# Windos 10 **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 17, 2015, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/windos-10/715172 "2015-03-17T02:57:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Cabin\_Fever\_1](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cabin_fever_1/32/2908_2.png) [@Cabin\_Fever\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cabin_Fever_1)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2015, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/windos-10/715172/1 "2015-03-17T02:57:50Z")
Deliberate mis-spelling. Technical Preview…hmm. Kind of impressed. _(Actually extremely impressed)_ MS user/pr0gramer/geek since before the internet… Thoughts? ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2015, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/windos-10/715172/2 "2015-03-17T03:10:01Z")
Thoughts? Wrong forum. Reported for forum change. ---
**Author:** ![Cabin\_Fever\_1](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cabin_fever_1/32/2908_2.png) [@Cabin\_Fever\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cabin_Fever_1)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2015, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/windos-10/715172/3 "2015-03-17T03:18:04Z")
> [@beowulff](#): > > Thoughts? > Wrong forum. > Reported for forum change. Thanks. My bad. ---
**Author:** ![rsa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/839c29/32.png) [@rsa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rsa)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2015, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/windos-10/715172/4 "2015-03-17T03:28:49Z")
Apparently you can run a beta (or alpha?) version of W10. Has anyone tried this? I think you can install directly on a PC or on a virtual machine so as not to muck things up. ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2015, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/windos-10/715172/5 "2015-03-17T03:30:51Z")
Since I sincerely have NO idea what you’re trying to do, I’ve moved this to IMHO from General Questions. **samclem** , moderator ---
**Author:** ![Cabin\_Fever\_1](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cabin_fever_1/32/2908_2.png) [@Cabin\_Fever\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cabin_Fever_1)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2015, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/windos-10/715172/6 "2015-03-17T04:15:51Z")
> [@samclem](#): > > Since I sincerely have NO idea what you’re trying to do, I’ve moved this to IMHO from General Questions. > > **samclem** , moderator Thanks. It was intended to be in IMHO but wasn’t paying attention. ---
**Author:** ![Cabin\_Fever\_1](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cabin_fever_1/32/2908_2.png) [@Cabin\_Fever\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cabin_Fever_1)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2015, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/windos-10/715172/7 "2015-03-17T04:18:16Z")
> [@rsa](#): > > Apparently you can run a beta (or alpha?) version of W10. Has anyone tried this? I think you can install directly on a PC or on a virtual machine so as not to muck things up. Yes. The Technical Preview is available. You need to register with MS. ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2015, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/windos-10/715172/8 "2015-03-17T16:47:22Z")
So, say more. I have no time to play with it, but I’m eagerly waiting for it to replace my Vista machine without having to suffer through Win DeadwEight. ---
**Author:** ![chappachula](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d2c977/32.png) [@chappachula](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chappachula)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2015, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/windos-10/715172/9 "2015-03-17T17:37:09Z")
> [@Cabin\_Fever](#): > > extremely impressed > MS user/ **pr0gramer/geek** since before the internet… (This is the SDope, where we all agree that cites and hard facts are important. But for this post,I’m gonna break the rules, and say something based on ignorance, since I have zero knowledge of Windows10.) But I’m going to make a general observation about software: If the geeks love it, then it sucks. A good operating system shouldn’t need to be loved…It should simply work. It should do its job easily, and so intuitively that an average user doesn’t even notice it. ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2015, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/windos-10/715172/10 "2015-03-17T17:37:17Z")
So what’s the point of the deliberate misspelling? I don’t get it. ---
**Author:** ![Helena330](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/helena330/32/531_2.png) [@Helena330](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Helena330)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2015, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/windos-10/715172/11 "2015-03-17T18:49:20Z")
I guess they’re offering a free upgrade to 10 for Windows 7 users. I signed up for it on the MS site. Supposedly they’ll let me know when it’s available. It makes me a little nervous. I want to try win 10 but Win 7 works fine. I don’t know if I want to take the risk and funge it up. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2015, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/windos-10/715172/12 "2015-03-17T19:06:51Z")
I like Windows 7 also, but remember that it’s about five and a half years old. The “mainstream support phase” ended in January. As I understand things, that means no more non security-related updates. ---
**Author:** ![Hail\_Ants](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/dc4da7/32.png) [@Hail\_Ants](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hail_Ants)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2015, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/windos-10/715172/13 "2015-03-17T19:31:53Z")
If you guys are using Windows 7 and have never even tried Windows 8 I wouldn’t go upgrading anytime soon. Windows 8 takes a lot of getting used to. Yes, with 8.1 you can boot into the Win7-like GUI but it still has a lot of very annoying ‘quirks’, I mean ‘features’! I only wound up with it because me PC died and I couldn’t find a new one that still had 7\*!\* And besides, under the hood Vista, Win7, Win8 and Win10 are all still just the Vista 6.x kernel… ---
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2015, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/windos-10/715172/14 "2015-03-17T19:53:49Z")
Windows 9, now that’s for me. ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2015, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/windos-10/715172/15 "2015-03-17T20:07:41Z")
> [@Morgenstern](#): > > Windows 9, now that’s for me. Fewest bugs, that’s for sure. I thought the point of Win 10 was to eliminate the cute little quirks of Win 8, like no real Start menu. A 7 -\> 10 upgrade might be simpler than a 7 -\> 8 upgrade. I have Win 7 on my work machine, though I don’t do much with it except to get into a Solaris session so I can get real work done. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Bravo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_bravo/32/493_2.png) [@Johnny\_Bravo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Bravo)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2015, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/windos-10/715172/16 "2015-03-17T20:11:18Z")
> [@Revtim](#): > > So what’s the point of the deliberate misspelling? I don’t get it. His “w” key broke while writing the title? ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2015, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/windos-10/715172/17 "2015-03-17T20:25:35Z")
I think DOS might be the key to the deliberate misspelling. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2015, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/windos-10/715172/18 "2015-03-17T20:29:50Z")
I’ve got the Windows 10 technical preview installed in a VM on this machine. I don’t like it as much as Windows 8.1. The Modern UI tiles seem quite difficult to interact with in their place on the side of the Start Menu - too ephemeral. ---
**Author:** ![Greg\_Charles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/839c29/32.png) [@Greg\_Charles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Greg_Charles)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2015, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/windos-10/715172/19 "2015-03-17T20:57:47Z")
I don’t understand the misspelling either. Is misspelling ever hyphenated? 🙂 I’m leery of Mangetout’s assessment that the Windows 10 UI is more difficult than Windows 8’s, because I find Windows 8 almost unusable. I suppose I’d get used to it in a few weeks (or months) though if I were forced to use it. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2015, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/windos-10/715172/20 "2015-03-17T21:10:29Z")
I’ve been using Win8 since shortly after it came out and I like it a lot. I’m skeptical of your assessment that it’s ‘almost unusable’. What on earth can you be trying to do that’s so hard? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/windos-10/715172.md?page=2)