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    News - A million people registered for the Windows 10 Technical Preview

    This is "going to be a different Windows" as a result of your feedback, says Microsoft.
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    Re: News - A million people registered for the Windows 10 Technical Preview

    Long as my Asus ROG theme works on it I'll be happy enough to give it a go even with that start menu. I'm still not convinced bout the tiles :-/

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    Re: News - A million people registered for the Windows 10 Technical Preview

    Quote Originally Posted by Plasmastorm View Post
    Long as my Asus ROG theme works on it I'll be happy enough to give it a go even with that start menu. I'm still not convinced bout the tiles :-/
    me either, tiles just look bad.. though i iirc i did winge about vista/7 looks too

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    Re: News - A million people registered for the Windows 10 Technical Preview

    Looking pretty good to be honest, only problem I've found so far is the wireless driver doesn't work after waking from sleep and the aircard driver is from Win 7 days and looks ancient
    Old puter - still good enuff till I save some pennies!

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    Re: News - A million people registered for the Windows 10 Technical Preview

    After about a week of exploring it I, who disliked much of Windows8-and yes I tried it for about 3 months before dumping it- think there may be real possibilities of a general acceptance of Windows10 as it develops over the next 6 months. However Microsoft would do well to think about easing its entry by means of subsidised or free versions when it launches

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    Re: News - A million people registered for the Windows 10 Technical Preview

    I've signed up but not bothered to install it yet. It's missing too many features for now; mostly all of the touch friendly bits (gestures mostly) that are needed when you are not using a kb/mouse.

    The good news is that it looks as though you can disable the new (old) start menu and stick with the start screen instead, so that is encouraging. I'll await a touch friendly build before giving it a try though

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    Re: News - A million people registered for the Windows 10 Technical Preview

    Does appear (as usual) that Win 10 is what Win 8 *should* have been from the start...
    Old puter - still good enuff till I save some pennies!

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    Re: News - A million people registered for the Windows 10 Technical Preview

    Quote Originally Posted by 3dcandy View Post
    Does appear (as usual) that Win 10 is what Win 8 *should* have been from the start...
    I still don't understand how they released Win 8 without the "touch/desktop switch mode" which is in Win 10.
    It was about harmonizing tablet and workstation...
    Probably a failure from the marketing team.

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    Re: News - A million people registered for the Windows 10 Technical Preview

    Quote Originally Posted by R4P70R View Post
    I still don't understand how they released Win 8 without the "touch/desktop switch mode" which is in Win 10.
    It was about harmonizing tablet and workstation...
    Probably a failure from the marketing team.
    One word, hubris.

    More than one word, they thought they could do a Steve Job's and tell their customers what they want.
    The option to restore the start menu was in the pre-release Windows 8 version but Microsoft removed that feature even though people said they shouldn't.

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    Re: News - A million people registered for the Windows 10 Technical Preview

    This is "going to be a different Windows"
    Microsoft in new-version-is-different-to-old-version shocker.

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    Re: News - A million people registered for the Windows 10 Technical Preview

    well tbh i`ve just installed windows 8 that i bout months ago and am pretty much enjoying it bearing in mind that ive been an avid windows 7 user. change is the biggest concern to users of windows and i think they should embrace windows 8 or 8.1 and come to terms with the future of Microsoft because as we know Microsoft is the future. let all these people who say they don't like windows 8.1 or windows 10 try out the mac equivalent\ i`m sure they'll come running back to Microsoft within a matter of days.

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    Re: News - A million people registered for the Windows 10 Technical Preview

    Quote Originally Posted by allofus6 View Post
    well tbh i`ve just installed windows 8 that i bout months ago and am pretty much enjoying it bearing in mind that ive been an avid windows 7 user. change is the biggest concern to users of windows and i think they should embrace windows 8 or 8.1 and come to terms with the future of Microsoft because as we know Microsoft is the future. let all these people who say they don't like windows 8.1 or windows 10 try out the mac equivalent\ i`m sure they'll come running back to Microsoft within a matter of days.
    Embrace what specifically of 8.x? If it's kernel improvements, then most certainly. From a stock UX perspective, it's not an improvement for people who have decades old workflow habits, as well as how some administrative tools have been removed in the process. I personally use 8.1 happily solely due to the fact I can restore removed/gimped features from older OS iterations, but if that wasn't possible then not even the decent performance/stability improvements would've encouraged me enough to move to 8.x, as I have no intentions to change the way I use a Microsoft OS.

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    Re: News - A million people registered for the Windows 10 Technical Preview

    Weren't most of the kernel improvements aimed at making Windows run better on mobile devices though ?
    I'm not sure how a tickless kernel, Connected Standby, sandboxing MUI apps, and a few improvements in security are a benefit to your average desktop user.

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    Re: News - A million people registered for the Windows 10 Technical Preview

    Considering there is better resourcement, more UI fluidity, a better CPU scheduler, improved DX performance (while some find it controversial, numbers speak for themselves), and improved storage subsystem performance, I would say there are plenty of technical advantages for desktop users. But yes, I agree that the original device target goes through mobile devices rather than stationary ones. Yet, the stock UX is, IMHO, horrendous, but thankfully it can be tweaked back into working shape.

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    Re: News - A million people registered for the Windows 10 Technical Preview

    Wouldn't happen to have any links that give details on 8's better management of resources, better CPU scheduler, improved DX performance, and and improved storage subsystem performance, by any chance ? Because i was under the impression that Windows 8.x used the same major kernel version number as 7, so in other words no major changes have been made, in fact Microsoft haven't released a new major version change of the NT kernel since Vista.

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    Re: News - A million people registered for the Windows 10 Technical Preview

    Pretty much all those topics I've noted are well known all over the place.
    The CPU scheduler improvement talk started with the infamous Windows 7 scheduler hotfix that was meant to drastically improve AMD's Bulldozer architecture performance (total gains ended being less than 10%), which then Windows 8 showed further improvements on AMD's module approach, while Intel gained performance on both single and multithreaded scenarios.
    About DX performance, the performance baseline is, on a worst case scenario, the same as the highest Windows 7 could provide, while current gen games like BF4 perform faster and much more stable (see, vendor-independent frame pacing and average frame rates) than on Windows 7.
    Storage subsystem performance (SATA, eSATA, USB2.0/USB3.0) has both read and writes improved, how big a change depends on hardware used, but all devices I saw reported as well as personal tests shown improvements, with the exception being Windows 8.0 (8.1 fixed that) having about 1-2% lower write performance due to a forced malware check during file operations.
    Resource management wise, Windows 8.x uses less RAM, has less running processes, improves VRAM swap as well as preemptive multitasking, a much better approach to TDRs, to name a few.

    There are many resources on the web about this topic, but here are a few I just stumbled upon:
    http://www.pcworld.com/article/252383/windows_8_preview_beats_windows_7_in_most_performance_tests.html
    http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2406668,00.asp
    http://www.tomshardware.com/news/windows-8-system-requirements-power-hardware-win8,13423.html

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