Looks like a high-contrast theme that's in Windows 7 and 8.
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Microsoft Announces Windows 10
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Looks like a high-contrast theme that's in Windows 7 and 8.
Heh, I wish Microsoft didn't went into that minimalistic design route. The whole super minimalistic icons, strong colors with high contrast design works great on phones screen. On desktop, I think it looks rather ugly, or at least not pleasant-looking. I really prefer Android Lollipop design, with pastel colors, simple and flat (but not that simple and flat) icons, soft shadings here and there to make things "pop" etc.
IMHO when it comes to look the UI (besides start menu - I like it) in current builds looks worse than the one from Windows 7 and 8/8.1. :/
IMHO when it comes to look the UI (besides start menu - I like it) in current builds looks worse than the one from Windows 7 and 8/8.1. :/
HarryDemeanor
Member
While I don't have problems all that often gaming with Windows 10 right now, I would wait until the release. You might experience a loss in performance making the jump right now. If you're currently having no problems right now, I see no reason to make the jump unless you're absolutely fine running software that may break here and there.
If it wakes up straight away that will be a USB device, probably the mouse maybe the lan port. Go into device manager and block devices from waking the pc one by one until it stops.
Either that or look through event viewer for clues.
That sounds awful, will wait then.
I H8 Memes
Member
How long are we looking at until this releases?
HarryDemeanor
Member
RTM should be by the end of summer. Retail would be fall.
September at the latest.
Rumor said June/July, but I think a close to October release is more likely since some Windows releases were RTM'ed in August.
StudioTan
Hold on, friend! I'd love to share with you some swell news about the Windows 8 Metro UI! Wait, where are you going?
That will be great at night. Looking good.
Astral/H3X
Member
Oh finally a dark Theme for Windows itself. I'd love if Win10 had the same level of theme support as WP8.1 does right now.
just marketing. windows will continue to be updated.
dragonelite
Member
Makes sense microsoft is betting on azure taking off. Get everyone on win10 kill legacy support focus on the future.
Yes, just like OSX was the last version of Mac OS.
Insane Metal
Member
So, I decided to give it a try and I'm in love with the UI. Wow!
The last marketed version of Windows.
(Until Microsoft changes their mind in two years.)
It'll be silently updated, with new features and stuff, but the brand facing the consumer will be "Windows 10", or more likely, just "Windows".
More marketing than anything. I mean, what are new Ubuntu "versions" other than just the latest stable snapshot every two years? Windows is just officially going the same way. We just increase the number with each release for ease of identification and because we're human. We don't have to.
I mentioned it elsewhere, the idea that you ship software as a box release and it's "done" and is replaced by a later box release is essentially dead anymore. Same thing with browsers happened. There isn't going to be Edge 2, etc, it'll just be Edge and <internal verison number only developers care about>, much like nobody actually says which version of FF or Chrome they're using anymore.
Zombie James
Banned
Is it? Pro is maybe iffy but it makes sense to exclude the enterprise features from the consumer edition.
megarockexe
Member
And Pro is going to be really expensive to upgrade to for some reason. The features should just be built in. What is even different? I just know on Desktop I'm in Pro and on my laptop I'm on Home and I hate it.
Huh. I thought they wanted to drop all this multiple versions? I can understand the mobile version being different but all the others? Weird.
As long as I get the choice of Pro Edition for my upgrade. I am not messing around with limited Home versions.
Ugh. I thought they were just going to release ONE edition this time.
The only reason they must keep doing this is because their army of accountants likes it.
Everyone else has been sick and tired of "editions" since that bullshit started.
Why would you even want one edition? Do you want complicated UI and feature bloat on your 8" tablet running the full version of Windows 10 just for the sake of reaching an arbitrary goal of consolidating editions that don't need to be consolidated?
If you have Win7/Win8 Home, you get Win10 Home
If you have Win7/Win8 Pro, you get Win10 Pro.
Pro has a ton of features that Home users don't need, but also don't want, since they take up more space on disk and other major negatives if you don't need them. For example, confusing UI around domain join which doesn't really make sense to consumers who have never joined a domain in their lives. The Home edition can easily run on tablets with 32GB storage (maybe less), that's not exactly ideal for Pro either.
If you have Win7/Win8 Home, you get Win10 Home
If you have Win7/Win8 Pro, you get Win10 Pro.
Pro has a ton of features that Home users don't need, but also don't want, since they take up more space on disk and other major negatives if you don't need them. For example, confusing UI around domain join which doesn't really make sense to consumers who have never joined a domain in their lives. The Home edition can easily run on tablets with 32GB storage (maybe less), that's not exactly ideal for Pro either.
InfiniteNine
Rolling Girl
I think 10074 has problems with my wacom driver's since it has been acting up and not responding/interpreting a right click after I use my pen to draw on the taskbar.
TTOOLL
Member
I suggested we could have them as wallpapers too. The automatic change is also very appreciated.
FrontalMonk
Banned
Mother of god.
So umm...
I did a clean install of build 10074 but the Store (beta) seems to not be logging me in properly. I'm having trouble updating apps and such. Usually when this happens on previous builds I would go to settings and "Reset the PC" but since upgrading to 10074 this method stopped working.
You can tell if the Store (beta) app is working when your account picture is displayed but when it isn't, its just the placeholder black and white profile pic.
Also my Store (beta) icon is grey instead of the updated blue icon.
Is there any way to fix this guys?
EDIT: I guess it pays to bitch on the internet. I went into settings and noticed on the privacy settings page that I didn't enable the "Let applications access my name, picture and other account info"
I did a clean install of build 10074 but the Store (beta) seems to not be logging me in properly. I'm having trouble updating apps and such. Usually when this happens on previous builds I would go to settings and "Reset the PC" but since upgrading to 10074 this method stopped working.
You can tell if the Store (beta) app is working when your account picture is displayed but when it isn't, its just the placeholder black and white profile pic.
Also my Store (beta) icon is grey instead of the updated blue icon.
Is there any way to fix this guys?
EDIT: I guess it pays to bitch on the internet. I went into settings and noticed on the privacy settings page that I didn't enable the "Let applications access my name, picture and other account info"
Hip Hop
Member
Well, just bought my first SSD (Going for $29 by the way, http://www.crucial.com/usa/en/fcct128m4ssd1)
And the thing to do with these is slap the OS on them, no? and keep everything else on the HDD?
How would I move my OS to this drive? Or should I wait until Windows 10 is released and do it then?
If I wait till then, how would I go about installing Windows 10 to the SSD? Does the installer usually allow you to change drives for clean installs?
And the thing to do with these is slap the OS on them, no? and keep everything else on the HDD?
How would I move my OS to this drive? Or should I wait until Windows 10 is released and do it then?
If I wait till then, how would I go about installing Windows 10 to the SSD? Does the installer usually allow you to change drives for clean installs?
geez too many questions
Best way it to make a bootable USB stick, unplug other drives, only have the SSD in and install your OS to that drive. That makes sure the system installs onto the main SSD first since it needs to make some boot changes on that drive.
You can use the above to install you current OS to an SSD and then put the Windows 10 Tech over the top, then uninstall the old OS if you really want. Depending on space for your new SSD, it is probably better to hold the old OS so you can recover if needed.
It's very nice how Windows 10 de-metro-ifies metro apps. Having them run in resizable windows as any other program combined with the notification center make a bunch of them actually useful, specially messaging apps.
Also, the metro file picker is gone: modern apps use the standard "open file" popup as win32 apps as well as normal alert boxes.
Also, the metro file picker is gone: modern apps use the standard "open file" popup as win32 apps as well as normal alert boxes.
InfiniteNine
Rolling Girl
I want to be able to open multiple copies of the calculator again. ): Give me back old calcy.
Wait, what? You can't do that anymore in Win10?
Not even a tab section?
My life is ruined.
LukasTaves
Member
It's hard to go back to win8 after testing win10 (even with tablet usage), that's usually a sign that they are in the right direction
Another thing that I REALLY liked about the new universal app platform is how it solves problems metro apps had (specially in the desktop) like running in background. They have a new set of options that allow apps to do their background work without using too much battery (Or even completely running on the background in scenarios where battery life is not a concern), or app to app communication, where basically every app can act as a web service and provide functionality for other apps to consume.
They still have some ways to go to be a complete replacement of win32 apps (like extending the shell and a app be deployed as a plugin for another app), but they did say they are working on that too, so it's probably a matter of time until we can have really powerful metro applications in the sense on how they integrate with the system and with each other.
Junior Mint
Member
That's what everyone said how Windows 8 apps should have worked in the first place but no, the Windows 8 defenders kept arguing how snap was the same thing. Yeah, like anyone wants a messaging app to take up an entire 1/4 of their screen at all times.
So glad Microsoft is making all these changes to improve usability. I'm getting a new Thinkpad Yoga at work and I'm kinda pissed that it'll be stuck on Windows 8.1 for a looooong time.
The Incarnation
Member
Why does this keep fucking with my sound and video output? Avoiding this like the plague in future.
No promises but I believe this is in the works. There's some general system work required to enable multiple instances of the same app, and once that's done, Calculator will be updated to benefit from it.
hipbabboom
Huh? What did I say? Did I screw up again? :(
Wow! Some writers on The Verge shouldn't be writers. How does someone screw up this badly (if a mistake) or lack this much integrity (if willfully executed)?
Microsoft backtracks on free Windows 10 update for pirates
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