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I must say that on my system installed on a mechanical hard drive (and a fairly slow one at that) that this is the fastest Windows version so far. No issues so far and very quick!
Old puter - still good enuff till I save some pennies!
Yes. I'm dual booting with Windows 8.1.
Both versions downloaded, and will be installed on multiple machines, from absolute bare minimum specs up to middle of the road - won't go on my main machine until it goes gold. My biggest concern at this point is drivers. Generic drivers won't yield anything but generic results, at best...
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Out on the road today I saw a Black Flag Sticker on a Cadillac...
Installed non-enterprise Win 10 TP x64 over the top of Win 8.1.1 x64 and got two BSOD's (Bug Check 0x8e: KERNEL_MODE_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED) before it restored Win 8.1.1 x64 back.
Couldn't find the dump files, but after booting back into the restored Win 8.1.1 x64, I tried the Win 10 TP again and noticed that it was sending up data to a URL containing "watson", so I assume that was the dump information.
I had several pieces of software which had drivers installed, so I'm guessing one of them was not compatible with Win 10.
No, I haven't. I've thought about it, but not yet decided whether to or not, and haven't had the time anyway.
I'll probably, first, wait to see what the concensus of opinion is, and second, wait until MUCH later in the cycle to see if my minimum expectations appear to have been met. If it appears they haven't, then there's no point me installing any preview, because I won't be installing the release version. There's only any point in bothering if my minimum criteria seem to gave been satisfied, in which case, I'll take a more thorough look.
So, in short, no, not yet. And might not.
Not after reading this:- http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/...our-every-move
Installed in VirtualBox just to check if Microsoft finally updated the 95 era dialogue boxes. It didn't, so I commented about that (something I've done for the past few Windows testings).
It's a technical preview of course it will be snoopingOriginally Posted by iworrall
Old puter - still good enuff till I save some pennies!
Nah, not feeling it TBH.
I jumped on the pre-release versions of Vista, Win 7 and Win 8, but I'm tiring of this crap now.
Seriously, this is an OS, not CoD or Fifa.
I was going to until it said recommended for second PC. I've only got one PC (running w8.1) and I've got it set up in a way I really like, so I think I'll just wait til April
I've never understood why people not involved in hardware, or software development feel the need to install alphas & betas.
Sure it's fun to take a look, but most pre-release stuff is so different from the final product to make previews fairly worthless aside for development purposes.
You can turn it off...
Pleiades (04-10-2014)
lol? Do you not understand the concept of a 'technical preview'? Of course there will be features/drivers that won't work properly. Also, your comments regarding the performance of BF4 on 8.1 are completely unfounded. Google it and you'll see that most games (including your example BF4) run ~ 10-15% better under the newer OS. You're clearly new to computers, so the URL for Google is www.google.com. They do make computers for people like you, they're called Macs...
razer121 (04-10-2014)
I don't think you should be allowed to download a Technical Preview because you don't understand what it's for and how things may break.
Using pre-release software is a good way to understand the features of the product and provide feedback about them. Pre-release is typically quite close to the release version, especially late in the cycle, where it's feature complete and the only things which are done are bug fixes.
Pleiades (04-10-2014)
Not going to both myself, 8.1 is working great and I can't see this technical preview being more stable etc.
As it is I will probably upgrade when 10 is released (free or otherwise).
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