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Microsoft Announces Windows 10
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burnside13
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Sure, its a lot more compact and neater but I still those tiles are redundant. If i wanted mail I would just open outlook. If I wanted to know the weather I would find out. there's no need for all those tiles IMO
MarcoZombieCannon
Member
You can get rid of them.
No one knows, they didn't say one way or the other. It's not coming out for another year, so it's going to be awhile before you know.
TharpDaddy
Member
How do those compare to whatever OS you were using before?
AstroNut325
Member
When is MS going to announce the next Office for Mac? Need that more than Windows!
Dead Prince
Banned
burning to disc right now. not partitioning the laptop. #risktaker
LukasTaves
Member
Search seems to be worse now :/
Loved when you could search inside apps on W8, and then on 8.1 they had that search app that tried to aggregate info from everywhere (though to be fair, it ended up a bit useless because 3rd party apps never seem to bothered with it)...
But now it just takes you to a bing page, and it's showing terrible results for files on my Pc/Onedrive
Loved when you could search inside apps on W8, and then on 8.1 they had that search app that tried to aggregate info from everywhere (though to be fair, it ended up a bit useless because 3rd party apps never seem to bothered with it)...
But now it just takes you to a bing page, and it's showing terrible results for files on my Pc/Onedrive
About the same. The last test I did was a 9800 score, but my i5 was OC to 4.3 at that time. This test was at stock, so I can't 1 to 1 compare. It's still pretty close.
wondering if i should upgrade to 8 first and then get beta 10 just in case it is free for 8 users. would suck if i find out its not free for win 7 users.
I wouldn't expect it to be free for 7 users, but I would just wait till they say one way or the other. You'll have plenty of time to get 8 or whatever then.
I guess that makes sense, but how many people are gonna be using programs compatible with Windows 95/98/ME on Windows 10?
i want to get in early with 10 though. i don't want to be left behind again.
Jzero
Member
lawl, definitely won't be free for Windows 7 users.
Emperor Bohe
Member
Has anyone tried oblytile on windows 10 yet?
Why on earth are you expecting it to be free for 7 users?
soul creator
Member
Well, people still wanted a start menu from Windows 95/98/ME on Windows 10
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The Cowboy
Member
Yep, the latest version (0.9.9) was working just fine for me.
Syphon Filter
Member
How is it harder?
How so? I'm not using Windows 10, by the way.
Damn lazy Java developers. OpenJDK is choke full of those checks. I assume many programs made in languages/runtimes other than C/C++/C# perform such checks, since they use cross-platform means of reading the OS version (which usually returns a string with the full OS name).
It's the other way around: some programs are performing that check so they will refuse to run on Windows 95/98/ME.
Anton Sugar
Member
That's...kind of the point of the tile. It tells you without requiring you to go into an app. You are literally "finding out" by looking.
Same for email. Mail tile lets you know if there is any new mail and provides a preview.
LukasTaves
Member
Not sure I like the new touch keyboard. It gives many many suggestions, which is nice, but at the expense of the space bar height, which I find a bit more likely to misstouch now... But I guess it's a matter of adapting.
Wouldn't surprise me. Crap like this is why they stopped iterating the major version number in the kernel. (Windows 10 is version 6.4).
Jzero
Member
You can do both.
How do you do the upgrade path?
Oh, so it's actually newer programs that are using this code? Must have been before Windows 7 was announced or they would have seen it coming.
Liquid_Bike
Member
If I download the iso can I install it on an extra hard drive and then boot from there afterwards or do I have to go the usb/disc route and install that way?
It's not right there like when I open the start screen, I have to go looking around for it. Also it doesn't even add stuff to the menu, So i have use search anyway to find stuff I just installed. The start screen doesn't add stuff auto either, but at least there's a button that shows everything I've installed.
Same here. Gonna try it on my desktop via VM (gotta enable it through Programs and Features + Bios first).
checkeredknight
Member
I'm still on Windows 7 but am liking the look of 10. If I can upgrade without having to re-install everything, I might do it.
Bornstellar
Member
Worth joining the preview?
smokeandmirrors
Banned
well i'll be damned
BrokenIcarus
Member
That's hilarious!
Dead Prince
Banned
ugh. my CD drive keeps failing and can't install it.
Quite a lot?
There are many old programs that are great at whatever they are doing. For me it'd be a lot of old games.