Windows 10 Discussion

[Tekno Venus]

Well, it seems the next version of Windows is going to be Windows 10.

The launch event video can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfveyXCsiA8

Start menu is back!

This makes me far too happy Windows 10 command prompt finally gets dragged into the 21st century | Ars Technica. More details on that: Rafael Rivera

The Technical Preview download should be here tomorrow: The Windows 10 Technical Preview Will Be Available For Download Tomorrow | TechCrunch

So, let's start the discussion! Thoughts on Windows Ten?

-Stephen

 

[Patrick]

Nice to get the start menu back, although I got used to the full screen start menu pretty fast. I can see how it might be annoying to those multi-tasking on slower systems as it may take a moment to render, but I've never had problems on my home system.

To be honest, I'm most excited about being able to ctrl-v into CMD :smile9:

 

[Tekno Venus]

To be honest, I'm most excited about being able to ctrl-v into CMD :smile9:

Me too, that makes me far too happy!

 

[Jared]

So what will Paste be then?
That will be the end for Windows! :hysterical:

 

[Patrick]

Paste will probably still be on the context menu. I don't see why they'd remove it.

 

[Corrine]

A nice introduction: Introducing Windows 10 - the best Windows yet

Windows 10 “continuum” design exploration (no sound):

 

[Masterchiefxx17]

What would be really nice if the rumors hold true and state that Windows 8 users will get their free upgrade.

 

[Patrick]

Indeed, that would be nice.

 

[Corrine]

Upgrade costs haven't been addressed at this point. Everything is rumor but this does provide a different spin, obviously published prior to today Leaker claims only some Windows 8.1 users will get free Windows 9 upgrades

 

[Tekno Venus]

Downloading it now, hour and a half or so left! :)

To download, you need to register as a Windows Insider at Windows Technical Preview - Microsoft Windows. This'll allow you to give feedback on the build as well.

I'm going to be installing this in a VMWare VM for now

 

[Tekno Venus]

Well, installed and working well in VMWare player.

Lots of images below! :)

The installer seems to be unchanged, still using the Aero design from Windows 7/Vista installers


Even though I set it up as a new PC, it still imported my settings from Windows 8, including wallpaper, date/time settings, colour scheme, IE settings etc.


Much more use of drop shadows in Windows 10 compared to Windows 8 - it adds a bit more depth but could be toned down a bit IMO


Seems like they're trying to roll out new icons and things, but they're not all ready yet.


A new mini charms menu in some apps


More images to follow! :)

 

[Tekno Venus]

Of course we've got the new start menu


Don't forget to enable these settings!


The feedback app is nice, you can see what other people have commented on and vote "Me Too" if you have the same issue


Oh look, a BSOD! Just for a bit of fun I ran NotMyFault on W8 I'll get the dumps for those interested


Looks like the preview version will expire 16th April 2015

 

[Tekno Venus]

Still shows as W8 in WinDbg, but symbol errors aplenty. Seems the symbol servers haven't been updated.

Microsoft (R) Windows Debugger Version 6.3.9600.16384 AMD64
Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.


Loading Dump File [D:\Stephen\Desktop\MEMORY.DMP]
Kernel Bitmap Dump File: Only kernel address space is available

WARNING: Whitespace at end of path element
Error: Empty Path.
Symbol search path is: SRV*D:\symbols*http://msdl.microsoft.com/download/symbols 
Executable search path is: 
*** ERROR: Symbol file could not be found.  Defaulted to export symbols for ntkrnlmp.exe - 
Windows 8 Kernel Version 9841 MP (4 procs) Free x64
Product: WinNt, suite: TerminalServer SingleUserTS
Built by: 9841.0.amd64fre.fbl_release.140912-1613
Machine Name:
Kernel base = 0xfffff803`73c02000 PsLoadedModuleList = 0xfffff803`73ef18b0
Debug session time: Wed Oct  1 19:58:37.228 2014 (UTC + 1:00)
System Uptime: 0 days 0:41:19.386
*** ERROR: Symbol file could not be found.  Defaulted to export symbols for ntkrnlmp.exe - 
Loading Kernel Symbols
...............................................................
................................................................
.........................................
Loading User Symbols
PEB is paged out (Peb.Ldr = 00007ff6`f7e73018).  Type ".hh dbgerr001" for details
Loading unloaded module list
..............

************* Symbol Loading Error Summary **************
Module name            Error
ntkrnlmp               The system cannot find the file specified

You can troubleshoot most symbol related issues by turning on symbol loading diagnostics (!sym noisy) and repeating the command that caused symbols to be loaded.
You should also verify that your symbol search path (.sympath) is correct.
*******************************************************************************
*                                                                             *
*                        Bugcheck Analysis                                    *
*                                                                             *
*******************************************************************************

Use !analyze -v to get detailed debugging information.

BugCheck D1, {ffffc000d17a2010, 2, 0, fffff800f7961385}

*** ERROR: Module load completed but symbols could not be loaded for myfault.sys
***** Kernel symbols are WRONG. Please fix symbols to do analysis.

<snip>

Probably caused by : myfault.sys ( myfault+1385 )

Followup: MachineOwner

 

[Jared]

To be honest I think the Windows 8 MEtro UI looks better than the new start menu..

 

[Patrick]

It looks nice, I like it. I presume they may add some sort of customization to it eventually (if it's not already in the appearance settings somewhere) for changing the color, making it transparent, etc. It looks like Stephen chose the OS color as blue, so his start screen matches that color. I think whatever color you chose, that's what color the start screen follows. I could be wrong.

 

[Tekno Venus]

You are correct, the start menu colour can be changed. No transparency option, but colour is there

 

[Jared]

I take it there is a lot of time to go for Windows 10 to be released as you're still using evaluation copies.

 

[x BlueRobot]

Windows 7 will become the next Windows XP; I don't like the Windows 10 Start Menu, it still looks horrible. A terrible amalgamation of Windows 7 and Windows 8 Start Menus.

 

[Patrick]

Windows 7 will become the next Windows XP

Looks to be that way, yeah.

 

[Jared]

AFAIK the command prompt is opened using a small menu, it's opened by pressing the Windows Key + V.
It's either V or X.