Well, this is interesting. I've just installed Windows 10 Technical Preview on a Dell Latitude D630 which is about 8 years or so old.

 

Screen res is a bit poor, but it seems quite responsive. Better than Win 7, it seems, although I might be imagining that.

 

This is my first attempt at Windows 8.1 style windows. I don't see the point in having separate apps for Facebook, eBay etc, when a webpage runs it all perfectly adequately. I guess it's an acquired taste.

The apps make more sense when you're using Windows 10 on a touch screen tablet - on a desktop they make little sense...

I like Win 10 so far, requires very little resources to run efficiently compared to 7...

The apps make more sense when you're using Windows 10 on a touch screen tablet - on a desktop they make little sense...

I like Win 10 so far, requires very little resources to run efficiently compared to 7...

That was one of the main issues with windows 8 on release - it was incredibly hard to move away from the apps if you had a desktop (until 8.1 the only way was downloading a new start programme like Classic Shell).

 

If Win 10 allows me to operate the way I want (similar to Win 7 and the eventual release of Win 8.1), I can see it getting a lot of people onto the latest version of Windows (unlike now where there are still a huge number of people avoiding Win 8.1 with XP, Vista and 7 still having huge numbers)

It does seem to look good from a flexibility point of view.

Win 8 was a good operating system with a diabolical interface. Hopefully with Win 10 they'll sort out that bit.

 

Good to know they are keeping  with Win8 good performance on low end hardware.

Win 8 was a good operating system with a diabolical interface. Hopefully with Win 10 they'll sort out that bit.

 

Good to know they are keeping  with Win8 good performance on low end hardware.

Agreed. If they keep the good bits (the actual os was pretty good) and chuck the bad (learn what people really want by way of interface) they should be sorted.

Well, this is interesting. I've just installed Windows 10 Technical Preview on a Dell Latitude D630 which is about 8 years or so old.

 

Screen res is a bit poor, but it seems quite responsive. Better than Win 7, it seems, although I might be imagining that.

 

This is my first attempt at Windows 8.1 style windows. I don't see the point in having separate apps for Facebook, eBay etc, when a webpage runs it all perfectly adequately. I guess it's an acquired taste.

Not my main laptop (same as above) but very impressed with the performance on such an old laptop. Hopefully being on technical release will allow me to migrate to the fully released version.

Not my main laptop (same as above) but very impressed with the performance on such an old laptop. Hopefully being on technical release will allow me to migrate to the fully released version.

Win 10, when released, will be a free upgrade to anyone running Win 7, 8 or 8.1

Win 10, when released, will be a free upgrade to anyone running Win 7, 8 or 8.1

 

Nearly everyone, not anyone running an enterprise version...

I think there is varied advice about who and how long it will be free for. I believe Windows 8 users are well covered.

Windows 7 users I heard were only going to be covered for a year.

It sounds like Windows 10 will be on a subscription basis too.

I installed it on my Surface Pro 2 - it was an early version of Win10 and didn't run that well - constantly running the cooling fan in the Surface and modern apps were 50/50 whether they worked or not.

Have gone back to 8.1 for now.

 

Windows 7 users I heard were only going to be covered for a year.

 

 

I think that was part of the Win10 announcment so more than likely.

 

Much as MS would like to go to a subscription model I can't see it happening. they don't actually make all that much from the Os anyway, they make their money from Office and other bits of enterprise software. The home market is a bit of a loss leader for them so it probably makes a lot of sense to give it away to home users and keep collecting money from businesses. I think 365 is starting to bear fruit for MS as well.

 

They've also picked up on the EU privacy stuff a lot smarter than Apple or Google. That'll keep them in the Government pork barrel for a while.

Google hates privacy since it is a totally antithesis to their business model. Google needs to know everything about you to keep working. MS doesn't, although it wouldnt mind knowing. Apple, I'm not really sure what their stance on personal data is, it's like they want to know but they don't know why.

We had a similar conversation in the office that MS makes a lot of their money from other sources than domestic customers. I will see if I can dig out the article I found about Windows 7 to Windows 10, it was quite interesting. Mind you at this stage it is probably just speculation.

 

I agree on the privacy points you make though, I have always been concerned about Google and privacy issues!

My test VM updated to build 9266 overnight. It looks a lot more polished.