{"id":17180,"date":"2014-10-03T16:12:37","date_gmt":"2014-10-03T16:12:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=17180"},"modified":"2014-10-03T16:12:37","modified_gmt":"2014-10-03T16:12:37","slug":"my-early-windows-10-experiences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=17180","title":{"rendered":"My Early Windows 10 Experiences"},"content":{"rendered":"

I took the plunge yesterday while preparing an Azure presentation – I performed an in-place upgrade of Windows 8.1 on my Toshiba KIRAbook<\/a> to Windows 10. Initially I tried to do it via USB, but I\u2019d not prepared a UEFI stick for the device (thanks for the tip Hans Vredevoort<\/a>). I copied the install files onto the laptop and ran it – within half an hour I had a fully upgraded machine with all my apps, programs, data, and settings in place. I think the only thing I had to do was re-install LastPass for IE.<\/p>\n

The performance of the technical preview is excellent. Reboots were already blisteringly fast on this machine and now it\u2019s not much more than a slow blink.<\/p>\n

The start menu works as expected. I doubt I\u2019ll use multiple screens much but it\u2019s easy to use too. The weird experience was that I kept expecting to see the start screen when I clicked on Start. I have the ability to go back to the Win8 behaviour but I won\u2019t; instead I just pinned my usual warm apps to the start menu, while my usual hot apps were on the task bar as they were before the upgrade.<\/p>\n

I was out on a customer site today performing a health audit of a hosting infrastructure. I had the KIRAbook with me, taking my notes in OneNote. It behaved normally and was stable. Performance was good, and as usual for this hardware, the battery was excellent.<\/p>\n

This afternoon I was back in the office and showed the machine to my colleagues. While they are not IT people, most of them are comfy with tech because that\u2019s what they sell. The Start Menu seemed like a hit. One odd reaction I got was \u201cI want to be able to expand the start menu to a start screen\u201d. The reasoning was that it was easier to search for something in a bigger screen if you had loads of stuff installed. I can understand that one.<\/p>\n

Anyway, so far, so good. And like many others have said already, Windows 8 would have been a hit if it was like this.<\/p>\n

Somewhere, Steven Sinofsky and Julie Larsson Green are seething.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I took the plunge yesterday while preparing an Azure presentation – I performed an in-place upgrade of Windows 8.1 on my Toshiba KIRAbook to Windows 10. Initially I tried to do it via USB, but I\u2019d not prepared a UEFI stick for the device (thanks for the tip Hans Vredevoort). I copied the install files … Continue reading “My Early Windows 10 Experiences”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[136],"class_list":["post-17180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-windows-desktop","tag-windows-10"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t