Windows 10

Glaucus · 12 Apr 2015 at 21:56

10056 has been leaked, subtle changes but ui looks much better.

Oh and MS and Miele have signed a new partnership to make smart appliances with IoT.
Hopefully more will sign on.

Glaucus · 14 Apr 2015 at 13:34

Just right click task bar, options for search bar are in there somewhere.
Search box, icon or off.

Glaucus · 20 Apr 2015 at 17:00

That webpage is severely screwed formatting wise.
Don't get to excited, I can't read what ever you've linked. But that will be RTM, so actual release in ~October as RTM is generally 3 months before general release. Gives time for PEMs to finally products, get them made and shipped to stores.

Edit - site now working, as above.

Glaucus · 20 Apr 2015 at 17:06

You even quoted the edit,

Glaucus · 21 Apr 2015 at 16:30

realBabelfish said:
anyone else find the syncing between all machines a bit annoying?

i now have 3 machines with win10 on and every time i change something on one it updates all the rest. bit annoying. also, since i installed all this my win8.1 tablet seems to spend a lot more time syncing stuff in the store, even though i havent added any new apps

No, it's fantastic.
If you don't want certain things go to settings and disable what you dont want syncing. It's the same as w8

Glaucus · 24 Apr 2015 at 19:01

People app is there, just broken and won't even load.

Glaucus · 24 Apr 2015 at 20:51

It's one of the known issues, in the known issue release notes.

Glaucus · 26 Apr 2015 at 10:36

esoteric said:
LinusTechTips WAN show had a topic saying that AMD accidently leaked that Windows 10 is to be released in June.

Which is to be expected, however that will be Release To Manufactures. Public will get it about 3months after that. So no earlier than anyone expected with it being publicly released around October.

Glaucus · 29 Apr 2015 at 21:13

Forgot about build. But continuum is coming to phone. Do full pc on your phone. Wonder if anyone will release an atom phone which can do x86 apps.

Glaucus · 30 Apr 2015 at 11:41

Cool,
They've add ios and android to visual studio. Meaning app developers can reuse almost all there code from android/ios apps to make windows 10 universal apps.

Should help the store a lot. Lets hope anyway.

Also project Spartans official name is Microsoft Edge

I want hololens.

Glaucus · 30 Apr 2015 at 17:01

Mines been on preparing to install for ages.
Tablet mode is meant to be much less broken in this version, I hope so.

And liked all the announces at build.
I just hope the start screen in tablet mode and how it worlds for win32 apps is decent, so far it's been atrocious.

Glaucus · 2 May 2015 at 21:44

Is it actually failing or just appears stuck. Mine stayed on 95% for several hours and install took about 6.

Glaucus · 3 May 2015 at 13:49

I still can't get charms bar working. Haven't been able to on any version. What's it look like these days.

Glaucus · 3 May 2015 at 15:41

You can enable it in desktop.
Right click taskbar > navigation > when I point to top right corner, show the charms.
But I cant get it to work either with mouse or shortcut keys. But I know others have.

Glaucus · 3 May 2015 at 16:01

Wahhoooo. Just noticed NowTv has an app. added 10 of December. At long last.
Ok not really win10 related, but wahoooooop.

Glaucus · 3 May 2015 at 22:25

passey89 said:
if you could stop it using bing to search and use google would be brilliant. using edge right now

the settings there, so when it launches you can change it to what you want.

anyone see how to turn names off on the favorites bar? on ie you right clicked. but I cant see anything on spartan.
and they should have kept spartan as the name.

Glaucus · 4 May 2015 at 19:09

Why would you change away.
There just modern apps, they aren't desktop or tablet. They're both.

Glaucus · 4 May 2015 at 21:04

Skeeter said:
Just because they now open in a window rather than full screen doesn't suddenly mean the Modern UI versions of the apps are any good for a multi monitor, large display computer.

Neither does it mean they are rubbish. Plenty are better than the alternatives.
It's about using the best for each case, not automatically dismissing them out of some silly ill thought out logic.

Glaucus · 5 May 2015 at 14:04

Skeeter said:
And KIA obviously thinks the Modern apps aren't the best in his case

You will probably be in the minority if you think the Modern apps are the best for desktop user. Also, dismissing touch focused apps when you don't have a touch screen is hardly silly I'll thought out logic.

Well it is as they aren't touch focused.
If anyone thinks that media websites/x86 software is better than the modern apps on any device is frankly mad and hasn't tried them.
Give me now TV, Netflix, audible, amil, calendar etc over the website/x86 software any day of week, they are far better on any pc system.

Glaucus · 5 May 2015 at 14:31

Mr Gimp said:
All of which aren't remotely productive applications at all. If you are using your device as an entertainment platform then I'd agree that the app approach works.
For people wishing to actually do work on a computer then they're a useless fluffy pain in the arse

He was talking about media apps.
And I also said use the best software available. sometimes that's x86, sometimes that modern apps.
Most people use computers for everything, not one or another.