Windows 10 Technical Preview - Insider Program

[Arthur]

With Windows 8.1?

Until WP10 Preview, yes.

 

[Arthur]

First public mention of Office 16 target release timeframe. Late(r) 2015. Mary Jo Foley is often first with this sort of news.

http://www.zdnet.com/microsofts-lat...te-for-office-16-second-half-2015-7000035155/

 

[kingrob]

First public mention of Office 16 target release timeframe. Late(r) 2015. Mary Jo Foley is often first with this sort of news.

http://www.zdnet.com/microsofts-lat...te-for-office-16-second-half-2015-7000035155/

Microsoft normally launch the new Windows, Office and Server products all at the same....might be focusing the whole team on Windows 10.

 

[grim]

WHAT?? Have you ever used Office 2013?

All the white themes and all capital letter menus shouting at you? You cannot rearrange/resize the right taskbar/calendar/to do bar, no calendar notifications if it's more than a week......it's bloody terrible.

Sies, Microsoft. Fix it.

You do realise you can change the color scheme?

 

[Arthur]

Microsoft normally launch the new Windows, Office and Server products all at the same....might be focusing the whole team on Windows 10.

I doubt it. Being a developer for Server of Office is very different from being a Win Client developer. It's a highly specialised and focused thing, requiring skills that take years if not decades to develop. They're doing their thing. There are thousands of them. Developing the new Windows will probably cost Microsoft well over $10 billion.

 

[kingrob]

You do realise you can change the color scheme?

From bright white to creamy white?

The color schemes are terrible.

 

[kingrob]

I doubt it. Being a developer for Server of Office is very different from being a Win Client developer. It's a highly specialised and focused thing, requiring skills that take years if not decades to develop. They're doing their thing. There are thousands of them. Developing the new Windows will probably cost Microsoft well over $10 billion.

They do move them around.

The guys working on Windows Phone got shifted to Windows for the 8.1 update.

 

[CuppaJoe]

If you had AVG 2015 installed on the first release, which then got upgraded to the latest one, you will find that most of the components won't start up again, and cannot be repaired.

Only remedy is to uninstall (which is a painfull process and cannot simply be done through Add/Remove Programs) and reinstall it again.

 

[Subways81]

My start menu shrunk (should have taken a screen shot). Fixed by enabling Metro Start Screen, logging off, logging on, enabling Start Menu, logging off and logging on again.

 

[Arthur]

They do move them around.

The guys working on Windows Phone got shifted to Windows for the 8.1 update.

Indeed. Some of them. But the great majority are still working on the next WP.

 

[grim]

From bright white to creamy white?

The color schemes are terrible.

I quite like the dark grey color scheme

 

[abandonallhope]

If you had AVG 2015 installed on the first release, which then got upgraded to the latest one, you will find that most of the components won't start up again, and cannot be repaired.

Only remedy is to uninstall (which is a painfull process and cannot simply be done through Add/Remove Programs) and reinstall it again.

That's what you get for installing AVG, most awful AV program out there.

 

[backstreetboy]

I quite like the dark grey color scheme

This is dark grey [video]http://blogs.technet.com/blogfiles/office2010/WindowsLiveWriter/Office2010VisualsandBranding_BEDE/image_21.png[/video]. Why they took it away only God above knows.

 

[kingrob]

This is dark grey [video]http://blogs.technet.com/blogfiles/office2010/WindowsLiveWriter/Office2010VisualsandBranding_BEDE/image_21.png[/video]. Why they took it away only God above knows.

The original Office 2010 themes - black, blue & silver.

Best. Ever.

I'm still perplexed as to why Microsoft made it white themes with a cream color...it is terrible on my eyes.

 

[AfricanTech]

The original Office 2010 themes - black, blue & silver.

Best. Ever.

I'm still perplexed as to why Microsoft made it white themes with a cream color...it is terrible on my eyes.

Because s/w Devs/ designers think it's cool to take away features (that no one asked them to remove) and add new ones ( that no one asked them for in the first place)

I eventually adjusted to the light grey, but damn, I still miss silver

 

[kingrob]

Because s/w Devs/ designers think it's cool to take away features (that no one asked them to remove) and add new ones ( that no one asked them for in the first place)

I eventually adjusted to the light grey, but damn, I still miss silver

I also settled on the light grey, as that is the darkest color you can get.

I am back with black.

 

[faniebraai]

So where is the new version of Microsoft Office, as Office 2013 was the crappiest Office ever released on this planet?

I'm actually surprised Microsoft has not released a public apology for releasing the turd that is called Office 2013.

I don't want to use anything else but 2013.

Worked on a 2010 recently and I was like "where's that fscking button!"

I like it a lot. Just didn't like the colour scheme, but functionality wise, best one yet.

 

[Subways81]

Anybody else noticed (and know how to fix it) that app resolutions on multi screen setups are different?

I have a 17" 1920x1200 lcd on my laptop and a 24" 1920x1200 2nd lcd. Desktop resolutions are both set to 1920x1200 and they both look it, but when i move an app from one screen to the other the resolution in that app changes, specifically, much lower resolution on my laptop screen.

 

[CataclysmZA]

^^ That's related to the DPI changes Microsoft is sneaking in and will probably be announcing in a few week's time. I have a hunch that part of their DPI-awareness now takes some info from the displays EDID and uses it to guess what the resolution and DPI setting should be. Its iffy for now, but it'll be working properly in a few months or so. DPI scaling is a tricky business for them.

 

[Subways81]

^^ That's related to the DPI changes Microsoft is sneaking in and will probably be announcing in a few week's time. I have a hunch that part of their DPI-awareness now takes some info from the displays EDID and uses it to guess what the resolution and DPI setting should be. Its iffy for now, but it'll be working properly in a few months or so. DPI scaling is a tricky business for them.

Thanks.

I just had my first "crash". Everything just froze up, no BSOD just frozen. Power Cycle and all is good again.