Poll: After testing Win10TP are you going to get a copy??

HippsieGypsie said:

Ok, Jeff. You know what I'm talking about. Real work.

I'll add that I did this roughly 3 nights a week for 3 to 5 hours after coming home from work in the field and Saturdays and some Sunday afternoons for 20 years. Before that it was performed manually as in paper and pencil/pen. :)

I recall when I was on some projects working 60-70 hours a week, yuck! Oh and no overtime.. how nice. And I loved the "early up". Testing changes to online systems where you had to be in work at 7AM on Sunday for what took about 1 hour at most. Super YUCK!! But when we got dial in connection to the systems it wasn't as bad.

whs said:

LOL, we slept in the machine room - single shift from Friday morning to Sunday afternoon. And was that AC ever cold.

There were times I wish I had a cot to take a power nap on.

HippsieGypsie said:

So, why are you rushing to see the end of a desktop Explorer interface?

Old tech, inefficient, ugly, and unsecure just to name a few. Have you heard of a virus or adware in a Modern Store app? I haven’t.

The anti-Linux statement applies here; "no one is bothers to write malware for something with a market share that low."

Most of the real computer-related work that is performed, is done on the desktop (not on phones and/or tablets).

HippsieGypsie said:

After all, if we examine Windows 8x's lack of success, it came from the many (albeit wrongly) disenchanted users made to feel that the Explorer shell was being relegated to history?

“Albeit wrongly” is correct. Most tech press writers and most IT pros knocked it down long before release, so the rest of the crowd follows just as they did with Vista. Yes, Vista was buggy and had a lot of problems at first, but given time it turned out to be a good OS. By then it’s too late. The bad rep stayed with it just as with 8.x because “they said so”. Good grief. There’s two professions that aren’t really “multitasking users” either.

Ordinary people don't read the "Tech Press".

IT Pros (who you disparage) are they very people who have to keep everything running.
Their opinions are more useful than fashionistas & marketers, when it comes to computers/software.

HippsieGypsie said:

So it shows that as an "anti-desktop" campaigner, you are on an island with only a few other people.

I wouldn’t say 15% of the PCs on the planet is “on an island with only a few other people”. Seriously? Don’t forget all the tablets and phones it runs on also.

It is compared to the 85% of desktop users who run something else.

Throwing in phones and tablets makes it worse, as that market is almost entirely made up of Android and Apple stuff.

What is the W8 series market share in those markets?
Operating system market share

Not read the whole thread but I'll vote Yes, that is if the price is right, if not I'll have to stay with this 8.1 Notebook till I get another machine with it installed.

whs said:

I expect that it will be a free, or nearly free, upgrade for Win8

I think you are dreaming. The priority for MS is to move the XP and 7 users, not the 8.1 users.

As Windows a 7 user, the way things are, I'm staying put; Windows 10 doesn't do it for me!

Windows 7 does all that I need with an effective Start Menu which Windows 10 still lacks, IMHO.