Windows 10 Tech. Preview running fine.

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I must be doing something wrong. I have Win 8.1 running on Partition D as Primary Partition and have Win 10 TP Build 9926 running on Partition drive C as Boot, Logical. I have not had any real problems go wrong with either OS since i added Win 10 TP when it first came available. Im running on an MSI laptop MS-1683, dual core, with a WD harddrive with 3 partitions-Recovery, C,D. Havent had a single harddrive problem of any kind. I dont use this laptop for games, I have an older dual core HP desktop running Win98SE that I run games on. ( Im an old guy still running Janes USAF and MechWarrior,and Nascar,MS flight sims, etc. ) I have been using Win10 as my regular OS basically since the Preview began and keep regular-weekly- backups of 8.1 and 10. From my experience with 10, I do think it is a pretty good upgrade to Win8, 8.1 especially since Microsoft seems to be hearing what all us test monkeys are saying about the Preview, good and bad. I am only a regular type user, dont go to far into programming or that stuff but I started  out in the 90s with Dos and Win 3.2, so I have been raised on Microsoft Windows and usually jump into new Windows versions when they are released. When Win7 was released as a free preview, I ran that till the final 7 was released and jumped at Win8 testing the same way. This preview has been really different with three different builds so far and Microsoft watching just about everything I do in  the preview. Its pretty cool to test drive their software and to be able to send them comments and problems that helps them get the final build right.

    Maybe I just dont put the builds thru anything too stressful. Like maybe Im that old guy ahead of you on the road that just putters along at the speed limit and I just havent stomped her to the floor. Or maybe Im just lucky and my hard drive hasnt blown up or my system hasnt crashed to BSD.

     What am I doing ......wrong? I like Win 10. Am I missing something or do any other test monkeys feel the same.

[CamTron]

The point of these Tech Previews is for Microsoft to get feedback from their users as to what they like, what they don't like, and what doesn't work or has bugs. You can report those things with the feedback app. If your copy of Win10 is running great, then good for you! I mainly run Windows 7 on my desktop at home, so I'm comparing the experience to it. As with every Windows release, there are things I like about Windows 10, and things I don't like. For example, I love the task manager. It's a lot more powerful than the one in Windows 7 and earlier. The window animations are also more fluid and have a smoother framerate. The ribbon on the fle explorer is very convenient. You can even open a cmd prompt from the menu, and change many folder options in 2 clicks. (One of the few places where I prefer a ribbon). However, I don't like Microsoft's efforts to force the cloud on everything and tie everything to a Microsoft account. It feels like a lack of security and privacy. You can't even create a user account without being prompted for a Microsoft account. I also think the new Start Menu in build 9926 is a lot less functional than the one in Windows 7 (no jump lists, cluttered with "Modern" apps and web cruft that I rarely use, you have to scroll more to find your program, etc.) Toolbars on the taskbar do not display icons properly. I also hate the flat look that everything is going to. I reported these things in the feedback app, so maybe there's a slight chance my opinions will hopefully somewhat influence the folks at Microsoft. So far, I think Windows 7 and XP are better, more usable OSes, but maybe your opinions are different.

[NoelC]

With Win 10 it's not so much "will it work" is "why would I want it?"

 

There is a certain intangible value to keeping current.

 

That being said, if the OS did nothing less than its predecessor, keeping current would be a no brainer.  But it's not like that. 

 

Microsoft doesn't maintain support for things they already had then add more, they actively DELETE stuff.   They'd like us to believe, I'm sure, that it makes more room for things we need more - like a voice recognition and synthesis program that saves our poor, tired digits from typing search terms, or a warm fuzzy place online to keep all our data where it'll be safe from all those nasties hanging around inside our houses.

 

No, we're being pushed, herded, directed, shoved into the world of cloud-integrated touch screens - not because such things are particularly useful, but because that's where there's huge money to be made (by Microsoft).  If we just keep at what we're already doing, what would there be to buy?  A replacement computer every 5 or so years?  Some new earbuds every couple of weeks? 

 

But with the brave new world of tablets and the cloud and 3D and Cortana we're all going places we never went before, right?  RIGHT?!?  And of course it will all work perfectly and our data will be utterly safe.  RIGHT???!!!???

 

I am an incurable early adopter.  At least I thought it was incurable.  For the first time - EVER in near 40 years of high tech bliss - I was looking at Windows 10 in my VM last night and I got overwhelmed by a feeling of "Man, I might not care any longer".  THAT took some real effort on Microsoft's part.  I have been known to get excited by such things as Windows Backup and a good comparison tool.  If Microsoft with Windows 10 is working this hard to lose MY interest then things are getting serious.

 

It seems Microsoft is facilitating my work - by not distracting me from it with the ho hum things they think are new and improved.

 

-Noel