I’ve run windows 8 on my 3 primary systems since it came out. 8.1 pretty much solved every beef I had with it. The revived start button, and the right click context menu you get with it, allows total system management easier than Windows 7 did. And it boots/shuts down faster.
Windows 10 will bring even more of the Windows 7 Start button back, which is only a good thing in my book.
It will also provide fully integration for the Microsoft Account features. Love it or hate it for privacy, the battle lies in how well it can connect all your important files, schedules and information together between devices.
From what I’ve managed to get working in the last week between my Windows Phone 8.1 and all of my desktops being synced I am SERIOUSLY impressed. Google and Apple are mere toys in comparison.
If you are a Windows wonk, it’s time to look into what you can do with a Microsoft Account, OneDrive, One Note and a Windows 8.1 Phone.
Look at what you can do. You’ll be impressed. And you can do it with Microsoft and Windows instead of making Google even more omnipotent or being trapped in the Apple ecosystem.
Good post. I’ve tried the W10 preview; 7 users will really like it. I’m rather interested in seeing “Continuum” so that my next phone can plug (or connect wirelessly) into my monitor and keyboard and *become* my PC. (Not a gaming PC, of course, but even today’s tablets and phones are fast enough for general purpose computing).
Also, the W10 license will allow us to do a complete fresh install after the upgrade (ref. http://www.windowscentral.com/dont-worry-windows-10-can-be-reinstalled-cleanly-if-need-be-after-free-upgrade).
This is key for me, since I hate starting a new OS with all the detritus of registry entries for no longer used programs and other junk.
I admit to the truth of what you say, but it applies to the Windows-only world, not the one I live and work in.
I work every day, and work/play every night, in a world comprised of Windows, Mac OSX, Ubuntu Linux, CentOS Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, Solaris, and a few others at times.
Interoperability and portability are my watchwords.
A Windows-only solution works well in a Microsoft shop. No argument. You should feel lucky you are (I infer) able to live and work in one. It makes life simple.
I tried to convince the resident terrorists at my high school to get every student a .NET Passport and a Windows 8 netbook. (Yes, I went to a charter school where the administrators were Moslems)
Instead they went with the IBM-Legend (Red China) Chromebook, which is literally nothing more than a web browser with a thin Linux shrink-wrap (it’s almost invisible—you couldn’t even run native Linux apps from it!)
This despite the fact that you can cripple Windows NT for student use more effectively than you can do to a WEB BROWSER.
Within three weeks, students figured out how to unlock and disable the basic/shoddy security features that were added.
Total nightmare, considering that I had to deal with the problem to some extent—the IT tech was a terrorist who spoke little English; I speak little Turkish.