Poll: Are you going to install the Windows 10 preview, and if yes how?


  

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  1. 1. Are you going to install the Windows 10 preview, and if yes how?

    • Yes, as primary OS on my primary PC.
      46
    • Yes, as secondary OS on my primary PC.
      16
    • Yes, on a secondary PC.
      20
    • Yes, in a virtual machine.
      55
    • Maybe when the OS has matured some more.
      4
    • No.
      11


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As for myself: I am going to install Windows 10 preview in a virtual machine and watch its progress as Microsoft updates the preview. The main reason? We're using Windows 7 at work and will at some point need an upgrade path. Windows 8.x has been deemed unsuitable by the powers that be; Windows 10 on the other hand looks promising.

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You're not able to upgrade from one TP to another, right? I'm installing it on a VM anyway, so it doesn't matter to me.

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You're not able to upgrade from on TP to another, right? I'm installing it on a VM anyway, so it doesn't matter to me.

The way I understand it they're going to have a form of rolling release for the Win10 preview - new features being added on a monthly or bi-monthly basis via Windows Update.

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As always I'll install it on my main everyday laptop and reinstall each time a new build "appears" :)..

 

Do we have an actual time the links will be active? I finish work soon so I'm hoping it's out before I have to go to sleep tonight.

 

I miss the Microsoft beta program. I was in the private MS betas for Vista, Windows 7 and office 2010. Used to get all the good stuff...not anymore :(

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I'd expect the download links to be active by around 9 or 10 am Pacific Time - i.e. 9 - 10 h from now.

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I'd expect the download links to be active by around 9 or 10 am Pacific Time - i.e. 9 - 10 h from now.

 

Damn, looks like I won't be installing it until this time tomorrow  :(

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Anyone who doesn't install it as primary OS, throwing all caution to the wind, is not a real man :D

 

(honestly, these previews are very stable, I've done it for 7 and 8, see no reason not to do it)

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If you are interested, you could try to upgrade on-line from Win7, MS had first planned it for testers but I heard they are going to release the tool public so anybody could take a shot if they like to.

 

The MS paper said that you would need to upgrade from a retail-activated 7, X86/X64. any SKU, installed on bare-metal. Don't know if it would work if other than that.

 

Naturally, if you use win7 as main OS and wish to try on it, it's your decision,..... and your own risks. :)

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As I have done with every pre-release (or otherwise public in-development build) since Vista, I'll be installing the Windows 10 TP over my current Windows 8.1 install.

 

I figure there's no possible way it could be worse than the Vista beta(s) were which tbh were pretty much like the final build in relation to stability and perf.

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As I have done with every pre-release (or otherwise public in-development build) since Vista, I'll be installing the Windows 10 TP over my current Windows 8.1 install.

 

I figure there's no possible way it could be worse than the Vista beta(s) were which tbh were pretty much like the final build in relation to stability and perf.

Aren't you afraid that everything could change during those 6 whole months before the public release? Also what was that thing about just scratching the surface? Whose Surface was it? :o

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As for myself: I am going to install Windows 10 preview in a virtual machine and watch its progress as Microsoft updates the preview. The main reason? We're using Windows 7 at work and will at some point need an upgrade path. Windows 8.x has been deemed unsuitable by the powers that be; Windows 10 on the other hand looks promising.

 

Same, but i get Windows 8, would hate to deploy it and teach people it!

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I'll install it on my main PC, dual-booting with Win 7 (as I now dual boot 7 & 8). At first I thought about installing it in a VM, but since the Win 8 DP was reasonably stable and I installed that on actual hardware, I see no reason I wouldn't do it for the Technical Preview. 

 

Can't wait to play with the snaps and virtual desktops. :D

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Yup. Will be here as with every release since 2000. 

 

In the past it has always been the poor old laptop that suffered the indignity of being butchered for the job, but as it's pretty vital to a job i'm working on at the mo, it'll be Virtualbox for me this time round.

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I've run the preview builds of 7 and 8 as my main OS, so I see no reason to change that with the next preview. Onwards and upwards :D

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My Primary PC (or laptop) is my work laptop so I can't afford that risk. I remember having a lot of issues with Win 8 preview around things like .net and some other stuff not installing which then prevented me from using things like Vcenter which was a must.

 

Id love to do it though as I think its the only way to get a good grip on how the OS works.

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I'm sure I'll install it on a vm and some real hardware that I've been meaning to do a clean install in, then I have something to do with while I am backing up my main system to reformat that :)

 

Ok maybe I will actually test compatibility of a few things first but I expect to reformat the main system this weekend. Not quite sure about my server just yet, I did upgrade my DC to 2012 and 2012 release previews but technical preview might be a little too adventurous for all my 2012r2 vms.

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My Primary PC (or laptop) is my work laptop so I can't afford that risk. I remember having a lot of issues with Win 8 preview around things like .net and some other stuff not installing which then prevented me from using things like Vcenter which was a must.

 

Id love to do it though as I think its the only way to get a good grip on how the OS works.

Yeah but that was mainly to do with the early stages of the Modern UI right? :P But I agree that a work laptop must be properly operational!

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Yeah but that was mainly to do with the early stages of the Modern UI right? :p But I agree that a work laptop must be properly operational!

 

Actually no, I can't remember the exact details but trying to add .net via the add features menu would give me errors, took me a while to get it working properly so I ended up connecting to servers instead of using remote access for a lot of things. I'm one of the rare people who like Windows 8 and not looking forward to Win 10 bringing back a slightly more traditional start menu :(

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I plan on creating a seperate partition on my main PC for it. 

 

We CAN upgrade from Windows 7 to it right? 

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I consider my home PC my secondary PC as opposed to my work laptop, which will stay with Windows 8.1.  I'm planning on formatting it over the weekend.  I also work with Sharp Aquos Boards, which are 60", 70" and 80" touch panels and I want to install it on one of our PCs to see how it works at that scale.

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