Windows 10 thoughts: (haven't updated to Anniversary build)

By chrisj1968
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last night, I updated to 14393.10 on the preview ring and things look nice. Nothing is ever perfect. But Windows 10 has surprised me thus far. with build 9926, I was quite pleased with the initial running of games and such. I did realize of course, this build was nowhere near close to the final production build. far from it. I had some initial issues with the 10,000 numbered builds and dropped off to win 8.1, my OEM OS until, about the low 12,000 builds. with the initial 12,000 builds, things seemed to shape up quite a bit.

I was pleased with the polish of the base OS system, then with the the way games ran smoothly. I was pleased that MS took the feedback seriously with the touchscreen base vs the start menu crowd. being able to resize the start menu was a blessing for both parties as customization is concerned. It has taken a lot of time to get used to the flat look of the Windows 10 icons, the new System settings area since I've used windows since the Windows 3.1 days. I think Windows 10 for all of its' good and bad, is simply a good happy medium between two bases of users; touch surface, touch laptop, tablet and old school start menu users. MSFT has done a good job in my humble opinion of merging two user cultures into one OS. I just hope and pray Dona Sarkar keeps to that standard and into the future. For all of the successes and failures, Windows 10 has matured into an OS that can be adapted to probably any age. I really can't think of any negatives about the OS. I wish to be more positive anyways. after many successes and failures, most of the failures are due to system issues rather than OS issues, like drivers and such. this is a culmination of over a year and a half of using Windows 10 on a two year old system too. Been hammering Nvidia with calls about opening a mobile market for gaming laptop cards. not much response. I'm positively optimistic as to the future of Windows 10. I'm glad the days of Steve Ballmer are over. I'm optimistic about the future for MSFT.

 

+ Snappy OS, fast operating system.

Directx12 makes running games mush nicer without much, if any lag.

the overall UI experience (system settings, updating icons, etc) take getting used to, but that changes.

the start menu is easier for me to navigate and I'm not using a 3rd party app like classic shell anymore ;) 

 

- I can't really rack my brain and think of any detractors from NOT upgrading to Windows 10. (ah.. maybe I'm just getting old.)

* Developers need to get on-board and update certain apps/programs to function with Windows 10. 

*OEM support has been somewhat lack luster.

 

*- I've had many apps that, I've had to stop using since their developers were too slow to migrate or update to windows 10. So this isn't a ding against MSFT.

 

I'm happy to see the future of this OS as time progresses. it's too hard to say where we'll be or what we will see in the coming year.

 

-chrisj1968

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With each Win10 update, more and more preferences are moving into the Settings app and out of the old Control Panel. I think that's great, eventually, all legacy OS elements will be retired.

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I on the other hand hate the new start menu. It's ugly and I don't like it. If I need to use an app I'll just type it's name, I don't need a big old ugly menu there.

 

Be nice if they made it an option instead of forcing it on people.

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