Windows 10 - The Fast Ring and BUILD 10061
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However, I've also been installing each new Fast Ring build of Windows 10 on real hardware and been going over the changes for you! Today Windows 10 Technical Preview Build 10061 came out.
I've put my Windows 10 Technical Preview "Build-To-Build" YouTube Playlist up here and I encourage you to check it out. Windows 10 daily builds are still quite rough in spots, but that's part of the fun of getting these almost-daily builds. I wouldn't put this on my main machine, and I haven't. But, I do have a few extra laptops and have been keeping up to date with Windows 10, looking for changes and updates between builds.
Below is my playlist and today's video on Windows 10 Build 10061 and the changes I've noticed.
Have you installed Windows 10 on any machines? What's your reaction been so far?
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Pretty much turned my ones all day 2in1 to Visual Studio machine and rest is in iOS. If Apple would bring 12 inch iOS or Google Android tablet I would move my development to cloud like Scott showed in one article, true future.
It's hasn't crashed a single time, support for touch screen is great. I think it's easier for a Win 7 or XP user to step to Win 10 than to start using Win 8.x
The best thing is that the installation of this Technical Preview + updates and even the eventual RTM are completely for free!
(I've also upgraded my 2010 MacBook Pro with BootCamp to Win 10, but though I got it working after a few workarounds and some trickery, I took it back to Win 7, since the fan + CPU had a hard time with Win 10. But with recent/decent hardware I would go Win 10 definitely)
I like how the Cortana search box blends into the task bar; better than previous builds.
Overall, though, there are still a LOT of inconsistencies. Are we still using the old control panel (when changing background image)?!
If it was me I'd take the guys that designed the mail/calendar apps and have them dictate the looks of/to the rest of the OS. Is this thing going to be ready by Summer?
Explorer has been flaky for a while now. Ctrl+Shift+Esc is your friend. You can kill explorer from the processes tab, then File -> Run new task, explorer.exe to get it back again. Make sure not to start it with admin privileges (this used to be impossible) as the modern apps won't run elevated (and everything else will).
Other than the crashing apps (known issue) in the previous build, I've had a great time with the Preview in a VMWare Fusion VM on my machine. Definitely my favorite edition of Windows after Windows 8.1! :-)
I think this is the modern UI paradigm that is being adopted by pretty much everyone in the industry.
BUT. The Tech Preview is still a hot mess on the Surface. Hangs, reboots, failures to start, overheating, multi-monitor freakiness, you name it. Totally unreliable. Yep, I dug my own hole. Acknowledged. I was just really hoping that since probably a quarter of Microsoft is running a SP3 (yeah I made that stat up, but is it wrong?) that it would get tons of love in making sure the Tech Preview was stable. Nope.
I have been thiiiiiiis close to going back to Win 8.1 on more than a few occasions. One too many failures to resume from suspend and losing everything I was working on, or a reboot, or what have you. But then I think about what goodness I might miss with the next update. So I'm a mouse on the treadmill.
I hope Microsoft appreciates folks like me. Not feelin' it, but I hope.
I like the multi desktop feature. Is it possible to save the desktop settings? So when I reopen the desktop, all the apps that I have moved there would come back.
I'd like to have one desktop for development, one for project management, one for social catch up. When I switch desktop(context), all the things I need are there and I can just jump right in.
Why do I have Korea Messenger Center in Apps?
Just using it everyday I have neglected checking out the features.
I like about the Preview is the price, and the automatic updates including video card. To install Windows 10 Technical Preview needed exactly zero drivers including printers.
revisiting. I wonder how so much attempt you place to create
this kind of great informative web site.
Its been stable as far as I can see and the UI inconsistencies aren't too painful. If the core was stable I could live with a rolling release, get the important 80% working and released and then have small weekly/monthly upgrades to bring the rest into line.
After saying I had found it very stable my latest copy of Windows 10 is BSOD regularly, me and my big mouth.
I'm using Xubuntu for my main development machine right now and fairly happy with it. That said, Linux seems kind of boring when compared to Windows 10. So I'm really hoping you guys can sort issues out and deliver a kickass desktop system that customers will love.
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Found the UI horribly inconsistent. Also, only gives 2.5hrs battery life versus the 9-10 this machine should have.