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Microsoft breezes past Windows 8 fiasco, skips to Windows 10
« on: October 01, 2014, 01:56:33 pm »
Windows 10 will appear similar to what’s found in Windows 7, but tiles opening to the side will resemble what’s found in Windows 8.

Many people with pissed at Windows 8 focus on touchscreen tiles. Once again M.S. managed to disregard their core business P.C. user in favour of a trend and are now backtracking, although with tiptoes. 



http://www.theglobeandmail.com/technology/tech-news/microsoft-skips-a-number-to-unveil-windows-10/article20858320/

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Re: Microsoft breezes past Windows 8 fiasco, skips to Windows 10
« Reply #1 on: October 01, 2014, 02:23:48 pm »
Awesome!
So, maybe once my 2 month old laptop finally stops doing updates every time it's booted up I can switch to 10 & begin again.
/hatewin8
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Re: Microsoft breezes past Windows 8 fiasco, skips to Windows 10
« Reply #2 on: October 01, 2014, 03:18:14 pm »
I have still not got over how awe-inspiringly difficult and stupid shutting off a Windows 8 PC was initially.

Assume that was fixed by now, but it really shook my faith in how competent these people are.
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Re: Microsoft breezes past Windows 8 fiasco, skips to Windows 10
« Reply #3 on: October 01, 2014, 04:54:56 pm »
START me up.  ;)
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Re: Microsoft breezes past Windows 8 fiasco, skips to Windows 10
« Reply #4 on: October 01, 2014, 04:56:22 pm »
I am downloading the "technical preview" right now and after I have made a backup and a recovery USB of my 8.1 laptop I will try it...probably tomorrow.  The laptop has touch and is a 2014 Lenovo so it should be as smooth as it can be....ie not very smooth. But I bet it will be easier than the  OS/2  V2 or Windows NT first install...
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Re: Microsoft breezes past Windows 8 fiasco, skips to Windows 10
« Reply #5 on: October 01, 2014, 06:29:16 pm »
LOL shutting down windows 8 is a 4 step process so dumb.

Lucky for me my Acer laptop has a custom button on the task bar so its one click.
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Re: Microsoft breezes past Windows 8 fiasco, skips to Windows 10
« Reply #6 on: October 01, 2014, 06:51:15 pm »
I don't know how this is even as good as Windows 8.1 with the free Classic Shell program (which makes it entirely familiar to Windows 7 users and easy to shut down etc. - highly recommended). It certainly looks worse from that pic.

Looking forward to hearing your feedback, tpl. 
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Re: Microsoft breezes past Windows 8 fiasco, skips to Windows 10
« Reply #7 on: October 01, 2014, 08:02:02 pm »
Quote from: tpl on October 01, 2014, 04:56:22 pm
I am downloading the "technical preview" right now and after I have made a backup and a recovery USB of my 8.1 laptop I will try it...probably tomorrow.  The laptop has touch and is a 2014 Lenovo so it should be as smooth as it can be....ie not very smooth. But I bet it will be easier than the  OS/2  V2 or Windows NT first install...



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Re: Microsoft breezes past Windows 8 fiasco, skips to Windows 10
« Reply #8 on: October 01, 2014, 08:44:51 pm »
Well Sir O   I'd say OS/2 V2 was FAR worse than NT.     At least NT would load and run on a standard Compaq with no non-Compaq hardware   but OS/2 with its 20 floppies was just random even on a genuine IBM Microchannel machine and of course in those days it was before CD drives were common ( and even if you had one 99.99% of bios would not boot from CD) took all morning for each try.

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Re: Microsoft breezes past Windows 8 fiasco, skips to Windows 10
« Reply #9 on: October 01, 2014, 10:02:44 pm »
Quote from: tpl on October 01, 2014, 08:44:51 pm
Well Sir O   I'd say OS/2 V2 was FAR worse than NT.     At least NT would load and run on a standard Compaq with no non-Compaq hardware   but OS/2 with its 20 floppies was just random even on a genuine IBM Microchannel machine and of course in those days it was before CD drives were common ( and even if you had one 99.99% of bios would not boot from CD) took all morning for each try.

I never had to use OS/2. Our operator stations at the time were primarily DOS, then WinNT. IIRC we had a few systems that ran on some version of Unix, but I forget now. One of the soft PLCs we used ran on QNIX, which actually worked pretty well given the small OS footprint.

I'm mostly a paper pusher now. It was more interesting then.
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Re: Microsoft breezes past Windows 8 fiasco, skips to Windows 10
« Reply #10 on: October 02, 2014, 10:14:17 am »
I still have OS/2 2.0 around on 20+ diskettes if anyone wants to install it.  I found OS/2 more stable than Windows NT.   We were running on IBM hardware at the time.  Installing and configuring OS/2 with Communications Manager over a token-ring network with a response file was easy.  OS/2 was even used in ATM machines at one time. 

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Re: Microsoft breezes past Windows 8 fiasco, skips to Windows 10
« Reply #11 on: October 02, 2014, 10:49:17 am »
Windows 10 looks like windows 8 with a start button...
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Re: Microsoft breezes past Windows 8 fiasco, skips to Windows 10
« Reply #12 on: October 02, 2014, 11:19:08 am »
Quote from: wing on October 02, 2014, 10:49:17 am
Windows 10 looks like windows 8 with a start button...

Well maybe - but Malibu Stacy got a new hat, and that seemed to spur sales...

Quite happy with my Latitude laptop with Windows 7, had absolutely no reason to "upgrade" to 8.  But is there some reason they skipped Windows 9?  Did 8.1 count as 9, or am I missing something?
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Re: Microsoft breezes past Windows 8 fiasco, skips to Windows 10
« Reply #13 on: October 02, 2014, 11:35:39 am »
I like the design, titles in the start menu are a great idea as well.....why didn't Microsoft deliver this back in 2012 is beyond me though.
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Re: Microsoft breezes past Windows 8 fiasco, skips to Windows 10
« Reply #14 on: October 02, 2014, 11:43:41 am »
Quote from: dr_spock on October 02, 2014, 10:14:17 am
I still have OS/2 2.0 around on 20+ diskettes if anyone wants to install it.  I found OS/2 more stable than Windows NT.   We were running on IBM hardware at the time.  Installing and configuring OS/2 with Communications Manager over a token-ring network with a response file was easy.  OS/2 was even used in ATM machines at one time.
I doubt that OS/2 would even run on a modern PC and...who still has a floppy drive?
 I was doing it on an Ethernet based Novell network with the only IBM hardware being the microchannel workstation I was installing on.    I don't think we ever got os/2 V 2 stable   although later some people got WARP to run properly but by then NT ran well and was morphing into Windows 2000 Server which was a good product.
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Re: Microsoft breezes past Windows 8 fiasco, skips to Windows 10
« Reply #15 on: October 02, 2014, 12:03:09 pm »
I now have Windows 10 on my laptop.
Took 2 tries, 1st one it failed near the end for no reason  but it properly restored Windows 8.1.
Soooo I tried again but with ethernet connected not wifi (just because) and it installed fine.  Immediately went to Windows update and it already had an update waiting.  Right now it is doing the restart after update and I am waiting so see if it works after that!  Certainly the update process is very slow compared to W7 or W8

So I'd say it acts like a service pack so far rather than a brand new OS...but I suppose at this point that is what it is.
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Re: Microsoft breezes past Windows 8 fiasco, skips to Windows 10
« Reply #16 on: October 02, 2014, 02:53:29 pm »
All the apps I had on the machine are still there and working with their data. The wifi works ok.  I downloaded a month of Office 365 and it downloaded ok and worked AFTER I found the programs. They did not properly attach to Start on 10 as they did on 8.1.
So I'll use it a bit but I don't think I'll give up on my W7 workhorse for a while yet.

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Re: Microsoft breezes past Windows 8 fiasco, skips to Windows 10
« Reply #17 on: October 02, 2014, 02:57:24 pm »
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Re: Microsoft breezes past Windows 8 fiasco, skips to Windows 10
« Reply #18 on: October 02, 2014, 05:06:08 pm »
Why is it called Windows 10? Did they intend to release it in 2010?
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Re: Microsoft breezes past Windows 8 fiasco, skips to Windows 10
« Reply #19 on: October 02, 2014, 05:12:46 pm »
Quote from: erich on October 02, 2014, 05:06:08 pm
Why is it called Windows 10? Did they intend to release it in 2010?

why is iOS8 called iOS8, did they intend to release in 2008?

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