Announcing Windows ... 10?

[Jammrock]

Apparently seven eight nine so they had to use 10.

http://blogs.windows.com/bloggingwindows/2014/09/30/announcing-windows-10/

Live blog from the event here.

http://live.theverge.com/microsoft-windows-9-event-live-blog/

Preview release will come out in October through this site. Desktop tomorrow, server later in the month.

http://preview.windows.com

All the leaks were pretty accurate. One kernel for all devices, supports screens from 4" to 80". Start menu is back in a hybrid form. Classic Win7 program list on the left, start screen live tiles on the right.

Modern apps can be used from the desktop in a windowed mode (yay!). Multiple desktops built in. The Windows Store will be universal across all devices. So buy something on your phone and it will be available on your tablet, laptop and desktop (ala Universal Apps).

Should be fun to play with.

[UtwigMU]

What is the reported version?

6.4?

[Jammrock]

Don't know yet, but probably. Should know tomorrow when the technical preview comes out.

[VJ]

Interesting that is called Windows 10... Is 9 a bad number in some countries? Because it (9) was already quite hyped by the technology sites...

Guess I'll immediately make the jump to Windows 10 preview on a new system, and see what happens.

Any word on the drivermodel? Does it use the same drivers as Windows 8?

[UtwigMU]

Interesting that is called Windows 10... Is 9 a bad number in some countries? Because it (9) was already quite hyped by the technology sites...

Guess I'll immediately make the jump to Windows 10 preview on a new system, and see what happens.

Any word on the drivermodel? Does it use the same drivers as Windows 8?

4 and 8 are bad numbers in Japan/China

At least they could have called it X

[VJ]

Oh... to position it against OS X?

[Jammrock]

8 is a lucky number in China.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numbers_in_Chinese_culture#Eight

Here are the version details from my preview copy.

PS C:\> [environment]::OSversion | fl *


Platform : Win32NT
ServicePack :
Version : 6.4.9841.0
VersionString : Microsoft Windows NT 6.4.9841.0

Looks pretty, but this version of IE11 does not like MURC.

Just got it installed. Will give an update once I can play with it some.

[cjolley]

Creating a vm now.

I heard they skipped 9 because they found that some programs that check for the win version would interpret it as windows 95 or 98.

[paulw]

What is the reported version?

6.4?

Yep..

Had a play with it yesterday. This is what Windows 8 should have looked like. I can use this out of the box instead of having to install Classic Shell to get the start menu back and make it it look like Win XP or Win 7.

[paulw]

4 and 8 are bad numbers in Japan/China

At least they could have called it X

Didn't Apple patent the Roman numeral system

[Umfriend]

If I am not mistaken, there is a reason why BBOS 10 is not called BBOS X, might be Apple. Yes, I am still a Blackberry fan rocking a Z30. He, I still like Matrox cards as well so it's not out of character. I seem to like losers.

[VJ]

I just installed it on the system. Installation went fast and smooth, just some issues:

The Intel LAN driver was not installed by default, and installing the downloaded driver failed, with the message that the system does not have an Intel LAN. From the device manager, update driver, I could then point to the folder where the Intel driver (downloaded from asus) is, and install it that way. After that, the Intel LAN setup can run, and it is possible to install them as it should be.

My USB3 driver also refused to install, but the USB3 port was working. It was not very stable when copying large files though, so I will try the same trick to install the USB3 driver.

The display driver installs, but shows a strange behaviour. It does not appear to synchonize with the windows display setting (e.g. resolution), and the computer sometimes says it is in one resolution (e.g. 1024x768), but the display reports it gets a different resolution (1920x1080). I set the low resolution as it is a 7" display that accepts 1920x180, but has native 800x480 resolution, so quite unreadable when it scales down. After some attempts and adjusting both Windows settings and display driver, it sometimes get it to switch correctly.

A bit of an annoyance are the tablet apps (new, sport, finance, ...). They are basically just RSS aggregators, but their interface is weird on a non-touch monitor (e.g. scrolling to the right instead of down, ...), but they are easily removed. Also the fact that the start menu is already huge with all the standard small apps (why did they not group them into one folder) is something I don't like, but I like a small start menu with a nice tree-structure.

The copy-file progress dialog also is not graphing the speeds nicely, so some bugs in how the graph is constructed, but it is an interesting take on a copy progress dialog. Some things are still exactly the same: e.g. you cannot extract multiple zip files, each to a folder, at once.

But I like the fact that you can customize it to the point that it is not that different from Windows 7.

[Nicram]

Interesting that is called Windows 10... Is 9 a bad number in some countries?

I think the reason is that some old software is detecting Windows version by searching for Windows 9* (because there was 95, and 98).
And in that situation it could make some problems, so i think they didn't want to confuse software/drivers and people that use them.

[dZeus]

I think the reason is that some old software is detecting Windows version by searching for Windows 9* (because there was 95, and 98).
And in that situation it could make some problems, so i think they didn't want to confuse software/drivers and people that use them.

yeah I read that too, but don't Windows XP/Vista/7/8/etc. present themselves as NT 5.1/6.0/6.1/6.2/etc. ?

sounds like a weird explanation to me

[Nicram]

Well i'm not sure how old software detect Windows versions (if at all).