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New Leaked Build Is Evidence That Windows 10 Will Be Ready By July 29

Posted by timothy on from the is-that-an-obscure-linux-distro? dept.

Ammalgam writes: A new pre-released build of Microsoft's latest Operating System Windows 10 leaked to the internet today. The build (10151) shows a more refined and significantly faster user interface than previous versions of the product. Microsoft seem to be focused on last minute refinements of the UI at this point and the product looks almost ready for prime time. A picture gallery of Windows 10 build 10151 can be found here.

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  1. Evidence? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The fact that you can reserve a download of Windows 10 with a release date of July 29 isn't evidence of this already?

    1. Re:Evidence? by squiggleslash · · Score: 3, Insightful

      It's actually very easy, I've done it. It's just not something anyone does because of two factors:

      1. Desktops always look a little odd when encapsulated inside of a window. Think VLC or VirtualBox/etc.

      2. Aero isn't a touch Interface, and all web development has been going towards UIs that work well on both touch and desktop systems.

      And that latter is also why Windows 10 looks the way it does. Which is also why it looks like the web enough for you to think they're replicating what looks good on the web - they're trying to do the same thing.

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  2. Uh this isn't news... by Mashiki · · Score: 5, Insightful

    How the hell it became news, I don't have a clue either. Microsoft said it was going to be released on July 29th, almost 28 days ago.

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  3. Win7 is likely to be my last Windows by ThePhilips · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The modern OSes, including Win10, as if competing who can make a bigger clusterfuck out of the UI.

    Some say it is because of the touchscreen support. But in my experience it sucks even more with the touchscreen. Unless you play movies or listen to music. Because even moderately involved browsing (say going through the bug tracking) is already rather tedious.

    At least under Linux, I can replace the UI with something user-friendly like Xfce or LXDE. Useless with touchscreen - but fully usable with the mouse and not fucked up.

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    1. Re:Win7 is likely to be my last Windows by ThePhilips · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Interfaces are dumbed down for touch UI. That's the main problem.

      Application are also getting increasingly dumber and dumber. Because from perspective of some, if you can't make feature "beautiful" for the touch UI, then there is no point in providing the feature.

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    2. Re:Win7 is likely to be my last Windows by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Insightful

      Maybe the problem is you? I had zero problems adapting to Windows 8. It didn't negatively affect my workflow, rather I saw modest speed gains. I create graphics for educational materials. I've been computing for a long time. Forgotten half of what I learned 30 years ago, yet I'm still making progress. So, again, maybe the problem really is you.

      Right. Well, revel in your superiority, along with the three other people who have an orgasm every time they use W8.

      The shortfalls of 8 have been pointed out so many times, it's hardly worth repeating.

      And why aren't you still using Vista? I heard you and your ilk bloviating the exact same party line back then.

  4. Re:Wow gorgeous by aaaaaaargh! · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I don't know, Windows 10 looks rather 80s to me. It certainly doesn't look modern.

    Also, Microsoft has not yet given us any guarantees that we will not have to pay for subscriptions in future, that all features will continue to work, and that they pay for any damages that result from an automatic upgrade going wrong. So it doesn't seem wise to upgrade, at least not immediately. I'd rather wait a year or two.

  5. Re:Wow gorgeous by rudy_wayne · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I don't know, Windows 10 looks rather 80s to me. It certainly doesn't look modern.

    You don't understand. "Modern" is the new marketing buzzword which actually means "we're recycling a bunch of old shit from 20 years ago and calling it new". For example, the Recycle Bin icon in Windows 10, after being changed 3 times over the past several months, now looks like something straight out of Windows 95.

  6. Design by Fisher-Price? by hyades1 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Having taken a look at the screenshots, I can't help but think of words like "garish", "cartoonish" and "Oh, dear, it looks like Rainbow Brite puked all over the screen".

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  7. Re:I can't wait. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Insightful

    I'd like to be able to use Linux. Unfortunately I need hardware support and a software library that has professional grade software, which are things that Linux will never be able to provide. Linux is fun if you like having a toy OS to tweak and waste time on, but not if you need to do real work.