What are you doing, Microsoft! You have doomed your product to failure by skipping 9!

XP (Good), Vista (Bad, apparently), 7 (Good), 8.* (Bad UI), 9 (The best OS MS has ever made!!!), 10 (Bad?).

Learn to count or skip to 11.

Well, here we go! 

Yeah, I'm sticking with 7 until there's a really important reason why I should upgrade.

Looks like a sleaker Windows 8

 

I miss the good old times when Microsoft actually put some effort into their operating systems..

Windows 8 is not all that bad. All it takes is time to get used to it, there are only slight differences that make it seem like some huge change.

Windows 8, 8.1 and 10 are all a nightmare for domain-based accounts. Curse Microsoft and their Microsoft accounts!

I really like the look of Windows 10, It has some of those parts that people like on the Windows 8 Metro design but we also have the beautiful start button. I actually like the look of the new start button though. It looks really clean and easy to use.

Start button is nice, but they moved the Power / Logoff button to a completely illogical place (right at the name on the start menu). 

I guess I'll see how the preview works on my never-used MacBook Pro (which is only slightly better than the MadBook^TM and DeadBook^TM) later tonight. I installed the Windows 8 preview on it when that came out and almost immediately removed it.

Since you decided we are all illiterate and made the taskbar icons only by default from 7 onward. You could at least have put some effort into having consistent icons. Hell, let's throw some Luna icons in with the beautiful mix of Aero and Metro icons!

Looks worse than a smartphone's "apps" menu after someone has gone on a downloading spree.

No, no and no. I hate Microsoft's new operating systems. Hell, I'll try and stick with 7 as long as I can.

Currently writing this from my Windows 10 VM.  Have to say, it's almost exactly like windows 8/8.1.   Except better.  Far, far better.  The annoying Charms bar lurking in the corner?  Locked away forever (unless you, for some demonically possessed reason, decide to summon it using windows+C).  The "Metro" UI is also locked away in a frozen tomb.  For anyone using a standard mouse+keyboard setup, sans touchscreen, the metro UI won't show up at all.  I believe you have to actually change some settings to use it.  And that's great.  The new start menu is quite nice and works just like the old 7-styled one, but it has a bit more functionality.  I find the position of the restart/shutdown button to be decent.  I didn't have to look for more than a couple seconds to find it.

 

Start menu (ignore the colour, I chose a preset and didn't change it):

 

Besides those things, though, everything is about the same.  The only other big difference I can find is that apps from the Store fully reside on your desktop and not the foolish Metro display.  There's no multiple personality disorder there now.  Although I haven't been using Win10 for a long time, I haven't once had to look at Metro.  Not even changing PC settings requires viewing Metro (it's all handled on the desktop now).

 

For anyone who avoided windows 8/8.1 due to a terrible fear of Metro, it should be safe to try 10.

 

Keep in mind, however, that we're many months away from the real release and the whole point of this preview is to recommend changes and see how windows 10 transforms.  The things I mention now may not be the same in a few months or even a few days.

Looks like a sleaker Windows 8

Lol, blur out your last name. I think we all know what it is. Mr. Martin 

Dense

I have finished installing windows 10 on both computers, so fair looks as same as windows 8 apart from the new start menu and Little new things. At this time of point it's an preview.. and Microsoft want to hear everyone thought and suggesting for the Full OS, witch will be release some time in April 2015.  

 

I have images. (more to come later)

 

 

The new installation is different at the end then it is at the beginning.

 

 

That's one of the things that I like about Windows 10, the Start menu is back, but I don't like where the Log-out and shut down is located.

 

Plus (that's if you noticed) when you open your documents or what ever it comes down from the top. and Windows 10 was installed onto three computers that are around 9 years old that had XP on them before they had windows 7, With Windows 10 installed it was really fast, specially the transfer speed.

 

we where transferring games and movies to test on windows 10, and it was faster then WIndows 7.  AS for gaming it's really good on that to

XP lasted for many years, but for business, not gaming.

Same is going to happen for 7, business.

 

You guys do know that 7 isn't getting DirectX 12 right? lolbye gaming computers.

 

And the 9 skip makes sense b/c of programs that have a profile for 95/98 have it shortened to 9 with help of Microsoft, so it makes sense. I reckon they should give it a name instead of a number though. :(

I guess ill just stay with windows 7, I don't even know how windows 8 works so yea no upgrade for me