So Microsoft Announced Windows 10 a couple of days ago.
That's right, not 9. 10. They released a Technical Preview for "IT Professionals" and suchlike yesterday, and I signed up.Downloaded the ISO last night, installed it this morning… and voila:
Dunno if that embed is gonna work. I'm trying OneDrive out, as I haven't installed Dropbox yet.Here's the new Start Menu, if anybody is interested:
One of the first things I noticed is that Win10 doesn't force you into the Start Screen. It's still around, if you choose to activate it, but isn't the default/imposed setting now.Metro apps don't run in fullscreen, and instead start maximized and can be resized/moved like any normal Window.Haven't had any driver issues, with the exception of the generic "Tablet Pen" drivers that were installed for my tablet. Basically, my tablet is one giant "Reset PC" button at the moment :POn the installation front, installing was smooth, allowed me to install to a partition easily, and dual boots perfectly.I'll add more pictures and stuff if I feel like it. 
Nice. And yeah I did like that on OSX, not a bad feature at all.
Now if they just improve their start screen for touch-screen devices and buff up the metro apps, we wont have as many problems.From my point of view, the entire Metro side of the system is of little concern; I've always seen Windows as being a desktop OS.
As far as tablets and phones go, I'd rather be running Android.EDIT: Fallout 3 seems to be more compatible with Windows 10 than it was with either 8 or 7. Didn't even need to tweak the compatibility mode,remove GFWL or any of the other hackish things I had to do with Win 8.Well, I think that touch screens are the way to go, whether you have a desktop or a tablet. I dont have one for my main desktop at my house, but for most people, I think a simpler interface and touch screen not only makes the experience easier and more personal, but I think it gives less room for error that way.
My family goes on the computer usually for a few simple things: writing a document, browsing the internet, and doing email. If you replace the mouse with a touch screen monitor, you can do pretty much everything the same way, granted the apps start to adapt more to that input.For me, I use more precision and options in software, but I wouldnt mind touch control for simpler tasks.It just takes a bit of effort to come out of the "old" way of thinking with windows and such, which is what I arguably would say Microsoft has trouble with sometimes. (Though it is really cool when I show off how to use a tablet or laptop with W8, flipping through apps and closing them, resizing them, and doing everything in seconds, which I noticed is too fast for most.)I had some major issues with my Radeon GPU and Fallout 3 on Windows 8. I had to do quite a bit to get the game to start up at all; it's possibly a hardware specific thing, but Win 10 and 7 are able to handle things perfectly well.
It finally bombed out. One of the updates installed last night seemed to cause trouble with some of my hardware, so the OS crashes on startup now.
I'll tweak a bit to see if I can get it working, but I've got my Win7 x64 disc ready in case I need it :PJust read an article saying that the Windows 10 test version comes with it's own keylogger and captures other user data such as "Examples of data we collect include your name, email address, preferences and interests; browsing, search and file history; phone call and SMS data; device configuration and sensor data; and application usage"
article: http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/137842-Windows-10-Test-Version-Contains-Keyloggersource: https://insider.windows.com/Home/PrivacyStatement?Length=4Yeah, it's kinda prominently mentioned in the EULA. No surprise :P
I'm thinking it's mostly for the feedback program; I don't think people would be too happy if they kept it around for when it goes gold. Unless Microsoft wants to cause a big scandal. I've replaced the system with Win7 x64; needed the upgrade, since I got more RAM for my PC recently.not sure what a keylogger has to do with feedback. I thought the way a test release is supposed to work is that the testers would give their feedback vocally or through writing. It seems highly unnecessary to use spyware to track everything your tester is doing, including taking your email, phone numbers, SMS data, and using personal information for targeted advertising. None of that seems like it has anything to do with feedback on the OS itself.