Windows 10: The next chapter

[Robert17]

Win 1 O Pro is priced at $2oo.oo / mobile today

 

['Cuda340]

How Windows Insider Feedback Influences Windows 10 Development

Some reading material for a rainy Sunday morning...

Much the same as not voting imo, if you're an "Insider" testing Windows 10 and not sending in feedback then you don't have a right to ***** about the O/S once released...

How Windows Insider Feedback Influences Windows 10 Development
June 12, 2015 by Samer Sawaya


My name is Samer Sawaya – I’m a Senior Program Manager Lead on Windows Feedback, part of the Data and Fundamentals Team that Gabe Aul leads. Many of you have asked about what we do with all of the feedback that we receive in the Windows Insider Program, and how we’re able to use it all to inform product decisions with your input. With this post, I’m excited to share some behind the scenes info with you on how your input is used to help “co-develop” Windows.

Continue reading...

 

[petteyg359]

Much the same as not voting imo, if you're an "Insider" testing Windows 10 and not sending in feedback then you don't have a right to ***** about the O/S once released...

Let's not resort to logical fallacies please.

 

['Cuda340]

A new partnership between Microsoft and virtual reality pioneer Oculus VR

As this pertains to Windows 10 here you go...

Xbox and Oculus Partner to Change the Face of Virtual Reality
By Will Tuttle, Xbox Wire Editor in Chief posted June 11, 2015 at 11:00 AM


Virtual reality has been a part of popular culture for decades, but for many years it served more as a sci-fi narrative device than as a viable technology for consumers. That has changed dramatically in recent years, as advances in technology have finally allowed the geniuses creating virtual reality platforms to bring their visions to life like never before. The era of virtual reality is here.

That’s why we’re so excited to announce a new partnership between Microsoft and virtual reality pioneer Oculus VR. Earlier today, at an Oculus event in San Francisco, Head of Xbox Phil Spencer joined Oculus CEO Brendan Iribe on stage to share some details on what fans can expect to see when the Oculus Rift launches in Q1 2016.

The Xbox One controller will be included with every Oculus Rift. The Xbox One controller is designed for gamers, by gamers, for interchangeable gaming between Xbox One and Windows 10 PCs and tablets, with fine-tuned impulse triggers for greater precision and control and a D-pad engineered to deliver greater responsiveness. If you’re going to be playing your Rift games with a controller, this is the one you want in your hands. And, with the new Xbox Wireless Adapter for Windows that we unveiled last week included, you can play games on the Rift using the Xbox One controller wirelessly right out of the box.

Xbox One games will be playable on Oculus Rift. We shared earlier this year that you’ll be able to stream your Xbox One games to your Windows 10 PC or tablet. Now, we’re happy to announce that we’re bringing the same Xbox One streaming capability to the Rift, a feature that’s only possible through Windows 10. You can play your favorite Xbox One games, like Halo, Forza, Sunset Overdrive and more, on your own virtual reality cinema screen. It’s just like playing in a private theater, and you can even play with your friends through Xbox Live.

Windows 10 is the best platform for playing games on the Oculus Rift. The Rift will work natively with Windows 10 to make it easy to set up, jump in, and have an incredible VR gaming experience. Combined with DirectX 12 technology that unlocks the full capabilities of new Windows 10 graphics hardware, made-for-VR games on Windows 10 will have the fastest frame rates and top performance.

“We’re thrilled to be working closely with the team at Oculus. Their groundbreaking work in virtual reality is inspiring, and the Oculus Rift delivers a truly next-generation VR experience,” said Spencer. “We at Xbox are passionate about giving gamers the opportunity to play when and where they want. I can't wait to see the incredible games created for the Rift, and we are proud to be part of the experience."

Above all, we want to give gaming fans choices. Windows 10 is an open ecosystem that includes boundless opportunities for alternate realities, which is why we see the virtual reality of Oculus Rift as a perfect complement to the mixed reality offered by Microsoft HoloLens. For more on mixed reality, virtual reality, Windows 10 gaming and more, be sure to watch Major Nelson’s interview with CVP of Next Gen Experiences Kudo Tsunoda below.

We’re really excited about today’s announcement and what it means for fans of both Xbox and Oculus. You’ll be hearing more about this great news in the future, so stay tuned to Xbox Wire.

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[c627627]

'Cuda340's post had an effect on me. I will be compiling a report as soon as possible, sometimes the obvious does merit attention

 

[Mpegger]

As this pertains to Windows 10 here you go...
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Sounds like the Oculus is doing nothing more then providing a personal big screen TV for playing games on, with no 3D capabilities at all. Plenty of other options already available for that, including just getting a real big screen TV to play the games on, without the need of a PC + Oculus to stream it to.

 

[Janus67]

Not exactly, with regard to the Xbox one that is true, but the VR capabilities are still intact for pc games that support it.

 

[Ajay57]

Been away from the site for sometime so is it a big thumbs down or thumbs up for this WIN 10 OS!! Quite happy with WIN 7 PRO 64 BIT does what it says on the tin, and only using on my LAPPY TOP.

Ajay.

 

[Janus67]

A lot of potential, but still has issues in pre-release

 

[Audioaficionado]

Burning the latest v10130 x64 ISO. I've got a 60GB partition formatted and ready. I'll be unplugging my Win7 SSD as I don't want any access to it by the installer. Should have it up and running today. Now I'll have to remember my user/log in creds for my MS account.

 

[Audioaficionado]

Found my first bug



Refused to install on this partition. Went so far as to delete it, create a new one, format it again and it still is a fail.

 

[petteyg359]

Found my first bug

View attachment 165066

Refused to install on this partition. Went so far as to delete it, create a new one, format it again and it still is a fail.

On what board?

 

[Audioaficionado]

My newest build: Supermicro.
Windows 7 Pro x64 fresh installed without any issues

Might just have to install to a VM to get my RTM conversion.

Not installing it on my win7 drive's spare partition. That's going to be for Mint Linux.

 

[petteyg359]

Bet you could just swap the drive cables, install it, swap it back, then add it to 7's boot loader with EasyBCD.

Or maybe not. Don't know if Intel's RAID will detect by device UUID or if it depends on the BIOS-presented drives.

 

[Audioaficionado]

Problem is that the win10 installer doesn't recognize a valid hard drive partition, but it sure installs in a VM just fine. I have it installed in a VMWare Player 7 VM. Came in at 11GB installed on a 30GB virtual hard drive. I'm thinking it doesn't know how to handle Intel Matrix RAID. Windows 7 does. It's a bug for sure. Hope they fix it soon.

 

[Janus67]

Maybe need to install a raid driver?

Tried opening up diskpart and cleaning the volume?

 

[Audioaficionado]

Windows 7 installed to that partition with only the drivers that came on the install disk. XP used to have an issue with RAID arrays unless you had a floppy to install the driver during installation. I can't imagine win 10 would.

 

[c627627]

Risky business installing a Beta on a RAID setup, I thought you said you would disconnect every other hard drive?

 

[c627627]

I don't know what Home users are going to do, but if we have learned anything from Windows 98 to Windows 8 - it is the destructive nature of Windows Update Hardware updates.

Hardware updates installed by Windows Update can wreck havoc on your system. This thing starts downloading everything from the moment you connect, so when RTM comes out, I'll be sure to physically disconnect and set Windows 10 updates to custom, before connecting for the first time.

For now, I am letting the Beta do whatever it wants to do for testing purposes.


Once again thank you 'Cuda340 for the feedback reminder.

I don't think Microsoft is looking for the feedback of this type but I took the opportunity to complain about the downgrades Microsoft made to the File Explorer and the Search Engine interface after Windows XP, which carried on to Windows 10.

The only starting new complaint I have is that Windows 10 user account name is ASSIGNED, you are not asked what it should be, I tried to click on every custom install option and do not recall there being one for you to choose your Windows 10 user name, Windows 10 took the first part of my sign-in email and added a letter after it, incorrectly assuming that is my last name, and that is now my user name on Windows 10 Beta.

Did Windows 10 let you choose your user name or did it just ASSIGN it, what did it assign it to? Was it first name and last name assumed initial?

Spoiler

• As you are aware, Windows XP allows you to group files or folders on different parts of the screen whereas in Windows 7/8/10, you can *only* do this on the Desktop and nowhere else. Windows 7/8/10 has no option to turn Auto-Arrange off. Registry edits which force Auto-arrange to be turned off cannot be used because they break other Windows features.

To this day, I still have to reboot into Windows XP for work in order to MOVE and GROUP folders and files on separate parts of the screen.

Please allow us the OPTION, just the option, to move around and group files & folders everywhere in File Explorer, this should not just be an option for Desktop contents. Please allow us to CHOOSE to turn Auto-Arrange ON/OFF.

People *have to* group files and folders for work. They do not have that choice under Windows 7/8/10. Please give us that choice.


• Windows 7/8/10 Search Engine is more difficult to use and is not as reliable as Windows XP Search Engine. Please allow me to explain.

Please either make available the equivalent of Windows XP search engine as a program inside Windows 10 or make another Search Engine that has the equivalent or improved GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE of the classic Windows Search engine where we can choose by clicking and CHECKING for Date options, Type options, Size options, in other words, at a bare minimum options actually displayed under Windows XP or older OS.

If there is no GUI to click on search options, people can't be expected to use a search engine manual to figure out how to use advanced features of the Search Engine. Search Engine program with a clickable GUI is missing from Windows 7/8/10 and this is a major problem because it is irrelevant that the Windows 7/8/10 search engine is more advanced when there is no GUI interface to actually click on and use those advance features.

I have screen shots of the new search engine missing search hits and frequently reboot into Windows XP to perform a system wide search because Windows XP search engine has a clickable GUI interface and never misses any hits. I have caught the post-Windows XP OS search engines miss hits and have taken screen shots.


• Windows 10 Explorer status bar does not show file details which were available in previous versions of Windows. The only features left in Status Bar in Windows are the total number of items, items selected and size of selected items (but only up to 99 files). In addition, Status Bar control in Windows 10 is not standard but uses private undocumented control (DirectUI). This means not even external software can provide useful file information.

Status Bar features removed in Windows Vista/7/8:
- Total size of ALL files in a folder on the status bar without selecting them all, then excluding folders
- Tooltip information of single selected file

Status Bar features removed in Windows 7/8:
- Free disk space on any volume at the current location
- Computer zone
- Total size of selected files (not total size of all files, but selected files)

Please give us the option, just the OPTION, of having the status bar display useful file properties which used to be displayed in previous versions of Windows.


• When you right click on an INTERNET WEB PAGE shortcut link > Properties > Change Icon > the correct current location of a CUSTOM ICON you yourself previously set is not displayed. Instead, %SystemRoot%\system32\shell32.dll is displayed. So whatever custom .ico file you yourself custom set for your web shortcut, its location is not displayed after you right click on Properties > Change Icon. This has been a problem for years starting with every system which originally had Internet Explorer 6 or earlier installed. As soon as IE6 was upgraded and replaced by Internet Explorer 7 or later, you could no longer see the correct location of a custom .ico file you yourself custom assigned to a web page shortcut link, after you right click on an INTERNET WEB PAGE shortcut link > Properties > Change Icon.

 

[Janus67]

Windows 8.1 did that on a device that I just bought, I think the answer is not to login with your M$ account during setup (as that did the same to me in 8.1). Instead skip that step and create an offline account.