Yesterday I started my free* (where free is 'for the lifetime of the supported device', whatever the frell that means, heh!) upgrade to Windows 10.
So what are my initial impressions?
Not bad, not bad.
I must admit the only gripe I had with it when the upgrade had finished was how it insisted on logging on by default to my admin account, a feat which is highly illogical when it comes to web surfing. That's like giving the keys to a known robber and saying "please don't rob me"; the sonuvagun won't listen!
But a quick Google search soon found my way around that (incidentally, I had to set a password to it so that the startup screen would load up allowing me to pick between the two accounts, so no major headache there).
As for Edge, the browser that Microsoft were boasting about, I barely used it as instead I prefer to use Firefox at the minute, but that's only because it has NetVideoHunter on it and Adblock Plus, two apps I'm not linking to but a quick Google will let you add them to most popular browsers (I say 'most' because at the time of writing NVH was not compatible with Edge's predecessor; IE).
I did test it out though and it seems a damn sight tidier to look at.
My biggest impression though is that the start menu from pre Win-8 seems to have been fused with the tile system used in Win-8, giving it a classically modern look, you know, depending on which OS you preferred to look at. Whether I'll prefer this over the pre-Win-8 model is another story.
It looks the part, with the ability to disable tiles you don't want or need, as well as the ability to resize them to suit your tastes.
I can see they are going for seamless integration with XBox One with the recent announcement of Win 10 for the aforementioned console, which makes sense for those that have both. I unfortunately don't at this stage, but it won't stop me from disabling those tiles that refer to XBL etc until they become of use to me.
Good luck to those that do, seamless integration of everything is the way forward, imo.
Well, that's enough for now, maybe I'll come back in a bit when I've had a chance to really put Win-10 through its paces.
Does it start faster? I don't know.
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