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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 wolrahnaes · · Score: 4, Informative

      Isn't that the problem that BitTorrent solved a decade ago?

      Windows 10 actually does have P2P Windows Updates. It's limited to within a LAN so you won't be "sharing" your upstream with your neighbors, but if you have multiple Windows 10 installations on a network they'll pull already downloaded updates off of each other rather than going to the internet.

      Probably nice for those getting screwed by their ISPs.

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    2. Re:Evidence? by narcc · · Score: 5, Funny

      By following the simple process outlined in the "Get Windows 10" notification that magically appeared on millions of computers last month. If you run windows, you'll find it in your system tray. It's the white windows logo.

      Be warned: It's a highly technical process that involves "clicking".

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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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    1. Re:Uh this isn't news... by heyguy · · Score: 4, Interesting

      I'm running Build 10130 right now and have run into enough issues that have made me wonder whether Microsoft would be able to make their July 29th ship date with a complete product, so I found the article to be interesting. That said, I do agree that this hardly qualifies as a news story that should be posted on slashdot.

  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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  4. 'Leak' ? by ChunderDownunder · · Score: 4, Informative

    The Windows Insider builds are available to anyone who can be bothered signing up to the program. The only 'leak' here is if publishing screenshots constitutes a breach of the EULA.

    MS releases an updated beta. *yawn*

  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. Re:Wow gorgeous by alexhs · · Score: 4, Funny

    You have to admit, Windows 2.0 benefits greatly from HD displays and millions of colours.
    At the time of its initial release, you barely had 16 colours for the whole screen, and you had to convey information with them.
    Nowadays, you can have 16 distinct shades of grey, none of which gives you the slightest clue about if some UI element is actually click-able/tap-able or not, but man, aren't these fonts gorgeous ?

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  7. Re:Wow gorgeous by WallyL · · Score: 4, Funny

    Nowadays, you can have 16 distinct shades of grey

    I want no fewer than 50, before I upgrade, thanks.