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Havent been able to test out the fluent switch between desktop and tablet metro tiles since its not a hybrid. If anyone have one of those running win10, let me know how that works out. I'm contemplating switching my tablet for one of those when it burns out, so a little advance warning would be nice.
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I'm using it on the Surface. The overall experience is quite satisfying for a preview. "Tablet Mode" is a bit strange, so I don't use it right now. For some reason, of Tablet Mode is turned on, you cannot select or open things on the desktop by touching it. I don't know why they would do that, but it is easy to stay out of tablet mode, just don't click Yes when it asks if you want to enter tablet mode.

I use it with the docking station, and as a tablet, switching between those multiple times a day. I really like the experience, and can't wait to see a more polished version. Several driver related issues were fixed in todays update, so if you decide to try it, wait until all updates are complete before you get too frustrated with it.
 
Gawdzilla said:
Are they trying to trip up the Even Number Release Curse?
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I think it might be because of some of the business software that hasn't been updated in forever which checks for 'windows 9x' for Windows 95 or 98, but would mess up with a 'Windows 9'.

Of course they could have just named it differently inside code than they marketed it.
 
Does anyone know if this will be awful like windows 8? I still can't believe how awful it is.
 
It looks like it could be the most exciting Windows release since XP. Because, frankly, 7 and 8 were grossly underwhelming. I still have an XP machine and there's nothing much that changes in my work there vs my work in 7/8 machines. The touted benefits of 7/8 ("greater stability", "greater security", "better interface" etc) mean next to nothing to me. But Windows 10 with unified apps may finally bring the same OS to every device, from smarphones to tablets to desktops, and this will be revolutionary (Android still sucks for that kind of integration). Combined with the policy of offering Windows with Bing for free to hardware manufacturers, this could pose a serious threat to Android. Unless of course they manage at Microsoft to shoot again themselves on the foot.
 
Squeegee Beckenheim said:
How about the benefits of "still receive updates, unlike XP, and are therefore less at risk of infections"?
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Nope. This doesn't do it for me either. Lots of freeware antivirus and as for other types of attacks, I'm not particularly concerned. Besides, a little known fact is that XP still receives updates for Microsoft Security Essentials and will continue receiving those until at least July 2015.

Anyway, even if someone has to upgrade for security reasons, it still isn't exactly an exciting reason to upgrade, is it ? I'd rather upgrade because I love something in the new OS, not because I'm afraid of the old one.
 
Squeegee Beckenheim said:
How about the benefits of "still receive updates, unlike XP, and are therefore less at risk of infections"?
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Well, first of all Microsoft went back on that. They have released actual Windows XP security updates since the supposed April cut-off date. And on top of that they are providing the normal update service for XP. (In other words, if you do a clean XP install you can still update it fully via the normal process.)

Secondly, I have several computers under my supervision running XP still. Microsoft Security Essentials on all of them. It still receives weekly updates. None of them have been compromised. Not once. If something did get infected I could fix it, just like with other computers I work on running 7 & 8.1. I have noticed zero difference in the "risk of infection" between them, though I am sure there is; it would be weird for any OS to have the exact same risk of infection as another.

As El Greco said, the scare tactics mean absolutely nothing to me.

ETA: Thirdly, the vast majority of software that I use still supports XP.
 
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OnlyTellsTruths said:
Well, first of all Microsoft went back on that. They have released actual Windows XP security updates since the supposed April cut-off date. And on top of that they are providing the normal update service for XP. (In other words, if you do a clean XP install you can still update it fully via the normal process.)
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Better than that, if you designate your XP machine as a WEPOS version, which involves adding a single registry key, it keeps supplying all the new updates as well, albeit that you may be breaking licence conditions, and they make it clear that all the new updates since the cut-off are not certified for 'normal' XP.
 
Yes, faking Windows Embedded XP will get you extended support until 4/12/2016 and it is a license violation just like faking Pro when you pay for standard.

With the end of support for the XP Windows Embedded only a bit more than a year away expect to see updates and improvements in self serve checkouts this year. Should have a better touch experience if the POS makers go with Windows Embedded 8.
 
I understood that wepos was due for updates till 2019. Is that not so? Doesn't make a lot of difference to me, as I only tried it to see if it worked, but I am curious.
 
paulhutch said:
Yes, faking Windows Embedded XP will get you extended support until 4/12/2016 and it is a license violation just like faking Pro when you pay for standard.

With the end of support for the XP Windows Embedded only a bit more than a year away expect to see updates and improvements in self serve checkouts this year. Should have a better touch experience if the POS makers go with Windows Embedded 8.
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For some reason I don't parse that as "point of sale" but as "piece of ****"!
 
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