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Windows 8 is the best one among all I have used uptill now.
Just direct x 12
Im interested to see the final result and to see what Microsoft have learned from the win 8 launch.
I have 8.1 on my main pc but have been playing with the tech preview on my laptop, Im liking increasingly the way windows on all my devices is linking up.
For a second there I read that as the final insult...Originally Posted by Gh0sty
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Same for me. I'd like all my machines on a common O/S so the experience and features are the same no matter which one you use.
The only Windows I got excited about was Windows 2000. After reading an indepth article in some PC mag it sounded like it could the answer to me 98/Me woes. The 9x line was not a pleasant experience for me: bluescreens, random lock ups, errors and the general feeling that the OS was held together with sticky tape. Within a weekend of installing 2000 I was in love with it. It was rock solid, stable and had some extra power features. It was especially useful on a home network with folder sharing that seemed far more robust. Bar the initial Vista release I've enjoyed each iteration of the NT line since. Windows 8 came with some great features to make it worth upgrading 7 but it will always be solely judged on the removal of the start menu, which is a shame.
Am I excited about 10? Not really. Will I be upgrading my machines? Very likely. I've played with the preview and I like the fresher look that has been brought in by removing the window borders or having them extremely thin. The start menu is back and is better than ever. DX12 will be interesting (although I would think they'd have it available for Windows 8.1 machines too). With MS actually listening to their customers I think this release will hit the ground running.
I will probably get it after ½ a year or 1 year. so that all problems with it should be fixed... And DirectX 12 should come to 8.1 so, Maybe I'll just keep on using 8.1...
Just updated to the new 9926 build and first impression is: OMG! what have they done to the start menu? It's (even) more like a miniature start screen now. Have they learned nothing? I hope it's just because there's a setting I haven't found yet.
Not solely.
I'm probably one of the biggest, or at least most vocal, critucs of Win8 MUI on here, yet even I have said in the past that a lot of the less visible aspects of Win8 are actually pretty good.
Ironically, that's largely WHY I've been so vocal about MUI. The UI forces me to abandon the way I've been doing things for a very long time, using nested menu's and menu items grouped and organised how I want it, and how it still will be on systems I never will upgrade, not least 'cos hardware wouldn't take it. And, using that structure is, a bit like using a clutch and gearbox in a car, kinda muscle memory. I know what I want and it appears without really thinking about it. Until, of course, MS dumped it all to try to force MUI on us because it suited THEIR objectives.
That's what really angered me about MUI. The simple fact that several other companies came up with ways to put the old functionality back proves that MS could have too, and no doubt very easily, but simply wouldn't. If that wasn't so, they'd have given users at least the option to change a settjng and revert UI. MUI was very badly presented, not ideal for non-touch desktops and extremely badly managed, thus totally obscuring that Win8, outside of MUI, is pretty good in many regards.
For me, trying to force me to learn a completely new way to drive a car to get those benefits really, REALLY annoyed me. And, entirely unnecessarily, wrecked the Win8 launch and uptake.
And it's that mindset, the mindset that says MS expect users to fall into line with their desires, rather than them producing the product than users want, that leaves me very sceptical indeed, even cynical, about where MSs current strategic direction is. I see little or no evidence that they've changed direction, but more that they've decided to get there in more palatable baby steps.
Yeah, Win8 had things I would (and did) pay to upgrade to. But forcing me to change how I work was too big a price, and I resent needing 3rd party tools to get over MSs blind pig-headedness. What REALLY did it was cynically bringing back the 'Start button', to great fanfare, and not bringing back what it did. That was when MS truly lost me, and Win10 has yet to get me back on-board. It may or may not end up doing so, but is definitely poop-or-get-off-the-pot time for me. If Win10 is done right, for me, I'll use it. If not, my future lies with Win 7, Win8 with 3rd party utilities or Linux, but future Windows will be dead to me. Permanently.
Excited? No.
Interested? Yes.
One OS on all devices is something to look forward to and its intrigueing how a full fat desktop OS is going to fit on a device such as a smart phone with limited storage capacity.
Maybe the next Windows Lumia phone is going to be 64GB and higher. Battery life. How are they going to solve that?
In principle, I think it's an exciting OS. As someone has already said, the idea of being able to use a phone and then dock it and use it as a full PC is IMO quite exciting. Windows 10 could enable it, but in practice I'm sure it won't happen any time soon.
In practice, what would have made more more excited is a mobile UI I like better. I prefer the Android desktop, and the fact that it's possible to install alternative ones is a bonus. I have a Windows phone and a Windows tablet, and frankly I don't like the interface much. I haven't tried Windows 10 on my tablet, but I don't know what improvements it will bring to the mobile experience. I'm mainly a tablet gamer these days, playing PC-style games (current KOTOR on Android), and while I do want to make use of a Windows tablet to cut down on my PC backlog, I always gravitate back to Android, which I just find more comfortable (especially with touch-tailored games).
That said, I will probably upgrade most of my devices to 10, including Windows 7 ones.
I just tried the new build. All that good work undone.
To much crap in it, just want to load my programs and be able to run them, don't want all the Xbox crap, or Cortan, or cloud, or spyware,
just want to do my video editing, and use my 2d and 3d programs,
keep it simple.
one more point I PAID TO GET WINDOWS 8 NOW UR GIVING IT AWAY FREE, where is my compensation
windows 7 users should pay I had to
Tom G
The new build appears to have broken a large amount of AMD drivers too, including me. It's rendered my HTPC useless as I cannot get a signal over HDMI.I just tried the new build. All that good work undone.
I can get a signal on VGA to troubleshoot and it revealed the abortion of a start menu. The previous build was so good too. Shame.
Yes a lot new window come with olwaz suprises n better speed or performance. And as it coming MS office16 is also launching.
Yeah its good to try new things
All I read about when they release new versions is that they've added new stuff I don't want, and that will get in the way. I'll be sticking with W7 I imagine.
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