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Funny, I use Win8 at work and enjoy it. I hated the start screen, but got used to it. When I want to start an app, I just press the windows key and type the name of it. It filters quickly and I get the app I"m looking for. On my home Win 10 machine, I press the windows key and type the name of the app. It does a local and web search and takes its sweet time before giving me choices. I then have to mouse over and click on the program from the choices.
Win 10 seems to make it harder to find my apps. Other than that, I try to spend all my time in my apps so I don't get disappointed.
Hogan
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in W8 you could disconnect your account and it was converted to the local one. Upgrade to W10 saved it for me, so perhaps this disconnection should be still available in W10. Just need to search it as they renamed and put in different places a lot of stuff from Control Panel.
I won't tell that it is better than W8. There are some typos in my localized UI, some new stuff such as Calculator looks odd and not polished, I don't see any performance improvements and I wish they get back different active and inactive window title colors. The last one is the smallest, but most critical for me, as I every time have to search where is my active window border.
My overall impression is that transition from W8 to W10 is similar to transition from Windows Server 2000 to Windows XP - hide everything what you can hide and make it simple for end-users. Perhaps should be better for kids and other people who are not familiar with computers
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Thanks for the feedback OG. It's nice to have a levelheaded, non-knee-jerk reaction to the new OS from someone whose opinion I actually respect. I wasn't planning on upgrading from 7 anyway, but your thoughts and opinions helped me realize I'm not making the wrong decision. ![Beer | [beer]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/beer.gif)
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OriginalGriff wrote: It’s flat, it’s dull, and all the apps that used to look good on Windows don’t anymore – all the 3D elements (including indented panels) are gone
And this is what todays users expect, well mine anyway. I recently had a bunch of users comment that they preferred one of the new devs UI design because he used the fisher paykel design, big, flat and square with bright colours. Bloody children the lot of them. they don't appreciate a good subtle battleshit grey layout any more.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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I would like to express my gratitude for your sacrifice of time, to save us other poor souls from disaster.
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Thanks for helping me decide, was going to clean up my computer and was thinking about upgrading. I wont. I'll just stick to windows 7. If it isn't broken don't fix it applies here.
But then again Microsoft's policy seems to be: If it isn't broken we aren't doing it right.
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OriginalGriff wrote: 3) It doesn’t care about your backups. In fact, the default power scheme puts the computer to sleep about fifteen minutes in, which breaks the backup… It’s fixable…but why? Was the computer set to do that before? No. No, Microsoft, it wasn’t…
Don't you know you were supposed to save all your stuff in The Cloud™©®? 
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Another negative to add - it no longer highlights the title bar of the active window. Probably OK if you are using full screen apps, but awful if you're on multiple screens.
It also broke my mouse.
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It...does...sort off.
It switches the text between grey and black, but it's a bit too subtle and not very clear. Again, probably makes a lot of sense on a phone... 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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You need to do the tweak to give you coloured title bars and then it will be obvious, a little ugly but nevertheless obvious, that it does
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Adrian Wadey wrote: Another negative to add - it no longer highlights the title bar of the active window. Probably OK if you are using full screen apps, but awful if you're on multiple screens.
Damn! I noticed that in the preview and asked them to fix it! Microsoft doesn't do what I ask anymore!  Oh well, I didn't (and won't) upgrade any more!
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Thank you for taking the time to write that great description. Very clearful and useful. I have W7 in my laptop but I only use it to play, for anything else I have my Linux (Fedora in my case).
My wife's laptop came with W8, wich have been updated to W8.1, but never udes as my wife (thanks God) got used to use Fedora too.
So, reading your post, I will conserve my well working Windows 7 for a long time.
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You will probably want to upgrade your laptop to Windows 10 at some point, so your games can take advantage of DirectX 12 new features. Nvidia will soon release drivers that will cover a lot of the older graphics cards to take advantage of it.
So, if you only use it for gaming, if you don't like it, it won't bother you.
To alcohol! The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems - Homer Simpson
Our heads are round so our thoughts can change direction - Francis Picabia
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My laptop can't run games beyond 2010 (with some lucky), so I don't really interested in DirectX 12. I really prefer the old and well knowed W7. I don't have the energy, not even the need, to afford the change.
Maybe when I buy a new computer (whenever that happen) I will update myself to the SO that it brings, at least untill I put Linux on it.
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Interesting, I've never been an early adopter and hated the Start Screen on Windows 8, 8.1 but that's easily sorted with Classic Shell. I've now upgraded 3 PCs to Windows 10, a Tosh laptop that came with Windows 7 home originally, an Asus eebox 1501 and a HP laptop that came with Windows 7 home too. All have upgraded without any issues whatsoever, even the old eebox. Despite my warnings to wait, my old man also upgraded his windows 7 HP to windows 10 without issues (with the exception of TomTom MyDrive which is a pile of you know what which had issues on other windows versions and does work on my Win10 boxes ok).
I still have Classic Shell on W10 and think it's all very usable, I don't use Edge or "Apps", networking is a bit odd as it seems to insist that every network is "Public" and sets up the firewall accordingly (probably paranoid idiot proofing), additionally some settings can be difficult to locate but not too bad.
Just like Windows 8 - 10 is lightning fast compared to Windows 7 , particularly at startup, that alone makes it worthwhile upgrading. My Wifes more powerful windows 7 work laptop is still chugging away starting up when I've logged onto mine and started using it.
Make a backup (macrium reflect is great for this) and give it a go!
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Thanks for the detailed low down. Why oh why do they have make everything so flat and bland! How is that an improvement? I found this with Visual Studio 2013 after 2008 - went back to 2010 in the end (despite the ghastly purple). So, I'm on Win 7, which is fine and there I'm going to stay until some of the feedback filters through. So, that will be the end of time then...
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Member 11800253 wrote: I found this with Visual Studio 2013 after 2008 - went back to 2010 in the end (despite the ghastly purple).
I'm singing a "happy song" using VS2008 myself. I've been watching the "evolution" of VS since then and see nothing there that compels me to toss 2008 away for anything else.
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Blast you and your "happy song"! I too wanted to stay with 2008, but couldn't get the express edition to register after my Win 7 upgrade! 2008 was not only prettier, it was clearer as well. Still .Net 4 has some nice parallel stuff which makes it almost worthwhile.
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Member 11800253 wrote: Blast you and your "happy song"! I too wanted to stay with 2008, but couldn't get the express edition to register after my Win 7 upgrade! 2008 was not only prettier, it was clearer as well. Still .Net 4 has some nice parallel stuff which makes it almost worthwhile.
LOL! I purchased VS2008 Standard and a copy of Active Reports 6 a few years back and have been boilerplating things around those for quite awhile. With those and any version of SQL Server I can build just about anything I need to.
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Also a big thanks to the detailed view from the inside! 
Long live W7 or Linux with many VMs is my new home for long! ![Java | [Coffee]](https://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/Images/coffee.gif)
Member 11800253 wrote: Why oh why do they have make everything so flat and bland!
Well... who has the rights on all the new Star Trek display look?
Paramount? 
Something about which we often break our head:
"In the name of the Compiler, the Stack, and the Bug-Free Code. Amen."
(source unknown)
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Agreed completely! I was even one of the preview "test subjects" ... uhm, would that make me a guinea pig? I fear more like a SUCKER!
Anyhoo... most of those complaints I've had even last year. MS simply ignored them as well as many others. They even went so far as to delete them from the preview testers forums ... i.e. "You complained? What? Where's your complaint?"
So yes, MS has finally made me start mini-hurling every time I see anything from them. I'm still tied onto them through AutoDesk (who's not much better) though, but there's now only one single program I cannot get working on my Kubuntu workstation and cannot find any alternative to: Revit. If I can get that sorted, all my Windows CDs/DVDs are going to change to frisbees.
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Very nice bit of writing. You helped me make up my mind. I'm going to have my slightly clunky old Win7 machine refurbed and stick with it. Barring some miraculous development in Redmond, where Windows starts looking / acting like Windows again, my next OS will likely not be from MS.
Sometimes the true reward for completing a task is not the money, but instead the satisfaction of a job well done. But it's usually the money.
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I'll bite:
1. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, apparently. I think the flat design is the best Windows has looked ever. If I never see an unnecessary drop shadow or rounded corner, it'll be too soon.
4. It's not only browsers, Win 10 changed a lot of my default applications. I don't mind Edge, except that it's not usable until it gets plugins/extensions.
6. Cortana: it only works when the language of the OS and the culture match. So it won't ever work for me.
7. metro apps weren't full-screen in Win 8.1.
While 10 is not perfect, I don't see any reason to go back to 8.1 or 7.
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Why am I not surprised...
Microsoft appears to be taking a path whereby every product has to some how be everything o everyone. I am finding this especially true with their Visual Studio releases.
I was hoping that Windows 10 would be somewhat of a return to the Windows 7 style. However, with the rush for everything new it appears from your observations and others that I have read that Microsoft is attempting to satisfy those who prefer the Windows 7 experience while providing for those that want to experience the latest in digital technologies.
Unfortunately, all such attempts land up pleasing no one...
Steve Naidamast
Sr. Software Engineer
blackfalconsoftware@outlook.com
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OriginalGriff wrote: 1) It’s ugly. Very ugly. It’s flat, it’s dull, and all the apps that used to look good on Windows don’t anymore – all the 3D elements (including indented panels) are gone, all the rounded corners are gone. Everything is square, flat, and surrounded by a black line. Not nice to sit and look at, when you are used to prettiness – and all the more unpleasant when you wrote the apps and know how much work you put into making them pretty and pleasant to use.
And the buttons look like they were sketched in as placeholders. All the new icons are monochrome: white on black. I’m guessing that this is to look “simplistic” and “fresh” – but if that’s the case, why is Edges icon Blue, and curly? Consistency is not an MS trait here…
My thinking on the ugly metro look is that all the niceties that went into Win7 and the Aero desktop took processing power. Trying to replicate that feature on a phone proved too problematic so they went the "It's a feature, not a bug route" and went flat with everything to keep the UI responsive. It seemed that almost immediately Android and Apple did the same thing.
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