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Post by MartinT on Apr 23, 2015 18:15:10 GMT
Build 10061
Seems to be more of the new distinctive design. The Mail/Calendar/People apps have really matured into very useful applications while some, like News, seem to have taken a backward step.
This build also installed a hell of a lot faster than the previous one, no doubt because the install-all-languages bug has been fixed.
Oh yes, the Recycle bin has changed shape yet again! Do they have a whole team working on it??
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Post by MartinT on Apr 29, 2015 7:25:53 GMT
I was at Microsoft again yesterday where we were told, among other things, that Windows 10 will be their "last OS". It's down to two things: W10 will be continuously upgradeable for a good number of years, and can be fully reset (wiped to factory) or upgraded from, say, Home to Professional just by giving it a new licence key. Further into the future, client machines will become 'super HTML5' machines and pretty much everything will be done via the browser. The specific platform will become much less relevant and apps and browsers will be the tools for all everyday usage.
This explains Microsoft, Adobe and others going like mad down the rental path for applications like Office and Photoshop and cloud storage.
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Post by MikeMusic on Apr 29, 2015 11:46:01 GMT
I heard it first here !
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Post by MartinT on Apr 30, 2015 18:36:02 GMT
Build 10074 is here already. Project Spartan, the new browser, has become Microsoft Edge. Things are starting to come together quite nicely. Edge is not yet as fast as Internet Explorer 11, but it seems very stable with a variety of sites. I'm using it now with TAS and it's fine.
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Post by MartinT on May 17, 2015 19:58:39 GMT
Windows Phone 10 - Technical PreviewSo now it's Windows Phone 10's turn and I took the opportunity to upgrade as soon as it became available for my Lumia 930. Installation is clunky, so be warned. You need to install the Windows Insider app and then take it from there. After the usual interminable wait while the 'cogs' go round, I ended up with a partially installed OS stuck on "Loading...". This turns out to be the Start menu waiting to install all the apps but seemingly never getting there. I fixed it by performing a hard factory reset (you can get to settings by pulling down the notifications) and starting from factory defaults. Sure enough, WP10 comes up fine and you can then go through the procedure of restoring all of your settings from your 'previous phone' and then installing all the apps, some of which have changed. I couldn't install MSN News, which is incompatible, but there are many other news apps. The Office apps each need individual installation (Word, Excel, Powerpoint, OneNote) but are way ahead of the simplistic versions on WP8.1. You can end up with empty icons that don't do anything, these can be deleted. Three columns can be selected, which appears to squeeze everything into two columns, but you can then move them around. I loved opening Word Preview for the first time and having my recent documents from other machines listed. Overall, everything seems to work well or better than before. The background transparency and live icons are not working properly yet and I can't find sleep (night) mode anywhere to shut it up at night. So far, so good and it's about as good as TP 10074 is on the desktop. Microsoft's integrated future is looking very good.   
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Post by pre65 on Jun 2, 2015 10:41:59 GMT
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Post by MartinT on Jun 2, 2015 12:19:05 GMT
It's perfect for my plans.
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Post by Dave on Jun 12, 2015 8:00:31 GMT
I signed up for my free Win10 upgrade around a month ago, just prior to my PC upgrade. A couple of weeks ago I replaced my original OS HD in my new-build with an SSD and immediately noticed upon re-installing Win7 that the Win10 upgrade icon is no longer displaying on the task bar. Can I expect it to reappear at some point or have I missed the boat?
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Post by dvh on Jun 12, 2015 8:16:25 GMT
It's perfect for my plans. Ideally, you should be saying that while stroking a large fluffy white cat, concluding your remarks with 'Mwhahahahaha!!!!!' |
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Post by Dave on Jun 12, 2015 10:22:42 GMT
Seeing as we do have 'Pinkie' on board I feel Martin should come clean and reset his forum handle...  |
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Post by MartinT on Jun 12, 2015 10:48:29 GMT
Heh, heh, heh. My plan for world domination continues...
Dave - I don't think you'll miss the boat as the Microsoft upgrade offer will be valid for a year after RTM.
Quick update: Windows 10 Mobile (the new name for Windows Phone) Technical Preview 10136 is due today or tomorrow. That's important news for those of us with Nokias since it should be a much more stable release than 10080.
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Post by MartinT on Jun 17, 2015 19:10:18 GMT
Quick update: Windows 10 Mobile (the new name for Windows Phone) Technical Preview 10136 is due today or tomorrow. That's important news for those of us with Nokias since it should be a much more stable release than 10080. Well, this isn't so simple. Apparently there is an upgrade bug in 10080 which prevents a direct upgrade to 10136, so you have to revert the phone back to WP8.1 first. This involves downloading the Windows Phone Recovery Tool to revert it via USB. Then you install the Windows Insider app and kick start it into upgrading again. What a faff! Still, that's the penalty for going fast track. My Lumia 930 is on its way to being properly upgraded now. The ever familiar spinning gears... |
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Post by stanleyb on Jun 18, 2015 5:53:01 GMT
I am not in a rush to update my Lumia 1020. It took me ages to update it from 8 to 8.1 as it is.
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Post by John on Jun 18, 2015 7:40:24 GMT
At present I am also keeping my 1020 on 8.1
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Post by pinkie on Jun 18, 2015 10:53:07 GMT
Oh 'Evans. Do I need to go back and read this thread? I have been quite happy with Windows 7 - and struggled with WIndows 8 on my limited exposure to it. I have just powered up the laptop to read a Sage Instant accounts file (their licence won't let you have instant accounts and line 50 on the same machine) and there is a little windows icon on the taskbar saying "upgrade to windows 10" I thought windows 10 was just to make the flawed windows 8 run properly. Do I want this free upgrade?  |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 18, 2015 13:38:24 GMT
Im presently using '8.1' & i cannot get on with it. Wish i still had 'XP'
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Post by Dave on Jun 18, 2015 15:39:30 GMT
My main bugbear with 8.1 is the need to create a Mocrosoft account when you intsall. Well, there's a way around that and here's how: ..and just for you André  |
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Post by MartinT on Jun 18, 2015 16:49:12 GMT
There has always been a way to install W8.1 without a Microsoft account. But, as with MacOS & iOS, why would you want to? You lose the benefits of backup, replication around your machines, location services, security wipe if stolen and cloud storage.
As for W8.1 being flawed, that's tantamount to saying "I can't cope with a relatively simple change from a Start menu to a Start screen". In all ways, W8.1 is faster and more secure. If you want to use it like W7, place all the icons you need on the desktop or Taskbar, and just stay in desktop mode all day.
Richard - W10 is a newly constructed OS which looks like a cross between W7 and W8.1 but is better than both and built using new tools. There's no need to worry about it until RTM which is around late July or early August time. However, it already has the makings of a winner based on my testing for the last few months.
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Post by Dave on Jun 18, 2015 17:36:04 GMT
We recently bought a reconditioned laptop for my stepson and needless to say it came with 8.1 installed. The chap at the shop we bought it from set it up so I could familiarize myself with 8.1 within a desktop environment. Having lived with 8.1 for around six weeks I have to admit my attitude towards it has changed markedly, I'm even using the tiled interface regularly now. It's quick, bloody quick actually. The new lappy is no powerhouse, being based around a lowly 2.4ghz dual core AMD APU and data storage is a typical if unremarkable 500GB 5400rpm HDD, and yet the machine boots up nigh on as speedily as my partners third generation i7 based Toshiba lappy, which runs Win7 64bit from a 256GB SSD. Both machines have 8GB of DDR3 ram installed. I'm looking forward to Win10 as 7 has evolved to be quite clunky.
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Post by MartinT on Jun 18, 2015 18:25:43 GMT
W10 is still in Technical Preview so it's full of debug code, but already it's damned fast.
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