Windows 10 Consumer Preview

[johnjacobschmidt]

No, it's not a "new Microsoft". It's the same Microsoft, trying to put on a less-distasteful face for the moment.

Given Microsoft's track record over the last 20 years, I have no intention of that company's software running on my computers. They'd have to make a lot of major changes in corporate philosophy and execution before I'd be willing to trust them again.

Is that the one where mr gates said that he wanted to kill the worlds population with vaccines or the one where bill allowed the nsa to backdoor all windows platforms?

[johnjacobschmidt]

10 works fine as a daily driver.. i have been using 10 since first technical preview, and just updated to the 9926 build.

its basically 8, but a little lighter weight, has a hybrid start menu etc.

works fine, so throw it on your laptop or spare machine

Ill stick with Linux and save myself the virus infections and nsa backdoors as well as a ton of cash.

[johnjacobschmidt]

Wait....I think I figured out how I can use the halolens thing.

[Jimi Jah]

Will it be free? They owe me for 20+ odd years of suffering.

[oakfan52]

Looks good, but just like every OS since XP too much CPU goes into background, and immediate responsiveness still suffers to this day. One shouldn't have to click, or right click 2x for something to happen... then again, it is in preview-...

They are still sticking with the drag-azzzy indexing service...

Lol seriously? What is the average user running that they are pushing current system's CPU? Cpu and memory haven't been the bottleneck in years. Disk performance is the single most important component of performance. It's been the primary bottleneck for a while. Thankfully SSD price are finally down.

[Peter.Steele]

Looks good, but just like every OS since XP too much CPU goes into background, and immediate responsiveness still suffers to this day. One shouldn't have to click, or right click 2x for something to happen... then again, it is in preview-...

They are still sticking with the drag-azzzy indexing service...

Dude, I didn't buy 8 cores and a 4GB video card just because I wanted to see them sitting at 0% usage all the time ...

[Bryansix]

Just know it is not free for life. It is rumored that it will be free for the first year and then be on a subscription basis like they did with office products. I am sure once you go to 10 you can not go back and are stuck paying for the subscription. No. Thank. You.

Are you just making stuff up now? Source?

[Bryansix]

Ill stick with Linux and save myself the virus infections and nsa backdoors as well as a ton of cash.

Do you have to troll every technology thread there is? Just take off eh?

[Peter.Steele]

Are you just making stuff up now? Source?

I don't think he realizes that you can still buy permanent licenses for Office?