At its Build developer conference a few weeks ago, Microsoft announced the Windows 10 Anniversary Update, a major update for Windows 10 due this summer. One of its biggest aspects was substantially reworked and improved pen support (“Ink” in Microsoft terminology) intended to make pen applications easier to find and use and to make stylus use more powerful. A new Windows build that provides the first access to these new features, version 14328, has just been promoted to the fast ring.
Someone at Microsoft really, really, has a thing for screwing with the start menu. I can’t decide if they’re a masochist, sadist, or sociopath though.
Hum, perhaps they (because I can not believe is just one person) fulfill all options? Also, they may have bonus point for the ones that can be assigned to more than one category.
Crazy things they are doing with desktops these days (not only MS).
It’s a minor change. And looks to be a useful improvement.
Right now, the start menu wastes a significant amount of space, whilst “hiding” all programs.
Here, you’ve still got quick access to power and setting via the icons above the start button, you’ve still got most used apps at the top of the list. But then you get all of the apps without having to click another button.
Making changes like the start screen are jarring for users familiar with the old menus. But familiarity shouldn’t make them completely above tweaking in new releases.
Thanks, but no thanks. Not going to have a that piece of shit on my computer. By 2020, Win7 is done (so they say) and then I am all bye bye Windows.
Of course I will still be running Os/2, BeOS, Win98se and MS-Dos-6.22 on my retro boxes.
On my primaery and everyday machine, it will be Linux.
MS-DOS 6.22? Why?
If I had to guess, I’d say proper retro gaming. That’s why I keep it around, anyway. There are some games that simply don’t run correctly under Dosbox or virtualization.
Windows 7 was ok but windows 10 is the slowest Windows yet. It’s a good thing I only use it to run a program once a year. Menu changes I can adapt to but the abysmal performance is something I thankfully don’t have to accept.
There must be something wrong with your installation or hardware, because one of the redeeming qualities of 10 is its speed. Windows 8.1 was faster than Windows 7 on the same hardware, and 10 seems to be as fast as 8.1 in my testing.
I wouldn’t be surprised if you saw a speed increase if you installed it from scratch rather than as an upgrade from an existing Windows 7 base. The only time I’ve had serious issues with 10’s performance is when I chose to upgrade rather than install fresh, and that’s pretty much the case with any Windows upgrade.
This is very much hardware dependent, indeed. If you’ve got hardware which is fully supported by drivers, then yes. If there are buggy drivers though, or some of your chipsets simply aren’t fully supported, then results can vary wildly. Of course, a scratch install is always best.