Youtube video: Introducing Windows 10 - the best Windows yet
Another video is in the source: https://www.theverge.com/2014/9/30/6868695/microsoft-windows-10-announced-official
edit: By the way here are some HQ pictures from the Windows blog: https://blogs.windows.com/bloggingwindows/2014/09/30/announcing-windows-10/
It looks like the same crap as 8 except with some 7-ish stuff added back in. They really need to stop with this Metro garbage.
Should’ve been called Windows One the all-in-one Operating System from Microsoft.
They don’t want the name Windbone or something else stupid to become a thing. With Xbox One they wanted people to call it the One like they called the Xbox 360 the 360 but that backfired, and the people who came up with that were probably fired.
Yeah, apparently Microsoft can’t even count.
Or maybe they’re trying to piss us off. But unfortunately they have failed miserably.
Hahaha it’s like watching a child count
Might as well go back to name it after the year of release, at least it makes sense.
Windows 10 or “What Windows 2012 should have been”
Check out the date on this article: https://www.infoworld.com/article/2613504/microsoft-windows/microsoft-skips–too-good–windows-9–jumps-to-windows-10.html
I think they’re trying to break the ‘law of twos’ (every second MS OS sucks) by giving it an even number, thus “skipping” the odd one and landing what is supposed to (by the ‘law’) be a good OS on what is supposed to be a bad number.
Watch it backfire and Windows 10 be terrible.
From those screens, it looks like it has an actual start menu again, which is nice.
Yeah, honestly, after I installed a custom start menu for Windows 8 for a work machine, I realized it’s really not that bad. It’s easy enough to get around in, and all the programs run fine. It even seems to boot and shut down pretty quick despite the older hardware it’s running on. My main issue with it is its weird separation of the desktop and the Metro features. It doesn’t even always make sense. Like, the PDF viewer runs in a separate page(?) from the desktop and it’s kind of hard to switch to and from. And the charms bar or whatever on the right side is kind of annoying. But if Windows 10 can better merge the Metro features into the standard Windows UI without sacrificing proper control and customization, I think it’ll do well. I mean I feel like this is the basic Microsoft way - they try something new and different, people complain about the stuff they don’t like, and Microsoft fixes that in the next release, while still providing new features that are either invisible to the user or at least unobtrusive. If Microsoft breaks that cycle now it’ll be a pretty bad sign that they can’t deliver what consumers want anymore. I’m interested in trying it out to see what it’s like.
The thing is I’m pretty sure nobody really likes Metro. They may tolerate it, but nobody is clamoring for more integration of it. Microsoft is trying to shove it down everyone’s throat.
My issue exactly. Opening windows from the Metro start menu opens them in some kind of hidden windows that don’t show up on the normal desktop, which is confusing and unintuitive.
Metro is over, half of Microsoft got fired over it, I don’t think we’ll need to discuss it again.
We forgot to add Vista in to the bunch. Everyone loved Vista.
Wasn’t there a comment before yours .-.
And wow really? That’s…I mean, wow.
It was a spam post from a bot.
Also I heard Vista became decent with the Service Pack but 7 is still far superior.
Vista was broken on release due to BSOD-causing Nvidia drivers that came with it. Microsoft should’ve just kept them as is instead of messing around to make their windowing environment more restricted to DirectX 9. (on Vista betas I was able to enable Aero on some DirectX 8 cards, but upgrading to the final retail version resulted in a BSOD loop so I switched to linux until 7 came out)
Once you hide all the metro features win8 is actually a really good OS. You can disable the metro PDF viewer and other metro stuff and just use the desktop variants.
Honestly 10 looks like a really good OS to me. Good implementation of metro for touchscreen users who actually want it and compete to near complete desktop implementation for people on m+KB.
I still think m$ is high though thinking anyone on a desktop would ever want to use an “app” designed for touch. Same goes for the “app” store. But as long as they don’t fuck with desktop versions of programs I don’t care.
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