Windows 10

@IRJ said:

Here is a link for anyone interested in reading about it

http://blogs.windows.com/bloggingwindows/2014/09/30/announcing-windows-10/

Thanks...downloading the Technical Preview...going to virtualize it for now...

Let us know what you think! No time to play with it here today.

Dashrender

Thanks IRJ for posting the link - I would have missed it until tomorrow.

I think I'm going to buy this same tablet Garak has and use that as a platform for win10

IRJ

@garak0410 said:

@IRJ said:

Here is a link for anyone interested in reading about it

http://blogs.windows.com/bloggingwindows/2014/09/30/announcing-windows-10/

Thanks...downloading the Technical Preview...going to virtualize it for now...

I am doing the same thing. I am going to run it off my Windows 8.1 Hyper V manager

IRJ

I have been using Windows 10 for about 20 minutes now. At first glimpse, I like it.

You can switch back to the Windows 8 start screen if you prefer it over the start button. I have gotten used to it so I switched back to the Metro UI. Metro UI is pretty much the same. It has some more useful tiles out of the box, though

As of now I see no way to bring the charm bar back (which I actually like)
It has a really cool shortcut link to the application manager kind of like an android phone. You can click the

IRJ

@ajstringham said:

Looking forward to Microsoft finally catching up to every other OS out there in many ways.

Can you elaborate?

Dashrender

@IRJ said:

@ajstringham said:

Looking forward to Microsoft finally catching up to every other OS out there in many ways.

Can you elaborate?

yes please.
And additional desktops - does OS X have that?

thanksajdotcom

@Dashrender said:

@IRJ said:

@ajstringham said:

Looking forward to Microsoft finally catching up to every other OS out there in many ways.

Can you elaborate?

yes please.
And additional desktops - does OS X have that?

OS X has had multiple desktops for years. I'm glad Microsoft is add the feature in, and that they brought back the start MENU, and not a button that still goes to the metro interface.

scottalanmiller

@Dashrender said:

And additional desktops - does OS X have that?

UNIX had that at least back to 1998 (pre OSX era) as we were using them on Linux with KDE then. I believe that the predate that a bit too, but that was the first that they were extremely mainstream and that even our non-technical people were using them.

IRJ

@ajstringham said:

@Dashrender said:

@IRJ said:

@ajstringham said:

Looking forward to Microsoft finally catching up to every other OS out there in many ways.

Can you elaborate?

yes please.
And additional desktops - does OS X have that?

OS X has had multiple desktops for years. I'm glad Microsoft is add the feature in, and that they brought back the start MENU, and not a button that still goes to the metro interface.

So how does Microsoft need to catch up?

thanksajdotcom

@IRJ said:

@ajstringham said:

@Dashrender said:

@IRJ said:

@ajstringham said:

Looking forward to Microsoft finally catching up to every other OS out there in many ways.

Can you elaborate?

yes please.
And additional desktops - does OS X have that?

OS X has had multiple desktops for years. I'm glad Microsoft is add the feature in, and that they brought back the start MENU, and not a button that still goes to the metro interface.

So how does Microsoft need to catch up?

Microsoft has often not added in features other OSes have had, and have stuck to a certain path. Multiple virtual desktops is a huge step forward in my mind, because even though they're behind the curve, they are at least waking up.

Dashrender

@ajstringham said:

@IRJ said:

@ajstringham said:

@Dashrender said:

@IRJ said:

@ajstringham said:

Looking forward to Microsoft finally catching up to every other OS out there in many ways.

Can you elaborate?

yes please.
And additional desktops - does OS X have that?

OS X has had multiple desktops for years. I'm glad Microsoft is add the feature in, and that they brought back the start MENU, and not a button that still goes to the metro interface.

So how does Microsoft need to catch up?

Microsoft has often not added in features other OSes have had, and have stuck to a certain path. Multiple virtual desktops is a huge step forward in my mind, because even though they're behind the curve, they are at least waking up.

OK what other features are they missing?

scottalanmiller

@IRJ said:

So how does Microsoft need to catch up?

How do you define an amount? As of Windows 8.1. it is running more than sixteen years behind in some pretty common features. But Windows 10 should fix some of that. But that is just one feature. They are different OSes. For sixteen years it has been a "feature they don't want to provide." Now that they have added it, it shows that it was really that they were just lagging.

What about native networked interface? I'm sure they don't want to do that, but if they do it in ten years, they will have lagged thirty years. It's completely subjective.

scottalanmiller

@Dashrender said:

OK what other features are they missing?

Native network is massive. Native multi-user is pretty massive. That's less a feature and more a license limitation, but still.

What about paravirtualization and containerization options?

thanksajdotcom

@Dashrender said:

@ajstringham said:

@IRJ said:

@ajstringham said:

@Dashrender said:

@IRJ said:

@ajstringham said:

Looking forward to Microsoft finally catching up to every other OS out there in many ways.

Can you elaborate?

yes please.
And additional desktops - does OS X have that?

OS X has had multiple desktops for years. I'm glad Microsoft is add the feature in, and that they brought back the start MENU, and not a button that still goes to the metro interface.

So how does Microsoft need to catch up?

Microsoft has often not added in features other OSes have had, and have stuck to a certain path. Multiple virtual desktops is a huge step forward in my mind, because even though they're behind the curve, they are at least waking up.

OK what other features are they missing?

Off-hand, I'm drawing a blank. This was a big one I added on my first XP desktop with a 3rd party utility. That was back in 2006. My Ubuntu box had that, as had the OS for years, back in 2005.