[OFFICIAL] Windows 10 Insider Program

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Windows Technical Preview  

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  1. 1. On a scale of 1-5, 1 being worst, 5 being best. What do you think of Windows 10 from the leaks so far?

    • 5.Great, best OS ever
      156
    • 4. Pretty Good, needs a lot of minor tweaks
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    • 3. OK, Needs a few major improvements, some minor ones
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    • 2. Fine, Needs a lot of major improvements
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    • 1.Poor, Needs too many improvements, all hope is lost, never going to use it
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  2. 2. Based on the recent leaks by Neowin and Winfuture.de, my next OS upgrade will be?

    • Windows 10
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    • Windows 7
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    • Sticking with XP
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    • OSX Yosemite
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  3. 3. Should Microsoft give away Windows 10 for free?

    • Yes for Windows 8.1 Users
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    • Yes for Vista and above users
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    • Yes for XP and above users
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They were pretty clear that this build is for desktops and laptops and not for touch but for keyboard and mouse users.   Touch things not working is to be expected at this point.

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Don't expect anything new from the apps, they're the same ones you get now on Windows 8.1, those aren't tied to the OS so a new OS version doesn't bring new versions of those apps with it like the old days.

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kala-kas

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Tried it out. Needs to cook a little more until I run it as my daily driver. Some things just annoy me, the taskbar got more clutter in my eyes, I cant unpin the search icon for example. These little things annoy me, animations are kind of a slow side, rather turn them off at all, not huge fan of the start menu ( I know I can still use the start screen). A lot of inconsistencies here and there.

 

I know I know, its an early stage, but it is not good enough to be my main operating system as of yet. Just my 2 cents

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-Killing off Silverlight would be a good move. It may happen, as Windows Update for 10 does not offer Silverlight.

-Old pre-XP technologies that are barely used today should also be removed from the OS. Instead, offer compelling replacements (APIs, libraries, whatever) in WinRT, now that WinRT apps can be run in windows.

 

Don't expect anything new from the apps, they're the same ones you get now on Windows 8.1, those aren't tied to the OS so a new OS version doesn't bring new versions of those apps with it like the old days.

 

True. But still, they should compensate by removing the old desktop apps and creating a roadmap to add their features into the WinRT apps.

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-Killing off Silverlight would be a good move. It may happen, as Windows Update for 10 does not offer Silverlight.

-Old pre-XP technologies that are barely used today should also be removed from the OS. Instead, offer compelling replacements (APIs, libraries, whatever) in WinRT, now that WinRT apps can be run in windows.

 

 

True. But still, they should compensate by removing the old desktop apps and creating a roadmap to add their features into the WinRT apps.

 

 

I agree with all of that, and I think they will do much if not all of the above but this is just the first step till the final version we'll get next year.  We're talking another 6 months at the least, could be 8 months.   As WinRT keeps getting more mature they'll start taking out all the old stuff that's not needed anymore, I have no doubt, they'll want to get more and more developers on WinRT for the future.

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Well, they kind of broke the whole tablet interface... IE Modern is gone, and apps refuse to start in their normal fullscreen mode, and instead open in the desktop windowed.

It's part of that reversion to what is familiar - especially for enterprise users.

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Gorilambo

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Been running it for a couple of hours and I can say it looks very stable now. I'll try playing DIablo 3 and installing other of my games here.
I had to switch back to the start screen, though. Start menu looks cluttered (IMO).

 

LOVED the way they removed all windows borders and added nice shadows beneath them. I notice modern apps do not have na opening animation yet -- it should be available in a next few updates.

 

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Been running it for a couple of hours and I can say it looks very stable now. I'll try playing DIablo 3 and installing other of my games here.

I had to switch back to the start screen, though. Start menu looks cluttered (IMO).

 

LOVED the way they removed all windows borders and added nice shadows beneath them. I notice modern apps do not have na opening animation yet -- it should be available in a next few updates.

 

The borderless windows are indeed a nice touch - it's one thing that 8.1 lacked.

 

That game-compatibility is the why behind my other bare-metal install - I'll be throwing my most-played games at the Technical Preview for seat-of-pants testing.

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Been running it for a couple of hours and I can say it looks very stable now. I'll try playing DIablo 3 and installing other of my games here.

I had to switch back to the start screen, though. Start menu looks cluttered (IMO).

 

 

Please report back if gaming performance is improved.

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Quillz

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The close widgets bug me. There is a 1px border above the close widget, but not to the right. When full screen, there is no border above, but now a 4px space to the right.

Very inconsistent.

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any games that use directdraw still slow as hell.

 

blood 2 for me still runs at 10fps. if I disable light maps. it goes up to 23fps. lol

 

in windows 7 the games runs 60+fps.

 

older command and conquer games the same way.

 

 

I guess I'm going to be stuck with dualbooting/vmware windows 7 for years for the legacy stuff

 

 

 

also microsoft used an old driver for my atheros nic and buggy via usb 3.0 drivers.

 

I had to update the nic drivers to get faster speeds. driver they provided was giving slow speeds.

 

and had to roll back the via usb drivers to older version so my logitech g5 mouse would work.

 

 

other then that. this windows version flies on my system.

 

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Managed to bump into a mouse hovering issue in the All Apps list. Sent the report through the Windows Feedback application.

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Issues aside, I'm really liking the TP so far. Would run it as my main OS for the duration of the preview.

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G0ldenheaven

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any games that use directdraw still slow as hell.

 

blood 2 for me still runs at 10fps. if I disable light maps. it goes up to 23fps. lol

 

in windows 7 the games runs 60+fps.

 

older command and conquer games the same way.

 

 

I guess I'm going to be stuck with dualbooting/vmware windows 7 for years for the legacy stuff

 

 

 

also microsoft used an old driver for my atheros nic and buggy via usb 3.0 drivers.

 

I had to update the nic drivers to get faster speeds. driver they provided was giving slow speeds.

 

and had to roll back the via usb drivers to older version so my logitech g5 mouse would work.

 

 

other then that. this windows version flies on my system.

 

I have to tell you its still dx11 so no improvement on games end i believe.

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G0ldenheaven

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http://support2.microsoft.com/kb/3001512 didn't expect a update in the first 24h of the release.

 

For those wondering how to update from preview build to preview build if you dont recomended updates enabled or just want to change the time their obtained go to PC Settings -> Recovery and Update -> Preview.

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Quillz

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Most of the feedback I was planning to send regarding the UI was already posted, so I just "Me, Too'd" the options instead. I'm glad to see that there is already feedback about the inconsistent title bar widgets placement and black window chrome still being unusable, since we lost the old options to change the title bar text color.

 

Wonder if Microsoft will actually listen to any of it, but it's worth a try.

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This is a Tech Preview and its bloody fantastic. 
Running on my desktop and its everything I wanted from WIndows 8. The only issue I have is windows no longer seem to snap. (like eg I would resize Skype to run on the right on my screen and every program would autoresize to fill the space), so far I had to manually resize other apps to that of the free space. 
So far thou everything has worked as it should, about to test some games now :)

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