Windows 10 Announced - Released 29-Jul-2015

Wow, is that icon really called the "hamburger?" I never would have made that connection. Of course, I wouldn't have assumed it was for a menu either; it's only because other applications like web browsers have adopted it that it became intuitive.

 

I think this is exactly what's wrong with the Windows development team nowadays, I see absolutely nothing that I care about, and I think they didn't implement a single thing from this post: http://www.theverge.com/2014/10/17/6993471/windows-10-features-top-requests

 

Yes. Hopefully they will add atleast of few of these request before the release.
However the new feature (or whatever it is considered), i find definitely an improvement interms of usability. Especially playing .mkv file format natively.

 

Still no November Patch Tuesday updates...

 

http://blogs.windows.com/bloggingwi...ild-available-to-the-windows-insider-program/

 

Gave up on all the time, space, and effort it takes keeping up-to-date. Takes a long time installing new builds, then wastes a lot of space I need to reclaim, etc. Removed Windows 10, I will be waiting for the RC or at least Consumer Preview.

 

J_L,

After a Disk Cleanup my used space was roughly the same as before the update.

 

Hence the reclaiming part, further complicated by the fact it's under a virtual machine.

 

Thanks for pointing out the need to reclaim space. I didn't realize that the old build was kept after installing the new one. Apparently each new build is downloaded and installed separately. The update wants a fast connection and people with data caps should watchout. Not problematic for me personally, but important for people to be aware of. As for an RC maybe next Spring?

 

BTW, a bit OT, but last week Bill Gates was over here in Holland, and he gave a 1 hour TV interview, of course about M$ and his foundation, but anyway, it was a bit weird that when a question was asked about the successor of Win 8 (and why Win 8 was badly received), he kept referring to Windows 9. Seems like he must have missed the memo.

 

Leaked screenshots show next Windows kernel to be a perfect 10

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/11/22/windows_kernel_version_10/

 

Microsoft to unveil Windows 10 consumer features at January event
(many are looking forward to this much anticipated event)
http://www.theverge.com/2014/11/27/7298717/windows-10-consumer-features-january-event

 

hi
in short they want to get rid of w8 and w8.1

 

A little news (very little )

http://winsupersite.com/windows-10/windows-10-build-9888-leaks

 

I'm worried about the One Drive changes.

Some of our clients have 20,000-100,000 files on it.. The new changes are... Well.. Nevermind.. LOL

 

hi
but is there an official date about the public final release ?

 

Not that I've read anywhere. We may get additional Tech Previews and then there's supposed to be a Consumer Preview so there's a way to go before RTM.

 

thanks @Victek


may i ask a general question ?
what do you like about w10 ?

 

Frankly at this stage what I like about 10 is it isn't 8. In Windows 10 Microsoft has largely undone the split UI and restored the desktop functionality that was lost in 8. I do not yet see anything in 10 that is significantly better than 7, but it's still "early days".

 

I am just hoping that even after Windows 10 is released the upgrade will be fairly painless. Even two or three months after it was installed I always kept getting the "Sorry, we can't connect right now error and message". Not sure if anyone else experienced this, but that was my mileage and it was terrible.