Posted on 07/31/2015 10:43:36 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Some 14 million people installed the Windows 10 operating system in the first 24 hours following its release, Microsoft said, calling the response "overwhelmingly positive."
The company said its new operating system aimed at computers, mobile devices and other gadgets got off to a strong start toward its goal of reaching one billion devices.
"We're humbled and grateful to see the response to Windows 10," corporate vice president Yusuf Mehdi said in a blog post late Thursday.
"We have seen unprecedented demand for Windows 10, with reviews and customer feedback overwhelmingly positive around the globe."
The stakes are high for Microsoft as it pushes out the new operating system for both traditional computers and mobile devices such as tablets and smartphones.
The company is hoping the new system can help it gain traction in mobile, where it lags behind Google Android and Apple iOS, and in emerging technologies for computing.
Windows 10 -- Microsoft skipped directly from Windows 8, which got a lackluster response -- is being offered as a free upgrade for most devices, making it possible to be available quickly on billions of devices.
It will allow for voice, pen and gesture input, and in some cases biometric identification for improved security.
Mehdi said the company is rolling out the software in phases to make the transition easier.
"Our top priority has been ensuring that everyone has a great upgrade experience, so, we are carefully rolling out Windows 10 in phases, delivering Windows 10 first to our Windows Insiders," he said.
"While we now have more than 14 million devices running Windows 10, we still have many more upgrades to go before we catch up to each of you that reserved your upgrade."
In one sour note, the chief executive of Mozilla, which makes the Firefox Web browser, complained that Windows 10 imposes the new Edge browser as the default option, overriding choices made by users.
"The update experience appears to have been designed to throw away the choice your customers have made about the Internet experience they want, and replace it with the Internet experience Microsoft wants them to have," Mozilla CEO Chris Beard said in an open letter to his Microsoft counterpart Satya Nadella.
Beard said the new operating system makes it more complicated to choose a competing browser such as Firefox.
"It now takes more than twice the number of mouse clicks, scrolling through content and some technical sophistication for people to reassert the choices they had previously made in earlier versions of Windows," Beard said.
"It's confusing, hard to navigate and easy to get lost."
Beard urged Microsoft to "respect people's right to choice and control of their online experience by making it easier, more obvious and intuitive for people to maintain the choices they have already made through the upgrade experience."
That is what I will probably do, too — buy a Win10 laptop in the future. I will probably wait until Win10-R1 is released. By then, we should know whether Win10 is another wreck.
I already know some hardware and software will likely not work under Win10. I had to jerry-rig some to get them to work even partially from XP to Win7. Some of those software programs are more important than a new OS, because they do not have comparable new programs. I would rather stay with Win7 than have to ditch those programs.
Went without a hitch. Everything but avast VPN works. Avast knows it’s a problem. I did the recommended registry tweak but no dice.
I have an older Dell running Windows 7 that appears to be haunted. I’m hoping Windows 10 will exorcise its demons; otherwise it’s going to the recycle bin.
I downloaded and installed yesterday on one computer (Sony says wait for drivers) my HP.
Took 13 hours start to finish, of course my DSL company is Pony Express.
So far, zero problems, increased speed, lots of new features (upgrade from 7), Less redundancy.
Overall A-
VPN works now all of a sudden but no snipping tool. There is also a program that I no longer need that won’t uninstall. Will try the registry way.
My Tiles are in a start menu, like 7. Some one said 8 upgraders have a choice, tiles or Classic Shell, and to pick the latter.
Lay your hands on the CPU, and repeat after me...
I cast thee out, oh evil binary demons!
Say that 3 times and pour day old coffee (code writers Holy water) on it, and everything should be fine...or not.
May the Gates be with you. :)
Installed it immediately upon release. It is fantastic. A huge improvement. And also better able to adjust for applications that previously didn’t support my laptop with 3200 x 1600 res.
“I use software for productivity.” Amen! My boot time increased with W 10. It was supposed to be faster than 7 and 8.1. Learning a new interface and trying to find where in the heck they hid the salami (controls and settings)in the new applications bogs down progress. I really don’t know yet if APPLE will be an improvement as I have never dealt with it but stability and ease of use leads to efficiency. Something Microsoft seems to have never grasped. It’s always the new and improved something to appeal to the tech set. I’m dumping the alleged “SMART” phones for the same reasons. Cloud storage? I have to laugh. I don’t want anything in a cloud and I certainly do not want to pay for a subscription for anything when programs such as LibreOffice are available. Am I a Luddite? Nope. Just make it so it works and works when I want to use it.
Maybe it’s all Windows 8.1 users. I suppose if I installed that pig, I’d be in a rush to get off it too.
Hi SeekAndFind — please feel free to ping me to your numerous Windows-related threads. I will be happy to ping the Windows List to the ones that seem appropriate for the list, as this one does. Thanks! — Dayglored
Mac/PC Broken Promises https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpOvzGiheOM
But really, this time it will be different. Trust me...
I predict Win10 will do well among consumers, and eventually Microsoft will strong-arm business into it, and that will be that.
Remember, it's the "last version of Windows". Ever. So it's gotta work.
Microsoft wants ONE BILLION and they may well get it.
IMO, the poor folks who are stuck with Win8 (especially 8.0) will be the first to upgrade. Unfortunately, that's a pretty small percentage of Windows users -- after all, Win8 only very recently surpassed WinXP in number of active users.
I run Win7 on my boxes and I'm not planning to migrate to Win10 except on one for bug-reproduction/support reasons.
But if I had a Win8 machine that I had to use every day, I'd be first in line for the Win10 official upgrade.
“Maybe it’s all Windows 8.1 users. I suppose if I installed that pig, I’d be in a rush to get off it too.”
I have 8.1 and in no hurry to upgrade.
I will upgrade next month.
Why do you call it a pig?
“Windows 10 starts the long count-up to 1,000,000,000”
That’s only 72 days at that rate. My guess is it will take a while longer to reach that number.
I have a question if you don’t mind. I ask because I’m not too tech savvy. My wife’s laptop is a somewhat older HP with Win7 and 3 GB RAM on a 64-bit system. Should I upgrade it to Win10 32-bit or 64-bit?
For those who are impatient like me and don't want to "wait their turn" ......
Comes right up, same as always.
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