Windows® 10 new build looks very good, but anyone who installs a CTP or Beta of any product in anything but a VM is a fool. On modern hardware you can easily run Windows® 10, a Windows® 8.1 instance with VS2015, and your own bare metal with VS2013 and your production tool-chain on the same box at the same time. With bridged adapters it looks no different -- and if you have enough memory -- performs better than three networked PC's.
Well, yes, of course. I would certainly hope anyone savvy enough to be fooling around with pre-release builds knows enough to do so in a safe and suitable manner. Virtual environments have been around for long enough, and the free versions are powerful enough, that there's rarely any excuse for putting anything but a hypervisor on bare metal.
If that's what it takes to upgrade from Windows 7 to Windows 8.1, I'll pass. Sounds like an invitation to join the Borg or something.
I just want a stable operating system that I'm not forced to abandon every three to five years. I liked XP a lot, then settled in nicely with 7. Now folks are trying to get me to move again. Sheeesh...
I find it funny, almost embarrassingly so, that people can’t adapt to W8. I think it’s great. It runs smoothly and I never have any crashes. I really don’t understand the mindset of “I hate Metro”.