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Hello World: Windows 10 Available on July 29

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Re: Hello World: Windows 10 Available on July 29

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Post by BinaryIdiot »

kozukumi wrote: post #5

I have been running the technical previews since the very start and I have to say I am quite surprised at the July 29th release date. Even today's builds are riddled with problems. They have a lot of work to do if they really think it will be consumer ready by the end of July.

Hmm I had the exact opposite experience. It seemed to work pretty flawlessly for me. What type of issues did you experience?

Re: Hello World: Windows 10 Available on July 29

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Post by cyxxon »

stinos wrote: post #4

Is this always an in-place upgrade, or would there be a way to do a clean install (possibly on another pc - IIRC windows licenses are per OS instance not per machine?) for free as well?

I always wonder why they never mention how the supposedly free upgrade works. From this article and the linked FAQ I get the impression that I do not qualify for free Windows 10 forever, but that I can upgrade my Windows 8.1 installations via Windows Upgrade for a year after launch, but that my Windows license is not generally upgraded to a Windows 10 license. I take this to mean that after a year and a day, when I want to reinstall, I cannot use my current key to install some Windows 10 install image, but have to use my Win8.1 image, and since the year for free upgrades has passed, I cannot upgrade that install to Windows 10 anymore.

Or are there other infos out about this very typical scenario among IT people?

Re: Hello World: Windows 10 Available on July 29

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Post by BinaryIdiot »

venomsnake wrote: post #7

Why all of their screenshots are on laptops? Doesn't anyone use real computers anymore?

Hmm it seems difficult to find statistics that separate desktop boxes from laptops (I see separation of desktop and laptop va ultraportable) but I think the trend is less desktops and more laptops. So I'm not entirely surprised.

Honestly I constantly built my own towers for years but these past 3 or 4 years I haven't even booted a desktop tower; laptops are just so good nowadays and I can pick it up and go or dock it with multiple monitors it almost seems silly to do a tower anymore. Obviously there are still plenty of power user use cases or high end gaming to consider but many laptops can do a lot of that well enough.

Re: Hello World: Windows 10 Available on July 29

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Post by stinos »

pibefision wrote: post #8

Does Windows 10 includes a better Terminal or we need to install Putty?

It does have some small improvements (http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/09/window...) but nothing spectacular. I'd recommend you to look into MobaXterm or ConEmu running cygwin as well, I like any of those two way more then Putty actually.

Re: Hello World: Windows 10 Available on July 29

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Post by Kociub »

BinaryIdiot wrote: post #9
pibefision wrote: post #8

Does Windows 10 includes a better Terminal or we need to install Putty?

Unless something recently changed it's still the same choices. I find PowerShell decent but I wish it could do full screen properly.

Did you try out the technical preview? You can do full screen now properly. You also get copy&paste working like it should and some other stuff as well.

Re: Hello World: Windows 10 Available on July 29

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Post by kozukumi »

BinaryIdiot wrote: post #11
kozukumi wrote: post #5

I have been running the technical previews since the very start and I have to say I am quite surprised at the July 29th release date. Even today's builds are riddled with problems. They have a lot of work to do if they really think it will be consumer ready by the end of July.

Hmm I had the exact opposite experience. It seemed to work pretty flawlessly for me. What type of issues did you experience?

Several BSODs, glitches with the virtual desktops, inconsistent fonts and layouts, multiple application (explorer) crashes, wifi connectivity problems, failures returning from sleep and standby, dozens of UI inconsistencies.

Re: Hello World: Windows 10 Available on July 29

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Post by chrisfosterelli »

agildehaus wrote: post #10
kozukumi wrote: post #5

I have been running the technical previews since the very start and I have to say I am quite surprised at the July 29th release date. Even today's builds are riddled with problems. They have a lot of work to do if they really think it will be consumer ready by the end of July.

Update often is the new mantra. Unfortunately that sometimes means "we can ship crap!".

You're getting downvoted a lot, but you're not wrong. Game companies, like Ubisoft, have been getting a lot of heat in particular for this lately...

Re: Hello World: Windows 10 Available on July 29

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Post by Robadob »

stinos wrote: post #4

Is this always an in-place upgrade, or would there be a way to do a clean install (possibly on another pc - IIRC windows licenses are per OS instance not per machine?) for free as well?

I was looking for this to, their faq (http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/windows-10-faq) neglects to answer the question.

On the community discussion it's been asked without an official response yet (http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_10-...).

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