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[kaskade]

Man, I'm tempted to try out windows 10 but won't I have to install a fresh copy when retail comes out? Also, it's my gaming rig and I should probably wait until it's more stable so my stuff works properly.

 

[brotkasten]

Time to update.

You don't want that.

Man, I'm tempted to try out windows 10 but won't I have to install a fresh copy when retail comes out? Also, it's my gaming rig and I should probably wait until it's more stable so my stuff works properly.

I think it was confirmed that you can upgrade from the current builds all the way up to the RTM. It's not like there's going to be a "final" build, so to speak.

 

[Mr_Zombie]

You can always install it on another partition or on a virtual machine.

 

[HarryDemeanor]

Man, I'm tempted to try out windows 10 but won't I have to install a fresh copy when retail comes out? Also, it's my gaming rig and I should probably wait until it's more stable so my stuff works properly.

You're better off waiting unless you're crazy like I am.

 

[LukasTaves]

Did they provided ISOs for this build already?

I'm on a corporate network and windows update isn't finding it's way through the proxy.

 

[kaskade]

You're better off waiting unless you're crazy like I am.

I hate always wanting to be at the forefront of this stuff. I just don't want half my games to break. I'm sure if I just used word and browsed the net it would be mostly fine.

 

[HarryDemeanor]

Did they provided ISOs for this build already?

I'm on a corporate network and windows update isn't finding it's way through the proxy.

No ISOs for this build until they publish it onto the Slow ring.

 

[Steelyuhas]

Looking forward to finally having a new build, but it doesn't look like there's much new user-facing stuff in this one. No Spartan, no mention of versions of any of their new Universal Apps (other than updates to the new Photos app).

With builds supposedly coming faster now, hopefully we'll start to see some of this stuff in Insider builds in the near future.

 

[LukasTaves]

No ISOs for this build until they publish it onto the Slow ring.

Saw the blog post

Well, time to use my mobile data plan (It resets the day after tomorrow anyway XD)

 

[Poodlestrike]

The new icons are here, and we still can give feedback for changes:

http://www.neowin.net/news/microsof...n-windows-10-icons-shows-off-entirely-new-set

Oh wow, those are pretty great!

 

[StudioTan]

The new icons are here, and we still can give feedback for changes:

http://www.neowin.net/news/microsof...n-windows-10-icons-shows-off-entirely-new-set

Much better.

 

[clav]

Impressive.

 

[Whogie]

New update broke the Mail app for me. Windows Store won't reinstall it (0x80073cff). Darn.

And Places seems to still be uncustomizable. Local Documents is useless, since programs just dump save files there. I want to replace it with some Libraries.

 

[Pooya]

Those icons are passable, I wonder if they have more sets.

 

[HarryDemeanor]

New update broke the Mail app for me. Windows Store won't reinstall it (0x80073cff). Darn.

It's one of the known issues. They provide a work around in the blog post.

In this build, the Mail, Calendar, and People apps may be broken due to a licensing issue with the Store Beta. To get these apps working again, you need to follow these steps:

Open powershell as administrator
Run the command Get-appxprovisionedpackage –online | where-object {$_.packagename –like “*windowscommunicationsapps*”} | remove-appxprovisionedpackage –online
Re-install Mail, People and Calendar from the Store (green tile)

 

[Melon Husk]

I can live with those icons apart from the folders, those are still too flat. And why change "Favorites" to a zany "Quick Access" with lightning icon?

 

[Poodlestrike]

I can live with those icons apart from the folders, those are still too flat. And why change "Favorites" to a zany "Quick Access" with lightning icon?

It makes a little more sense to me, at least conceptually. My Downloads folder is a disorganized mess that I've been putting off reorganizing, so it's not my favorite, but I do need to be able to get to it quickly.

 

[Easy_D]

Apart from the aliasing (which I assume would be ironed out before the designs are finalised) they look good enough for me. At this point I'm just glad we're getting something new.

 

[Syphon Filter]

The new icons are here, and we still can give feedback for changes:

http://www.neowin.net/news/microsof...n-windows-10-icons-shows-off-entirely-new-set

Boom, where is that guy that i bet with? He swore they were not going to change it lol.

 

[jelly]

http://m.windowscentral.com/windows-10-phone-supports-usb-mass-storage-peripherals

That's neat, xbox controller for your phone.

 

[DagsJT]

Updated to the latest build, had my first W10 crash a couple of hours later since I started using it a couple of months ago.

 

[JaggedSac]

The new icons are here, and we still can give feedback for changes:

http://www.neowin.net/news/microsof...n-windows-10-icons-shows-off-entirely-new-set

These seem better.

 

[Whogie]

It's one of the known issues. They provide a work around in the blog post.

Thank you!! That worked.

 

[Lucius86]

The icons are an improvement, but I'm still not sold on them. Maybe it's the perspective not suiting the flat design ethos?

 

[Syphon Filter]

The icons are an improvement, but I'm still not sold on them. Maybe it's the perspective not suiting the flat design ethos?

I like the recycle but i think the my computer icon can be improved. Kind of cool the keyboard is back on the computer icon. Has not been there since windows 98.

 

[Jzero]

The new icons are here, and we still can give feedback for changes:

http://www.neowin.net/news/microsof...n-windows-10-icons-shows-off-entirely-new-set

That recycle bin is way better

 

[Ape]

I'd really like to see a change in the default Modern app tiles. They look to plain to me.

 

[juliushandle]

 

[GrizzleBoy]

Hmm Windows 10 on a phone + mouse and keyboard.

IfnI start seeing windowsnphones with micro hdmi ports it can only mean one ththing.

 

[Lucius86]

I like the recycle but i think the my computer icon can be improved. Kind of cool the keyboard is back on the computer icon. Has not been there since windows 98.

I agree. It looks like the screen is skewed somehow. I also think the Windows icon for the hard drive is too big as well.

Why not have an enlarged icon of the mini icons on the left of the explorer window? Keeps with the flat metro theme idea, but it allows more detail to the icon that a traditional desktop user would expect.

 

[jstripes]

Looks like they removed the Rollback feature in the new build.

So, if you wanna go back to your previous OS... you're now outta luck.

 

[LukasTaves]

Looks like they removed the Rollback feature in the new build.

So, if you wanna go back to your previous OS... you're now outta luck.

They addressed it on the blog post, that was not supposed to appear on the boot time, you can uninstall (from the control panel I presume).

 

[Syphon Filter]

Looks like they removed the Rollback feature in the new build.

So, if you wanna go back to your previous OS... you're now outta luck.

wouldnt you still be fine if you dual boot? I can choose windows 7 or the 10 preview for example.

 

[Jzero]

Wooo new build.
Right clicking cortana crashed my computer lol

Pretty buggy build so far.

 

[dLMN8R]

You don't want that.

Now you do!

 

[Heigic]

My update failed during installation and now windows update shows no new updates....

 

[clav]

Successful installation.

People are going to complain about the icons. :lol

Like the lock screen and start menu transparency.

 

[Syphon Filter]

They brought the useless lock screen back in desktop?

 

[dLMN8R]

Just FYI I think the transparency has a bug where, in certain color themes, it's way too transparent making it very difficult to read anything.

 

[Jzero]

They brought the useless lock screen back in desktop?

That never went away

 

[ricardo_sousa11]

I have a 3-4 year old laptop (i7-2670QM 2.20GHz, Nvidia 540m), and I havent even formated it once, I was expecting to upgrade to windows 8, but after trying it out on my brothers computer, I didnt enjoy it.

Should I upgrade it now (is it even possible to upgrade it now ?!), I ask this, because I think i will have to format it soon, to give it a general cleaning...its too slow/clunky/cluttered with stuff.

 

[clav]

I have a 3-4 year old laptop (i7-2670QM 2.20GHz, Nvidia 540m), and I havent even formated it once, I was expecting to upgrade to windows 8, but after trying it out on my brothers computer, I didnt enjoy it.

Should I upgrade it now (is it even possible to upgrade it now ?!), I ask this, because I think i will have to format it soon, to give it a general cleaning...its too slow/clunky/cluttered with stuff.

Does the laptop have a SSD?

 

[linkboy]

Love it, my update failed, it dropped back to the previous version and now is telling me I'm up to date.

 

[ricardo_sousa11]

Does the laptop have a SSD?

Nope.

 

[Condom]

Love it, my update failed, it dropped back to the previous version and now is telling me I'm up to date.

Same here. Heard it was a buggy update anyway, we should have another version soon.

 

[DarkFlow]

I'm bummed there's no Spartan browser in this build.

 

[dLMN8R]

I'm bummed there's no Spartan browser in this build.

You don't want it yet


-P)

 

[ChosenPredator]

once this officially releases when you update your windows do you have to erase everything on your PC or does it just update automatically with everything still there?

like do i have to install drives again and things like that?


(not a techsavvy person)

 

[Steelyuhas]

You don't want it yet


-P)

Hush you!

once this officially releases when you update your windows do you have to erase everything on your PC or does it just update automatically with everything still there?

like do i have to install drives again and things like that?


(not a techsavvy person)

It'll update your system, you'll keep all your applications, files, etc. (there will probably be new Windows 10 specific driver versions for your hardware to install though)

 

[DarkFlow]

once this officially releases when you update your windows do you have to erase everything on your PC or does it just update automatically with everything still there?

like do i have to install drives again and things like that?


(not a techsavvy person)

I actually just updated from 8.1 to 10 using system update and it worked super smooth. Everything works, didn't have to re-install anything.