Murph Posted December 11, 2014 Share Posted December 11, 2014 Will it be a winner, or will it be an over priced POS? I expect that Microsoft will try to split the baby in terms of Windows 8 crap, and getting desktop folks back on board. I think they will price it very high, and make it expensive. I think they will demand you use the cloud (unsecure, hackable, snoopable) for your storage. I think they will insist on a Microsoft account as a condition of use. I pray that they do this one right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CT96 Posted December 12, 2014 Share Posted December 12, 2014 I actually have a developer prerelease of it... but I haven't had a chance to play with it yet. Maybe this weekend? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corinthian Posted December 12, 2014 Share Posted December 12, 2014 Win98SE - okWinME - failWinXP - okWinVista - failWin7 - okWin8 - failWin 9 - skippedWin 10 - fail...? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rickard N Posted December 12, 2014 Share Posted December 12, 2014 Said it before, will say it again. I don't see win 8/8.1 as a failure. I've used it for roughly two years now and I don't have any serious issues. (with not so big issues I culdn naem is that my background picture change the way it's positioned on reboot). As for cloud storage, it will be available but I don't see that everything will be in the cloud, maybe a microsoft account but I'm not sure about that. I wonder how they will reinstate the start menu, not that I've actually missed it all that much. I hope that they will make it more intuitive to choose it you want to use an app or a desktop program for different situations. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bojan Posted December 12, 2014 Share Posted December 12, 2014 Win98SE - okWinME - failWinXP - okWinVista - failWin7 - okWin8 - failWin 9 - skippedWin 10 - fail...? You forgot best one they made - Win 2000. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ivanhoe Posted December 12, 2014 Share Posted December 12, 2014 Where I work, we get about 5 up and 1 down, on a good day, and about 100kbps bi when there's a kink in the pipe. Using Office 365 is painful and frustrating when we are getting full bandwidth, enraging when the pipe ain't flowing. Doing cloud storage would be the death blow to this organization. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colin Posted December 12, 2014 Share Posted December 12, 2014 My vista keeps chugging along, it's not bad, but it's not great either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shep854 Posted December 16, 2014 Share Posted December 16, 2014 Since I use my computer mainly for surfing (including YouTube) and email, I haven't had any real problems until 8, where I find the tiles useless and annoying.Hopefully 10 will separate the tiles part into a separate tablet OS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Murph Posted December 17, 2014 Author Share Posted December 17, 2014 8 and now 8.1 are on my daughters laptop, and she hates all the tablet crap on her laptop, and no start button until I added Classic shell. I have to give 8 this, its stable, but the interface sucks. I really hope 10 is better. Since I use my computer mainly for surfing (including YouTube) and email, I haven't had any real problems until 8, where I find the tiles useless and annoying.Hopefully 10 will separate the tiles part into a separate tablet OS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T19 Posted December 17, 2014 Share Posted December 17, 2014 Win98SE - okWinME - failWinXP - okWinVista - failWin7 - okWin8 - failWin 9 - skippedWin 10 - fail...? You forgot best one they made - Win 2000. The should have stopped at Windows 3.11 for Workgroups Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shep854 Posted December 17, 2014 Share Posted December 17, 2014 8 and now 8.1 are on my daughters laptop, and she hates all the tablet crap on her laptop, and no start button until I added Classic shell. I have to give 8 this, its stable, but the interface sucks. I really hope 10 is better. Since I use my computer mainly for surfing (including YouTube) and email, I haven't had any real problems until 8, where I find the tiles useless and annoying.Hopefully 10 will separate the tiles part into a separate tablet OS. The Toshiba I'm now using isn't hopping between the desktop and tiles like my recent ASUS did. A lot of that was that there was a touchpad motion that would swap between DT and tiles. This doesn't happen with the Toshiba; perhaps an update changed it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ivanhoe Posted December 17, 2014 Share Posted December 17, 2014 That's one of the issues we are all going to have with touchscreen technology; the way the touchpad/touchscreen drivers interact with the GUI. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corinthian Posted December 18, 2014 Share Posted December 18, 2014 (edited) XP SP3 on my ye olde laptop for office work. I am afraid to retire it huhuhuhuhu.... 8.1 on my gaming laptop. Stable so far, but it's IMO "not as efficient" as XP. Edited December 18, 2014 by Corinthian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corinthian Posted December 18, 2014 Share Posted December 18, 2014 (edited) The Toshiba I'm now using That's your problem right there. Edited December 18, 2014 by Corinthian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ivanhoe Posted December 21, 2014 Share Posted December 21, 2014 I have created a win10 preview edition VM, using VMware Workstation 10, on my home desktop. So far, not too impressed. Start button is half Win7, half Win8. MS still stuck on the Libraries thing. Haven't yet found a way to remove the tiles from the Start menu. Powering down seems to take forever, but that may be an artifact of virtual HW not OS cogitations. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Posted December 21, 2014 Share Posted December 21, 2014 My vista keeps chugging along, it's not bad, but it's not great either. Mine too, it was a mature version when I got this computer so I guess most of the bad stuff had been ironed out. I figure now that they've pulled the plug on XP, Vista will be next. Then I'll be forced to do something. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shep854 Posted December 22, 2014 Share Posted December 22, 2014 (edited) The Toshiba I'm now using That's your problem right there. The computer is doing fine. They must be sending monkey models and rejects to the Philippines... Edited December 22, 2014 by shep854 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colin Posted December 22, 2014 Share Posted December 22, 2014 (edited) I am looking at getting another PC early next year, likely going with Win 7 as an OS. The Federal government just moved from XP to Win 7 so I expect it will be around for a good number of years. Large organizations do not like to change OS often and for good reason. Edited December 22, 2014 by Colin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anduriel Posted December 24, 2014 Share Posted December 24, 2014 Win98SE - okWinME - failWinXP - okWinVista - failWin7 - okWin8 - failWin 9 - skippedWin 10 - fail...? You forgot win 95 - semi fail, because novel, Win 98 - fail; Win 2000 - Epic win, Win 8.1 - ok. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Murph Posted December 30, 2014 Author Share Posted December 30, 2014 I just installed a Razer Blackwidow Ultimate keyboard, and it was painful. Also I used CCleaner to clean up approx 3.5 gigs of cruft on my computer. I hope that Windows 10 actively enforces program control to keep sh*t from building up on the computer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rickard N Posted December 30, 2014 Share Posted December 30, 2014 Murph, do you run as a non-admin user? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Murph Posted December 31, 2014 Author Share Posted December 31, 2014 Most of the time I do. Murph, do you run as a non-admin user? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rickard N Posted January 2, 2015 Share Posted January 2, 2015 That's a good way of getting rid of much crap. Most windows users, myself included, runs as an administrator which can make it easier for trojans and stuff to be installed. That's one of the things you get rid of using a Mac IIRC, you "can't" run it as an administrator. Somehow we are used to running windows as an admin user which is not always desireable. /R Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ssnake Posted January 2, 2015 Share Posted January 2, 2015 Most windows users, myself included, runs as an administrator ... Not since Windows 7.You may run your system as a pseudo-admin, and you don't need to log off and on again to get admin things done, but at least you still need to confirm that it's you who ordered these activities. Combined with memory obfuscation this really helped to drive down infection rates to about a tenth of the level that you had with the late Win XP while it was still supported. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Archie Pellagio Posted January 2, 2015 Share Posted January 2, 2015 Wait what happened to Windows 9? As for MS ditching Win 7 - Not gonna happen, a lot of corporate and particularly goverment systems are only just starting the move to Win 7.Combine this with the shenanigans with using Win 8/8.1 and Win 7 will be the New XP, around for a long, long time... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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