Is Windows 10 Ready?

Discussion in 'Software' started by mdonah, Apr 20, 2015.

  1. mdonah

    mdonah Major Geek Extraordinaire

    While running Windows 8.1 today, I had a slide-out notification stating "Windows 10 is ready" and just below that "Get Started". Clicking on the box opened Windows Update and there were two Important Updates available but, nothing having to do with the free Win 10 upgrade for Win 7/8.1. Is this notification for the Win 10 TP?
     
    mdonah, Apr 20, 2015
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  2. LauraR

    LauraR MajorGeeks Super-Duper Administrator Staff Member

    Are you signed up for Windows 10 somehow? I'm running Win 8.1 as well and don't have anything in updates.
     
    LauraR, Apr 22, 2015
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  3. Adrynalyne

    Adrynalyne Guest

    Its for TP.
     
    Adrynalyne, Apr 22, 2015
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  4. mdonah

    mdonah Major Geek Extraordinaire

    As Adry said, it's apparently for Win 10 TP. I've also got an icon in my StartMenu -> All Apps for Win 10 TP but clicking on it only opens Windows Update. I did sign up as an "insider".
     
    mdonah, Apr 22, 2015
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  5. DavidGP

    DavidGP MajorGeeks Forum Administrator - Grand Pooh-Bah Staff Member

    Not ready yet, close but not close enough, all indications are that a June/July release is possible, personally I would have thought more Oct.

    10061 is ok-ish and getting there, still not a fan of the GUI icons, but I know these may change, the startup is really good, specs in a low end PC work will with W10, is there much more added that W7 or 8 has already, well not that I can see outwardly, maybe tweaks to Kernel and crash routines, but these where already good in 7 and 8
     
    DavidGP, Apr 25, 2015
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  6. plodr

    plodr MajorGeek Super Extraordinaire Moderator Staff Member

    No one has a crystal ball here.
    Since hardware and programs are different from PC to PC, you'll have to wait and read. I suspect for some it will be painless and for others it will be agony.
     
    plodr, Apr 25, 2015
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  7. Spock96

    Spock96 Major Geek 'Spocky'

    I completely lost track of Windows 10 till right now. Looked up the TP and have a question.
    Since it's a .ISO I can run it as a "Live environment" off say a CD, like you would with Linux or is this one of those situations where it would have to be it's own partition?

    Been a while since I've done anything with .ISO files or the like and can't remember.
    Thanks,
    Spock96
     
    Spock96, Apr 25, 2015
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  8. Earthling

    Earthling Interplanetary Geek

    It needs to be installed, either to a drive/partition or in a virtual machine. MS don't do live CDs ;)
     
    Earthling, Apr 26, 2015
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  9. Spock96

    Spock96 Major Geek 'Spocky'

    I didn't think they did, but was not sure. Thank you. I may have to check it out sometime.
     
    Spock96, Apr 26, 2015
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  10. DavidGP

    DavidGP MajorGeeks Forum Administrator - Grand Pooh-Bah Staff Member

    I have to say after installing 10074 Win10 is much better the icons are naff still, but the GUI is better, love the rotating app icons.

    The install routine is awesomely good, love the % screen as you know where your upto, the speed on an old ACER 5630 laptop with a Crucial SSD added this drive as my mom complained of speed, hhahhahha using her as a test subject with Win10, use mu 74yr old mom as a guide to usability of an OS, if she can use it without issue then anyone can!! she has no issues with it so far, has the odd issue with pop up messages that are general ones so thats annoying.

    But is it much different to Win7/8 no, front end GUI is but not seen much to sway me for troubleshooting or core kernel speed yet.

    I will likely migrate to it as I do with any Windows versions but is it a game changer, IMHO - NO not yet.
     
    DavidGP, May 2, 2015
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