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Microsoft Gives Early Look at Windows 10 Featuring Windows 7 Elements, Broad Adaptability

I think "Windows One" may have made sense with the Xbox One, OneDrive etc... I said years ago they should just have done this with the start Menu. So thumbs up from me MS. Still probably going to roll with OSX for my main but will build a machine or pick up a surface down the road for sure.
 
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McCool71 said:
I wish Microsoft would draw a line in the sand and outright say that 'hard- and software older than xx years will not be supported'. In other words much like Apple does with OS X - try installing an old (like in 2-3 year old...) version of most major applications (Adobe is a prime example) and you will be told to upgrade - and people accept it. If Microsoft did something like that it would result in the largest sh--storm in computing history.
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Oh, but they already have. Remember Vista's requirements? The outcry was huge (one reason why it flopped).
 
momogood said:
Multiple desktops... like... the feature Mac OSX has had for years? And all of the great new improvements are just normal old features they brought back. Fullscreen apps open the same way desktop apps do? Woah. Revolutionary.

How do PC users not recognize how far ahead of windows OSX is?
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Really? You're going to bash Windows when there are also obvious usability deficiencies in OS X? Why is it 2014 and we STILL don't have the ability to see window previews when hovering our mouse pointers over an app icon in the dock? And don't forget that it wasn't until recent years (I believe OS X 10.7) that we were able to resize a window using the bottom corners of the window. WTF? So it took until the 2010's to get a feature that Windows had since the turn of this century? Do you care to make the same snide remark about resizable windows - but direct the vitriol to Apple instead?

So please...take off the fanboy hat, stop drinking (and spewing back) the hate-orade, and realize that there are great features and deficiencies in both operating systems. Jobs once said that MS doesn't have to lose in order for Apple to win. Maybe you should take his POV as well.
 
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It only takes one press of the Windows button to exit to a desktop that looks and works 99% like Windows 7 - and runs absolutely every piece of software that runs on Windows 7. Yet a huge amount of Windows 8 users do not know this and think you are stuck with the 'tiles', which of course is a hopeless solution unless you have a touch screen.

It is sadly way too much to expect from people that they should spend 5 minutes learning some new basic skills for interacting with an OS every 15 years.
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Why even waste 5 minutes learning how to undo a bad interface? That's why people never chose to upgrade. I can understand spending 5 minutes learning to use something that proves to be useful, but I don't buy the argument that I should spend my time learning how to work around bad design decisions. All that AND Microsoft wants you to pay to upgrade.
 
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When you run into a credibility drought, and ring scarves and haircuts is all you have left to use to attack a company, it's time to resign to the the hard truth that maybe balanced reasoning isn't your bag.
 
Quu said:
I'm a dual Mac / Windows user. Always had Mac laptops since 2004, always had Windows desktops since the late 90's. I'm a Windows 8.1 user and I'm a Mavericks user.

In my opinion Windows 10 shows a definite shift in Microsofts approach to their user base. They tried to do something different with the "Modern" UI. It didn't pay off.

It had some great features like live tiles but it just wasn't usable on a desktop or laptop without touch. I've been using Windows 8 since it launched and I've only ever tested Modern apps. And by that I mean I tried a few, I didn't like them. A few months later maybe I tried a new one, never used it more than a few minutes.

On my day to day system where I get stuff done, be that software development, image editing, gaming, server administration.. whatever it is, I'm never using a Modern application. And that is because they aren't designed for a Desktop system.

Full screen doesn't work when you're sitting in front of a 27" 2560x1440 display or in my case three 30" 2560x1600 displays. It looks silly, just like when you run iPhone applications meant for the iPhone 5 on a 6 Plus. It looks stupid. The applications have to be optimised for the screen size they are running on.

And now it looks like Microsoft gets that. I'm looking forward to Windows 10 for a lot of reasons.

A start menu that isn't just a "We know you wanted it so we brought it back" but is actually an improvement over the one Windows 7 had. Live tiles are a great idea just not when they are full screen.

Drop shadows on windows, whoever thought it was a good idea to remove those in Windows 8 got it wrong. It sometimes is very difficult to tell at a glance which window is in focus because there is no drop shadows. This was not an issue in Windows 7 or OS X as they both had noticeable drop shadows.

And I also like the new Alt-Tab interface. This is a feature I use all the time in OS X but on there it's really the Expose feature that is now a part of Mission Control. I really like that presentation style of application windows and I'm glad Windows 10 is adopting it.

I'm sure a lot of people are going to rag on Microsoft for copying Apple or giving up on their vision, going backwards instead of forwards etc but as an actual user of their products and every OS since Windows 95 and also a very happy Apple user I think this is great stuff. I'm really excited for Windows 10 and that is the complete opposite to how I felt when Modern UI was unveiled with Windows 8.

Just my thoughts :)
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Great post...I'm a dual OS user and there are strengths and weaknesses in both operating systems. When either OS improves, I look at it as a win for me.
 
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