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  1. Rye83

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    Windows 10 is an entirely new version of the veteran Windows operating system - a version that is make-or-break for Microsoft.

    Even though Windows 8.1 did improve things, there's no escaping that withWindows 8, Microsoft was hugely complacent, buoyed by the success ofWindows 7. It drastically misunderstood its users with a fundamentally changed user interface which didn't make any logical sense and was hard to learn. It failed us. It failed itself.

    Thankfully 2015 Microsoft is pretty different to 2012 Microsoft. The key management of the corporation has changed. It has woken up to the fact that people can choose other operating systems. It's keen on making stuff for OS X, Linux, iOS and Android. As you'll hear, it's allowing apps from other platforms to be easily ported to Windows, too.

    Windows 10 hands on review | TechRadar

    About a week ago I had a notification on my Win 8.1 PC that asked me to reserve a free download of Windows 10. I will be installing it when it comes out. I have never been a huge Windows fan anymore (and I never liked XP, Vista or Win7) so I don't really care if they change how the OS looks. As long as it runs older Windows programs I'm good to go. Though if that Win10 wipes all the files from my Win8.1 partition AND my Linux partition that is dual booted on the same computer I will be furious.
     
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    This is very comprehensive review, I actually read all 6 sections. The laptop I bought last fall had 8.1 so I've been using it for 8-9 months. It's not user-friendly; turning on/off basic things like wifi, b/t, etc should be a one-click deal, not going into Charms>Settings>on and on. The tile desktop/no start menu was just a bad idea, I bought a 3rd party utility just to give me the Start button functionality back - as did many others. As far as performance I have no complaints. It looks like with Win10 they took the novel approach of actually listening to their customers.
     
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    IMO there was nothing wrong with windows 3.1 ....most user friendly of them all :smile::smile::smile::smile:
     
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    I liked DOS 3.3 better, It did what I told it!
    Dos 4.0 was the equivalent of Window Vista.
    FORTRAN was good, aughh the old days.
     
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    I am especially interested in their voice recognition software. I will jump ship and try it if that feature is upgraded
     
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    Installed Windows 10 today. Kinda feels like an updated Windows 7 (maybe what Windows 8 logically should have been). They claim to have a new browser but this "Edge" browser looks like Explorer with a few extra options and a different name. The Cortana feature isn't working for me because of some language/region settings. I'll try to work on getting that going (though I really don't see a need for that).

    Haven't really had time to mess around with much of anything else though.


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    BTW, this was an upgrade from Windows 8.
     
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    Did you need the spanners to upgrade. :roflmao:
     
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    I now jokes aren't any fun if you have to explain them but......I don't get it. :bucktooth:
     
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    Next to your laptop you have two spanners. Americans might call them (wrench)
     
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