It isn't bad, though some of the controls a la Windows 7 are hidden and need a bit of searching out. I have it as a dual boot with Win 7.

You can download here if you want to try it

 

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/preview?os=win10&ocid=welcome_client 

 

I deleted Windows 8 after 10 mins use and never went back to it, but this new system may be worth persevering with.

 

Any thoughts?

 

Don

Windows 10 is currently a technical preview, what you are looking at is roughly what the final product will look like. There could still be a lot of changes to the back end and the UI based on feedback from the preview, so the final released product could be very different in look and where things are located.

 

Currently using Windows 8.1 at work, and have no issues, and having learnt the hard way in the past I'd never use the technical preview for any serious normal work.

The Win10 preview out there is also feeding all of your usage and internet activity back to Microsoft - and there are some concerns about how anonymous the data has been made.

 

In other words, I wouldnt use it for banking, on line purchases or viewing dodgy pron sites - (such as Llamaporn).

I am not sure MS is terribly interested in the pittance I have in the bank! As for pron sites, once you have seen one you have seen them all - many years ago!

However it does pay to be slight paranoiac nowadays.

Did you miss spell paranoid or did 'they' change it so it wouldn't show on a search?  :peek:

paranoiac - a person afflicted with paranoia  

also a 1963 film of that name 

I am not sure MS is terribly interested in the pittance I have in the bank! As for pron sites, once you have seen one you have seen them all - many years ago!

However it does pay to be slight paranoiac nowadays.

 

I wouldnt worry so much about M$, but everything they release is so leaky, who else is going to get copies of it??

 

And with banks, it is not how much there is in your account, it is using the info to get credit/credit cards in your name and racking up huge bills as fast as possible before the demands starting dropping through your letterbox.

Might have to give that a go. The thing is, I tried Vista in the same manner back in the day, and it was brilliant.

 

Then the release version came along 

I don't see any features in Win 10 which would be missing in the current versions of OS X or Ubuntu.

Open-sourcing .NET was a revolutionary move though.

The Win10 preview out there is also feeding all of your usage and internet activity back to Microsoft - and there are some concerns about how anonymous the data has been made.

 

In other words, I wouldnt use it for banking, on line purchases or viewing dodgy pron sites - (such as Llamaporn).

 

And WHAT is  Llamaporn????   

And WHAT is  Llamaporn????   

 

I haven't had the courage to click any links to find out....

I think it's either bestial sex with spitting and humming or a village in darkest mid-Wales.

I am not sure if anyone actually ever used the address, it was an old tech joke from an online cartoon series.

Think I will wait and see - Win 8.1 is working pretty well for me.

Running it in a VM as a test. From inside 8.1, which I love.

 

Seems pretty stable for a tech preview.  Which probably means any features I fall in love with will be chopped.

Llama mmmmm, it's like Goatse with lingerie.

 

If you don't know that bit of internet history, don't try to find out

 

Surprised MS are not e bit more security conscious but the monitoring is all up front. I wouldn't worry about MS but the usage is probably not sent back to them in any secure form.

Been playing myself for a few days.

 

I think the tech preview is basically windows 8.1 with a new shell grafted on, certainly based on some of the file versions.

I think I will hold off until they release it

 

I would not run this on my main machine, maybe a dev environment. 

Ive been running Win 10 on my main rig since the preview came out. (upgraded from 8.1, which in turn was an upgrade from 7)

 

Its rock solid for me, as Mannyo said its just Win8 with a few shiny new bits. Im running in the "fast" update track, so i get the more beta/buggy updates. but there have been no issues.

That said, i dont have any issues with Win8 either, as i never used the start menu anyway.

 

(geek mode) Win8 runs far far better than Win7 does even on very modest hardware - the work they have done under the covers has made a massive difference!

I am not sure if anyone actually ever used the address, it was an old tech joke from an online cartoon series.

 

Explains the 404error  

Microsoft don't recommend installing the Windows 10 Technical Preview on your PC as it will most likely be unstable, and installing to a virtual drive would be far more sensible.

 

Whatever you do, make restore points and backups of everything before starting.

All of my data are on external hdds. if the thing crashes I can re-install quite quickly. I also have dual boot so my trusty Win 7 will be there in seconds. So I don't worry - rightly or wrongly! 

Been running it on one of my Revo media player boxes for a couple weeks without any issues at all.  But it is only getting used for 1 job.