Windows 10: Designed for All Your Devices

I just installed the latest Windows 10 build in a VM, and I'm remarkably impressed. Cortana is working much better than expected, and I'm loving the new start menu. I'm planning on switching to Win10 full time for at least 6 months or so after release; been on OS X for many years, but I much prefer the direction MS is going, these days. It looks like they're going to be the first folks to really get a universal ecosystem across desktops, tablets, and phones; frankly, I'm surprised it wasn't Google.

I'm really looking forward to Windows 10, but how come every single marketing page they put out instantly lands on the front page around the top results?

I&#x27;ve been using the preview full-time for quite a while now, and my favorites are by far the multi-monitor window management features.<p>Essentially, you can now snap windows to any one of the 4 corners or 2 sides of any monitor and it just works (corners and sides are &quot;sticky&quot; when you&#x27;re dragging windows). It also offers you the option to snap another window to the adjacent space with a single additional click.<p>It&#x27;s by far the most user-friendly and elegant way of managing windows on multiple monitors I&#x27;ve seen on any OS so far.

My primary devices are an Ubuntu laptop + an Android phone. Both are very flexible for my needs. I&#x27;m scratching my head to figure out why should I be excited about all that integration, perhaps I&#x27;m not their customer. Don&#x27;t get me wrong, I love &amp; own Windows laptop too, but my Android phone does almost everything that Cortana is supposed to do, Dropbox gets me the files I need, I&#x27;ve moved away from MS Office...<p>It&#x27;s just that the stuff mentioned in the blog isn&#x27;t as magical as they are trying to project.

Outside of some stability&#x2F;compatibility issues that I hope are ironed out before release, I&#x27;ve been pretty impressed with Windows 10 preview so far. I only use Windows for games these days, so I can&#x27;t really speak to it from a productivity standpoint, but the interface is much more intuitive than Windows 8&#x27;s while still keeping the handful of things I liked.<p>Ironically, there were a couple of Windows 8 behaviors I had to unlearn (for example, there&#x27;s no longer the super strange &quot;hot corners&quot; that were the only way to access the shutdown menu). Definitely didn&#x27;t take as long as initially learning how to navigate Windows 8, though :)

I like a lot of what I&#x27;m seeing and hearing, but unless I can find a good replacement for Media Center on the desktop I might still be using Windows 7 for a few more years.

I recently installed Win 10 on bare metal to have a go with the Win 10 IoT version for the Raspberry Pi 2. Works well on an old MacBook Pro with a bit of disk swapping even if bootcamp says it won&#x27;t.<p>Seems OK but it definitely wasn&#x27;t intuitive (and I&#x27;m already running Win 8). The only thing I can think of is they are making it an easier learning curve from Win 7 than from Win 8. It&#x27;s a step backwards in some respects but I guess that&#x27;s the idea.<p>I&#x27;ll probably upgrade once the first round of patches are out for the stable version. More than I can say for the Raspberry Pi version which I won&#x27;t be touching again unless it gets a lot better. Sticking with Linux on that for now. At least the mouse is usable.

Nailed it:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=4074053" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=4074053</a><p>(especially the parenthetical)

So, rather than a way to sync with your phone or setup stuff like calendar, contacts, photos or music sharing, they have just made a thing telling you to install Microsoft&#x27;s cloud apps?<p>Disappointing.<p>Apple has a great iOS&#x2F;OS X experience because the integration is deeper than just &quot;install Apple&#x27;s apps on your iPhone&quot;.

is this legit? its hilarious <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=lt5iLwNChyo" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=lt5iLwNChyo</a>

I don&#x27;t trust Windows even though my laptop has windows 8.1 installed. I&#x27;m planning on building a custom desktop so I can install a Linux OS and not have to worry about MSFT tracking my every click&#x2F;keystroke.