Windows 10

I installed it from scratch in a Hyper-V VM.

Eh.

It's still a shit sandwich, only the bread has changed.

Jilariz_sl said:

In the Technical Preview release I installed today, there is an option to disable the Start Menu and use the Start Screen.

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Great! Thanks for letting me know.

Windows Technical Preview - Microsoft Windows


do it boys..

I wonder if I could get this on my Surface RT2 ... is it ARM and x86 full compatibility?

This is why they are skipping the name Windows 9:

Microsoft dev here, the internal rumours are that early testing revealed just how many third party products that had code of the form

if(version.StartsWith("Windows 9")) { /* 95 and 98 */ } else {

and that this was the pragmatic solution to avoid that.

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Basically, this snippet of code is used in tons of 3rd party software that is compatible with multiple Windows versions.

Seems like the simplest explanation, although I'm sure distancing themselves from Windows 8 doesn't hurt.

Man0warr_sl said:

This is why they are skipping the name Windows 9:



Basically, this snippet of code is used in tons of 3rd party software that is compatible with multiple Windows versions.

Seems like the simplest explanation, although I'm sure distancing themselves from Windows 8 doesn't hurt.

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Code shortcuts always cause the most random odd reasons for doing things... at least they saw it and prepared for it ahead of time

Man0warr_sl said:

This is why they are skipping the name Windows 9:



Basically, this snippet of code is used in tons of 3rd party software that is compatible with multiple Windows versions.

Seems like the simplest explanation, although I'm sure distancing themselves from Windows 8 doesn't hurt.

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God I just shit my pants reading that explanation. Such lazy programming

Edit: Windows 10 preview for ARM devices isn't coming until later

Installed 10 last night in a Hyper-V and it's pretty sweet. UI all around is smoother, windows have a nice fade in/out, etc. New start menu is pretty slick. You can drag resize it and add or remove basically as many tiles as you want to it. Being able to run modern apps on the desktop makes them more useful, but they still have some minimum sizes; can't resize them to just anything you want quite yet.

One thing I really like is that MS finally fucking added native virtual desktops. It's about time.

IMO regarding the name they missed the potential of just simplifying to "Windows." No one gives a fuck about version numbers, and it would really bring home their plan to unify all devices.

I mean you can have a version number available in the code so you don't fuck up queries, but the '10' doesn't need to be part of their branding or marketing.

NoodleAnus_sl said:

God I just shit my pants reading that explanation. Such lazy programming

Edit: Windows 10 preview for ARM devices isn't coming until later

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Someone posted that code snippet on imgur and people who called it clever and inventive were getting upvotes. I called it terrifying and insane and got downvoted. WTF is wrong with people?

NoodleAnus_sl said:

God I just shit my pants reading that explanation. Such lazy programming

Edit: Windows 10 preview for ARM devices isn't coming until later

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gotcha, I look forward to the ARM version...but isn't having an ARM and x86 version contrary to the point? or will the ARM compatability just be overall unified into the system... it would be awesome to make my surface rt 2 "a real boy"

this may actually increase the value of the RT surfaces if you can get w10 on em and they are full fledged machines (hardware limitations not withstanding)

It depends.. Skylake will be great but ARM is a completely different beast. There are so many ARM variants out there that are evolving everyday. That said, if they can find a common architecture that has similar price and performance points to ARM then that is it.

x86/64 code will never run on ARM though, that will always be true. The architectures are way different.

Microsoft's versioning scheme is way out of date. They should just use a roman numeral for the number 10 and then for each incremental release don't use a dot number which is confusing lets just all admit that right now. Just call each release afterwards a succession of popular animals in a genus. For example: Microsoft OS X Husky, Microsoft OS X Labrador, etc..

Sounds homo.