about sharing cores, rather than one actual product.

Martini1991 · 30 Sep 2014 at 19:05

I was expecting a bit more really.

I feel a little bit let down about the future with tablets/laptops at the moment, hopefully there's some actually substance released.

Glaucus · 30 Sep 2014 at 19:07

Martini1991 said:
I was expecting a bit more really.

I feel a little bit let down about the future with tablets/laptops at the moment, hopefully there's some actually substance released.

Well people were expecting end of year-April release, so were expecting more. Now we know that isn't even close to actual launch date it's no surprise. Have to wait for build for more of the juicy info.

They've done this as they want a large insider project to help steer development.

Martini1991 · 30 Sep 2014 at 19:08

Glaucus said:
Well people were expecting end of year-April release, so were expecting more. Now we know that isn't even close to actual launch date it's no surprise. Have to wait for build for more of the juicy info.

They've done this as they want a large insider project to help steer development.

I was expecting Q4 2015 for launch

Martini1991 · 30 Sep 2014 at 19:20

With Surface 2 RT coming up a year old, and at a lowered price. Windows 9 not due for ages. New devices coming out from competitors, Surface 2 Pro hard to find. It's obviously not a good sign there's no new Surface.

Glaucus · 30 Sep 2014 at 19:31

Martini1991 said:
With Surface 2 RT coming up a year old, and at a lowered price. Windows 9 not due for ages. New devices coming out from competitors, Surface 2 Pro hard to find. It's obviously not a good sign there's no new Surface.

be interesting how cherry trail competes with s805. Isn't it meant to be out about now.
They still need a cheap decent tablet, which rt does very well. With atoms tablets being under specked and over priced.
Be interesting what they do as it's now all an odd time line for releases. Pro 3 was June, surface 2 was almost a year ago. Surely they can't not release new devices till win10, but at the same time, the release dates are now all screwed, even for the pro Broadwell will have been out almost a year by the time we see win10.

deuse · 30 Sep 2014 at 19:48

MS- now what can we have\do for windows 10?
dev -I know let people have more desktops!
MS- Linux has had that for years.
dev -can't we just say we did it like we always do?

Another fail on it's way.

Glaucus · 30 Sep 2014 at 20:00

Just noticed there's 10 devices on the poster thing, wonder if that will be the marketing for the 10 name. Developer board through phones, tablets, laptops, desktops, huge TVs.

nightmare99 · 30 Sep 2014 at 20:06

I love how Microsoft pretty much trolled everyone with the name

Trifid · 30 Sep 2014 at 20:08

nightmare99 said:
I love how Microsoft pretty much trolled everyone with the name

Looks like 7 ate 9.

Dynix · 30 Sep 2014 at 20:09

I like the look of this so far - in particular, the multi-desktops will be incredibly useful so I can easily split up my software development, web development and casual stuff - it's quite a mess with everything open right now. The better/improved snapping should be just as useful too.

Not bothered about the start menu at all - haven't missed it since I originally upgraded.

Macro · 30 Sep 2014 at 20:11

They have said this is a very early tech preview missing a lot of the changes and not covering tablet or consumer features yet. Dammed if they don't show or discuss anything until the last minute and dammed if they show something almost a year out and feature incomplete...

For what it's worth I think a return to being open and involving customers is a conversation about how the OS shapes up is a good step away from the Apple school of "tada here is is!".

Just waiting to see all the complaints about it crashing or not working properly as people ignore all the warnings and try to use it as their full time production OS.

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