Microsoft's reiterates Windows 10 will release in late summer

#4973385 Posted on: 12/08/2014 10:05 AM

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RTM can be sooner

#4973395 Posted on: 12/08/2014 10:43 AM

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I'm OK with that, no problem for me to wait that "long" and finally make jump from Win7 SP1 x64 to something newer. At the moment when Win10 arrives Win7 will be almost 6 years old, it's about time for me to move on. ATM Win 7 is doing it's job perfectly for all my needs on every rig I have, haven't found anything worth in Win8/8.1 to jump into that waggon so l'll be waiting patiently for Win10 x64 with hope that it will be enough polished from day one like Win7 was backthen in the end of 2009.

#4973421 Posted on: 12/08/2014 12:58 PM

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CrazY_Milojko hates Windows 8 !

#4973455 Posted on: 12/08/2014 02:16 PM

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To be perfectly honest I wouldn't have made the jump to 8 if they hadn't offered it so cheap at first.I really don't see that much difference other than UI .

#4973466 Posted on: 12/08/2014 02:55 PM

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RTM for windows 8 was a little over a month before official release. I'm pretty sure it'll be the same for 10

#4973486 Posted on: 12/08/2014 03:24 PM

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As someone who hates Windows in general, I thought W8 was actually pretty good. Had some questionable decisions (which is typical of MS) but there are some things it definitely did right, such as the new Task Manager.


@CrazY_Milojko:
No point in upgrading if you don't need to. The only reason I'm using Windows 8.1 right now is because I got a license for it from a laptop I bought (then replaced Windows on the laptop), and I figured I might as well use it. Otherwise, since I only use Windows for gaming, I'd have just stuck with W7. If you don't have a DX12 compatible GPU, might as well use W7 while you still can.

#4973528 Posted on: 12/08/2014 04:46 PM

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CrazY_Milojko hates Windows 8 !

I can't say I hate Windows 8/8.1, just didn't found anything special about it to make transition (and waste my precious time) from Win 7 SP1 x64 to Win 8/8.1 x64. Why bother with Win8, waste time and money when Win7 is doing it's job perfectly fine for me at home and office.

As a matter of fact I'm building new HTPC atm from the scratch for my living room with huge LCD TV and I'm going to install Win8.1 Pro x64 on that HTPC, but I'm using Win8.1 Pro x64 just because right now I can get licence at reasonable price. All my gaming & HTPC rigs at home are on Win7 SP1 x64 and I (can't explain that) need something different this time for this new HTPC to stand out in dozen of rigs at my home with same OS for all these years. After Win10 release I'm 100% sure I'm going to give that Win8 HTPC to my parents and build myself a new Win10 based HTPC.


As someone who hates Windows in general, I thought W8 was actually pretty good. Had some questionable decisions (which is typical of MS) but there are some things it definitely did right, such as the new Task Manager.


@CrazY_Milojko:
No point in upgrading if you don't need to. The only reason I'm using Windows 8.1 right now is because I got a license for it from a laptop I bought (then replaced Windows on the laptop), and I figured I might as well use it. Otherwise, since I only use Windows for gaming, I'd have just stuck with W7. If you don't have a DX12 compatible GPU, might as well use W7 while you still can.


I just need a small change to something new, I'm looking on Win10 as a refreshment from atm 5.5 years under same OS (it will be 6 years when final build Win10 arrives). Most of my rigs at home and office are going to use Win7 for years that comes after Win10 release, probably just my kids gaming rigs are going to make transition to Win10 in late 2015, early 2016 or 2017.

#4973568 Posted on: 12/08/2014 06:27 PM

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I'm a bit worried though because we all know even number Windows has always been bad.

Maybe they should of just jumped to Windows 11, or since this is to be the very last ever Windows they should just call it Windows or Windows One.

#4973748 Posted on: 12/08/2014 10:55 PM

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I'm a bit worried though because we all know even number Windows has always been bad.

Maybe they should of just jumped to Windows 11, or since this is to be the very last ever Windows they should just call it Windows or Windows One.

They can't call it Windows One because Bill Gates introduced Windows One donkey years ago...

Windows 10 is fine, and dropping the "phone" from "Windows Phone 10" is another good step forwards.

#4973779 Posted on: 12/08/2014 11:56 PM

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As someone who hates Windows in general, I thought W8 was actually pretty good. Had some questionable decisions (which is typical of MS) but there are some things it definitely did right, such as the new Task Manager.


@CrazY_Milojko:
No point in upgrading if you don't need to. The only reason I'm using Windows 8.1 right now is because I got a license for it from a laptop I bought (then replaced Windows on the laptop), and I figured I might as well use it. Otherwise, since I only use Windows for gaming, I'd have just stuck with W7. If you don't have a DX12 compatible GPU, might as well use W7 while you still can.
Oh I actually agree that 8 is better but not deal breaking must have better as 7 did everything I need it to do.When 10 comes out unless it's either a free upgrade or another cheap upgrade I'll probably hang on for a bit until I have to upgrade.

#4973875 Posted on: 12/09/2014 04:49 AM

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ITT: "No point in upgrading from 7 to 8.1. If I don't like this one feature the entire OS is crap." (this argument must be circlejerked in every case that one of these threads show up).

8.1 is nothing like Vista, faster and cleaner than all of its predecessors.

#4973877 Posted on: 12/09/2014 05:05 AM

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im actually kind of desperate for it, if it lives up to what they promised, it will be the "3 screens 1 cloud" vision at last, I hope they include Kinect support, and if they proceed with the new unified naming, it means phones with windows 10 better be near damn perfection if they don't want to lose the little faith people still have in it, now everything is at risk, even the xbox is involved, windows 10 has to deliver

#4973880 Posted on: 12/09/2014 05:07 AM

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I upgraded from Win7 to Win8 simply because it lacked a start menu....and that 1 feature is the deciding factor on me upgrading to Win10. If I'm forced to use it at any time, I'm likely not downgrading....err, I mean "upgrading".... (personally I never found going backwards to be an "upgrade" to any extent....) Of course, if there's even more "cloud integration" I'm even less likely to buy into it. I just went through a bunch of **** with MS over my Microsoft account because I changed 1 "security" setting and got locked out of my account.....also locked me out of my Lumia 635 when I had to do a factory reset on it...

#4973884 Posted on: 12/09/2014 05:20 AM

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I think he was being sarcastic in relation to the Xbox One, since you have the Xbox 1.



I'm not so sure about whether dropping of 'Phone' for Windows 10 is a good idea or not. Albeit closely related, it is still a different OS to Windows 10. Windows Phone 10 and Windows RT 10 will be basically 'the same' though, supposedly, so if they drop 'Phone' from Windows Phone, you would have to drop 'RT' or any other branding from the RT versions. It would be silly to distinguish RT versions as different (which they are), and not the phone version, despite it being essentially RT. Sure, the apps side of things is being unified, but it's not as if you can play normal Windows games on RT devices or phone devices.

By calling all just 'Windows 10', sure, Microsoft win on the unified front, but it will also create confusion and you can bet a lot of people would try and argue that Windows 10 is the same as Windows 10 or Windows 10. What you say? Yes, what I wrote is correct. The first one being the phone version, and the second one the desktop version, the last one being the other RT version. Or hang on, is the second one the RT version? . I think people will associate Windows Phone 10 with Windows 10 and RT even without a name change. They're going to have to advertise the unified store stuff anyway, and that's the main reason for the name change; to tell people that the store is unified.

What will be an issue is how Microsoft plan to call and distribute Windows in the future. Microsoft have already said that Windows 10 will be the last major release of Windows. This doesn't mean they won't develop it any slower, just that the changes are going to be more incremental and provided by updates. In 3 years time, we could have what would essentially be Windows 11, so what will Microsoft do? Expect people to install Windows 10 and install a whole mess of updates? Download and install the latest Windows 10 ISO with some obscure nomenclature? I think they should have called it Windows 2015, then if there are any major updates in 2015 they could call it 2015 update 1. Then, the next update in 2016 bumps it to Windows 2016, then update 1 or whatever, and release ISO's for these versions and updates from 2015 version. At least then people won't get confused with the versioning as much. Oh, I'm going to install my computer. Oh, I need Windows 10, then install update 1, 3 updates, reboot, one more hotfix, reboot, update 2, update, update, hotfix, servicing stack, update 3, update, update, April rollup, oh crap, stuffed up. Have to start again . Oh that's handy! A Windows 2017 ISO, let's just install that instead .