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A thread is needed. Surprised no one has rubbished it yet. Is it as bad as they say?
^^^^ this and you can apply it to nearly anything these daysIt'll be hated by most when it comes out, people will spend ages arguing over minutiae and then we'll all grow to like it in 6+ months time.
Windows 2 you mean?
It'll be hated by most when it comes out, people will spend ages arguing over minutiae and then we'll all grow to like it in 6+ months time.
Likeise. Whether it will ever finish downloading on our basic ADSL (8Mbps) shared around the whole office is another matter. Last OS DVD image I downloaded took three attempts, probably not helped by people streaming music at the same time . I got it to complete in the end by starting it going at 8am so it finished before most people arrived...downloading the preview from msdn. something to break up a boring friday
Mine didn't finish downloading by lunchtime when I finished for the weekend (claiming some time of in lieu due to time spent patching bash across servers evenings and last weekend) so will have to have a look on Monday if not too busy.i like the look straight off the bat. even in a low spec VM its snappy.
Windows 2 you mean?
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Not that odd, it's a 4GB download and we are on ADSLMax, which means about 600KBps if no-one is trying to stream music or whatever.odd, mine was done in a few mins.
I had a quick play before I left work this evening. It looks like the love child of Windows 7 and Windows 8.1.
So Windows 9 never took off?
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If(os.version.StartsWith("Windows 9") { // Win95/98
// stuff
}
Yep. I often snap the music player to the side, or the Twitter app, or the weather, or the news doodad.Does anyone here use metro apps in Win 8x?
You missed the next part of the codeAllegedly, the reason for skipping 9 was this surprisingly common, nasty little code snippet :
To be honest if windows 10 is as bad as 8 I wouldnt bother. Stick with Windows 7, stable and does what it says on the tin lol.
Windows 8 / 8.1 isn't bad, it's just different.why is windows 8 so bad? from metro you can get to desktop by clicking 1 tile, and then its pretty much windows 7, but without a start button
Windows 8 / 8.1 isn't bad, it's just different.
It makes sense on a touch screen device, but mouse driven, it just doesn't, and apps taking the whole display is plain annoying when you are used to multiple programs open at the same time.
Kudos to MS for trying something new, but even more kudos to them for admitting that it needed improving.
I hope you're providing lots and lots of feedback to MS - after all, that's the whole point of them releasing this unfinished, nowhere-near-beta, don't-run-it-on-anything-you-care-about Technical PreviewCouldn't agree more, as opposed to just branding it bad like a lot people....
Anyway, my Windows 10 teething problems are beginning to hit critical-mass I think Windows 10 has a problem with the hybrid graphics of my Precision M4800 or at least the driver as getting all kinds of graphical annoyances, even switched it to Integrated Intel all the time, but still get the problem. Need to test further but will not be happy if I have to rollback to 8.1
On another note, using the Windows Server 10 Technical Preview at work on one of our redundant servers and noticed Network Access Protection has gone AWOL!! Quite glad I never deployed it and relied upon hardware appliances to do that job!