Windows 10: What are your thoughts on Windows10?

It's also too early for me to be able to say but, since Win 7 is still working well for me, it's unlikely. What I've seen so far looks very promising but there are a few annoying details yet and, of course, the final product could be considerably different than what we have seen so far. It ultimately depends a lot on how many hoops I would have to jump through to install it, how much it would cost, how much work it would take to get to where I would be comfortable with it, and how compatible my current programs and hardware would be with it. I stayed with XP when I bought the desktop machine previous to my present one because Vissta had been out for a year at the time and I would have had to replace a perfectly good printer, a POS but otherwise functional scanner, and some software, one of which would have cost me $600 to replace. Even after Win 7 came out and I had finally replaced the printer and scanner due to wear aand tear and had gotten a smokin' deal on the software I needed to upgrade to, I waited until I had enough "miles" on the XP machine t have gotten my money's worth from it before replacing it (it was compatible only with Win 7 32 bit).

 

Windows 10 hasn't shown me her best yet, due to issues I'm having with the latest public build. I'm hoping the Consumer Preview later this month resolves so issues so i can test it out.

I like what they've done with the Start Menu enough that I'll give up Classic Shell. I can't tell if it is any faster than Win 8, due to my issues. I saw an improvement of Win 8 over Win 7, so I'm hoping to see another boost.

Though there is no debate, in my mind if I'll get it, the matter is if I can find a good deal when it is finally released. I have typically purchased the latest versions when it became available. I haven't skip any Windows OS yet.

I like the engagement MS has used with this version. I always wondered who their test audience was for Win 8, I always read statements that "based on our consumer panel discussions they would like to see ABC". I wondered who they were actually talking too. This version will have lots a early visibility to resolve issues and include features people are looking for.

 

That (keyboard loading) is before the OS (at least for me). Doesn't matter what OS I use. Possibly (probably) you can fix that. Give us some more details if you can. Trust me, he's tried. His keyboard works fine in Win8 but not Win10. I think it's due to the issue with the numlock not working properly in Win10 B9879.

 

That (keyboard loading) is before the OS (at least for me). Doesn't matter what OS I use. Possibly (probably) you can fix that. Give us some more details if you can. Here's the thread concerning this issue.. Trouble with new keyboard

 

That (keyboard loading) is before the OS (at least for me). Doesn't matter what OS I use. Possibly (probably) you can fix that. Give us some more details if you can. Here's the thread concerning this issue.. Trouble with new keyboard Sorry about that. I assumed (wrongly) you meant a built in laptop keyboard.

 

No hay problema. *Smile

 

I'm liking the way Windows 10 is developing, I still prefer Windows 7 at the moment but the new ideas that are going to be implemented in the upcoming versions are great! I love the Cortana thing, it's something that could've been used in Windows 7 and 8. The new UI seems very interesting, a lot better/slicker than Windows 8/8.1. It seems like a whole new pack of ideas have been put into Windows 10 and I'm loving it. The only criticism I have against Win10 currently is the graphics, I don't like the bland and blunt lines, I much prefer the ones used on Windows 7, they seem better finished somehow. Other than that Win10 seems to have everything in order to become the best Windows ever.

 

Hi there.

I really like being able to aggregate 2 X 2TB of my external USB's into a single storage space with some recovery area -- I've got about 3 TB now in multi-media and it's great to be able to have them in a single DB and if the HDD's get full I can dynamically add another one.

I don't think enough mention of Storage spaces has been done but it's a BRILLIANT idea -- also much better than RAID as a) it's more efficient - you can specify % of space for recovery (or None if you think your HDD's will never fail !!!) and b) you can also have HDD's of DIFFERENT sizes in the mix.

Much better than volumes D,E,F,G etc and especially for large databases (say music or video) that can't span volumes.

W7 doesn't support storage spaces (but can access them as shares- Linux and XP can also access storage spaces as shares too).

Cheers
jimbo

 

I just thought of something I don't like!

I really wish we could access the charms bar the same way we do in Windows 8! It's really annoying to have to press Win-C every time I need it!

 

Thats a good point!

 

If you want to speed up the way Windows works, then you have to sacrifice these refinements, BUT at least in Windows 7 you can have either - bland (fast) or 'flash' (not so fast).

 

I've never noticed any difference in startup time between 7 and 10 :/
If anything 7 is faster no lock screen to load *Wink

 

I use the password bypass on Win8/Win10 and it boots a bit faster but not that much from my experience.

Jeff

 

If you want to speed up the way Windows works, then you have to sacrifice these refinements, BUT at least in Windows 7 you can have either - bland (fast) or 'flash' (not so fast). Exactly! I wish Windows 10 would offer the two options as well, bland and fast or good looking and slow instead of just bland.

 

Pretty much my feeling.

I still like it.