Windows 10 Preview

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cornishman

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This morning I have dug out an old hard drive and installed the Microsoft Windows 10 Preview.
My first impressions were wow! what an improvement over 8! The computer hardware I installed onto is about six months old, and the installation had no trouble at all in finding and automatically installing all the hardware.

Back is the start button, but I am most impressed by the trouble they have obviously gone to in making the interface and controls as easy to understand and clear.

Because Windows 8 was such a cluster thingy I refused to recommend it to anybody, advising my customers to stay with 7, and I realise that between now and when 10 is released there will probably be many, many changes to a lot of what I have got on the preview version I will almost definitely recommend it (10) as the upgrade path of choice.

I will post again when I have had a chance to use it more and tried installing and running more 3rd party software.
 
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When will it hit the shops? I only ask as my old PC is still on XP - the one I use is different as it is Apple iMac - and it might be time to upgrade!

Although I may need some newer hardware - would not say its old but the PC still has a built in floppy drive! Is there a museum for old PCs anywhere?:D:21::D:21::D:21:
 
barmpot said:
Is there a museum for old PCs anywhere?
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I wouldn't be surprised if there were a few old PCs in the Smithsonian. Every time I've walked through the business machines section, seeing the ones that I used until the advent of PCs makes me feel ancient. Floppy drives are about as old as the newest business machines that were there the last time I visited, in the late 90s.

Marianna
 
I have just ordered it from Microsoft for my ageing Amstrad, they are sending it to me on 1670 Floppies
 
maltrab said:
I have just ordered it from Microsoft for my ageing Amstrad, they are sending it to me on 1670 Floppies
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And it'll be sod's law that you get to floppy 1669 and it'll say "Can't Read From Media - please reboot and try again!"

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Geez, up to W 10 already!! We have somewhere around 8 computers
all running XP SP3, and most still with diskette drives as well. Can't
imagine either trying to upgrade all these to 10, or replacing
all of them with new machines. Just hope we can leave well
enough alone?? I'm way too old for this much change.
 
cornishman said:
Because Windows 8 was such a cluster thingy I refused to recommend it to anybody, advising my customers to stay with 7, and I realise that between now and when 10 is released there will probably be many, many changes to a lot of what I have got on the preview version I will almost definitely recommend it (10) as the upgrade path of choice.
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Thanks Tony. I agree with you about Windows 7 being easy to use. I thought XP was great, but 7 has been excellent. I look forward to seeing what 10 has to offer.
 
cornishman said:
This morning I have dug out an old hard drive and installed the Microsoft Windows 10 Preview. ... I will post again when I have had a chance to use it more and tried installing and running more 3rd party software.
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Are you still inclined to recommend Windows 10 now that it's apparently close to becoming generally available? I have invitations on both my desktop and my tablet to reserve a free upgrade from version 7 to download automatically as soon as it is available, for installation at my convenience. I haven't accepted either invitation yet, as I've been fully occupied with the home remodeling project.

A friend is planning to shop for a Windows tablet w/detachable keyboard later this week, and was wondering if she might better wait for version 10 to go live in order to avoid version 8, however briefly.

Marianna
 
index4u said:
Are you still inclined to recommend Windows 10 now that it's apparently close to becoming generally available? I have invitations on both my desktop and my tablet to reserve a free upgrade from version 7 to download automatically as soon as it is available, for installation at my convenience.
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Having had a few months to 'play' with it I am more convinced than ever that I would highly recommend it.
 
I agree with Tony,I to have been running the trail of Windows 10, I loaded it on a ageing laptop running vista,when booting from vista with a standard hard drive it took over 2 minutes before the laptop was usable,I put windows 10 on a SSD drive which took about 15 minutes,then the machine booted and was usable in 30 seconds,this was on a machine with only 2gig of ram and a old CPU.

On my current machine I use at home,boot time was around 10 seconds which is about 5 seconds quicker than when running 8.1 and it seems gone are the days of spending up to an hour installing the operating system, with 10 it is around 15 minutes and you have a working machine

July 29th is the release date for 10, just bear in mind if you do the install as an update you cannot revert back to your previous version
 
As an aside there has just been an article on Sky News about a lady who took three baskets of junk computer items to a business that stores/sells all sorts of computer kit from all eras . Secreted in the boxes was an Apple 1 computer of which only 80 were manufactured . The guy who owns the store has " realised the asset" for $200,000 and is trying to find the lady to give her a share which you think is a generous gesture however, at the end of the article a figure of $100,000 was mentioned as the windfall the woman would receive . What a charlatan taking effectively 50% of the proceeds from the sale for basically spotting the computer and immediately selling it , disgraceful!!
 
For those who may use it, Windows Media Center (not Media Player) will go away with Windows 10. Media Center is available in Win 7 Pro and Win 8 Pro and among other things allows a user to schedule and record broadcast TV. If you use this function in Media Center (I do), you may want to consider the options available to you.
 
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