Microsoft Windows 10 review

• FireIce

  31 Jul 15, 18:25

  Windows 10 is the least Microsoft product ever.

  
  

  For the best part of a year, 10 has been evolving in a floodlit petri dish. For once, this was Microsoft without secrets, gnarly sales bluster or baseless boasting.

  
  

  Instead, 10’s development has been marked by a kind of even-handed, quietly confident humility.

  
  

  If you read between the lines, you can almost hear Microsoft tacitly apologising for Windows 8. The company knows that Windows 10 must be right.

  
  

  And from today, the large chunk of the world that didn’t take part in the Windows 10 Technical Preview gets the chance to find out if Microsoft has succeeded.

  
  

  You’ve probably already seen the teaser ads - like the Preview, they’re free of hard-sell, preferring to talk about the new operating system’s actual capabilities.

  
  

  And let’s be clear - Windows 10 will not transform your love life. It will not instantly win you a crowd of fawning admirers. But it will do some quite clever stuff that makes your life easier.

  
  

  I've lived with the Windows 10 from its earliest Preview days. I’ve accidentally killed a few laptops with it, been daft enough to use it for actual work (that didn’t go well...), and tried just about every iteration of every Microsoft app along the way.

  
  

  So now that the big day has finally come, I'm (hopefully) well positioned to answer the big question - is Windows 10 worth the wait?

  
  

  WINDOWS 10 PERFORMANCE - FAST, FLUID AND STABLE

  
  

  
  

  If its pace on my Core i5 Surface Pro 3 is anything to go by, the final release of Windows 10 is as snappy as you could ever wish for.

  
  

  Everything from searching from the Start Menu to multi-desktop switching is instantaneous, with absolutely no lag from any elements of the interface. Things happen as soon as you click, tap or swipe.

  
  

  That said, there are still a few apps in the Microsoft armoury that could do with some optimisation in the coming weeks and months. The new Xbox app, for example, has a niggly delay before loading its content, and we’ve experienced the odd crash from the People app. But that's about it; in general, the software runs as smooth as butter.

  
  

  I haven’t had the chance to run the final W10 on a PC with under 4GB of RAM or on one packing a Celeron processor, but I get the distinct impression that the same hardware rules apply to W10 as applied to Windows 8 - as long as you stick with a Core i3 and above and pack at least 4GB of RAM, you should be very happy indeed.

  
  

  But before Microsoft pops every champagne cork, keep in mind that El Capitan - the next iteration of Mac OS X - is only a short walk away. From my experience of the OS X 10.11 betas to date, it’s easily as smooth as Windows 10. In which case, your choice of weapon then comes down to the respective operating system’s feature sets.

  
  

  
  

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• FireIce

  27 Aug 15, 01:07

  #Windows10 spreads to more than 75 million devices http://str.sg/Z7B8 

• ^Acid^ aka s|aO^eH~

  27 Aug 15, 10:21

  If u see the long history trend of 1 good product, 1 bad product of Microsoft. Since 7 was good, 8 was absolutely horrible, 10 must be good as well.

   

  then again, I'll be waiting up 6 mth to 1 year for win 10 to stablise first. First to jump always kenna alot of bugs...

• SJS6638

  27 Aug 15, 10:27

  Originally posted by ^Acid^ aka s|aO^eH~:

  If u see the long history trend of 1 good product, 1 bad product of Microsoft. Since 7 was good, 8 was absolutely horrible, 10 must be good as well.

   

  then again, I'll be waiting up 6 mth to 1 year for win 10 to stablise first. First to jump always kenna alot of bugs...

  now they keep prompting to upgrade to 10 FOC.  FOC is bullshit, gotta pay dunno wat .....

  i not interested.  Happy with 7.

   

• FireIce

  27 Aug 15, 11:34

  on win10 since the day it launched

  yes, absolutely free

  but i customised it a lot

  so it does not really work like how win10 is supposed to

  im using a touchscreen laptop

  would be more useful for those using tablet pcs

• ^Acid^ aka s|aO^eH~

  27 Aug 15, 12:03

  since the advent of win 8, it's more catered to touch screen, IE: mobile or tablet or touch screen monitors/laptop.

  they only bring back the start button for those desktop users...

  But looking forward, the change is necessary as techs are evolving.

• singfail

  22 Sep 15, 20:45

  Techs are evolving, yet #, Mono, Python and Ruby are still mostly in English instead of Chinese, Tamil, Melayu, Russian, Japanese, Italian, or German. Sounds like employment for Singaporeans again, perhaps.

• lce

  22 Sep 15, 20:56

  my gmail cannot send after installing win10

• jurongresident

  22 Sep 15, 21:00

  Personally, I feel that as compared to windows 8.1, windows 10 is more neat. win8.1 have to click-scroll-scroll, some more usually the apps not in alphabetical order. win10 everything is at the taskbar. like win XP.

  but the new windows explorer that comes with it, ... I'm not used to the new design.

  anyway, for those who are still waiting for the automatic download of windows 10, I suggest you go to Microsoft website, download that media creation tool. Straightaway download windows 10.

  https://www.microsoft.com/en-au/software-download/windows10

  Installation time: up to six hours. If I remember correctly, that time I take around four hours, from start of download to the time I am able to use the computer again.

  Warning: once you install windows 10, you have to install Microsoft Office applications (Word, PowerPoint, Excel, etcetera) again, if you have them previously. Re-insallation takes around three hours.

  In total, you need around seven hours to set up Windows 10.

  but I think it's worth the time.

  in the beginning when you just downloaded windows 10, the windows store application may keep crashing. But after a while, it will not crash.

• FireIce

  22 Sep 15, 21:20

  installed within a few mins.

  din need much set up also

  using chrome and openoffice. win10 did not relli make much diff to me. 

  except some aesthetics, which is also quite useless

• QX179R

  22 Sep 15, 21:33

  still pondering if I should upgrade to Windows 10 or just stick to my Windows 8

• FireIce

  22 Sep 15, 22:20

  since free de, just upgrade loh 

  no loss lah 

  and can customise to be like win 8 loh (if u do not like those things tt come with win10)

• singfail

  22 Sep 15, 22:34

  Yaloh, give chance lah, alot of microsoft initiatives sitting at one corner you know.

  We got Microsoft Singapore key stakeholder elected with the People's Action Party at Pasir Ris GRC, and if you upgrade till Windows 10 any problem just visit their Facebook pages and talk with ^dino loh, they have one guy that answers every other question you have from Singapore ones till global ones when their candidate is standing as an MP.

  Have you tried out codeplex.com, so.cl, visual studio code, visualstudio.com, skype, web matrix, the new spartan browser, and more, and they are almost all free whether in partial or in entirety like Windows 10 because we elected their Microsoft Singapore boss into our Singapore Parliament, it's subtly a nationalised product ya know.

• Apixelitsuport

  1 Oct 15, 15:12

  Windows 10 had made few updated regarding the issues experienced by most of the Users and I do believe that these updates will improve user experience.