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
      409
    • 3. OK, Needs a few major improvements, some minor ones
      168
    • 2. Fine, Needs a lot of major improvements
      79
    • 1.Poor, Needs too many improvements, all hope is lost, never going to use it
      41
  2. 2. Based on the recent leaks by Neowin and Winfuture.de, my next OS upgrade will be?

    • Windows 10
      720
    • Windows 8
      20
    • Windows 7
      48
    • Sticking with XP
      3
    • OSX Yosemite
      35
    • Linux
      24
    • Sticking with OSX Mavericks
      3
  3. 3. Should Microsoft give away Windows 10 for free?

    • Yes for Windows 8.1 Users
      305
    • Yes for Windows 7 and above users
      227
    • Yes for Vista and above users
      31
    • Yes for XP and above users
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    • Yes for all Windows users
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    • No
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IE Changes, I noticed:

 

Now changes:
 
-> column-span: none supported
-> Most changes are in ES6 support
 -- Arrows: increased by 1
 -- function "name" property: increaed by 10
 -- rest parameters: regressed by 1
 
Overall 73% support on this suite: http://kangax.github.io/compat-table/es6/
 
-> In non-standard JS now (error error "stack" - also supported besides "String.prototype.trimRight" & "String.prototype.trimLeft")
 

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This is what I got when I opened Windows Update right after startup. It now shows the updates that are beeing installed, you can also view more details, and from the looks of it, Microsoft want to add a meaningfull description to updates in the future.

That is a sexy UI. :D

Unable to install it on VMWare Player. Pss!!!

 

"Virtual CPU fault error"... Something like this.

 

ISO MD5, CRC32 and SHA1 Values matched with shared by Faikee.

 

EDIT: Jan's method worked.

 

I'm having the same problem on Workstation 11.0, what is the "Jan's method" ?

 

UPDATE: Didn't find what that was, but I fixed it by activating EFI Boot in options!

I'm having the same problem on Workstation 11.0, what is the "Jan's method" ?

 

Go to folder where you made Virtual machine, you will find this particular configuration file:

 

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Open it with Notepad, and add this particular line in this and save it.

 

 

 

firmware = "efi"

 

Credits to Jan.

 

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Is this Exclamation, new bit?

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Looks like you got a new icon there!

 

I mean to ask whether I noticed this right now, or it was in previous builds as well.

 

Just for information for all!

 

- FLAC seems to play fine in this build.

 

Download sample FLAC from this site: http://www.eclassical.com/pages/24-bit-faq.html

By the way. Ladies and gentlemen, the Control Panel is officialy dead: http://pcportal.org.ru/forum/60-6215-11#115289.

Hooray.  (And yes - I'm heart-attack serious.)

 

What we keep forgetting is that the change in direction of Windows (from single-platform to multiplatform) didn't start with XP; it started earlier than that.

The changeover started with (of all OSes) Windows NT - it actually embraced portables (then mostly luggables) before 9x did - the only folks that insisted that Windows be single-platform were certain groups of users.

While Windows 9x was the original gaming OS on the Windows side, how secure was it as a gaming platform?  (Believe it or not, it took Windows 2000 Professional to combine gaming and security - Windows 98 SE, or ME for that matter, didn't have the capability to do what 2000 Professional did out of the box.)

Then we have Xbox - again, we're forgetting that the platform itself has ALWAYS used a custom build of Windows; what is the shocker is that on the XBOX ONE side, there is so much in common with Windows 10 that it's both comforting and downright scary.  There is, in fact, the very real possibility that XBOX ONE and Windows 10 could be completely cross-compatible.  (Chew on THAT for a while.)

 

Multiplatform Windows does NOT need a platform-tying adjustability center - it needs an adjustability center that stretches across all platforms without being boxed in to just one.

 

Linux distributions have promised (and promised) that for two decades - before 9x went into public beta, for that matter - why have they not delivered yet?

 

Yet it's about to become reality - and from, quite literally, the LAST company anyone expected to deliver it.

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Did anybody just see the Xbox App?

 

Apparently they appear to be wanting to bring the entire Xbox gaming Experience to PC and we even have a glimpse of what is going to be the first Xbox PC game, Sunset Overdrive!

Seems like there is also a lot of new audio support added. I can play more mkv files correctly then I could in 9879.

That's good but they really need to add subtitle support for mkv.

Did anybody just see the Xbox App?

 

Apparently they appear to be wanting to bring the entire Xbox gaming Experience to PC and we even have a glimpse of what is going to be the first Xbox PC game, Sunset Overdrive!

As I pointed out before, Xbox has been based on Windows (customized heavily, but still Windows) from the beginning - the question I have asked is why NOT do so?

 

It simply makes way too MUCH sense.

 

Also, 9901, unlike 9888, activates normally.  This is shaping up to be a longer-term tester.

Did anybody just see the Xbox App?

 

Apparently they appear to be wanting to bring the entire Xbox gaming Experience to PC and we even have a glimpse of what is going to be the first Xbox PC game, Sunset Overdrive!

 

They were supposed to do that with 8 and all we got was that disaster of a useless app called Games, and 99% of the "Xbox" games were crap that you see on phones.

 

When they come up with something that would directly compete with Steamworks and Battle.net, then I would consider them relevant.

Did anybody just see the Xbox App?

 

Apparently they appear to be wanting to bring the entire Xbox gaming Experience to PC and we even have a glimpse of what is going to be the first Xbox PC game, Sunset Overdrive!

What exactly makes you think that Xbox games are coming to PC? And why Sunset Overdrive? The Xbox app is just the next version of smartglass.

What exactly makes you think that Xbox games are coming to PC? And why Sunset Overdrive? The Xbox app is just the next version of smartglass.

Phil Spencer is speaking at the Jan. 21st event.

They were supposed to do that with 8 and all we got was that disaster of a useless app called Games, and 99% of the "Xbox" games were crap that you see on phones.

 

When they come up with something that would directly compete with Steamworks and Battle.net, then I would consider them relevant.

elenarie - that is indeed part of it.

 

However, when the very IDEA got floated, did you see how much SCREAMING there was against the very idea? (I'm not talking from the XBOX side, but from the WINDOWS side of things.)

 

Battle.net is not the biggest competition; that is, if anything, SteamWorks.

 

However, look at exactly WHY SteamWorks is successful (so much so that even Microsoft is leveraging it).

 

For whatever (psychological) reason, SteamWorks is used primarily because it's NOT Microsoft.

 

If Microsoft does something, no matter how GOOD it is, it gets disparaged, criticized, and then attacked with malware and/or crapware.

 

There have been crapware Steamworks apps and games - however, do they even get criticized compared to the now-dead Games for Windows/Xbox for Windows?

 

There is STILLL a lot of ABM in the development space.

(ABM = Anyone But Microsoft)

Phil Spencer is speaking at the Jan. 21st event.

Yeah, sure, let's conclude out of that that Xbox games will be available to PC. /s

 

No, they won't. Phil Spencer will be there to talk about Xbox for sure, but Xbox is a brand for Microsofts entertainment devision, not just the console.

They were supposed to do that with 8 and all we got was that disaster of a useless app called Games, and 99% of the "Xbox" games were crap that you see on phones.

 

When they come up with something that would directly compete with Steamworks and Battle.net, then I would consider them relevant.

Right, they have Xbox SmartGlass. However on the WP side, there used to be a games hubs, and there still sort of is, that syncs achievements. It would be great if they bundled Xbox Games stuff into one app. Then release separate apps for the media stuff like Videos and Games are. Say a whole lineup of Xbox Podcasts, Xbox TV (TV streaming from your live Xbox in OR start their own TV service, etc.

Anyone have access to the new Wallpapers?

I'm running 9901 right now (it replaced 9888) - there are only four new wallpapers; initially I'll be running the four in rotation.

 

Location - (bootdrive):/Windows/Web/Wallpaper/Windows Technical Preview

I'm running 9901 right now (it replaced 9888) - there are only four new wallpapers; initially I'll be running the four in rotation.

 

Location - (bootdrive):/Windows/Web/Wallpaper/Windows Technical Preview

Well, I was asking to see if anyone could post them. :P

...

 

Steamworks is successful because they have provided game developers and publishers with a much desired platform, constant updates and new features, unlike Microsoft who have been doing everything publicly possible to not even mention gaming on Windows for the last decade or so.

Right, they have Xbox SmartGlass.

 

Which gives developers absolutely nothing. When is the last time that a GfWL or Xbox on Windows game has been a commercial success? Never.

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