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More Eye Candy Coming To Windows 10

Posted by timothy on from the sincere-flattery dept.

jones_supa writes Microsoft is expected to release a new build of the Windows 10 Technical Preview in the very near future, according to their own words. The only build so far to be released to the public is 9841 but the next iteration will likely be in the 9860 class of releases. With this new build, Microsoft has polished up the animations that give the OS a more comprehensive feel. When you open a new window, it flies out on to the screen from the icon and when you minimize it, it collapses back in to the icon on the taskbar. It is a slick animation and if you have used OS X, it is similar to the one used to collapse windows back in to the dock. Bah.

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  1. how pretty by CheshireDragon · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I couldn't care less about how pretty it looks...I want it to WORK PROPERLY.
    Linux back in the day looked like hell, but it worked.

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    "That's right...I said it."
    1. Re:how pretty by DocHoncho · · Score: 5, Insightful

      As long as you can still turn them off. Just one more thing to add to the post-install de-crapification checklist.

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    2. Re:how pretty by Mr_Wisenheimer · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Well, scientists for one. It might explain why so many of them have switched to OSX as their *NIX of choice. I remember a lot of Linux desktop managers struggled with doing basic things like properly rendering Mathematica and allowing it to accelerate graphics with open GL whereas on OSX and Windows, it just "worked" pretty much 99.9% of the time.

      Linux itself (the actual kernel) is very stable, maybe even more stable than the base Windows NT kernel. But as a desktop operating system? There's a reason why most people shell out good money for OSX or Windows, and it is not just because they look pretty (which many Linux desktops do these days as well).

    3. Re:how pretty by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

      Well, I am a researcher, work with Mathematica, Acegen, C++11, OpenGL, Qt, some Fortran 2003, CEI Ensight and ParaView. I am slashdotting in my Mac but do all work in Linux. Basically, I use the Mac to read and write emails and to listen to music. All serious work is done in Linux.

      Actually, after OSX 10.9, most classical software like Xfig, Lyx, Gnuplot, etc became brittle, slow or simply stopped working.

      It is difficult to keep a straight face and state that OSX is stable. Xcode crashes all the time, Qt software crashes all the time, visualization software works much better on Linux. Keynote is ok though, but that's about it.

      What you are referring to is perhaps the 2006-2009 period.