Too good for a number scheme, Windows 10 announced for 2015

[isiolia]

Rumor is that it'll be a free update for 8/8.1 at least.

The Modern stuff is a different API, not the flattened out aesthetics that pretty much everyone is utilizing now anyway.
I prefer it to Vista, or the hideous Fischer-Price default XP look, just like Yosemite's look is off-putting, but compare it to early OS X (pinstripes, yo, and brushed metal when we feel like it) and it's waaaay better.

[ZenErik]

I'm looking forward to it, and I will get it not long after release after confirming that the main games I play don't have any issues running on Windows 10.

[ZeroAX]

I'm looking forward to it, and I will get it not long after release after confirming that the main games I play don't have any issues running on Windows 10.

if it's anything online, they are usually the first to patch in support for the newest os.

[darsparx]

I still perfer XP, and any revision of OS X anyday to windows 8/10 (if you think XP looks bad(which I still think it looks more modern than everything out today...) look at hot dog stand theme for ME then tell me that again )

[ZeroAX]

I still perfer XP, and any revision of OS X anyday to windows 8/10

you haven't seen windows 10 yet mate, give it a chance.

And do you prefer XP even over 7? :S

[darsparx]

Kinda But I guess that's only because i grew up on XP literally(used 95/98 can't remember which for a year or two then my grandmother bought us that XP computer I was working on earlier for a family Christmas present in the early 2000's....that thing has seen some rough years but is still amazing now that I cleaned it up ). 7 was alright but it was definitely leaps and bounds better than vista but nothing can replace how I still feel about XP.


And I have seen 10, the start menu looks cluttered up with that extra junk hanging off the right of it, they should've made those into two small columns of icons with text on the bottom portion of the image at least so it didn't look like a kindergartener designed the OS again....The other features are nice but it just feels like to coin the term I've seen on here a lot "more of the same" with one decent improvement that really doesn't make up for how bad Metro/Modern looks when it's crammed everywhere

[ZeroAX]

well....for your computer's security alone I would update to 7 mate.

[fastbilly1]

No matter what they make it look like, it is what is under the hood that matters. I can use classic shell and make it look like XP Classic, or I can use a shell to make it look like OSX. I am curious to what kind of footprint runs in. I am due for a new gaming pc, and 10 may be what it gets - DX12 will probably be Windows 10 exclusive.

Here is the technical preview:
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/preview-iso

I plan on giving it a go this weekend since my wife is out of town on work.

[isiolia]

I still perfer XP, and any revision of OS X anyday to windows 8/10 (if you think XP looks bad(which I still think it looks more modern than everything out today...) look at hot dog stand theme for ME then tell me that again )

ME is even older, and is a different series of Windows. It's the last in the DOS/Windows line, where XP is largely a consumerized Windows 2000 (NT 5.0), or started life as that at least.

10 is still the flat look, but it cuts down the excess borders a lot. IMO, it gets somewhat reminiscent of Win2k and prior due to that. They've also cut out the hot corners/charms bar, at least on the desktop.

Good, bad, or indifferent, I'd say it does look a lot more modern than XP did (setting aside that the default skin for that is Modern ). The current trend is towards more subtle or minimal looks than what the early 2000s had.

And I have seen 10, the start menu looks cluttered up with that extra junk hanging off the right of it, they should've made those into two small columns of icons with text on the bottom portion of the image at least so it didn't look like a kindergartener designed the OS again....

That part of the Start menu only show up if you pin stuff to it. Remove all of it, and it resizes to just the left portion.

[darsparx]

well....for your computer's security alone I would update to 7 mate.

I already have 7(in a virtual machine). That xp machine is so I don't have to mess around with xp mode for older pc games that I want to play eventually. And actually my grandmother is giving me her windows 7 pc if i can ever remember to pick it up(i have a problem with having way too many devices for some odd reason it seems now...)