[OFFICIAL] Windows 10 Insider Program

[max84]

Mine is installing now.

 

It's hard to tell how long it takes to download. That depends on your connection. Apparently it's around 2 GB.

I have 250 mbit line, so it's peanuts for me.

 

Will update my post, when it finished installing and restarted without problems.

[+Zlip792 MVC]

Mine is installing now.

 

It's hard to tell how long it takes to download. That depends on your connection. Apparently it's around 2 GB.

I have 250 mbit line, so it's peanuts for me.

 

Will update my post, when it finished installing and restarted without problems.

 

It would take ages with my 4 MB connection...

[LimeMaster]

Wish there was some sort-of progress indicator.

[max84]

It took almost as long as the upgrade process from Windows 8.1 did.

However, it worked without a hitch. I like this new route Windows is taking.

They added some nince new animations, which make it feel all smoother.

[Dashel]

Hoorah,  keep up the pace MS!

[adrynalyne]

Wish there was some sort-of progress indicator.

That slowly creeping grey background isn't enough? :p

[LimeMaster]

That slowly creeping grey background isn't enough? :p

I don't even see that. I'm probably missing something here.

[adrynalyne]

I don't even see that. I'm probably missing something here.

Its in the background of downloading text.  It creeps to the right slowly.

 

Not terribly obvious and probably not even visible at certain brightness/contrasts.

[George P Global Moderator]

I think they really should add a % indication when it's installing and also a time counter when downloading.   People should send feedback for this right away IMO.

[PGHammer]

Its in the background of downloading text.  It creeps to the right slowly.

 

Not terribly obvious and probably not even visible at certain brightness/contrasts.

Download took about ten minutes (Xfinity Performance - actually the mainstream default connection from Comcast - via wired gigabit) - installing as I type this.

[max84]

Its in the background of downloading text.  It creeps to the right slowly.

 

Not terribly obvious and probably not even visible at certain brightness/contrasts.

 

That's not a progress bar. It's just a GUI glitch. I had that too.

[nosense]

Already found a glitch that wasn't in the oldier build, moving taskbar to the top position glitches out the bar. I also liked the proir builds opening app animation. Also graphical glitch on metro apps, it now has 1px white boarder that wasn't in the old build.

[Dot Matrix]

People should send feedback for this right away IMO.

I have already reached out to Gabriel Aul on Twitter. He acknowledged my feedback.

[Stoffel]

I think they really should add a % indication when it's installing and also a time counter when downloading.   People should send feedback for this right away IMO.

 

I will do this tonight, after the download is completed and the install finished.

I guess that will be around 8pm if everything goes well :)

[LimeMaster]

Its in the background of downloading text.  It creeps to the right slowly.

 

Not terribly obvious and probably not even visible at certain brightness/contrasts.

Oh, I wasn't really paying too much attention to it. It's on the "Setting up" stage now, which actually has progress so I won't see the slight movement in the text until the next update.

[George P Global Moderator]

There are regressions in this and bugs, they know about them and they'll fix them, so they say, probably with patches.  Remember that they put up 3 patches for 9860 before the build went live, those should fix some of the bugs to start.

[Stoffel]

At the moment all I see is: Downloading new preview build

The download now button is disabled and the little dots are spinning

No progress bar or anything. This is normal right?

And the text for the button is to big

[George P Global Moderator]

At the moment all I see is: Downloading new preview build

The download now button is disabled and the little dots are spinning

No progress bar or anything. This is normal right?

And the text for the button is to big

 

Yup, that's normal, which is an issue because they give you no real indication other than the spinning dots.

[BooBerry]

http://fg.v4.sh.dl.ws.microsoft.com/dl/content/c/updt/2014/10/9860.0.141008-2044.fbl_release_clientpro_ret_x64fre_en-us_890f9c77dfdd9d3e7e9ac46e18fa7f4dd7b105d1.esd?P1=1413926810&P2=101&P3=1&P4=jfPbimcxH3r%2bJZY3GhRoO4kKWUc%3d

 

can this .esd be used for offline install?

[Mugwump00]

OK, apart from some dodgy WindowsFX borrows, ad the beginnings of the "Activity Center", what's new?

[LimeMaster]

OK, apart from some dodgy WindowsFX borrows, ad the beginnings of the "Activity Center", what's new?

Some of the new features are mentioned on the official Windows blog:

http://blogs.windows.com/bloggingwindows/2014/10/21/were-rolling-out-our-first-new-build-to-the-windows-insider-program/

[TDT]

Damn, I thought they would fix that annoying thing with the start menu... Opening a pinned app doesn't close the start menu, I hate that.

 

P.S. Is it just me or flash player doesn't agree with this build at all?! Every video I try to play, I get "video error" after 1-2 seconds.

 

EDIT: Nvm, seems to work after installing the first update for this build.

[George P Global Moderator]

Battery saver and Data sense should be in this build as well.

[Roger H. Veteran]

http://fg.v4.sh.dl.ws.microsoft.com/dl/content/c/updt/2014/10/9860.0.141008-2044.fbl_release_clientpro_ret_x64fre_en-us_890f9c77dfdd9d3e7e9ac46e18fa7f4dd7b105d1.esd?P1=1413926810&P2=101&P3=1&P4=jfPbimcxH3r%2bJZY3GhRoO4kKWUc%3d

 

can this .esd be used for offline install?

You should be able to create an ISO from the ESD but don't have the details right now.

[George P Global Moderator]

One other thing I've noticed in this new build, which they talked about on the front page news, if you click on the eithernet icon in the systrey you're taken to the PC settings networking section, no flyout side window like before.  Though after you click on your Ethernet connection in PC settings you're taken to a blank page, guess they haven't added in the options to that yet that you find if you go through control panel etc.