Microsoft Announces Windows 10 Operating System and Alpha

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We now have Microsoft's official press release foe Windows 10. Detailing not just new features but also how to access the technical preview.

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Read more on Windows 10 and the technical preview here.
 
Installing it in VirtualBox now, time to see what it is like :D

Rejoice haters, you can remove the stuff from the start menu :p

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Dear heavens, it just goes from bad to worse, might be time to (re)think about Linux.
8 was unusable, 8.1 is a pain and looks bad, and now this looks worse with the start menu hybrid garbage.:o

10 as a name makes no real sense either since it's version 6.4 based on the vista kernal (but 8.1 is 6.3 so why make sense now?)
When asked about Windows 10′s name, Windows chief Terry Myerson and Joe Belfiore avoided a direct answer, instead joking about how “seven ate nine” and then lamely saying how the “breadth of the product family” justifies the grandiose name.
Windows X would have been nicer but I guess with OSX they avoided that one.
They did mention that windows 1 would be nice to work with xbox1, OneDrive and OneNote, but said it had been done already.

They named 7 to make people think it was very different from vista even though it's the same thing, tweaked.
 
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Dear heavens, it just goes from bad to worse, might be time to (re)think about Linux.
8 was unusable, 8.1 is a pain and looks bad, and now this looks worse with the start menu hybrid garbage.:o

What is wrong with the start menu? Looks like the normal start menu to me ;)

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Mine looks just fine as well. No tiles, no charm bars. Takes about 30 seconds to do. With Windows 8.1. Same exact with 8.0 as well.
 

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Dear heavens, it just goes from bad to worse, might be time to (re)think about Linux.
8 was unusable, 8.1 is a pain and looks bad, and now this looks worse with the start menu hybrid garbage.:o

10 as a name makes no real sense either since it's version 6.4 based on the vista kernal (but 8.1 is 6.3 so why make sense now?)
When asked about Windows 10′s name, Windows chief Terry Myerson and Joe Belfiore avoided a direct answer, instead joking about how “seven ate nine” and then lamely saying how the “breadth of the product family” justifies the grandiose name.
Windows X would have been nicer but I guess with OSX they avoided that one.
They did mention that windows 1 would be nice to work with xbox1, OneDrive and OneNote, but said it had been done already.

They named 7 to make people think it was very different from vista even though it's the same thing, tweaked.

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Got it installed on a spare machine I have and so far I am liking what I am seeing, I know it is basically Windows 8.2 but it's going in the right direction. If MS stick to this then Windows 10 is (imho) shaping up to be the OS that W8/8.1 should have been in the first place!

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Gonna take a lot more than that to rejoice tbh:p

Looks ok to me, there is no metro screen, there is a start menu that you can fully customize and explorer is the same as ever, with a few tweaks.

I've not set it up properly yet, just got it installed on a VM but everything people moaned about with 8 has changed.
I don't understand the argument about the UI, personally I like it. I didn't like Windows 7 UI with Aero. Liking the looks of something is a personal thing at the end of the day, if you don't like the UI then that is a problem on your end and not the OS :)

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I just wish they'd sort out that freakin' top bar and the overall feel of the theme :( I can't f'kin' stand it lol
 
I just looking at some vids and they say there is a setting to get it to run like 8.1. I do hope so I have got to like 8.1 and feel this is a step backwards imo
 
I get a very strange error trying to install W10TP on a VM in VirtualBox

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Can't for the life of me figure it out...

EDIT - nevermind, forgot to enable PAE/NX
 
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I get a very strange error trying to install W10TP on a VM in VirtualBox

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Can't for the life of me figure it out...

Have you set it up as Windows 8.1? You need to set it up as Windows 8.1 if you haven't.
Setting it up as other windows will cause that error, I had it myself.

Also you may need to select the ISO itself and not your virtual drive you mount the ISO to.

EDIT: Just saw your edit.
 
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