Folks, I download the 3911MB WIndows 10 Technical Preview ISO and installed it in VMware Player and it seems to be running quite well. The first thing you notice of course is that it's returned to mostly using the shell we're familiar with. Tile apps open full screen initially, but you can mercifully size them the traditional way. The start menu is a blend of the old with new live tiles, which is fancy looking but a bit of a gimmick. The Start Menu is crammed with all the piffle that used to be on the old welcome screen (News, Finance, Maps, etc) and there's no "Remove from this menu" option. The strange thing is that the WIndows 8 tiled welcome screen seems to have gone, it thought it would remain but just be buried slightly.
Overall, it feels like Windows 7 blended with some flat tiled apps, but oh lord it's better than Windows 8 where it was like two Siamese twin operating systems stitched together. I could live and work on this, but as a developer I'm biased and blinkered against seeing whatever new features it might have that would attract the normal carbon blobs who would use it. I haven't seen anything yet that makes me go wow! Anyone else had a bash at it? *Greg K*
