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DieBankOfAmericaPhukkingDie says

MSFT could take over the universe by issuing XP With Tits or something.

Cortana, is that you?

They are delusional if they think that by moving that metro menu on the start menu that everyone would forget about Windows 8 and their problems would be behind them.

Which is exactly what I feared they were doing from the first pictures they released.

There is no reason for any live tiles to be in the start menu. Microsoft still hasn't figured out the problem with live tiles is live tiles, not what they are called or where they are placed.

Dan8267 says

There is no reason for any live tiles to be in the start menu.

I'm not too keen on live tiles in the start menu. I would imagine there is a way to remove them. For now I'll leave them as is.

So far Win 10 has been a keeper on my Lenovo All-In-One desktop. Everything is working as it should.

Does it spy on you?

Last week I dropped by my friends house. He had just bought a new computer that came with Windows 8 not even 8.1.
He upgraded to 8.1 but said he still hated it. He asked me about the Windows 10 upgrade, and how does he get it. I looked at his computer, and didn't see the Windows icon in the start try like I've had for the last month or so. So I googled the Windows upgrade and found the sign up for the notification splash page, that pretty much is where the systray icon takes you.
We signed him up well over a month after me, and on the 28th. I dropped by on the 30th, and he already had Windows 10. He said he got the notification like an hour after midnight the day before on the 29th.(an hour after it was even released).
I still keep clcking on that stupid Windows logo in my systray and keeps telling me the same shit, there's nothing for you to do but kick back and wait for the update, the system will alert me when it's ready.

If this was a reastaruant I would have left the dinner hours ago swearing never to return. If you not dealing with people in the order they came in the queue and are rewarding those that waiting until the last minute with priority treatment, then your company is first class Shit!!!!

btw Windows 10 Screams loosing posure that probably has less creativity and innovation left as Apple. Android will be the top OS that Windows was throughout the 90's and most of 2000's until they screwed it up.

I'm just waiting for a native compiler and I know I'm outta here.

CaptainShuddup says

I still keep clcking [sic] ... and keeps telling me ... there's nothing for you to do but kick back and wait for the update, the system will alert me when it's ready.

Captain, I read your frustration and my first instinct was to offer help. That's human. Then I hesitated, because you have written nasty and false things about me and people I care about, because of your South Carolina Baptist background. That's religion: divide and misrule. Nevertheless, in America we make an effort to get along, e pluribus unum, unlike some other places where they cut off each other's heads supposedly on behalf of their imaginary friend. So, I will help you in this, even though elsewhere you have hurt people for no earthly reason.

You don't have to keep clicking (note spelling) the icon and waiting. If you want to upgrade sooner, MSFT has posted instructions, as also reported on LifeHacker:

http://lifehacker.com/how-to-do-a-clean-install-of-windows-10-1720775893

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-10/media-creation-tool-install?ocid=ms_wol_win10

Those instructions enable you to upgrade to Win10 and then, if you choose, to do a clean install on the same machine.

Managing the deployment of Win10 to more than a billion machines, including upgrades from a variety of prior operating systems, takes time and effort. I respect MSFT's decision to proceed in waves, making sure the upgrade process works for each underlying OS and as many devices as possible, rather than rushing to do everything at once and risking chaos. Still, if you want to upgrade sooner, you can, and frankly any IT professional ought to have been able to find the published instructions.

I don't want to do a clean install I want my existing OS upgraded so my developer box will already be set up. Do you have any idea how long it takes to set up the developer tools needed for programming the various stacks, frameworks OS and DBMS these days?

I would download the ISO but my laptop doesn't have a optical drive on it, and I don't have any memory sticks at the moment that I want to or can wipe clean for an install.
I know how to install Windows, that does not change the chickenshitness of this Windows roll-out debacle.

CaptainShuddup says

I don't want to do a clean install I want my existing OS upgraded... I would download the ISO but my laptop doesn't have a optical drive on it, and I don't have any memory sticks at the moment that I want to or can wipe clean for an install.

If you read the directions instead of cussing and whining, you would see that you have choices whether to create installation media and whether to do a clean install. They do not require you to do either of those things.

CaptainShuddup says

Do you have any idea how long it takes to set up the developer tools needed for programming the various stacks, frameworks OS and DBMS these days?

Probably longer if you refuse to read the directions than it would if you did it right the first time. Haste makes waste, so measure twice and cut once.

Also, one reason why your friend got upgraded sooner might be due to his having a simpler rig with fewer installed apps. MSFT may have decided to start with the simpler upgrades before proceeding to the more complicated ones. If you choose to wait and are looking for something to do while you wait, you can go harangue your local supermarket for having an express checkout for people with 15 items or fewer. You seem to have the same objection in both places, so go cuss at them until they call the police. They can provide you the help you need.

Dan8267 says

Windows Ad Server 1, er Windows 10, comes out tommorrow

I can hardly contain my excitement.

Heraclitusstudent says

Does it spy on you?

http://bgr.com/2015/07/31/windows-10-upgrade-spying-how-to-opt-out/

And people say class-action lawsuits are a bad thing.

Ahh ,microsoft memories. http://mrdoob.com/lab/javascript/effects/ie6/

I upgraded to Win10 using the instructions I posted above (the same comment that has already 2 Dislikes), and the upgrade worked. I set privacy following Bill's comment above (the same comment that has already 1 Dislike), and that worked too. (I see a pattern: posting accurate information results in Dislikes, as in, "trolls dislike facts and blame the messenger.") I have a different question though, which I have wondered about during each Windows upgrade, because every upgrade seems to combine some steps forward with other steps back.

Considering Moore's Law and the related exponential expansion in PC capabilities, why doesn't each version of Windows include the prior version as a virtual machine? Like most Windows users/victims, I have software that worked fine on prior versions (even Win8) but not Win10. I feel that the phrase "Windows user" becomes more like "meth user" or similar, i.e. we use the product but suffer because of it, although AAPL does the same with incompatibility. I suspect the motivation relates to planned obsolescence and revenue maximization: every incompatibility requires users/victims to buy more software and hardware. Does the Linux environment have the same problem, i.e. if Redhat or somebody puts out a new version of Linux do people have to discard all their old stuff and buy new?

Considering the ubiquity of this issue in both the AAPL and MSFT markets, I would expect virtual machine software to be either included or at least very common consumer downloads, and yet they don't seem to be. Why is that?

curious2 says

I see a pattern: posting accurate information results in Dislikes, as in, "trolls dislike facts and blame the messenger.

Absolutely. And it's pretty obvious who those trolls are.