Windows 10: What are your thoughts on Windows10?

Emma, ya may wanna take a look at Palemoon...

The Pale Moon Project homepage

 

Hi there

Things like FF are 3rd party applications so if they don't work like they did before or not to your liking it's hardly the fault of the OS --it's up to the developers to fix it.

As far as W10 itself is concerned I haven't had too many problems with it especially at this stage in its life / development cycle.

Let's see what the builds nearer to the final release bring.

Cheers
jimbo

 

I like FF much better than IE partly because of the ad ons, ghostery, wot, no squint and adblock plus with the easy list. The problem with FF was just me, I condense my tool bar at the top to one line and they took that option away. I like a clean look to my computer instead of a busy one, I like lists instead of tile. I only have 4 folders on my desktop, recycle, my computer and my folder and a misc one on the far left bottom with things I am working with, all icons match my desktop wallpaper. I have FF V 28 installed in a folder in my documents and an updated one in programs that I don't use. I will update it and see if they have changed the tool bar. Thanks for that info.

No squint is really a neat little ad on. It zooms text and background, if the bright white of pages bother you, no squint can change it to any color you want.

With Office and Window live email, I condense the tools to the quick access bar just to get rid of the busy look.

I will check out Pale Moon, thanks.

 

I didn't like some points in build 9841, but hated everything in 9901 !

If things keep going this way I wont move from 8.1...

*Sad

 

9901 is a leaked build and it is very buggy. I never tried it out because it was not official from MS.

YMMV of course..

 

Have to kinda disagree here 'cause Microsoft's Frontpage works fine in OS's up to & including Windows 8.1 & works 99.99% in Windows 10 but crashes when opening a folder to insert a url; maybe it's because it's deemed an obsolete application!

I would have hoped that in developing a new OS, Microsoft would at least ensure that all current major application's functionality is maintained so as to encourage users to upgrade; currently there are a number of niggles which would prevent me upgrading from 7 to 10 unless they're fixed by Microsoft in Windows 10 & not to rely upon the 3rd party software developers.

Incidentally, I've installed Pale Moon which is obviously built on the Firefox platform & can't really see any reason to use in preference to Firefox (same goes for Waterfox).

 

The new Pale Moon seems to not like some of the FF plugins like it used to. PM is more independent now so I guess that's the reason.

 

Another leaked image. Whether it's legit or not, it's pretty convincing!

 

None of the australis nonsense.
That said, I switched over to "Cyberfox" today, as my Palemoon developed a weird lag. It's good to have choices.....

 

Have to kinda disagree here 'cause Microsoft's Frontpage works fine in OS's up to & including Windows 8.1 & works 99.99% in Windows 10 but crashes when opening a folder to insert a url; maybe it's because it's deemed an obsolete application!

I would have hoped that in developing a new OS, Microsoft would at least ensure that all current major application's functionality is maintained so as to encourage users to upgrade; currently there are a number of niggles which would prevent me upgrading from 7 to 10 unless they're fixed by Microsoft in Windows 10 & not to rely upon the 3rd party software developers.

Incidentally, I've installed Pale Moon which is obviously built on the Firefox platform & can't really see any reason to use in preference to Firefox (same goes for Waterfox).
Hi there

Not sure who or what even REMEMBERS Ms Front page any more -- for designing web sites etc there are loads of better and more secure tools around -- if you really want really OLD legacy stuff to work IMO the best way is simply to run them in a VM. I'm sure for instance your old Front page won't support webkit or even HTML5 together with some of the more modern video formats.

While an OS should where possible be able to run reasonably recent applications - supporting really "Dinosaurial applications" can't possibly be expected all the time. That's another reason why using VM's is such a good idea.

Cheers
jimbo

 

There is a setting to tell Windows 10 to use the Start Page, or the Start Menu. You can have it either way. True Mystere and i worked that way in the beginning, changing it to the style everyone else likes and i was almost installling Win 8.1 again when someone here on the board waked me up.

So i just had to rechange that and now i will stay on WIn 10 for sure.

For those loving Win 7...enjoy for the few years left, but i really do not understand why you guys are stuck to this.

Maybe because it is the most close to XP.

Whaw....


Jeff

 

Have to kinda disagree here 'cause Microsoft's Frontpage works fine in OS's up to & including Windows 8.1 & works 99.99% in Windows 10 but crashes when opening a folder to insert a url; maybe it's because it's deemed an obsolete application!

I would have hoped that in developing a new OS, Microsoft would at least ensure that all current major application's functionality is maintained so as to encourage users to upgrade; currently there are a number of niggles which would prevent me upgrading from 7 to 10 unless they're fixed by Microsoft in Windows 10 & not to rely upon the 3rd party software developers.

Incidentally, I've installed Pale Moon which is obviously built on the Firefox platform & can't really see any reason to use in preference to Firefox (same goes for Waterfox).
Hi there

Not sure who or what even REMEMBERS Ms Front page any more -- for designing web sites etc there are loads of better and more secure tools around -- if you really want really OLD legacy stuff to work IMO the best way is simply to run them in a VM. I'm sure for instance your old Front page won't support webkit or even HTML5 together with some of the more modern video formats.

While an OS should where possible be able to run reasonably recent applications - supporting really "Dinosaurial applications" can't possibly be expected all the time. That's another reason why using VM's is such a good idea.

Cheers
jimbo 'Dinosaurial application' it may be & it would be fully functional in Windows 10 bar 1 small url related problem.

I've tried other utilities including Microsoft Expression Web 4 & Adobe Dream Weaver CS6 but have found them lacking , Frontpage does all that I need or want; as I said with Windows 10 not really offering anything really significant over Windows 7, I can't see me changing!

 

I like it
I am using mmore than my other sytstems
sorry about the typos
topper

 

As I said before build 9841 wasn't more than fair, build 9901 was a disaster (i know it's a leaked buggy one), but build 9879 has almost convinced me !





















*Smile

 

9901 is a leaked build and it is very buggy. I never tried it out because it was not official from MS.

YMMV of course.. I finally installed build 9860. Not bad !

In terms of stability and performance it's quite similar to build 9879, and has found the newer build to update.





Considering that all are alphas/pre-betas

~edited~

*Start 9841 ~ Fair *Huh
*Start 9860 ~ Good *Wink
*Start 9879 ~ Good *Wink
*Start 9901 ~ Fair, with new features but more buggy *Zip









9901 on bare metal was a nightmare. In VMWare I was only able to install in EFI mode.