windows 10 fyi

[I_rv]

I heard this morning on tech news that so many people are disappointed with windows 8 that beginning next year they will be releasing windows 10,I guess 9 must have been a flop.

[strollin]

If anyone is interested, this past week MS released a newer build (Build 9860) of the Win 10 Preview. You can download it from PC Settings->Update & Recovery->Preview Builds. Of course you need to already have Build 9841 of the Preview installed in order to do the upgrade.

[strollin]

joebedford wrote:

strollin wrote:

joebedford wrote:
I have it going in Oracle VM Virtualbox.

I haven't tried with VirtualBox yet since I've read that the VB Guest Additions won't install there. Were you able to install the Guest Additions?

Yes and no. You can force the installation of the Guest Additions I discovered after a bunch of Googleing. Unfortunately the drivers don't seem to work - the display is pretty primitive and I can't get shared folders to work. I don't know if this is a Windows problem or VBox problem.

I didn't have sound at first but I was able to download a compatible driver and update 10. It works fine now.

Other than that, it seems to work fine - better than I would have expected for a pre-alpha preview.

Whether the Guest Additions won't install at all or they install but don't work is irrelevant, the point is that they don't work at this time. I recall when the Win 8 preview first came out it wasn't usable with VBox but shortly after VBox was updated and the preview then worked. I'm sure that will happen again this time around.

[joebedford]

strollin wrote:

joebedford wrote:
I have it going in Oracle VM Virtualbox.

I haven't tried with VirtualBox yet since I've read that the VB Guest Additions won't install there. Were you able to install the Guest Additions?

Yes and no. You can force the installation of the Guest Additions I discovered after a bunch of Googleing. Unfortunately the drivers don't seem to work - the display is pretty primitive and I can't get shared folders to work. I don't know if this is a Windows problem or VBox problem.

I didn't have sound at first but I was able to download a compatible driver and update 10. It works fine now.

Other than that, it seems to work fine - better than I would have expected for a pre-alpha preview.

[mlts22]

I wonder what the server edition will give. Windows 2012 (Windows 😎 gave a new filesystem, disk deduplication, better BitLocker (used space only encryption), a chkdsk that could run on a snapshot, and many other improvements. Windows 2012 R2 (Windows 8.1) beefed up Hyper-V, added some nice options to deduplication, slightly better Storage Spaces, etc.

I'm hoping that ReFS can be used as a system volume filesystem (for the C: drive), deduplication can be used with the system volume as well, and maybe some work on being able to isolate programs from each other (similar to how the program sandboxie works, where a program thinks it makes a lot of changes, but all the changes it does are redirected to a sandbox directory.)

[bwanshoom]

Gotta love the online rumors from nameless "Microsoft devs". I wonder what hardware from 20 years ago is capable of running Windows 10? I would guess just slightly above none.

[8_1_Van]

Essentially, many software programs that have been updated to be compatible with each and every Windows upgrade since 1995 may have recycled a version of this code snippet to allow them to work with both Windows 95 and Windows 98. If Microsoft's next OS had been named Windows 9, such software would have seen that the name starts with "Windows 9" and could have confused the new operating system with Win 95 and 98. That could have created compatibility issues and caused the programs to stop working, or it could have led to version-check errors or other unknown problems.

Is this why Microsoft named it Windows 10?

[Alan_Hepburn]

People have wondered: "What happened to Windows 9?"

Well, there are a lot of lazy programmers in the world. When they write code to determine which operating system is in use they often search for "windows 9" or "windows 9x" to see if Windows 95 or 98 is in use. Now if Windows 9 were in use the program would think it was windows 96 or 98, which are not compatible with Windows 9, so unexpected things would happen. So Microsoft was forced to skip over 9 and go straight to 10.

[strollin]

joebedford wrote:
I have it going in Oracle VM Virtualbox.

I haven't tried with VirtualBox yet since I've read that the VB Guest Additions won't install there. Were you able to install the Guest Additions?

I'm running it in VMWare Player and the VMWare Tools install there without issue.

[Bucky_Badger]

1492 wrote:


Also note that this is a preview, not release candidate, primarily orientated toward techies. It may contain glitches and other faults that could effect its usability. You should also install it in an isolated manner to protect your current OS.

That too funny right there

[Fizz]

I see a big advertizing blitz coming soon.
Not for Win 10
Win X sounds sexier.

[sh410]

Win 7 ate 9.:)

[joebedford]

I have it going in Oracle VM Virtualbox.

[8_1_Van]

Here is my Mac Pro desktop screenshot.

[strollin]

Posting this from Windows 10 Preview running in a VMWare Player VM.

Not that far removed from Win 8.x which was not that far removed from Win 7 so all-in-all very similar to both Win 7 & 8.

You can now resize Metro (MUI) apps and clicking on the X in upper right corner actually closes the app as opposed to simply hibernating it as in 8.

A lot of people will be happy to see the return of the Start Menu. I still prefer to use toolbars as I've done since Win 2000 days.