• Windows 10 Announcement
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So they added... a start bar and alt+tabbing?
Is there a way to partition my drive to still keep my regular windows but install this preview as well?
[QUOTE=Xieneus;46117460]I must be the only one who likes Windows 8 This looks nifty tho[/QUOTE] I like it a lot too, it's really fast and I honetly prefer the start screen to the bar. It looks like Windows 10 though will please most people, which is very good
[QUOTE=Xieneus;46117460]I must be the only one who likes Windows 8 This looks nifty tho[/QUOTE] Not sure how to rate, but I agreed meaning I also like Windows 8. I downloaded a thing that brings back the start menu and always boots in desktop mode so it's basically Windows 7 with whatever they added to 8.
Windows 8.1 is great but when will they just ditch any kind of start menu entirely? In terms of productivity the classic, Windows 8, and Windows 10 start menus are so slow and useless do ripening documents or apps compared to other alternatives. The menu you get when you right click the Windows button, search menu, and taskbar are virtually all that needed in terms of good, fast, and fluent/basic functionality. Apple is still outplaying Microsoft in every UX situation. [editline]30th September 2014[/editline] An overall concern is that over the last several years of Windows it has never been an option to have the taskbar hide without leaving a few pixels at the bottom. Windows 8 improved this by making it so it one has pixels for open apps, but really?
[QUOTE=Cronos Dage;46119773]Windows 8.1 is great but when will they just ditch any kind of start menu entirely? In terms of productivity the classic, Windows 8, and Windows 10 start menus are so slow and useless do ripening documents or apps compared to other alternatives. The menu you get when you right click the Windows button, search menu, and taskbar are virtually all that needed in terms of good, fast, and fluent/basic functionality. Apple is still outplaying Microsoft in every UX situation. [editline]30th September 2014[/editline] An overall concern is that over the last several years of Windows it has never been an option to have the taskbar hide without leaving a few pixels at the bottom. Windows 8 improved this by making it so it one has pixels for open apps, but really?[/QUOTE] Would much rather have something that looks nice and is easy for everyone instead of "gotta go fast"
[QUOTE=Binladen34;46117611]If you're still on Windows 7 you're retarded. If you can't get used to the changes windows 8 made, you'll never progress in life.[/QUOTE] sorry for not liking completely useless and unnecessary changes ;^)
[QUOTE=Janus Vesta;46118405]"The mentality of people on FP", you've been here for six years, it's a bit late to be distancing yourself from the community.[/QUOTE] Who's to say you can't eat where other people shit and still like it.
At first i thought it was a parody, until i saw that it is in the Microsoft channel
I'm not changing from 7 till we get another windows that looks exactly the same with all of those recent improvements. From what I see its going to take a long time.
[QUOTE=spectator1;46124141]I'm not changing from 7 till we get another windows that looks exactly the same with all of those recent improvements. From what I see its going to take a long time.[/QUOTE] I might upgrade to 10 since metro doesn't feel as forced down your fucking throat as it did in 8. But only after it's released and a lot of software is updated as well (two-three years maybe)
I love how people are already complaining about Windows 10 without even trying it yet...are we really this ignorant?
[QUOTE=Nasake;46119026]Aside from the crippling, there's no difference between "app" and program now. Walking in circles...[/QUOTE] There never was. Program and Application are synonymous. Windows has been calling executables applications years before mobile computing was big.
[QUOTE=redBadger;46119812]Would much rather have something that looks nice and is easy for everyone instead of "gotta go fast"[/QUOTE] i'm sure hitting a keybord shortcut or clicking that new search icon in the taskbar would be much easier for clients in tech support
I'm on Windows 8 and I don't mind it, but so far out of all the features shown for Windows 10 the only feature that I thought was neat was how you can snap in four places now. If the focus is adding features that I really don't need I'm probably not going to upgrade. Not that it's bad, just probably not for me. The main reason I upgraded to 8 was the performance boosts.
Stop calling programs "apps" already. [I]Jesus Christ[/I]
[QUOTE=Anven11;46125983]Stop calling programs "apps" already. [I]Jesus Christ[/I][/QUOTE] Does it matter?
[QUOTE=Anven11;46125983]Stop calling programs "apps" already. [I]Jesus Christ[/I][/QUOTE] Programs = TV App(lications) = Computers and phones and shit
As someone who is uninformed about Win8/Win10 now and only upgraded to 7 because my hard drive failed (from XP)... is it possible to disable Metro completely? I know you can access the desktop, but I dont need or want metro
[QUOTE=Code3Response;46126958]As someone who is uninformed about Win8/Win10 now and only upgraded to 7 because my hard drive failed (from XP)... is it possible to disable Metro completely? I know you can access the desktop, but I dont need or want metro[/QUOTE] Yes, install Classic Shell.
[QUOTE=KINGSTAR998;46124782]I love how people are already complaining about Windows 10 without even trying it yet...are we really this ignorant?[/QUOTE] Thats almost literally all the hate that people have against Windows 8.
A middle to older aged man with scene kid haircut and slight balding tells us about the operating system he brought back to us from the future. Microsoft, you've done it. You did it.
[QUOTE=ColossalSoft;46126925]Programs = TV App(lications) = Computers and phones and shit[/QUOTE] programmers make tv shows now?
This fixes almost all the grievances I've had when I've needed to work on Windows 8 or server 2012, hits the nail on the head for me. I am honestly impressed, if I for some reason need to re-buy windows, I'll probably grab 10.
[QUOTE=Viva;46117712]windows 7 is still perfectly usable, widely supported, and easily accessible though.[/QUOTE] So is Windows 8 though???
[QUOTE=Coyoteze;46131804]So is Windows 8 though???[/QUOTE] yeah but his argument is that there you're retarded for using windows 7 when it's still a perfectly functional operating system with massive support. Windows 8 is fine for quite a lot of folks but for a large amount there is no reason at all to switch to windows 8, it offers nothing really new for them so they may as well keep using their current, widely supported and well established operating system. You're not being stupid or making a bad decision by staying on windows 7, nor are you inhibiting yourself at all by using it. So his statement was just a really baseless opinion.
I'm not sure how much I like the idea of windows "suggesting" what else I can "snap" to my screen to fill the empty space. Every time anything on a computer tries to suggest something it's always awful and shit and doesn't wok and just gets in the way.
[QUOTE=FunnyStarRunner;46116896]Eh, I'm still pretty comfortable using Windows 7.[/QUOTE] Yet they will force you to get windows X if you want future gaming software tech, like directX
[QUOTE=insistent;46136124]Yet they will force you to get windows X if you want future gaming software tech, like directX[/QUOTE] Luckily Windows 7 supports DirectX 11 which will stay relevant for the next few years. The same thing happened in the past with Vista and DirectX 10 but by the time DirectX 10 became relevant Windows 7 was already out and everyone had jumped onto that.
Windows 10 looks like it has removed most of the difficulties which was present in Windows 8, just like what 7 did with Vista. The cycle may literally continue again.
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