What they won’t tell you about Windows 10 - Myths to debunk and hot air.
This post updates my previous posts:
Microsoft has announced that Windows 10 will be officially released on July 29, 2015.
Pre-installation check list
From Microsoft's Windows Insider page:
If you want to stop using Windows 10 Insider Preview and return to your previous version of Windows, you'll need to reinstall your previous version from the recovery or installation media that came with your PC—typically a DVD. If you don't have recovery media, you might be able to create recovery media from a recovery partition on your PC using software provided by your PC manufacturer. You'll need to do this before you upgrade. Check the support section of your PC manufacturer's website for more info.After you install Windows 10 Insider Preview, you won't be able to use the recovery partition on your PC to go back to your previous version of Windows.
Installation is pretty fast and doesn't differ from previous builds.
New features and hot air
- Myth to debunk no. 1: They brought back the Start Menu: Absolutely false. Microsoft introduced something seemingly like the old Start Menu, which though doesn't work the same way. The old Start Menu allowed to access all programs and files on your computer. Windows 10 Start Menu works (with limited functionalities) only if you right-click the Start button and it's not a true Start Menu, the same way a Johnny Depp's double walking through Hollywood Boulevard isn't Johnny Depp. Hot air item no.1
- Myth to debunk no. 2: With Microsoft Edge you can help using PDF readers and third-party tools to take notes: The Web Annotations functionality introduced in the new browser allows you to take notes right on the webpage. Cool, but they didn't explain me how to share these notes the same way I can do with Evernote, or other products. Hopefully they'll introduce something. Anyway, dear Microsoft, not everyone is a "millennial" (term I hate) or works as a creative or designer. Someone does real work on a computer out there and wants a computer, not a sparkling toy. Get real! Have a desktop computer work like a desktop computer. Wasn't Windows 8 failure enough for you to wake up? Hot air item no.2
- Myth to debunk no. 3: more user-friendly GUI: That's a joke and, in my opinion, the guys in Redmond don't have a clue what this concept means. I went nuts for half an hour to find the option to personalize the desktop icons. In previous builds, it was under Personalization/Desktop, which made sense, ensuring a continuity with Windows 7. Of course, in the new build it wasn't there and I had to look for it, until I finally discovered it under Themes. That's what I totally disagree with. Why keep moving stuff around forcing people to figure out where everything is? This is not user-friendly, but rather the opposite. User-friendly means I can easily access my files and folders according to a logic that makes sense to me, without having to rack my brain and flipping through 200 windows to find what I need. Every time something works, Microsoft takes it away. You said you want to listen to your customers, well start doing it NOW! Hot air item no.3
- Other features: Microsoft Edge has been introduced in the new build, though it's still named Project Spartan (it'll be officially renamed to Edge in the coming builds). No relevant news have been introduced confronted with the past, even though the new build seems faster and more stable and the integration with Cortana is surely smoother.
Cortana is a plus of the new OS, but I'm not sure whether it alone justifies an upgrade not looking very promising so far.
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