Windows 10 is crap!
Windows 10 is good on desktops and laptops, but crappy on tablets! It's almost impossible to access the desktop (I need easy desktop access)! After using it for a day, I downgraded back to Windows 8.1.
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I'm sticking with 7 as long as I can.
That's still why I'm genuinely excited for Windows Server 16: It uses the old Win32 start menu found in early preview builds of Windows 10 instead of the XAML interface.
Also I have a virtual machine fetish, but don't tell anybody.
Forgot the last build that had the old menu.
Android is about 10x more functional than Windows IMO. If a full desktop OS was built around it, maybe it could be able to kill Windows eventually.
It's called Linux and it's been "killing Windows" for decades...
You don't need to know how to use the terminal and there are certainly many programs available for linux.
Returning more or less to the subject, I can't say I give many fucks about Windows. I have successfully moved into the oh so shiny and happy Apple-world and don't really miss Windows, despite all the good years we had. I still have my gaming PC, it had Windows 10 for a couple of weeks or so while I still used it, I found the UI unpleasant and switched back to 8.1. Of course all the fuss about privacy and such also made it a bit unease experience. But in the end, the world survived Metro, it will survive Windows 10 too.
My os choice mostly depends on two things: how pleasant it is to use and how much work I have to do to make/keep it that way. Apple provides very effortless experience with the cost of hardware flexibility, and I have played around with hardware enough for now. I still have faith in Microsoft, they need to get their shit right and make Xbone work.
Perhaps in the future Nvidia steps in and steals all the pc gamers and Google grabs the remaining Windows-users?
Most likely, yes. Windows 10's market share will continue to rise while the other versions fall.
OS X will likely maintain its same level unless Apple has a drastic paradigm shift in which they release OS X for non-Apple hardware. I don't see that happening any time soon though.
You tap the bottom right hand corner of the screen. Voila, desktop. This is a feature that's been in windows for years now.
Ah yes, MS are making an absolute killing with an OS they're giving away
10 is far superior to 8, and possibly even 7. Not to mention performance is massively improved. You can moan all you want about the "spying" features (y'know, the ones you can turn off), but the minute you Google something, or go onto Facebook, you're giving away far, far more.
The way I see things is Microsoft is still trying to join the embedded system market. You would think from Windows CE or even better the Zune they would give up. All they got is a tablet they copied everyone else with and tossed on Windows.
Microsoft is just trying to find a common foot hold since Linux is open source and Apple is releasing their newer OSes freely since after all a Mac costs more then two or three typical PCs. I hate the fact that MS is so money hungry they tossed Ads into the Win10's GUI, they could of found other ways such as a dollar a minute tech support for the novice users. I don't care it's "faster", I don't care it's "better". I care that it eats the hell out of hard drive space, bandwidth and have to wait for software developers to start supporting it.
Apple could of killed Microsoft back when Steve Jobs returned to Apple with what he brought from neXt. Instead they just road the Motorola train longer then switched to x86 as a last ditch effort. Honestly it would of been neat if Apple used the ARM architecture with their computers instead of just the iPhones and iBooks.
Apples, meet oranges.
> The way I see things is Microsoft is still trying to join the embedded system market. You would think from Windows CE or even better the Zune they would give up. All they got is a tablet they copied everyone else with and tossed on Windows.
Windows CE is very successful in the embedded markets. It's losing ground as hardware becomes more powerful, and Linux and NT are becoming better at real time. Zune is actually pretty nice, ruined by media perception.
As for tablets, the Microsoft implementation is a revival of the one they demoed in 2003 (and had prototypes of before.... and preceded by things like the GRiDpad) - just with the influence of Apple's school of tablets.
> Microsoft is just trying to find a common foot hold since Linux is open source and Apple is releasing their newer OSes freely since after all a Mac costs more then two or three typical PCs. I hate the fact that MS is so money hungry they tossed Ads into the Win10's GUI, they could of found other ways such as a dollar a minute tech support for the novice users. I don't care it's "faster", I don't care it's "better". I care that it eats the hell out of hard drive space, bandwidth and have to wait for software developers to start supporting it.
It's not into the GUI, it's the apps. People don't really call support anymore, especially not when it would cost money.
It's faster for sure. Windows has gotten smaller on disk space, and disk space is rapidly increasing. Bandwidth is just the bandwidth is takes to run updates, which is the same as it ever was. Software already supports it.
> Apple could of killed Microsoft back when Steve Jobs returned to Apple with what he brought from neXt. Instead they just road the Motorola train longer then switched to x86 as a last ditch effort. Honestly it would of been neat if Apple used the ARM architecture with their computers instead of just the iPhones and iBooks.
Other way around - Apple was extremely weak in the late 90s, on the brink of death. Microsoft injected cash into Apple in exchange for making IE the default browser. Apple was not ready (and did not need) for an x86 transition at the time, especially as there was performance parity.
Apple could use ARM today, but not without massive sacrifices, which is another story. (Oh, and iBooks never used ARM.)
My experience with Windows 10 on my laptop so far has been total garbage...
USB devices don't always function right, I can't turn off Windows Updates, it automatically restarts when I tell it not to, Cortana doesn't work worth shit, Skype drags things to a halt (on a Core i7-5500U and 6GB of DDR3 RAM that's impressively bad), Terminal windows' fonts are too small and cannot be zoomed in, using the touchpad is torture, if I click slightly wrong, it will zoom in on icons and as far as I know I cannot turn this off. Show windows side-by-side doesn't work very well any more, it messes things up instead of helping me organize, I can't open multiple files at once without it either locking up Windows Explorer or setting them to be the desktop background, GIFs don't work properly, and the only 5 games I play with any kind of regularly all either slow down much more than Windows 8 or don't run at all. Also, the Start Menu still needs to be fixed, I can't end unneeded tasks without being threatened that Windows will shut down in Task Manager, and the Task Manager itself looks like crap.
Overall, my experience has made me actually go and get myself a Windows XP laptop to use as my main computer instead because this is so bad. Good work, Microsoft.