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Windows 10

I wonder if you can download it and burn it onto a disc without actually installing it, and then install it in a few years' time?
 
Squeegee Beckenheim said:
I wonder if you can download it and burn it onto a disc without actually installing it, and then install it in a few years' time?
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If they continue using a similar activation system possibly, though I've come across product keys which are supposedly only good for a single activation. IIRC, some generic keys for Windows 8 were made available and alter withdrawn.
 
I suspect this is Microsoft's attempt to avoid another Windows XP situation, where a lot of people refuse to upgrade to the latest version and Microsoft is forced to support an older OS for far longer than they'd like.

I have Windows 7. I've heard that Windows 8.x is pretty good under the hood and I've heard at least one comment about Windows 10 being even better, so I'll be grabbing my free copy.

I have my concerns about the UI, though. It's so... blah... what with it's flat and blocky look. At least it has color, unlike their horrific visual redesigns for Visual Studio and Office. Good lord...
 
The details are obviously placeholders, so I wouldn't get too upset about ugly screenshots as of yet. I'm actually very pleased with the direction the interface is going, in addition to solid 'under the hood' type stuff.

You can do most everything in desktop or metro. Desktop is default. Control panel stuff is integrated into one section again, not spread out between desktop and metro menus. Best of all, the management of multiple drives and partitions is much more advanced with tools that I'm flabbergasted haven't been standard for five years.

Of course this is all subject to change, but I'm hopeful.
 
From the article linked in post #2 in this thread comes this statistic:

"More than half of all desktops in the world still run Windows 7. Almost 20 percent still run Windows XP, a 14-year-old operating system. Windows 8.1 has yet to reach 10 percent."

How many XP users will be tempted to move to Windows 10, and how many of them have hardware that will support Windows 10?

Has anyone seen system requirements for it?
 
A general "before you start" here which includes system requirements.
System requirements

Basically, if your PC can run Windows 8.1, you’re good to go. If you're not sure, don't worry—Windows will check your system to make sure it can install the preview.

  • Processor: 1 gigahertz (GHz) or faster
  • RAM: 1 gigabyte (GB) (32-bit) or 2 GB (64-bit)
  • Free hard disk space: 16 GB
  • Graphics card: Microsoft DirectX 9 graphics device with WDDM driver
  • A Microsoft account and Internet access
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Here's the promo:



Honestly, I look at most of that stuff and just wonder how I could turn it off. I don't want my photos automatically organised for me. I want to organise them how I want to organise them. I don't want them uploaded to OneDrive. I don't want live tiles in the Start Menu. I don't want the OS to have an integrated search engine, I want to use the search engine that I'm choosing to use. I have no idea why anybody would want to have the ability to draw on web pages.

I'm not saying that I can't see that there are people who will want this kind of thing, but there's nothing there that has any appeal to me, personally.
 
The requirements for internet access and a Microsoft account are only because this is a Preview Build. They are most likely not going to be there for the final release. This has been the case for several generations of Preview Builds and Technical Previews in the past, and has never been the case for the final product.
 
SleepingWeasle said:
The requirements for internet access and a Microsoft account are only because this is a Preview Build. They are most likely not going to be there for the final release. This has been the case for several generations of Preview Builds and Technical Previews in the past, and has never been the case for the final product.
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Ah, okay.

If I do upgrade, I'll definitely wait for 6 months or so and read as many positive and as many negative reviews as possible.
 
Been running the previews since January and I've noticed very little difference in my day to day workflow (from Windows 7/8).
 
My biggest beef with 8 was the GUI. That problem is gone with 10 (Am a tester as well). Am going to upgrade my win7, the win8 installed on my spare box and my dads win7 as well. Moms vista isnt upgradable due to limitations on the cpu otherwise that would get an upgrade as well.
 
This preview is a lot more stable than past ones. The only bug issue I've found is that sound has stopped working for my Civilization:Beyond Earth!
 
Darat said:
This preview is a lot more stable than past ones. The only bug issue I've found is that sound has stopped working for my Civilization:Beyond Earth!
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My only problem so far have been a missing driver for my co-processor. That and a slightly unstable DVD rec drive in the start phase (solved itself with an update :)). The missing driver will most likely solve itself when we get closer to real launch.

Otherwise its been running really well. Having seen some of the tech previews in the past, I was actually suprised at how painless the entire process have been this time.

Under the hood the entire thing is surprisingly stable(havent been able to break it yet no matter what Ive trown at it) and the GUI on my computer (A desktop) is easier to use than the metro crap. Havent been able to test out the fluent switch between desktop and tablet metro tiles since its not a hybrid. If anyone have one of those running win10, let me know how that works out. I'm contemplating switching my tablet for one of those when it burns out, so a little advance warning would be nice.
 
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