Microsoft Announces Windows 10 Operating System

[stinger608]

I don't think you used very many of those OSes.
The only real POS on the list is ME. The best OSes in that time were 98 and 2000.
Win 95 was miles better than 3.11 spent much time on the solitaire and minesweeper. LOL
Vista was fine. The problem was people were trying to run it with 5-6 year old hardware/peripherals.
With a modern machine, it was fine. I've talked to countless people who talk/talked badly about vista and never even used it.....
Win 7 is like vista light.
Win 8, not the best for a desktop OS(managing wireless connections should not take up half the screen.......)

Um, pardon me, but I not only have used all of them many times, I currently own all of the os's clear back to 2.0.
Saying that "Win 95 was miles better than 3.11" would of course be your opinion just as my original post was my opinion.
Don't appear to be condescending by telling me that I didn't use "very many of the OSes."

Hell, I can be just as condescending and explain that I was writing programs well before Windows was even invented. Sorry, but I was messing around with computers in the latter part of the 80's which I have to suppose you didn't even fool around with systems if you were even old enough to.

 

[Katanai]

Are you working for this company? No? Didnt think so.

Have you ever downloaded any non RTM alpha/beta builds of previous MS OS's? Yes? Well guess what, you beta tested and didnt get paid for it then either.

Have you ever gotten into a game beta? Were you paid for it? No? Then take a wild guess what?

"Are you working for this company?"

No and I don't understand why that is relevant.

"Have you ever downloaded any non RTM alpha/beta builds of previous MS OS's?"

No, as a matter of fact I never downloaded any RTM builds either. I wait for SP1 to be released.

"Have you ever gotten into a game beta?"

No and I don't understand the people who do that. Games are meant to be fun not a chore.

"Were you paid for it?"

No but I know people who work for Ubisoft as testers and they are being paid for it. Shit money but still money.

Any more questions?

 

[Scrizz]

Um, pardon me, ....
Don't appear to be condescending by telling me that I didn't use "very many of the OSes."......

My apologies good sir.

 

[AlienIsGOD]

I think I may actually do this! I just have to decide what computer to sacrifice.

Installed on my windows 7 rig 3570K rig did the same with win7 when it was in preview

 

[remixedcat]

I'm gonna try to install on my Dell Insipron 6000/Intel Centrino 1.3Ghz/512MB DDR RAM/60GB HDD/Intel GMA 945/Intel Pro 2200BG

 

[Scrizz]

IMHO it's how 8 should've been from the beginning.

 

[Mussels]

random as hell system number. using hyper-V to run a virtual machine on this biatch.

I know: maybe seven ate nine.

Damn, and here i was thinking i was being original (see window name thing)

 

[remixedcat]

mines a dell and now rollininthedeeeeeeep!!!!! he he

 

[AsRock]

It's surprising how some talk about the current desktop design failing. I still feel keyboard and mouse is superior to any touch screens and allows me to finish tasks way quicker. For example, try to type an entire page of text, nothing will be faster than a good keyboard that can achieve 400+ strokes per minute. I can only see that being beaten when we can control software with our mind so without input devices, or when we actually have chips in our brain that allow us to think faster. These are things reserved for a next generation so it will be a while before we see all keyboards and mice vanish from offices.

Failing i know terrible way to put it, options or lack of is what fails.

Some people like how XP was some like how 7 is and some like 8. so whats makes most sense to to do give the people all the options so everyone can be happy about that part at least.

I do wish MS would release a OS for gaming and i mean stripped with all the common and elite gamers need.

Old interface is librarian and grandmotherish, Metro is mucho better, you get a full screen to personalize your priorities, not needing to navigate start menus at all!

Now, please just give me the download link!

A note for admins, unless you use (as you should) terminals, windows is admin hell, clicking your way out and in to the settings you need!

What a load of crap, guess what young middle aged and even old people use computers you know and change is not always good and as it is now giving the option to how shit is displayed is not all that hard for them to do.

Your view is just plain ignorance.

 

[Mussels]

metro was a failure for two reasons.


1. the search was broken. try searching for 'power' to go and adjust the power settings to stop the machine going to sleep after the default 30 minutes. compare the two OS's for speed of the result, and accuracy (windows 8 metro gives you everything BUT the control panel item in its search)

2. Full screen only apps are insane. try playing a single song, then clicking the next one in the folder... yeah, its not fun.


All of this was fixed easily with third party programs like start8 or classic shell, and showed the great OS underneath - but was simply beyond the average user, which says something about the average computer literacy out there.

Hyper-V is NOT playing well with wifi for me (BSOD's! no internet to host machine! more BSOD's!) but what i've seen of the OS in its offline state is "what 8.1 should have been all along"

 

[remixedcat]

Hyper-v? and yeah not really meant for wireless... had nothing but issues with the netgear A6200

 

[Octopuss]

I might actually eventually buy this. Like, a year from now or something. I heard numerous reports about Win8 being "faster", with better resource management and similar stuff. It's just that shitty Metro and no start menu.

 

[Katanai]

Damn, and here i was thinking i was being original (see window name thing)

Hehe. Dexter was the best.

 

[ne6togadno]

I don't because everything including OS X and Linux already supports NTFS. It tooks years for NTFS to become supported in most major operating systems. If they switch it again I suspect we'll have to wait at least a year or two for a half decent driver for other OS'. Considering that NTFS is just about as quick as EXT4, I don't think MS needs to change it unless there is something about it that actually is becoming a bottleneck, but unlike FAT32, NTFS is still working just fine and hasn't hit any of its limits yet with normal workloads.
I added a couple you forgot about and made an adjustment.

there isnt really bottleneck in ntfs but data correction offered by next gen (zfs and btrfs) fs is what can shorten ntfs life. the fact that ms also is also working on similar tech is fine-spoken itslef. question is if ms push to all win versions or will keep it only for servers.
both zfs and btrfs are linux/unix based and with more and more games steamos ready (yesterday i saw borderland 2 is available in steam os too) i see even less reasons to stay with win (my laziness is huge obstacle for transition thou)

 

[hhumas]

from where i can get nvidia driver for technical preview 64 bit

 

[remixedcat]

use the win 8.1 one

 

[R-T-B]

Don't even get me start on the fact that it's still the NT kernel. I have a Windows NT 4 book where you can literally flip to almost any page and still do the same exact thing in Windows 7 as you could in NT 4 and I suspect it hasn't changed too much in 8/8.1. Microsoft fails to make much sense a lot of the time imho.

Linux is still the Linux kernel. What, were you expecting a rewrite from scratch? Only colossal fucksups (ie, the 9x series) mandate that.

Oh, and the best OS ironically in the 98ish era wasn't 98 or 2000. It was a little known OS known as IBM OS/2 Warp 4. Miles ahead but almost immediately killed upon release, because the company knew they had lost and wouldn't even preload it on their own hardware.

 

[RealNeil]

Since Wednesday,......I'm using the preview on a i5-4670K System and it's pretty good. I like how you can change it around to suit your preferences.
The only GPU I had for it is an old XFX Radeon 6870 Black. I tried to load the latest AMD drivers for it, but it kept failing the detection phase of it's installation. On Thursday, the latest BETA driver 14.2 got through the detection phase and installed.
Today, I'll load a few games to see how it does. Maybe I'll pull one of the R9-280X OC 3GB cards out of my main rig and see how it goes in this system too.

 

[Mussels]

could someone let me know how multi monitor works with the virtual desktops?

its sad when i have all the hardware to test it, but no time

 

[64K]

I'll load a few games to see how it does. Maybe I'll pull one of the R9-280X OC 3GB cards out of my main rig and see how it goes in this system too.

Please post your experience with the games when you get the time.

 

[Aquinus]

Please post your experience with the games when you get the time.

Me too, in particular with that 6870 of his. If it goes well I might give it a try to test out CFX with mine to figure out if I'm going to be using Windows 7 for another couple years.

 

[Disparia]

Linux is still the Linux kernel. What, were you expecting a rewrite from scratch? Only colossal fucksups (ie, the 9x series) mandate that.

Oh, and the best OS ironically in the 98ish era wasn't 98 or 2000. It was a little known OS known as IBM OS/2 Warp 4. Miles ahead but almost immediately killed upon release, because the company knew they had lost and wouldn't even preload it on their own hardware.

That would be BeOS for me (perhaps because I never got around to using OS/2 Warp). Owned BeOS 3, 4, and 5 Pro as I really liked the dev's philosophy on things.


As for Windows 10, I'm liking it. A super cheap upgrade price would ensure an enthusiastic upgrading of the desktops at my house.

 

[FX-GMC]

I've been waiting for multiple workspaces in windows for a long time.

 

[Hilux SSRG]

I've been waiting for multiple workspaces in windows for a long time.

This feature alone will be a price for admission for many users and it runs well in the technical preview right now.

 

[Octopuss]

Is there any Aero in Windows 10 or was it killed with 8?