[Kate Schofield]

http://blog.laptopmag.com/windows-10-top-features

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kiZXZG-_oLs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9v73H8MY4IQ

I honestly think they are going in a good direction. This looks modern and very functional and I cant wait to get my upgrade

[Maria Leon]

Microsoft isn't fooling anybody. Windows 10, we all know that you're just Windows 9 .

[Danielle Brown]

ROFL

[Liii BLATES]

I'm in a wait and see just what 10 will offer to gamers.

I run 7/64bit and it has been stable. As far as I could tell 8 brought nothing but pain to gamers so it will take a lot for me to upgrade.

[Queen of Spades]

microsoft makes profit by comming up with a new version every few years. right now i am using vista. as long as i can surf the net and do email, i will stick to visa. i play games on consoles.

[m Gardner]

When I saw Windows 10 I was like: Yeah, right. First Xbox One after Xbox360 now this?

[Nadia Nad]

Firstly thanks to charon711 for those useful infos about the next gen OS.

I show the first video, and i must confess, i liked everything what i saw on that video. !!!

If the New OS - is more or less, what i saw on that video, then i am willing to buy it whenever it comes out.

At least, if it comes within a reasonable price tag. lol

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@Gamesterr

Microsoft makes profit by coming up with a new version every few years. right now i am using vista. *as long as i can surf the net and do email, i will stick to vista. **i play games on consoles.

* Well, you could do that, with Win98 too, i guess.

** Your opinion, excludes the possibility to play games on a PC. What's about those people. ???

[Katie Pollard]

I'll buy it for Cortana.

[sarah]

meh, I'll stick with my copy of Windows 7 a bit longer.. I do have a spare PC though so I may install 10 on it just to see what its like..

If i recall correctly, the reason they are skipping 9 and going directly to 10 was some older programs have the program line "if Windows 9 = Windows 95"

[Jay Baby]

I look forward for that future too. But will it be available on my version in Greece ???

I will buy the English version anyway, but as i know - from the Windows cell phones, this future is available only on the States or similar.

I wish I'm wrong !!!

[Emily Martell]

Polish version of Windows 8/8.1 still doesn't support even the basic built-in speech recognition used for launching programs and typing. I think voice recognition didn't support Polish in older Windows relseases either. Well, there's more, Microsoft launched Xbox Live for Poland in... late 2010, several years after X360, until that date it was just unavailable, and people had to use workarounds (like selecting other country, popular "home address" was Polish embassy in London) to even create an account.

So as much as I'd like features such as Cortana supported in my language - and as many others as possible - I wouldn't be surprised when I see "feature X does not support your selected language" again.

[James Potter]

I loved No. As in, they should stop trying to make the Windows OS something it isn't. Microsoft is trying to compete with Apple, but the OS layout for Apple hasn't changed much, and still works admirably. Users find it intuitive and simple, as opposed to Microsoft's entire re-redesign (how many has this been now?) to make it "Look more Hip." Windows 7 worked fine, stop trying to add that crappy "App Window" thing in. I don't want it, I don't need it, and it's annoying and ugly.

[Campbell]

Yeah, that's what i mean...go figure. !!!

[Trent Theriot]

Hrm.

Only thing I cared about on that list was the Start menu, and even that is cluttered up with that "live tiles" crap.

The rest of it..... meh. I don't have multiple devices to share data/apps/setting between, I don't have an XBox to stream from (or any idea why I'd want to), I don't have touch capability (which is good, because it'd be wasted on a desktop computer - reaching across the desk to do something you could easily do with KB+M is moronic), and I don't have anything throwing notifications at me (no twitter, no RSS, no facebook, etc). Don't want to talk to my computer, or be leashed to some networked storage system. I don't need "spaces" style multitasking, and I do my web browsing on Firefox on my Mac.

(Of course, this is nothing new - every year, I see the article of "see all the best new features in the new OS X!", look through them, and think.... "wow, nothing I care about". Which is why I only just updated from 10.6 to 10.10, and only because I was forced.)

Just want to be able to run my programs, on an OS that's designed for desktop/keyboard/mouse. That's it. If it does that, fine. If it makes everything unusable with layers and layers of trendy/modern crap, no thanks.

But, yeah.. I realize I'm not their (or Apple's) target audience at this point. Too old, too "traditional", not leaping onto every new online/mobile/social/cloud technology that the salesmen keep pumping out. Sigh.

[Big mike]

Yeah, there isn't much that I'm interested in either. DirectX 12 might be cool, but otherwise I don't see much I care about. In fact, if they stop supporting Windows Media Center, I'll have more reasons not to upgrade than I will to upgrade. I still use Windows Media Center to watch and record TV...it's the only DVR software that can record copy-protected channels. I'd still consider upgrading my desktop, but my HTPC would be staying on 7.

[MR.BIGG]

meh, I don't see any thing that looks awful are inconveniant. nice that they're bringing back the start menu to resemble the way it was before 8. Also I didn't see it in the features, i only skimmed, but i recall hearing that 10 would be the final serialized release and that from here on the OS will just be updated rather than a completely new one being developed and sold. if that is true, then that is a step in the right direction, it is really unnecessary to deliver an OS in that way and insane to charge for it.

[Celestine Stardust]

Well free seems like a pretty reasonable price. With that offer, I'll certainly be willing to at least give it a try. If I don't like it, I still have my Windows 7 disks so I can just revert. I've even been thinking of setting up a dual boot system in order to try it.


As I understand, those tiles are completely optional. People will only have them there if they choose to slide the icon over.


That's one of my concerns as well, I like using Media Centre. I understand that Windows 8 users have to buy it separately. Hopefully they'll include it again with version 10. If not, I might just stick with Windows 7 for a few more years.

[Poetic Vice]

Someone really needs to teach Microsoft how to count!

I′ll stick with my Win7/64 as long as I can. Preferrably I′d get XP again but I think that can be quite hard to get a hold on now...

[Samantha hulme]

Can't see why you'd want to do that, unless you plan on using exclusively for gaming/as a dual-boot. Microsoft ended support for XP early last year, so using it now would just be asking for trouble.

[TASTY TRACY]

For me XP was the best OP ever. It played whatever game I threw at it basically and I never got CTDs or had any problem whatsoever. It killed me when that computer died

[(G-yen)]

There's no voting category that quite covers me. I'll wait until it comes out and pay close attention to what everyone thinks of it in actually day-to-day usage. If at that that time it seems to offer solid improvements that directly effect me and contains few if any changes I find distasteful I'll considering using in if and when I assemble my next computer. At the moment I see little of great interest beyond the potential of DX12. Even there DX12 will need to provide solid performance gains with pre-DX12 titles such as Oblivion before I'll start drooling. Not sure I will consider upgrading my current computer from Windows7 to Win10 regards how good 10 proves to be.

[Prisca Lacour]

> Well free seems like a pretty reasonable price. <

I thought buying it actually, as only downloading for free.

But this time, i go for the RETAIL version, instead for the OEM. It was my fault actually, as the shop hasn't the retail version available.

[Kortknee Bell]

If they continue to try to shove their cloud down your throat I'm not interested. If they put in a simple cloud kill-switch and make local accounts an obvious alternative to signing in with a Microsoft account, I'll probably adopt it pretty fast.

[D IV]

I'll upgrade when I really have to. Windows 7 does what I need for the time being, in other words "pros: games; cons: Windows". I'm not in a desperate hurry to part with another hefty wedge of cash just for more Windows; what I would prefer to see is a usable compatibility layer ("usable" doesn't just mean performance, it means "which doesn't give me a headache") for all my existing games so I can go back to using some flavour of Unix on my desktop.

That sounded like a rant/making a point/etc. It wasn't meant to be.


I thought you said Cortina for a moment. That was a quality car.

For certain values of quality.

[james tait]

I have no need for a new OS.

I find myself losing interest in gaming. Well, I still like it, but I just find I don't play all day kinda thing like a few years back. (I haven't bought a new game in a looong time. I borrow console games from a friend. Not so much now that they moved to the PS4 which I do not have. )

W7 does all I need it to and will for many years to come.