Windows 10: Windows 10 Review – Windows 7 Reimagined

That isn't what I'm talking about, Jim. This has to do with patches to Build 9879, not the January update.

 

Are you saying those issues have been rectified in Windows 10? My point is that you have to kick the tires on this OS before you can judge it. You really can't get a full feel for it until you do. IMO.

 

Reading on the Internet is a far cry from installing and using Windows 10.

I'd suggest that before offering up your review, you actually try the OS first. Actually, that how I decided most of my purchase I make online buy reading comments and views from others. Including this computer I am using. However, I did try windows 10 tech preview and I glad I stopped testing it, I have my reasons. End users are not suppose test windows 10 but Microsoft is not forbidding them for doing so.

ARC1020 does have some valid points.
Why aren't end users supposed to test Win10?? The entire purpose of the TP was to get feedback from the end users.

 

Edited so people will stop quoting what I worded incorrectly and think that I am being rude. I never meant to appear rude at any time. I just worded my post wrong. See post 22 for an explanation.

 

The average user should be allowed to test the TP just as much as the "expert" is. You seem to be coming off as a bit elitist, IMO.

 

*Mad I am nothing like an elitist. Now don't put words into my mouth. I am just pointing out what Microsoft said not what I said. I don't give a hoot who tries Windows 10 preview. There would be no need for a consumer preview if consumers are already testing windows 10 just my opinion.

 

*Mad I am nothing like an elitist. Now don't put word into my mouth. I am just pointing out what Microsoft said not what I said. I don't give a hoot who tries Windows 10 preview. There would be no need for a consumer preview if consumers are already testing windows 10 just my opinion. Sorry, but you said that the:

All MS said was that the tester needed experience when testing the TP. That's far from what you stated above. The need for the Consumer Preview is to provide a more stable version of the TP.

 

I am nothing like an elitist. Now don't put word into my mouth. I am just pointing out what Microsoft said not what I said. I don't give a hoot who tries Windows 10 preview. There would be no need for a consumer preview if consumers are already testing windows 10 just my opinion. Sorry, but you said that the:

All MS said was that the tester needed experience when testing the TP. That's far from what you stated above. The need for the Consumer Preview is to provide a more stable version of the TP. Ok, I worded it wrong Sorry. When I post stuff, I base it on what Microsoft says or My opinion or what I read on web sites. I call an end user a consumer. When windows 10 preview first came a lot of tech sites say Windows 10 Preview is not for the average user-I am not saying that they are. That in bold is basically what I was trying to say.

Sample right here. I am not saying I agree with it.

Why The Windows 10 Technical Preview Should Not Be Your Main OS

 

What are you talking about? Who are you to tell us who's supposed to try Windows 10 and who's not? Are you saying that we're not qualified to test Windows 10? Just how would you happen to know that!?!? I would hazard a guess that everyone in the Windows 10 Forums is a PC expert. Not only that, but I know for a fact that there are a number of IT Pros in here as well!

I, and probably every other member of these forums, qualify on very bullet in the listing below. As far as the last bullet goes, I use this computer every day so that I can give Windows a good going over. However, it isn't my "everyday" machine. So, who are you to accuse us of wrongdoing just because you, by your own statement, broke the rules!?

If this isn't a consumer TP, how do you explain that I was able to download the consumer version of Windows 10? I help senior citizens with the consumer version of Windows, so why shouldn't I be able to use the consumer version?

Huh? Looking down on us now? So, you know exactly what we should want? Do you even know what you're saying?

Don't you realize that Windows 10 was built for the "Average Janes and Joes"? It wasn't built for the PC expert or the IT Pro or even the Enterprise. It is very important that Microsoft get feedback from those for whom Windows 10 was built, for goodness sake!

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And now, we come to the nitty gritty of the matter. The above list is a guideline, not a strict requirement for the Windows 10 tester.

We, the testers of the Windows 10 Technical Preview, need to know what we're getting into if we want to test. We're even told what might happen to our systems if we choose to put Windows 10 on our everyday computers.

Oh, and by the way, Microsoft doesn't waffle on Terms and Conditions.

 

Wynona, you quoted a thread I corrected in a follow up post. See post #22


Just for the record, I am not telling anyone to or not to test the windows 10 preview. That is each person choice. I believe in freedom of choice. What I was trying to pass on is what Microsoft said or what a tech article said, not me saying it. I was just pointing out what the articles says that is all. See I even took the articles literally myself as not to test it. I waited awhile but went ahead and risked it for awhile and tested 10 out. It all how you interpret the articles. I also don't look down at people either. Due to my out of box thinking I interpreted articles incorrectly and Microsoft incorrectly.

 

Hmmmmmmmmmm!, wonder why your text is so large. . .*Huh. . ., and by the why leave us average users alone we actually know more about computers then some folks think. . .*Wink.

 

Hi there

IMO just to add gasoline to the flames already burning around here - I think usually the I.T pros are often the LEAST qualified to try the consumer previews -- most PRO I.T guys have a strictly limited controlled set of (usually older) hardware to use and also the range of applications is very limited - especially in a Workplace.

For REAL testing actual users are the best --people who are likely to load all sorts of unimagineable leading edge hardware on a machine, download zillions of dubious torrents, run every conceivable application, and take no precautions while finding ever more new ways of breaking a machine.

THESE are the BEST testers -- people who are more likely to break something.

Cheers
jimbo

 

*Ditto

 

@groze, by linking to MS and they're statement that Win10TP should not be your primary OS doesn't support your statement one bit, IMO. It like the other one you posted are recommendations by MS, nothing more and nothing less. I for one use Win10TP(9879) for days on end without any issues, so far, and I like it.

There is a vast difference between a recommendation and a rule. And if MS didfn't want "average Janes or Joe's" to test it they wouldn't have made it so easy to join the insider program in the first place. Everyones input to MS is needed to make Win10 a success. IMO