[OFFICIAL] Windows 10 Insider Program

[JustGeorge]

Updated ISO or must go through WU?

 

NVRMND. Answered

[+Frank B. Subscriber²]

Updated ISO or must go through WU?

Through WU. Though I'm not seeing it - yet.

Edit: There we go.

[Eric Veteran]

The ISOs should be available once it passes to the slow ring.

[Brandon H Supervisor]

I'm direct booting from a .vhdx file. does anyone know if they still have build upgrading blocked for this method (i haven't tried since the 2nd public build and it was blocked then)

[George P Global Moderator]

Now to wait and see what's in this over the leaked 10036.

[indospot Veteran]

Probably not much. But I'm still excited! My internet should be faster.

[+Zlip792 MVC]

IE updates in new Technical Preview "Blog Post" - http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2015/03/18/rendering-engine-updates-in-march-for-the-windows-10-technical-preview.aspx

[HawkMan]

This is area of functionality with the biggest hole (across the Windows Modern piece) for me.  It spots you're launching a URL - well done Windows - but what of the root site/content of that URL?  

 

When will it ever say "You have installed apps for *.youtube.com/..., would you like to use an installed app or a browser to launch it?". (Or search the Store for more apps?).

 

Until then, talk of the MS 'App Gap' is moot because the OS isn't smart enough to leverage the apps that exist. (IMO, of course).

 

 

umm I've had youtube and other video site apps installed and if I watch a video on them, I get asked if I want to use the app... instead. in windows 8.1

[patseguin Global Moderator]

Finally got 10041 installed. First impression is that it feels like kind of a mess. Definitely not a polished OS and I can't fathom how this will be ready by summer. The desktop icons along with the titlebard graphics just make the whole thing ugly and unpleasant to use. Opening This PC brings up an ugly assortment of folder icons and drive icons that look like a throwback to BeOS.

 

The search field just feels like a hack when you click the startbutton and a white background covers up the "ask me anything" field with a "search the web or windows" field.

 

The transparency of the start menu is barely noticeable. Probably 90-95%. Would be nice if it was configurable.

 

Looks like they tweaked icon size and spacing in the taskbar. I have larger icons now and quite a bit more space. The icons are still smaller than the standard size when I create a new toolbar.

 

I have no idea why there is still a control panel in addition to the Settings menu. They should just pick one or the other.

 

I don't see the mail app in the start menu anymore.

[Mugwump00]

umm I've had youtube and other video site apps installed and if I watch a video on them, I get asked if I want to use the app... instead. in windows 8.1

 

Can you elaborate?  I've only ever seen Brandon Paddock's Tweetium query the user about which installed Youtube app to use, rather than default to IE.  Brandon is not your typical app developer, having been a dev in the Windows 8 User Experience team (I think).  Ideally Spartan should close the gap by analyzing a URL against the capabilities of apps registered in the store, like Android's Chrome does.   What are the chances tho...?

[HawkMan]

On my tablet it seems to do it on most all video sites with an installed app. probably need to use modern though. 

[nosense]

Not much changes from 10036(that i notice). It did fix problems with apps not installing in 10036.

[patseguin Global Moderator]

I did a search for Mail and it prompted me to download it from the store and that gives me an error. So, there is no native email app. Just as well anyways, Mailbird is way better.

[siah1214]

The blog post has a fix for the mail app.  You sound like someone that shouldn't be running preview builds tbh. 

[Dashel]

LOL @ the MS Bob voice!  I like the new install screen.  New icons and circle avatars are meh, though at least top aligned taskbars can search again.  Even better, SharePoint works again in IE.

 

Start Menu still a work in progress.  I like that they embedded some common ones again.  Looks like another beta AMD driver too? (Switchable graphics)

[Brandon H Supervisor]

I did a search for Mail and it prompted me to download it from the store and that gives me an error. So, there is no native email app. Just as well anyways, Mailbird is way better.

i got this from the comments on the front page article. it should fix your issue

 

In this build, the Mail, Calendar, and People apps may be broken due to a licensing issue with the Store Beta. To get these apps working again, you need to follow these steps: Open powershell as administrator; Run the command Get-appxprovisionedpackage -online | where-object {$_.packagename -like "*windowscommunicationsapps*"} | remove-appxprovisionedpackage -online; Re-install Mail, People and Calendar from the Store (green tile)

[freak180]

guys i need help installing this   I can find the advance update settings but all i see is a drop down for slow and fast, nothing about check now

[patseguin Global Moderator]

i got this from the comments on the front page article. it should fix your issue

Thanks for that, I'll try it right away.

[freak180]

this is what im talking about

[BenWylde]

You need to get back one screen to the usual Windows Update and check there for updates.

 

But mine doesn't show the update yet so.

[+Zagadka Subscriber²]

Windows 10: Everything is a square! Except user pictures, because reasons!

[chrisj1968]

*** All Nvidia card owners I want to advise you about what looks like an error but in my case wasn't https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1250466-be-aware-of-this-nvidia-driver-issue/

 

simply put: if you get an error about the Nvidia driver in your update that says there was an error, simply check with your Nvidia Experience interface and verify your driver and then in the cortana Box run DXDIAG to verify that you were updated to WDDM 2.0

[FunkyMike]

Windows 10: Everything is a square! Except user pictures, because reasons!

 

The question you should be asking yourself is:

 

How did Neobond know to incorporate the circle avatar design into the new neowin.net layout and match the release of Windows 10 ; )

[patseguin Global Moderator]

i got this from the comments on the front page article. it should fix your issue

This worked, thanks again for posting it. I don't usually use the OS Mail app but I wanted to try it anyways.

 

I know my comments are based on an unfished OS and people are going to be telling me I shouldn't be running it. However, the TP is intended as a preview release for people to evaluate, albeit not on main machines. I'm just troubled by the fact that they are going so out of their way to make this OS as ugly as possible. In this latest TP, the UI is generally the same and they've even added more icons in that UGLY retro style. I highly doubt they would design a whole set of icons only to replace them all on RTM. I recall a great amount of excitement around Vista and 7's terrific looking interface. Just look at how many people are touting the transparent start menu as a major new feature or talk about the icons, recycle bin in particular.

 

Anyways, I think they have a good core product on the way and I'll look forward to just running my own icon packages and UX themes.

 

Can't wait to try the Xbox One streaming.

[Dot Matrix]

Should I be concerned that b10041 isn't moving past 8% at setup?