Windows 10 Technical Preview - Insider Program

[Arthur]

It worked without hitch on a test PC - admittedly less than 24h. Now doing in in-place upgrade on my daily work machine. Will be interesting to see whether it's stable enough for daily use.

Five monitor desktop about to be tested.

Fortunately I have an Acronis image so can go back anytime.

 

[House]

Will be interesting to see whether it's stable enough for daily use.

Would not bet too much money on that though! Like you said earlier, less than 24 hours and there is already a 100MB+ update. Surely quite a few big ones still to come!

 

[kingrob]

Would not bet too much money on that though! Like you said earlier, less than 24 hours and there is already a 100MB+ update. Surely quite a few big ones still to come!

Agreed.

A preview is between an Alpha and a Beta release....nowhere near ready for a production environment.

You are meant to install a Preview in a VM, then test it and report bugs to Microsoft.

 

[Arthur]

I now have WTP running on the 5-monitor desktop.

I really struggled with Metro apps - when started they ran full-screen and after 2 secs auto-minimised in a frozen state and wouldn't load any content. Aarggghhh what a pain.

And then I remembered I had ModernMix installed (the Win8 app that windows Metro apps). Once ModernMix was uninstalled, the Metro apps run fine. Relief.

One immediate impression: this is significantly faster than even Win8.1. Especially IE. So far so good.

 

[kingrob]

And then I remembered I had ModernMix installed (the Win8 app that windows Metro apps). Once ModernMix was uninstalled, the Metro apps run fine. Relief.

Happiness and instant relief?!

One immediate impression: this is significantly faster than even Win8.1. Especially IE. So far so good.

It's Windows 7 under the hood, what else did you expect?

 

[Pho3nix]

Also using it as my daily driver. Only issue at the moment is Virtual Box doesn't work at all. Forced to use Hyper-V at the moment.

 

[])ragon_\/oid]

Also using it as my daily driver. Only issue at the moment is Virtual Box doesn't work at all. Forced to use Hyper-V at the moment.

There is nothing wrong with Hyper-V. I sometimes prefer Hyper-V above Virtual box.

 

[Pho3nix]

There is nothing wrong with Hyper-V. I sometimes prefer Hyper-V above Virtual box.

Find setting up the network easier in Virtual Box.
Switches and blah blah blah.
Will re-check how to do this. Have only gotten it working once in 10 attempts.

 

[wez1007]

There is nothing wrong with Hyper-V. I sometimes prefer Hyper-V above Virtual box.

+1

Since most of my servers at work are all hyper-vised i just stick with using it for anything and everything.


I'm now running Win x as my daily driver (for personal use) Will see how far it goes.

At work I'm still using windows 8.1 with Windows 10 in a VM for general messing about and web browsing. In a month or two I might change that though (with a dual boot)

 

[Lino]

Installing now onto my Mac book Pro 2010 edition

 

[wez1007]

Find setting up the network easier in Virtual Box.
Switches and blah blah blah.
Will re-check how to do this. Have only gotten it working once in 10 attempts.

I find Hyper-V a lot easier for things like dedicated NICs and all sorts of weird configs.

 

[Pho3nix]

I find Hyper-V a lot easier for things like dedicated NICs and all sorts of weird configs.

Hope you won't mind me PMing you when my network is not working.

 

[NeonNinja]

71%

Thinking of doing an upgrade from Win 8.1.

 

[faniebraai]

10 installed. not one issue at the moment.... at the moment.

 

[wez1007]

Hope you won't mind me PMing you when my network is not working.

I am no pro but I'm sure I could help
Not sure how far you'll get with that PM without network connectivity though

 

[RyanPCMR]

Use at your own discretion

To be clear, it's only being released in a years time. This version is not for general consumption.

To be clear, it's only being released in a years time. This version is for anyone who wishes to preview it without any real technical support. FTFY!

In layman's terms: Don't install this as your main OS! :twisted:

 

[wez1007]

To be clear, it's only being released in a years time. This version is for anyone who wishes to preview it without any real technical support. FTFY!

In layman's terms: Don't install this as your main OS! :twisted:

What happens if you are the tech support?

 

[faniebraai]

10 installed. not one issue at the moment.... at the moment.

installed my office "version" and can't seem to activate it... hmmm

 

[CataclysmZA]

Looks like windows is slowly catching up to linux

Central software repository/store, check!
Workspaces (virtual desktops), check!
Window snapping to borders, check!
Decent task switcher, check!
Decent shell, check!

Yeah, even I'm flabbergasted at the turnaround. Completely different from how they presented Windows 8/8.1.

Window snapping has been around for a long time hasnt it? :/

Since Windows 7. I remember seeing it for the first time and I couldn't have imagined how much it would change how I multi-task.

One thing I noticed so far, nevermind the features, is just the way they present them. They not trying to pretend like they invented something which has been around in other OS's for a while already. I respect that.

Joe Belfiore is also a really cool guy and very understated. He doesn't try to emulate Jobs or Gates or Ballmer or, God forbid, Steven Sinofsky. Its thanks to him and his team that Windows Phone works as well as it does today.

I won't be moving anytime soon though. I'll wait for a stable release of Mumble and Audacity before testing and considering a total switch. If it launches next year at a cheap promotional price, I'll pick it up.

I'd also like to see how the multi-desktop feature evolves for multi-monitor use.

 

[faniebraai]

I'd also like to see how the multi-desktop feature evolves for multi-monitor use.

I have it installed installed now. Multi monitors. When you go into the 'multi desktop mode' to select which space you wish to switch to, it displays on each screen the mini desktops available with previous. (hope that makes sense) if not, i'll try a screenshot if you ask nicely