It'd be nice if it wasn't for all the bundled spyware.
Windows 10 Free Upgrade Available in 190 Countries Today
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#252I work on the Start menu. It's just a UWP XAML app with Models and ViewModels written in C++/Cx, as are most of the new Shell features and built-in apps--although some of the newer ones, like Maps and Xbox, are in XAML/C#/.Net Native. Even the UI frame of Edge is in XAML, and the new Office UWP apps are too. I encourage everyone here to give UWP apps a shot; we dogfooded the dev platform to ensure it was stable and f…
How do you get feedback about localisation?
Russian version shipped with the word "Создать" (literally "Create") as the translation for the "New" mark in the list of all applications, despite many heavily upvoted posts in the feedback app.
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#253I've been on the "insider preview" for a few weeks now, and I must say that I think Windows 10 is an absolutely amazing OS. Definitely the best Windows I've ever used. Also the best desktop OS I've ever used, but I hope you'll believe me about the "best Windows" even if you can't imagine why a developer would possible want to run something other than $YOUR_FAVOURITE_UNIX. If Windows 10 is as well-received as I expect…
I would only deploy and run my code in Linux, but with VirtualBox I get all the benefits of Windows for applications (my favorite editor, mail client, Excel, mp3 player, IM client, a hundred other things) and a local Linux VM that works the same as my production environment. It's the best of both worlds. And no compromises like Cygwin (ugh) or the frustrating almost-but-not-quite Unix nature of OSX.
Re: Windows 10 Free Upgrade Available in 190 Countries Today
#254Anyone here know much about Windows licensing? This seems like a good opportunity to ask. I never run Windows on bare metal. I only run Windows on virtual machines on my Mac desktop and Mac laptop; only for personal use; and only on the rare occasion when I need to run the odd Windows-only application. I would like to go legit this time around, but it's nigh-impossible to find any specific documentation from Microsof…
>only for personal use; and only on the rare occasion when I need to run the odd Windows-only application. If you're using it rarely, why not use the trial version, and reset to a snapshot whenever you use it? You can save data on a separate virtual disk, and only reset the operating system disk. There used to be VMs at https://dev.modern.ie/tools/vms/ . I don't see Windows 10 there right now, not sure why, but I kno…
Would that actually work? Wouldn't the trial version still notice that it was initialized more than 90 days ago? I don't want to initialize the OS whenever I use it.
Re: Windows 10 Free Upgrade Available in 190 Countries Today
#255I work on the Start menu. It's just a UWP XAML app with Models and ViewModels written in C++/Cx, as are most of the new Shell features and built-in apps--although some of the newer ones, like Maps and Xbox, are in XAML/C#/.Net Native. Even the UI frame of Edge is in XAML, and the new Office UWP apps are too. I encourage everyone here to give UWP apps a shot; we dogfooded the dev platform to ensure it was stable and f…
Considering Windows 10's new development methodology, you guys can continue to update the Start Menu. So I have two questions/concerns: - Do you have a strategy to allow users to modify the Start Menu directly (e.g. akin to a bookmark manager tool). As far as I can tell right click no longer works, so renaming a folder, creating a folder, moving icons, or similar is impossible. The only way to accomplish this now is…
1. Stay tuned. We've received a lot of feedback on that. We do look at the Windows Feedback app reports; it's all automated, so once something gets upvoted enough it gets routed to the feature team.
2. I'm personally working on all apps list improvements. I don't know if I can share details yet until we push stuff out to Insiders.
One UI feature that makes dealing with the narrow list a little easier is the jump list that pops up when you click one of the letter headers. It's just one of these bad boys: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/window...
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#256Looking at the deprecated features that won't make it to Windows 10 I see: > Solitaire, Minesweeper, and Hearts Games that come pre-installed on Windows 7 will be removed as part of installing the Windows 10 upgrade. Microsoft has released our version of Solitaire and Minesweeper called the “Microsoft Solitaire Collection” and “Microsoft Minesweeper.” Does anyone else find it kind of sad that they killed off the old…
If the "Microsoft Solitaire Collection" only wasn't so slow.
Re: Windows 10 Free Upgrade Available in 190 Countries Today
#257I work on the Start menu. It's just a UWP XAML app with Models and ViewModels written in C++/Cx, as are most of the new Shell features and built-in apps--although some of the newer ones, like Maps and Xbox, are in XAML/C#/.Net Native. Even the UI frame of Edge is in XAML, and the new Office UWP apps are too. I encourage everyone here to give UWP apps a shot; we dogfooded the dev platform to ensure it was stable and f…
How do you get feedback about localisation? Russian version shipped with the word "Создать" (literally "Create") as the translation for the "New" mark in the list of all applications, despite many heavily upvoted posts in the feedback app.
Through the feedback app. After enough upvotes, it gets automatically routed to the feature team for triage.
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#258Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yep, Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\Back up and Restore (Windows 7) Exact same old craptastic System Image backup stuff. Still can't only backup my C drive, got to include my TB's of bulk data on non-system drives too, grr.
? On Windows 7, I can deselect non-system drives. Did that change on Windows 10?
No, like I said, it's exactly the same. If it decides it's a system drive, you can't unselect it, and it's very easy to make something a "system drive" when it's really entirely non-critical (a drive with some games on it, for example).
I at least found the one tiny non-critical service I had installed from my downloads drive - a PS3 controller driver. Ironically having removed that, the drive in question is now impossible to include in a backup. WTF.
It's all very frustrating when you just want to make an image of a single drive.
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#259Didn't receive the update. GWX app is gone now. WU says Windows 10 upgrade is reserved.
Re: Windows 10 Free Upgrade Available in 190 Countries Today
#260I work on the Start menu. It's just a UWP XAML app with Models and ViewModels written in C++/Cx, as are most of the new Shell features and built-in apps--although some of the newer ones, like Maps and Xbox, are in XAML/C#/.Net Native. Even the UI frame of Edge is in XAML, and the new Office UWP apps are too. I encourage everyone here to give UWP apps a shot; we dogfooded the dev platform to ensure it was stable and f…
I encourage everyone here to give UWP apps a shot
I did, and while UWP seems still a bit immature it sure is nice. Unfortunately I have a couple of existing and pretty huge WPF apps and it does not seem you can 'port' that to UWP in some way (except like rewriting all UI code - or am I missing something?) so I don't think I'm gonna switch anytime soon and I'm probably not alone?