I have tried a variety of operating systems, I keep coming back to Windows, jokes aside it works.
Windows 10, friends of mine have downloaded the beta versions of Windows 10 and told me how wonderful it was but I didn’t.
I have a couple of desktop computers that I use frequently, I sit at one most of the day at work, have one for me and my wife at home, I also use a large laptop and the Microsoft surface Pro 2, and oh I forgot a little Lenovo tablet that runs 8.1 full version. I like them all.
I spend most time at work in front of the Windows 7 and use the XP window that came with it. I do not yet know if that will work in 10, but I’ll find out before I convert to 10 on my workstation. But I have decided to convert on my surface, I did it two days ago.
The Microsoft surface Pro tablet is one very fine device, expensive but oh it is one fine machine. It will handle anything I throw at it including illustrator and Photoshop. When I hook it up to an external monitor keyboard mouse and hard drive it will compete with most high-end desktop computers. So, what do I think of 10 so far? I was annoyed when I reserved my copy of 10 and then found that Microsoft had downloaded the thing on my computer without ever asking. If I would’ve done just a cursory little bit of investigation I would’ve known then in advance, I should have and then I could have avoided the download had I wanted to. Mind you I thoroughly enjoyed Windows 8.1, I thought it was perfect for my tablets, very easy to get around in. I never, never turn my iPad on anymore. After watching the Windows 10 YouTube videos I had pretty much decided I wasn’t going to install it. I use a Samsung galaxy note 3 cell phone, it comes with Google voice and Samsung speech recognition program and they are both wonderful and very convenient, driving down the highway and there’s a conversation in the car you want to know the answer of, just double tap the button and ask Google voice and it comes back with an answer. After watching a couple of demonstrations of Microsoft Cortana I kept thinking about how nice that would be to have on a Windows machine. So now I have it, I like it.
After you install Windows 10 plan on spending some time tweaking it. I have the power cover on my Surface Pro 2 which increases my battery life by about 60% or so, I can usually get a pretty substantial ten-hour day from the surface when I need it. After installing 10 I was lucky to get three hours. The stock set up would never turn the processor off and turned every radio on the machine on all the time. After tweaking I think I’m back up past my 10 hours, I was able to run four hours last night and the battery display said 50% of the power cover was used and none of the internal battery was used, that made me very happy.
One thing disappointing about the surface Pro two has been boot time, it would often take 30 or 40 seconds just to boot up, now it takes less than 10 seconds.
So far I am thinking that my Windows 10 installation and I am going to get along very, very well.
In the spring of 2013 purchased an iPad which our company uses for field work. Though I like many things about it, I miss a mouse and of course Mac still has a ban on Adobe Flash (yeah I know, Flash has security issues). Not yet ready to give it up, but my next tablet will have a plug for a mouse.