Windows 10 Preview

[kingstonflyer]

Two letters,the second one 'P' thee finest OS ever invented,glad to be of a generation that started it all,I wonder if windows 40 will have a midlife crisis lol,buy its self a fancy sport car because it be to AI for its own good

 

[Zorronov]

I built a new rig last week...first one in 9 years...and have spent the last few days discovering all of the things that worked in Windows XP but not in Windows 8.1. I don't like the app screen nonsense either. Come on...its a desktop computer not a mobile device. I don't mind replacing something old with the new if the replacement is an improvement. Windows 10? As long as the people who are making our decisions for us think they can get more money by making something different, it doesn't have to be better.

Cheers,
Fred

P.S. For those of you who are interested in this kind of stuff, the specs are:

Intel i7-4790K CPU (overclocked to 4.7 GHz)
Asus Z97-AR motherboard
32 GB RAM
2 X Asus Nvidia GTX760 Vid cards in SLI mode
Corsair H75 liquid cooler
LG Blu-ray RW
Samsung 840Evo 500 GB SSD
1 TB Western Digital hard drive (for storage)
Sound Blaster ZX sound card
NZXT Phantom case

Oh...and Windows 8.1

 

[cascaderailroad]

I was joking, yes, but now that I think about it, I wouldn't put it totally past the Brew Crew to do something like that.

p.s. How about the hair on that Microsoft guy in the video? Surely that was a joke.

MS VP:

Apple VP:

 

[JCitron]

Oh that's just great. You have to know DOS to get a graphical user interface to shut down quickly. :hehe:

One of many ways of restarting a computer... I've used this after performing maintenance via batch scripts and it works in all Windows NT-type OSs with slight variations on the same command line settings.

They also exist in Linux, Solaris, and other flavors of Unix. shutdown -h now, or shutdown -i5 -t 00, and other variations on the theme.

Keep in mind that the OS is used by everyone and not just the home user. At least we have a choice, unlike some systems where everything is stuck with a GUI and mouse-click. Should the mouse die, and the keyboard works, we can still perform a graceful system shutdown in some fashion.

John

 

[Dinorius_Redundicus]

Correct I'm sure but it misses the real point of my post (the irony of it all).

 

[nicky9499]

John, whether or not the console is present is not the issue. Not everyone wants to type commands to do things. These are the people who don't have any idea what two thirds of your post is about. Yes, I know how to copy and paste files using cmd, but do I want to do it on a daily basis? No.

 

[malikrthr]

Windows 10 looks good. For now, I'm happy with Windows 7 so I'm going to use that until the support for it ends. I think there should be two versions of the new operating system. One version should be for mobile devices and that should include the tiles. Another version should be just for desktops, notebooks and netbooks and that should not include the tiles.

 

[dricketts]

I heard that T:ANE will have a tile-based interface just like Windows 8.

Hilarious!

 

[chris2001trainz2010]

....TS12, DirectX11, Windows 10, Radeon R8, iPhone 6, Halo 5, PS4, Taken 3, Xbox 1 and Call of Duty 904,273.

Wait, we went from 95, to 98, to 2000, to XP, to Vista, to 7, to 8, and now to 10? Bad enough that XBOX made the XBOX 1 the XBOX 1 insead of 720, but now we completely miss 9??? C'mon, Windows! What if kids see that? They'll be counting from 96 right to 2000 and then back to 7!

 

[watemple]

I uh...um...What happened to Windows 9?!? From 8 to 10? These guys can't count...

 

[ftldave]

I saw the Windows 10 Tech Preview running on a Dell OptiPlex 960 a couple days ago. Power button-start up-logon screen in 4 seconds. Shutdown in 2 seconds. Nice. I began to wonder if it was running on an SSD HD, but no. It had a standard run-of-the-mill 7200rpm drive. But did note that the Start menu had no Computer or Control Panel icon by default. Been said many time before, that it takes Microsoft two releases for a good OS. History shows that clearly.

 

[leo655annst]

But did note that the Start menu had no Computer or Control Panel icon by default. Been said many time before, that it takes Microsoft two releases for a good OS. History shows that clearly.

These can be easily added to the sat menu. Also if you bring up file manage there is a link to the CP.

 

[ftldave]

These can be easily added to the sat menu. Also if you bring up file manage there is a link to the CP.

But silly for Microsoft to not include such important links on the Start Menu, methinks. They better be very, very careful with Win 10 presentation, considering how Win 8 was received.

 

[NeonTheGriffon]

I've been using 10 since the day it came out as my PRIMARY OS.
I'm not afraid to live dangerously, and I'll say confidently that it's XP II.
XP is garbage in comparison, I'm sorry.

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Boot time is in the task manager window.