I think its great. So many MS haters out there, it'll be to win 8 what win 7 was to Vista. Sometimes it takes a hard fall to make u realize what uve done wrong & come back with fire in ur belly....so i expect them to get everything right this time. To be honest, no matter what they did it would've been hard to replace win7, it was a great OS that nobody felt the need to upgrade from.
I already have an OS that acts like Windows 7. It is called windows 7.
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I think its great. So many MS haters out there, it'll be to win 8 what win 7 was to Vista. Sometimes it takes a hard fall to make u realize what uve done wrong & come back with fire in ur belly....so i expect them to get everything right this time. To be honest, no matter what they did it would've been hard to replace win7, it was a great OS that nobody felt the need to upgrade from.
For me, win 8.1 with Start button (from Stardock, only $5) is a more efficient OS & i felt it was worth it (only 8.1, stayed away from 8). But thats me. $120 for software i use every second my system is on isn't much money. Heck i paid $100 for BF4 & BF4 Premium!
there really was nothing wrong with Vista
I used it from day one, had 1 printer driver that didn't like it so I got a new printer.
Clearly that is reasonable...
No there was, I have even used it.
Yes once SP2 and it even got better with SP1 but the first 6months was a horror show.
Bad drivers, install on low system requirements it was not good. Win 7 was better on that hardware than Vista was.
I am ok with the way 10 is going, it will tailor itself to what device you have, for example the desktop, it will boot directly to it, have start menu.
for a touch tablet, you will have only the touch metro interface as you should.
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The old Vista argument which I'm an expert on since I purchased it from day one on release,main issues were lazy companies taking ages to release drivers for Vista,the hardware company in question is responsible for drivers not Microsoft and that goes for any OS.
Also OEM companies shipping their PCs etc below Vista's minimum recommended specs did not help,FUD created etc and there was a lot of that.
I used Vista for good two years including beta games testing for PC game companies,I had no major issues.
I was lucky I had drivers for Vista on day one mainly due to companies of my hardware getting drivers out fast unlike other companies I could mention.
UAC nagging a lot users moaned about with Vista which was toned down on Win7,infact only two things stick out for me on Win7 ie less UAC nagging and some speed increase in the OS,but then we also had faster newer hardware as well.
Win7 had the luxury of two years further refinement over Vista and also had Vista drivers as backup unlike Vista which had no backup on drivers being a new redesigned OS,remember Win7 is based on Vista so that says a lot.
Win7 in many way is Vista SP3 IMHO and I used Win7 from day one until Win8 was released.
You can obviously argue any OS is not at its peak on release but then that goes for XP,Vista,Win7,Win8,Win10 etc so nothing new there,service packs ,updates are there for a reason on every OS.
Maybe this Windows 10 preview won't BSOD on me, like my current Win8 64-bit upgraded to Win8.1 64-bit. (Lenovo i3 w/7790 1GB card).
i wasn't going to get windows 8, windows 9 amd i am not going to get windows 10 too. will stick with windows 7 and windows xp for quite a bit longer. actually i just bought a new copy of windows xp for a spare drive i own. retired my ubuntu computers as well because it was hardly used.
Anyone concerned about loss of privacy, the video stated that when you search from the Start menu, it searches the web too. Which means, your search provider (MS Bing?) gets your filenames too. Not too happy about that.
No idea to be honest.I am going to do that this morning. Does anyone know if Win 10 Enterprise preview will install ok on VMWare Player?
It was a bit slow getting through the login process and the form but it started to work after a while. The download was very fast, we have a great connection here. I will try to install it on VMWare player soon and report back!
Anyone concerned about loss of privacy, the video stated that when you search from the Start menu, it searches the web too. Which means, your search provider (MS Bing?) gets your filenames too. Not too happy about that.