I like it just to press the win key to do a (cortana) web search.
If they stay with bing as the only web search integrated into cortana google will lose some users. Nevertheless they should implement google as an option.
Hello World: Windows 10 Available on July 29
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Re: Hello World: Windows 10 Available on July 29
#62Why all of their screenshots are on laptops? Doesn't anyone use real computers anymore?
Fewer and fewer people. Given that laptops today can have 32 GB or RAM, Quadro cards and fast quad core CPUs, there's less and less work that requires a 'real' workstation. Even the CAD people where I work have mostly switched to laptops.
(Full disclosure: I use a workstation as my main computer both at home and at work. My laptop is mainly for traveling and computing in the sofa)
Re: Hello World: Windows 10 Available on July 29
#63Earlier quoted context omitted.
Looks like you and I hit a nerve here on HN. You are right though. Microsoft will be shipping Windows 10 with an incomplete version of their new Edge browser with the promise of adding critical features such as extensions in the future. Basically Windows 10 won't really be feature complete RTM for another 6 months. Even if Microsoft want to pretend it is ready now. Edit: To clarify the "hit a nerve" bit, when I wrote…
Sounds exactly like OS X 10.10 Yosemite to me, where the promised Photos app (which really is nothing special) arrived many months later.
In some ways yes it is the same. However Photos isn't exactly the most important piece of software that comes with your OS.
Microsoft are trying to change how people think of their web browser. Edge is very important yet they are launching it without one of the biggest features needed in a modern browser, extension support.
Re: Hello World: Windows 10 Available on July 29
#64Is that a 21:9 laptop they used in the demo?
I want that one.
Re: Hello World: Windows 10 Available on July 29
#65Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Which "ring" of updates are you on? Fast (it's gonna break) or slow (it's gonna break less)?
I have both fast and slow ring installs. I have found many problems with both, more with fast obviously.
Re: Hello World: Windows 10 Available on July 29
#66Why 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…
I like my keyboard and mouse with two screen that are there 100% of the time.
Frsutrating that Firefox and Chrome boot slower than my phone and tablet!
I will stop using a desktop computer when you pry the mechnical keyboard out of my cold dead hands.
P.S. Never personally owned a laptop and only use one's provided by my work.
Re: Hello World: Windows 10 Available on July 29
#67Does Windows 10 includes a better Terminal or we need to install Putty?
If you are happy with Putty, your probably not that an advanced user. But anyway: Using ConEmu I've been happy for years. Using cygwin or msysgit below makes all very smooth.
Re: Hello World: Windows 10 Available on July 29
#68Any words about the supposed amnesty for illegitimate copies of Windows 7/8?
Also on whether WinXP users are going to qualify for the free upgrade? My lodger's old laptop is in desperate need of something before I let it have more open access to my local network... (I've been thinking Ubuntu but that might take a little more retraining so Win10 might be preferable if free and it'll run OK on that elderly machine without driver and/or CPU/RAM/space resource issues)
> Also on whether WinXP users are going to qualify for the free upgrade?
Nope. There is no upgrade path from XP -> Windows 10. You will have to go from Win7/8 to qualify for the free upgrade to 10.
Re: Hello World: Windows 10 Available on July 29
#69Earlier quoted context omitted.
Probably because touch is a central feature to the user interface and Microsoft wants to emphasize the touchiness. Most desktop display panels don't support touch, but a lot of recent laptops and tablets do.
Touch on laptop is absurd. And stupid. And not ergonomic.
And an absolute nightmare if you're the kind of person that hates having bits of dust on their screen.
Re: Hello World: Windows 10 Available on July 29
#70Will there be a way to buy a digital download of it?
I recently wanted to bootcamp my Macbook Pro to play some games Windows-only games. I went to Microsoft's website and looked at the options for buying Windows 8. The only options were a retail DVD which would be shipped (and I don't have a DVD drive) or to upgrade from Windows Vista/Windows 7 which I had neither of.
I ended up pirating it because I couldn't figure out how to get a legitimate copy that I could actually install. :(
I haven't used Windows since XP, and 8 is really nice. I'm legitimately excited for Windows 10 especially due to all the open sourcing of .NET-related code recently.