Windows 10

MouthBoy · 30 Sep 2014 at 20:14

Trifid said:
Looks like 7 ate 9.

Actually lol'd out loud to that!

~Mike~ · 30 Sep 2014 at 20:30

Looks very promising. Got a spare ssd somewhere will give the technical preview a try hopefully.

One · 30 Sep 2014 at 20:32

bulldog147 said:
Ok u try compare 100GB transfer from USB 3.0 HDD to Linux SSD with Windows 7 and tell me who are the fastest transfer rate on operating system?

Linux could be better in every single way, it's still not going to be a winner though.

BlackAle · 30 Sep 2014 at 21:06

I wish Microsoft would address the issue where you have more icons on the taskbar than space allows. Their current solution of paging is awful. OSX handles it far more efficiently by reducing the size of the icons.

cu3ed · 30 Sep 2014 at 21:08

Did a whole lot of people completely miss this is nothing more than a Tech preview, this is barley even an Alpha model.

Where some of you seriously thinking this was going to show a finished product or something?

BlackAle · 30 Sep 2014 at 21:09

~Mike~ said:
Looks very promising. Got a spare ssd somewhere will give the technical preview a try hopefully.

Or just run it virtually, that's what I'll do before I decide wherever I want to use it as my main os.

Columbo · 30 Sep 2014 at 21:09

Looks great to me, cant wait to have a play with it!

TimMatrix · 30 Sep 2014 at 21:15

Martini1991 said:
What type of yardstick is that?

I think Bulldog means that you test the "TRANSFER" speed of any USB3.0 memory stick of say 1Gb file size and tell him which one is faster, Microsoft Windows or Linux.

Personally, Linuz is blazing FAST when it comes to USB transfer speeds. Go on, try it.

bulldog147 · 30 Sep 2014 at 21:17

^^ yep! better with 100Gb as 1Gb is too quick on Linux

Rroff · 30 Sep 2014 at 21:20

BlackAle said:
I wish Microsoft would address the issue where you have more icons on the taskbar than space allows. Their current solution of paging is awful. OSX handles it far more efficiently by reducing the size of the icons.

You can sort that in Windows but its a bit of a clunky, unpredictable registry hack (or shell hack if you have the tools for it) :S

V_R · 30 Sep 2014 at 21:22

McBain · 30 Sep 2014 at 22:01

Same OS across desktop and tablet? Doesn't bode well.

Edit. Maybe not? 2 modes?

Obviously this is only a very early preview, but I don't see a lot to make me want to change from 7 & OSX.

Q: Can you talk about the name? Seems weird going from Windows 8 to Windows 10.
A: This product, when you see the product in your fullness I think you'll agree with us that it's a more appropriate name.

lol.

Glaucus · 30 Sep 2014 at 22:05

McBain said:
Same OS across desktop and tablet? Doesn't bode well.

Edit. Maybe not? 2 modes?

customization you can have start menu or start screen and other personalisation settings. It'll detect what it's running on and set it up for that, although you can change it.

McBain · 30 Sep 2014 at 22:07

Glaucus said:
customization you can have start menu or start screen and other personalisation settings. It'll detect what it's running on and set it up for that, although you can change it.

It's good they're taking this approach imo.

Options > no options.

FoxEye · 30 Sep 2014 at 22:09

Windows 9 was supposed to be the next decent OS in the good-bad-good-bad cycle.

Is this Miscrosoft admitting that they can no longer make a good OS? So they skip directly to the next bad one?

llamadal · 30 Sep 2014 at 22:15

bulldog147 said:
Ok u try compare 100GB transfer from USB 3.0 HDD to Linux SSD with Windows 7 and tell me who are the fastest transfer rate on operating system?

Who the hell cares in this scenario.

As long as 10 or whatever is fast, stable and easily setup then that's all that matters

IT Troll · 30 Sep 2014 at 22:20

I wonder what the version number will be? Windows 8.1 is actually NT 6.3. We haven't had a major upgrade since Windows XP!

Good to see they put the windows back into Windows though.

stealthgeek · 30 Sep 2014 at 22:29

IT Troll said:
I wonder what the version number will be? Windows 8.1 is actually NT 6.3. We haven't had a major upgrade since Windows XP!

Good to see they put the windows back into Windows though.

XP was 5.2? I think you mean since Vista?

IT Troll · 30 Sep 2014 at 22:35

stealthgeek said:
XP was 5.2? I think you mean since Vista?

5.x -> 6.x = Major Version

So Vista was the last major - point taken. Scary that we are basically still running Vista!

panyan · 30 Sep 2014 at 22:35

Dynix said:
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.

+1 to both of these