Windows 10: The next chapter - 21st Jan Live event Discussion  

groze said:

Cortana creeps me out a lot.

Ask her to tell you a joke - break the ice as it were.

JDobbsy1987 said:

I may have misread the question but my understanding of M$ licensing is that both the host and VM needs a license/upgrade costs are the same.

Please correct me if I'm wrong.

Regards,
Jamie

I'm not saying you are wrong but... Well I think you are. If you have one licence you can use it on one machine. If I run windows (VM) on a OSX host (which I do) I don't need 2 licences. What I might have to do is run it native to count as device. I don't know.

adamf said:

groze said:

Cortana creeps me out a lot.

Ask her to tell you a joke - break the ice as it were.

There is more to that. I think she or he (I assuming you will be able to change the voice no offense meant ladies ) being in the cloud is a real concern for me. Another is privacy. I think Microsoft is going to make windows 10 home premium really cheap the following year but I bet the cloud service(s) will have a monthly fee. I wouldn't be surprised if Cortana won't work unless you subscribe to the cloud base service(s).


Also, did anyone else here if or when they will release the consumer preview?

Good news it's free for some, but ...

I don't like the forced in place upgrade for 7 and 8 users

Why not make it free for all users, get everyone up to date then charge a very small fee later

groze said:

adamf said:

groze said:

Cortana creeps me out a lot.

Ask her to tell you a joke - break the ice as it were.

There is more to that. I think she or he (I assuming you will be able to change the voice no offense meant ladies ) being in the cloud is a real concern for me. Another is privacy. I think Microsoft is going to make windows 10 home premium really cheap the following year but I bet the cloud service(s) will have a monthly fee. I wouldn't be surprised if Cortana won't work unless you subscribe to the cloud base service(s).


Also, did anyone else here if or when they will release the consumer preview?

No mention of a "Consumer Preview" but the next Technical Preview is due in the next 7 days. There will be new Technical Previews for 3-5 Months until it is ready. There is an enterprise version and customer version of the TP.

Jim

A least did the preview at the Win10 Briefing not crash