Windows 10: New features and improvements coming to Windows 10

I do not have a microphone so Cortana does not help me and as for Edge, I do not mind it but I will not use it. Without Classic Hell I would not even consider Windows 10.

 

Two out of five does not mean most either.

 

Two out of 3. The other items are all the same thing rephrased. You're basically just complaining about the app discovery functions.

 

If it makes you happy to think that, fine. I have better things to do than keep posting.

 

Number 5 on the list can be turned off in Fire Fox. I'm happy with the features in Windows 10 as they are now. The changes mentioned in the article has me rethinking if I want to upgrade or not. Hopefully they'll give us the option to turn them off.

 

"Knows English Well". . .Hmmmmmmmmmmmm!

 

I haven't received the bugfix update to 10074 that they mention.

 

I feel a little better when I see posts like this. At first when the Windows 10 TP emerged, it seemed EVERYBODY on here was so gaga about Windows 10 (in a way though that seemed like they were just blindly accepting whatever Microsoft tossed their way). I just couldn't understand what made the new OS so much better than 8.1, but this forum seemed blind to that. I figured even early on that the first TP releases were not going to reflect the final product.

Now we see the changes that are starting to drive would be users away (Edge, No WMC, a half-assed Start Menu, and the conversion of Control Panel to settings). Yet there those few here that still seem to champion new for the sake of new and say "well I like the Settings Panel; it just takes getting used to, you Luddite you", whereas I think "Control Panel Just worked. Leave it be". It's as if they believe Microsoft can do no wrong with Windows 10, especially when it would be a free upgrade. It was that mindset that had me shaking my head.

But thankfully, that appears to be changing.

 

For me, at least, it's the fact that Win7/Win8.1 will not get the same future development that Win10 will be getting. You can add a nice start menu to Win8.1 and other third party items that make it look like Win10.. but given the price of Win10 I think.. why not upgrade. Free is rather.. free. *Wink

 

There's an option to show app and content suggestions already on the start menu options (right click task bar). Looks like you will be able to turn it off.

 

Wish I could share your optimism -- but I can't.

The Start Menu, according to the original article, is all but finished --which makes it, IMHO, little more than a miniature version of the Start Screen -- and equally useless to those of us who do NOT want a smartphone interface on our desktop.

Apart from Spartan/Edge, it looks like MS has really just moved a bunch of stuff around and, as such, these are not improvements, they are only changes -- and basically, are changes for the sake of changes.

It looks like, in the end, the "phone" people driving Win10 changes are going to win and Win10 will be little more than a reorganized Win8 -- with the result that the folks that strongly disliked Win8 for its "metro" UI, will end up feeling pretty much th same about Win10.

 

Yeah, I don't get how its better than the Start Screen in Windows 8.1? I'd rather have the Start Screen - All Apps Screen. IMHO, its a step backward. Somebody must like it so what are you gona do. I don't see it going anywhere now.

 

I like the All Apps better too, you don't have to open any trees(deforestation man*Smile), everything is there at a glance, and look at the screenshot(I'm on 8 right now after getting frustrated with 74's live tiles not functioning properly) one can uninstall even desktop programs from there, or go to it's file location. Only people who don't try Right clicking EVERYTHING miss out on stuff like this. On 10 that's fun part: exploring what happens when I right click something.
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Funny you should mention this, as I'd recently been thinking along fairly similar lines. One thing which had struck me was that many of those who at present seem so blind to Win 10's failings and who display a disturbingly condescending attitude to those who wish (for whatever reason) to remain on the supposedly 'obsolete, failed and dying' 7, 8 or 8.1 are the very same people who three years ago could see no fault with, and would brook no criticism of Win 8, back when it was in beta. And yes, anyone who dared suggest that Win 7 (or, God forbid, Vista or XP) was a 'better' or more-preferred OS than 8 was roundly condemned as either a Luddite who 'wouldn't move with the times' or a 'noob' who didn't know what they were talking about.

Now we have a different OS, but the attitudes of some users to those who hold differing views hasn't changed much, it would seem.

Personally I don't care what OS one uses. It's entirely up to you, there's no 'right' or 'wrong' choice, and it's not a competition. I use several on a regular basis, including Vista, 7, 8.1.1 and, very occasionally, XP Pro (I even run Win 3.11 occasionally, just for fun). And no doubt I'll be using Win 10 in the future as well, however I don't like it enough, and it doesn't offer enough over 7 or 8.1 for it to become my primary OS any time soon, so it will be remaining where it is in Hyper-V for the foreseeable future. But I do resent myself or others being treated in such a condescending manner as we have been by some members (both on here, and on EightForums in the past), simply because we have our own preferences and likes (and possibly needs) which may not match their own.

OK, rant over.


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@Wenda The thing for me is.. there are no failing of Win10 for me. I did a clean install yesterday(B. 10074) and it just works. No issues installing it and using it at all. And if I ever come across with a condescending attitude I apologize. I only try to present my view and what I find in the new OS. If you or other like previous versions of Windows and use then that's fine with me.

Win10 has elements that I like and will find useful when I get the final release(hopefully in late July). While I like Win7/Win8.1 for me the free upgrade is just too hard to pass up on.

At the end of the day, Win10 simply works fine for me and that's all that matters to me. Any comments I make are simply from my experience and as usual.. YMMV(your millage may vary).