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Posted on 07/07/2015 6:16:20 PM PDT by dayglored
Every time I've looked at Windows 10, it hasn't been long before I've run away screaming. As recently as May the ISO was nowhere near ready for prime time. Testing Windows 10 seemed to me like volunteering to be an unpaid drug trial guinea pig – it would be painful and could potentially give you horrible side effects, and you wouldn't even have an envelope of cash at the end to show for it.
Keeping my distance from the very bleeding edge betas gives me some advantages, though. Like a sense of perspective. While bloggers and fanbois get excited over minuscule tweaks, and hail small improvements as earth-shattering milestones ("really polished now," they insist) my criteria are much simpler.
Is this simpler, or better, for getting work done than Windows 7 or 8.1? I'll attempt to answer that here, with the third of Microsoft's releases from last week – build 10162. If you have mostly or completely ignored Windows 10 so far, this is for you.
Overall, there's a lot to like about the overall ambition. I can see, in the far away distance, how Microsoft's disparate services are starting to knit together. I can almost imagine – without hallucinogenic drugs, although I am sure they'd help – how one could swap out a Mac and pick up a PC without too much difficulty. But not yet.
Using Windows 10 in its current state is a bit like getting a whiff of a really outstanding restaurant and being told that, for now, you have to settle for a motorway service station pasty. Do ignore the hardcore enthusiasts babbling away excitedly on fan forums: coming from 8.1, this build still feels very, very raw.
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Remember now, folks, you need to read Orlowski reviews with the knowledge that he’s got his tongue firmly planted in his cheek. No point getting cranky over his wording. :-)
And yes, this thread is mostly of interest to the FReepers who are trying out the “Technical Preview” releases. But I daresay even less technical people might be interested in the review, if they’re thinking of upgrading to Windows 10 when it becomes available.
Seven pages long?
It's a very comprehensive review, which is appropriate as we approach release. There's a lot there to try out and comment on.
later.
Not sure if I'd really consider this an "in-depth" review of the OS as much as just the UI, and the author and I seem to have rather different ideas about what constitutes "doing real work".
But interesting, nonetheless.
Well. it better work because I am in line to get two copies for my current machines that will run it.
Why does Microsoft require me to learn new behaviors when they decide to upgrade their operating systems. Honda doesn’t make me learn how to drive differently when I buy a new car.
Good point. I guess he's concentrating on the things the users will look for, find, and work with directly.
A solid technical review of the undercarriage has yet to emerge, AFAIK.
That, IMO, is one of the biggest, if not THE biggest, difference between Windows and OS-X releases.
OS-X releases tend to look damn near identical with regard to how you use them. They play with the colors and shapes a little, but you can take 10.10 from 2014 and 10.2 from 2002 and they operate pretty much the same for the user.
Windows releases tend to change all sorts of things in major ways, hiding familiar icons, eliminating necessary functions, and the things that are still there don't work like they used to.
Why does Microsoft do that? I dunno... Because they can?
Now THAT is disturbing. :-)
If you have not used and familiarized yourself with 8 or 8.1, this will be quite a shock to just dive into..
It has taken me quite some time to learn and be comfortable with win 8, which is on my Surface tablet. I was a early tester (beta) for 8 on my laptop that has win 7 on it...and my first experience with it was not very good at all. I even dumped it and went back to 7..
But it is time to bite the bullet and get accustomed to tiles....It’s not hard to adjust with a phone, but it’s a real chore on a desktop.
Thanks for the warning - you must have heard my wind-up pitch....;’)
I'll still wait a month or two... but it won't be easy.
This is an excellent complaint and one that almost everyone hears.....except Microsoft.
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