Microsoft: Windows 10 News and Discussion Thread
#81
Sanest Florida Man
Anyone putting this on a machine or just a VM?
#82
Go Giants
Put it on a VM, looked good enough, putting it on my surface 3 now cause I barely use it as it is.
#83
Team Owner
Ok, I will play.
#84
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Weird, on my VM I can only see one line of the start menu... I can scroll, but can only see one line. Also can't resize it.
#85
Team Owner
I don't have that issue. You have FF and Chrome installed , did you upgrade or do a fresh install?
#86
Team Owner
So far this looks like what 8.1 should have been. Finally usable again.
Hopefully they will make it a free or a very cheap upgrade.
Hopefully they will make it a free or a very cheap upgrade.
#87
Needs more Lemon Pledge
#88
Team Owner
First Windows 10 fix needed, get rid of this guy...
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Ken1997TL (10-01-2014)
#89
Needs more Lemon Pledge
#90
Sanest Florida Man
Here's the full keynote from yesterday and it shows some things not in the other video. Skip to the 31:00 mark to see him demo continuum
#91
Sanest Florida Man
Here's continuum without him explaining it
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#92
Go Giants
looks cool but when I pulled off my keyboard nothing happened. Run nice though so far.
#93
Oliver!!!
#94
Go Giants
Yeah that may do it.
#95
Sanest Florida Man
#96
Sanest Florida Man
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#97
Sanest Florida Man
Woah, what's with the drop shadow behind windows, that's new. It's got a new animation when you open them too. Border padding on windows is down to 1 pixel, I like it. But I see pressing Win + E doesn't take you to "This PC" anymore, that's some bullshit.
Now to figure out why my networking isn't working in my VM...
Now to figure out why my networking isn't working in my VM...
#98
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>I wouldnt recommend installing Windows 10 on a Surface Pro 3 unless you never use it as a tablet</p>— Tom Warren (@tomwarren) <a href="https://twitter.com/tomwarren/status/517467969010425856">October 2, 2014</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
#99
Sanest Florida Man
ok the recent files is pretty cool. I downloaded a picture to the downloads folder then I opened explorer and it was there in the first window under recent files so I didn't have to dig for it. Nice.
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#101
Sanest Florida Man
the cmd prompt features aren't enabled by default to enable them open cmd prompt right click on menu bar and choose properties, click experimental tab, enable experimental and then choose which ones you want to enable.
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#103
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I'm currently running it in an enhanced session of Hyper-v VM on 8.1 (new 8.1 feature) it gives the VM access to all hardware including USB drives, audio passthrough, etc.
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#105
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Indexing not working on my Bootcamp on the Air so far (type in Windows Update and only get web links, etc).
#106
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The most logical reason for naming Windows 10 so far, shitty coders.
cranbourne comments on New Windows Version will be called Windows 10
For example: https://searchcode.com/?q=if%28versi...indows+9%22%29
Devs wrote their own OS checks and assume that if it says windows 9 then it's 95/98 and it won't run. This is similar to the reason that they're still on kernel 6.x from the Vista days, app compatibility.
Microsoft dev here, the internal rumours are that early testing revealed just how many third party products that had code of the form
if(version.StartsWith("Windows 9"))
{ /* 95 and 98 */
} else {
and that this was the pragmatic solution to avoid that.
if(version.StartsWith("Windows 9"))
{ /* 95 and 98 */
} else {
and that this was the pragmatic solution to avoid that.
For example: https://searchcode.com/?q=if%28versi...indows+9%22%29
Devs wrote their own OS checks and assume that if it says windows 9 then it's 95/98 and it won't run. This is similar to the reason that they're still on kernel 6.x from the Vista days, app compatibility.
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Lazy lazy coders
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#109
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Windows 10 build 2 out. Downloading now.
#110
Sanest Florida Man
It adds
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#111
Sanest Florida Man
Also there's a way to change the speed at which you'll receive updates. By default you're only slow list but if you move to fast you'll see them as soon as they come out.
It defaults to slow because if there's any show stoppers found on the fast list they don't want everyone to get it, so they won't release it to the slow list until fixing any major bugs found after release to the fast list.
It defaults to slow because if there's any show stoppers found on the fast list they don't want everyone to get it, so they won't release it to the slow list until fixing any major bugs found after release to the fast list.
#112
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And it takes forever to download.
#113
Sanest Florida Man
It's at least 2GB
#114
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A progress bar would have been cool.
#115
Team Owner
Can the old build be upgraded or do you have to install fresh?
#116
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Sanest Florida Man
#118
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eventually
#119
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latest build also adds native MKV video support
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