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Microsoft Windows 10

Mark.J

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Anybody else going to give the new technical preview a bash? You can get it from here:

http://preview.windows.com/

http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/391036/how-to-download-and-install-windows-10-technical-preview

Except for on my hybrid tablet laptop (a Dell Venue 11 Pro, if you must know - low spec variant) I generally avoided Windows 8 and stuck with the venerable Windows 7. IMO 8 was just too much of a mish mash that kept pulling me out of the desktop environment in all sorts of unwanted and annoying ways. Worked fine on a touchscreen but for work and admin tasks I just found it too annoying for words.

Anyway it seems they missed out Win9 for both historic and PR reasons, not to mention that some rubbish coders identified Win95/98 OS's by looking for a wildcard of "Windows 9" (compatibility fail). But otherwise Windows 10 looks to be more what I want from a desktop OS and so I'm going to give it a try on my backup system and see how it goes.
 
I have windows 10 installed in a virtual machine and on a physical test PC at the moment. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ta_DkFs2Slk

It identified all the drivers needed without any hitches and actually seems to be quite fast. It's certainly more usable than windows 8, but it's very much 'too little, too late'. As W10 will be coming out next year, it seems that Windows 7 will remain the dominant OS for quite some time.

I have a tablet, an acer W700, which shipped with Windows 8, but once the warranty expired, it quickly got windows 7 put on it, which I'd argue was arguably more touch orientated; it lets me pop up a reasonable sized keyboard on text entry for a start, not just the maheesive windows 8 default one which takes a massive lump of the screen. Installing W7 on it was not easy though, the UEFi BIOS with complete non-standard menus and counter-intuitive setup made the process require rather more thinking than I'd have liked.
 
looks allot like win7 thankfully, wouldnt mind trying it myself tho lve not got a spare box to play with.. would be interesting to hear more about win10 and how usable it is compared to win7
 
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If all goes to plan, I'll try and shoot a vid showing it on the tablet this evening, but no guarantees due to my upload speed!

It's uploading, but won't be live before the early morning.
 
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Win10, with NSA and GCHQ support built in.

(The National Sheep Association are STILL getting annoyed at people trying to hack them by mistake).
 
"(The National Sheep Association are STILL getting annoyed at people trying to hack them by mistake)."
I'm surprised that some humourless jobsworth hasn't blown a fuse and asked Nominet to kill my "GCHQ" page (see sig), given all the recent fuss about fake government websites.

Not that this has anything to do with North Kensington, but never mind.
 
The history of Windows releases over the last 20 years has been consistent; every other version has been a good product, the ones in between were complete dogs. In between the very decent Windows 95, XP and 7 versions we have had the disasters that were 98, Vista and 8. Does missing out Windows 9 mean Microsoft is releasing two dogs in a row?
 
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You missed out ME, which sits between 98SE and XP.
 
I lot of people missed out ME :). Lest we not forget the venerable Windows 2000, which while admittedly more of a business product is still my favourite MS OS by far and it would have stayed that way had the cosmetic consumer looks of XP not taken all the extra support.

For me, Windows 2000 was XP without the laggy UI. In fact, though XP had a lot of life, as an operating system next to Win2000 it felt like Windows Vista did to Windows 7 (i.e. Win7 was lean and speedy, with Vista being sluggish). It's easy to forget all that now though because back then CPU power was improving so quickly that XP's launch shortcomings were quickly forgotten.
 
I kept on with Windows 2000 for quite a few years after its end of support. I think avast antivirus will still run and update on Windows 2000, or at least did so on one of my test PCs a few months ago.
 
I must admit I used ME on a number of machines and the biggest issue I had was lack of driver support; the OS itself seemed fine, and I never had any of the stability issues others reported.

My 660Mhz AMD FLEW when updating to XP from 98SE, the only time I had an issue with XP was trying to load it on some old dears Intel P133.
 
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