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

[casterofdreams]

My guess is to get the IT department to work on it for the weekend and get it pushed to the networked PCs by Monday morning.

However the speed to which businesses adopt OSes are painfully slow, especially in the financial industry. My place of work had Windows XP as late as Q3 2013 before the Windows 7 switch.

[MrPopo]

Installed it on my Surface 3 this morning; the upgrade process was quite fast, about 20 minutes or so (the tray icon pre-downloads the files so it's just the install). The way the tiles are set up on the start menu is essentially that they take what your Windows 8/8.1 start menu looked like and move it into that new form factor, so you don't have to redo that section from scratch.

[bmoc]

My guess is to get the IT department to work on it for the weekend and get it pushed to the networked PCs by Monday morning.

Doubtful. The Microsoft Deployment Toolkit, which a lot of people use to push out images, does not yet have support for Windows 10. The beta version only has partial support for the preview version of 10. Many folks, myself included, wouldn't dream of putting it into production this soon nor would I do it without MDT support.

[Stark]

I've been running it on my Surface Pro 3 for a month or so and I love it. Definitely seems like a BoBW situation between 7/8.1.

[Tanooki]

I'm digging it, and telling Cortana to do stuff is pretty nice, but I think it needs to learn a bit before it catches on which apps to fire up, and I find with sound in the background (like my fan) tends to confuse it a bit.

I ended up seeing it was the day, fired up the laptop, and because I kept all the windows updates current it allowed the download early this morning. I was shocked it was downloaded and installed in under an hour and it's so so much nicer than Windows 8.

The only thing I'm less amused with is MS trying to push BING in that active bar there with all the news update and search results if you want to hit the web. There has to be some way to tell it to use google and not bing...bing SUCKS.

[MrPopo]

If you dig into the advanced settings you can add google as your default search provider. And I set my browser to land on google as my home page and new tabs to open a blank window.

[Ivo]

I'm currently using at least 3 PCs with Win 7 and I'm wondering if mostly any PC that handles 7 will benefit from 10, or if some of the older ones would handle 7 but may choke or stutter with 10.

I think I will push it on my more recent device first (which is actually my laptop) to see how it goes.

[Ziggy]

I like Bing. I especially like the layout for image and video searches over Google. It has mostly the same search results as Google. From time to time I'll notice that something I search for in Google will be the first or second hit, but it might be further down the page in Bing. But most of the time it's the same, give or take a position.

[emwearz]

I have had it installed since yesterday and just been benchmarking, seems much of a muchness. The only thing that really seems high is the idle VRAM usage, around 150MB, with the initial boot.

If I force disable DWM, like I did in 8.1 if I wanted to free up the VRAM or give the ability to use the untied Vsync.

Small issue with the OS, but it was there with 8.1 as well, just seems the patched out being able to force it.

EDIT: Found the ability to disable transparencies on the few things that use it, chopped 50mb off the VRAM usuage, but not worth having them disabled really. I will wait for someone to make a little program to fix it, didn't take too long with Win8.

[Tanooki]

If you dig into the advanced settings you can add google as your default search provider. And I set my browser to land on google as my home page and new tabs to open a blank window.

Oh I saw how to do that opening up edge and going to google.com then adding it as my search choice. I was thinking of through cortana where if you want to find something, she pops it up inside of bing.com every time. I can't seem to find a way to change that and it may be she's just tied to bing as some stories say you can't kill one without taking cortana out with it.