When Coca-cola returned to Coke Classic, it was NOT the same as the old Coke. They claimed it was, but it had a slightly different taste and fizz.
Win10 — unless it will run old DOS and XP programs — will NOT be ‘the same as ...’
Win10 supposedly drops IE and Windows Media Center. I have hardware and software that needs one of those. I have to assume that hardware and those software programs would be dead under Win10. Of course, they are old enough that there will probably not be comparable replacements.
I have lost too many software programs and hardware because of new Windows releases. Too bad they dropped the ‘backward compatible’ concept.
Windows 10 will still have IE 11 installed. The default browser at first launch will be the new codename Spartan or Edge browser, but the old one is still available... otherwise no corporate customers would buy the OS.
If you need dos or xp..just run a vm...
you have Virtualbox and VMWare Played for free...
Win 10 pro will have Hyper V built in
bottom line ..to run older or different OS app on the same machine...everyone is gone to using VM...Virtual machines running the old os ...running on the real machines running a different OS
It will never be the same until they replace corn syrup with cane sugar.
RE: Win10 — unless it will run old DOS and XP programs — will NOT be ‘the same as ...
Why do you still want to use DOS? There is a better tool and command screen -— POWERSHELL.
Use that instead it has all the things DOS has and many more by a humongous factor.