I've played with previous builds of Windows 10 a little, but not this new one. I think Windows 10 may turn out to be quite good. Certainly Microsoft needs a winner this time -- Windows 8 was pretty much a disaster like Vista. Which incidentally is a shame because under the hood, Win 8 is actually a perfectly fine OS. It's only the GUI that sucks for so many people.
I'll be honest -- I'm a Win 7 fan today. That could change after Win 10 comes out and I see what they've settled on.
Windows® 10 new build looks very good, but anyone who installs a CTP or Beta of any product in anything but a VM is a fool. On modern hardware you can easily run Windows® 10, a Windows® 8.1 instance with VS2015, and your own bare metal with VS2013 and your production tool-chain on the same box at the same time. With bridged adapters it looks no different -- and if you have enough memory -- performs better than three networked PC's.
Thanks for that info.
I’m an XP person myself. Loved that version - it was so easy to use.
I have 8.1 on my phone. I have 7 on an old Toshiba I restored when my even older Dell Vista-upgraded-to-8.1 died. I really miss the Dell, and the seamless transitions between phone and computer.
I went from XP to Win 7 - am now hoping my computer lasts until Win 10 is here.
While Win 8 may be a decent OS once one gets past the GUI, I helped someone set up their new Win 8 machine and it took close to 6 hours for it to acquire all the updates even with a 50 Mb/sec connection. It also experienced issues of losing the USB keyboard when switching between users - I finally told it to troubleshoot the keyboard (that came with the machine) and it said it found an issue where USB communications might be lost when switching users and it was fixing it - took over an hour before it stopped working away. Evidently it addressed each user (2 users and one admin acct) separately and it had a lot to do to keep the error from recurring.
Not huge problems, but annoying - they can't wait to see if they get a free upgrade to Win 10 when it comes out.
Here's hoping for a return to happiness with Win 10....
It’s my opinion that MS focused too much on the “mobile” GUI aspect of Win8. This made it magically sucktastic for us desktop folks.
Downloaded Win10, but haven’t taken a look at it yet. Been hard into switch upgrades.
What bs.....Windows 8 is very good. Just install a third party start button to bypass the tiles
What is the problem???? Besides the missing start button?? ANSWER: There is none!!!!!!!!!
I went from W7 to W8.1 - skipped the original W8.
I found W8.1 was MUCH better than W7 - faster and noticeably more stable.
As an aside, changing 1 setting my W8.1 boots direct to Desktop (very quickly, too) and I rarely ever visit the “tile” screen.
I’m definitely eager to read your comments on newest W10 and eventually give it a whirl on my Ultrabook.