are we being punked?  Is it April 1st?  Did the sky fall in?..............no seriously! 

 

 

Glad your experience so far seems positive kona.

Good, good.  So you give this your Microsoft seal of approval then?

Yeah, same here, Terry, I'm pleased it meets your requirements/with your approval.

Hmmmm, I can't wait to get my hands on it now.... bit dark where my rig's stored so will be tomorrow morning.

Sure sounds like it.

Kona...

You SHOULD get the same results with 8 as you have with 10.  Both will work on 'average' systems....and 7 shouldn't be all that much 'worse'....it was Vista that was the dog, demand-wise ...

Of the four OSes you named, 8 and 10 would be the least resource intensive and definitely the fastest.  However, I do believe that Win 10 has been designed more specifically to make optimum use of the available hardware, meaning that it should have a performance edge over Win 8.  Win 7 isn't too far behind 8 in terms of resource usage but wasn't near as efficient performance-wise. 

As for Vista, well it was a great OS on capable hardware,especially the x64 versions, but many people didn't have Vista capable machines and called it a number of derogatory names because it didn;t work well for them.  I've dealt with a number of laptops and low end desktop machines that came with Vista pre-installed and shouldn't have been... the hardware was sub-par and certainly not designed to accomodate such a complex OS, hence the customer dissatisfaction. 

I, on the other hand, ran both 32 and 64 bit versions of Vista on more than adequate hardware and had very few problems with either, hence my Vista experience was positive and enjoyable.  And that's it with any OS:, having the right hardware to run it efficiently; adapting yourself to it; adapting it to your needs.  When these things are in place and one can stop bitching/calling it names, one has a good, even great OS.

Awesome Kona!!  You've encouraged me to give Win 10 preview a try.

You're still being conned by the faked boot sequence time used in 8 ....

Who really cares if it's faked?  I mean other than technical purists, of which you might be one.

 

[Daiwa diligently unchecks the 'subscribe' box]

My thought exactly.

 

 

This sounds very encouraging as I have been saving up some spare change in the event that Win 10 turned out to be a real winner I would be able to purchase it. Thanks for the review Kona.     -- Ace --

Because it's deceptive 'advertising'...no different to car companies 'inflating' performance figures.

 

If you REALLY want to make an OS look like it's booted fast....change your wallpaper to a screencap of your running system....then you'll see all your goofy icons and crap FIRST....and maybe then people won't have to be constantly explaining WHY Fences [et al] appears to slow down the boot process.

 

Once you have wasted your life explaining that to all and sundry you'll come to 'care' too....

 

 

Oh, and here's a trick.....rather than being 'frustrated' unchecking the 'subscribe' box just cease with the slightly more effort/time-wasting of constantly posting "diligently unchecks....."

It gets old.

Jafo - are you still using Windows 7 as your OS and refusing to use 8? I am curious...

To everyone else - any bad side effects from using 10 as a main OS? Buggy? Expires after so long and will not boot up any longer?

Still using 7 on this [primary computer].  Laptop has 8, and every other OS ver is on VM or VBox [mostly on this machine too].

Main reason [now] for not migrating this to 8 is it's short lifespan [the OS, not the computer].  IF I change it'll be a hop to 10, but I have a 'significant' number of programs installed - several of which will fail in an OS upgrade.... so the likelihood of it being 'soon' is remote...

Interesting. I'm just saying pot calling the kettle black....

I already explained the issue with that, fences is in fact incabable of loading until every drive is ready... and this does slow down  the readiness to make use of the system, even though its the main fault of the external drive however this could be easily changed by displaying what is ready none the less it is unplesent to right click the desktop to make fences finally load.
A user wants to have a ready desktop after startup. 
This has NOTHING to do with a fake boot time hybernation of win8-8.1 (Supertalent RD II) 

However i agree that a fresh install would be wise if you go from 7-10 wouldn´t trust an upgrade.
I would even make a fresh install from 8.1 - 10

PS: nice KONA now we only have to wait for a price tag.