I'm looking forward to the reactions of those who get it the day it ships and over the next few weeks after that. If the Windows community is generally positive towards it and that remains the case at the start of November, then that will be my install date. I see no reason to rush to abandon a stable Win7 setup for an unknown quantity. Three months worth of feedback from others should be enough for an informed decision to be made.
Looking forward to getting Windows 10 the day it ships? Yeah, about that...
Microsoft has shared more details about how it plans to roll out Windows 10 beginning later this month. We already knew the OS will start shipping to members of the Windows Insider program on July 29. On Thursday, however, Microsoft OS boss Terry Myerson explained in a blog post that not everyone should expect to receive their …
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Friday 3rd July 2015 00:29 GMT MrDamage
Re: pray/drink for me
Why not both?
Our Lager,
Which art in barrels
Hallowed be thy drink.
Thy will be drunk,
I will be drunk,
At home as in the tavern.
Give us this day our foamy head
and forgive us our spillages
as we forgive those that spill against us
and lead us not into incarceration.
But deliver us from hang-overs,
for thine is the beer,
The bitter and the lager
forever and ever
Barmen!
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Saturday 4th July 2015 22:42 GMT Trevor_Pott
"Smaller footprint than its predecessors"
About time.
"faster start-up and shutdown"
Who cares? Everyone has SSDs, and we only reboot once a month when updates force us to.
"enhanced security:
Only if application developers take advantage of it. In the meantime, Microsoft is making us all give up privacy in order to get this possible security.
"allows you to run Universal apps"
This is not a positive thing.
"and brings you into the 21st Century."
Funny, I've many an operating system that is 21st Century-enabled. Why is this Microsoft's first?
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Friday 3rd July 2015 07:27 GMT Geoff Campbell
In-place upgrades
Generally, I would agree with you. However, I ran the upgrade to Windows 10 beta release a couple of months back just for the hell of it, and my system has worked perfectly since. I would have to say, cautiously, that I think Microsoft have done a really good job this time.
GJC
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Friday 3rd July 2015 08:16 GMT Siv
ISOs will be available and even if they weren't you can make your own from the Install.esd that lands on your system when you get the update. Search for ESD Decrypter or get it here:
http://www.chris123nt.com/2014/10/21/make-an-iso-for-window-10-9860/
I have been doing that procedure for each version of Windows 10 I have updated to since being on the insider preview and it works like a charm.
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Friday 3rd July 2015 15:53 GMT Not That Andrew
@Geoff Campbell Re: ISO
You do realise that Register aeticle is about a preview build of Windows 10, don't you? I was asking if the RTM version would have ISO's available. Luckily I discovered this article squirreled away away on Microsoft Answers: http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/insider/wiki/insider_wintp-insider_install/how-to-upgrade-from-previous-versions-of-windows/31722b30-1da9-42bb-b331-0edc4649bf43
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Friday 3rd July 2015 08:07 GMT Elmer Phud
Ferfuksache
It's not as if M.S. haven't told everybidy already that the date is the STAR T of the roll-out.
I doubt is even they have the server and bandwidth capacity to roll it out in one day.
Cue the 'Took hours', 'why haven't I got it yet' 'M$ is shit as mine wasn't first' and "M$ has killed the internet" comments around the world. later on this month.
Some of us may prefer to defer it for a while until W10 SP2 comes out. (or whatever they will call it -- W10.2?)
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Friday 3rd July 2015 08:21 GMT Siv
Re: Ferfuksache
You won't ever see an SP2 or whatever from now on, you will just get continuous updates for the rest of time. Some of them might be quite large updates, but they are saying the model has changed with Windows 10, basically from now on they are staying in Windows 10 for ever and it just constantly evolves over time. Like Apple, Windows is a platform that allows Microsoft to sell you other services like OneDrive and Office 365.
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Friday 3rd July 2015 10:00 GMT Anonymous Coward
Re: Ferfuksache
The recent Insider 'fast ring' builds download overnight and prompt you to install. The install part generally takes about half an hour, and is very much like a W7/8 install but prettier.The only annoyance was 10158/10159 in successive days.
10159 seems just about finished, though. More polished and faster than the early builds, and no major bugs. The only thing I don't like is not being able to set Google as a search engine on the new browser.
It's worth having just to get rid of the very, very, very, very annoying side-pop-out thing.
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