Thursday, July 30, 2015

Windows 10: The "Big Day" came and went....

The public release of Windows 10 wasn't quite as exciting for me as it may have been for some of the rest of you, because I've been using Windows 10 for about eight months now, as one of its testers.

If you would like a few hints on using it, or adding a few useful "freebies" into it, please look back through some of these previous posts on here. One of the nice features of Windows 10 is that it is able to run quite a few of our favorite older programs without making us "jump through hoops" to get them running in it. I'm running one favorite old photo-editing program that dates back to 2003, just to give you one example of that. 



And this is what it looks like while being used in Windows 10. It works fine.

If you're doing a blog like this, however, you will want a browser like Chrome or Firefox or Opera, because Microsoft's new "Edge" browser just can't do this yet. It doesn't display Blogger's text-editing page fully, and required editing tools are not being shown, so I can't use it to do this blog. I'm sure they'll correct that, but it hasn't happened yet.

Otherwise, though, I like Windows 10 much better than Windows 8 or 8.1 and I think you will too. Many of us have made suggestions, and Microsoft has listened to us, and made changes that we hope you will like. It restores some features we've been missing recently, and adds others that make it more friendly to use.

And the "Windows Insider" program continues, if you'd like to help test the coming versions of Windows. Even if you aren't into that, you'll still be able to send them feedback on things you like or would like to see changed in future versions. That too is an improvement over past editions of Windows. Older users of Windows will recall those bad old days when Microsoft seemed convinced that the only good part of a Windows user was his wallet or credit card. It took years to convince them it might be a good idea to find out what we liked or didn't like about their product, and let us make suggestions for new features or changes. And I'm pleased to report that I've lived to see that day, and I think that's just wonderful. I hope you like Windows 10. 

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