It's quite exciting!

In reply to a post by MrTAToad2:

It's quite exciting!

You must lead a sheltered life

Working on the principal, if it aint broke don't fix it, I will leave my Win 7 alone. I hate to think which drivers etc will stop working with 10. But in particular my copy of Maxivista, which allows remote use and control of a second computer.

Turned on my Vista machine this morning and it has an icon (the four slanting blocks) in the System Tray that says "Get Windows 10" when I hover the cursor over it.

I don't know if it launches a download or what, or just gives me a page of info and options, so haven't clicked it. The machine does all I want, so I don't think I'm interested. I'll probably "Hide" the icon.

My understanding is that it allows you to sign up. Then, when 10 is released it will download it and give you the option of installing.

However, might find out something very different tomorrow and discover that all my machines upgrade of their own accord - hope not as I want to do some for testing before installing it on my "main" devices.

It's started

http://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-has-begun-pre-l...

Yes, I have 4.14Gb of files - download started at 8am this morning.

You have to laugh!

I've taken little interest, so what got me probably won't get you. It was the video on this page.

In a fairly slick demo and talk he almost made it sound as if bringing back everything they dropped when the went to Windows 8 was from original thinking by the W10 designers.

Noo_^ooo. You reversed a major cockup and gave the stuff a pretty, more modern face.

The most hilarious bit was the ability to have huge tiles each with a major application in, such as a presentation you are creating in one and the data in another couple.

WOWWWW! D'oh!

It's
called
Windowwwwwsssss man!

You know; the reason it's called Windows? That you tried to exterminate and largely succeeded in W8. Which was only redeemed by ignoring W8 and using the desktop option 98.948% of the time.

Edited by RobertoS (Tue 28-Jul-15 22:42:29)

The video is interesting. It's almost as if they realise that half of the 'issues' around Windows are tech bods demanding advances...but advances to what? To users being afraid to use a product that is totally alien to them.

Will a touch screen make Excel better? Will a new interface speed up my productivity? No. Quite the opposite. We got a sneak preview of this with Office 2007 and the ribbon. It was productivity-unfriendly. People had spent years learning the shortcuts, only to have them disappear.

I installed a free hack to enable the old menus mind.

Happy for new features, but they have to be improvements. Making the monitor round, or calling the mouse a chihuahua is not progress. All these mobile-friendly sites are getted slated by the people that actually use them (generally folk with monitors). Mobile browsing might be fine for some, but it's not the be all and end all. It's the 'on the move' thing.

...and don't get me started on WinSxS.

Edited by camieabz (Wed 29-Jul-15 00:47:17)

As an infrequent user of Office products I find the ribbon menus completely incomprehensible, when the claim was they are intuitive.

Nothing is in the right place or grouping. Change a Word page layout, alter its line spacing, set the default font. That sort of thing.

All used to be something like three clicks to be on the appropriate settings page, and all the required tools to do it all on the one page were there.

Now it's five minutes finding each tool by trying all the likely groups, then you may do one click to be in it, or more. Then off hunting for the second tool you want.

The good bits are the ones that were always easily found and still are. Because they are roughly in the same place as they've always been. Things like line horizontal alignment and justification, bold, underlining, italics and so on.

Excel spreadsheets. Geez! Just getting column default content settings done with required type of formatting is a nightmare, though I'm beginning to remember it. Anything like this can be learned, but intuitive it most certainly isn't.