Plus, the non stop UI "quirks" are probably worse than I can remember. The whole OS has turned into the windows file copy dialog. This is what I always hated about linux on the desktop, 1/3 of the crap doesn't work right..
For example, last night I was sitting in bed with my 9Y/O daughter when she pressed the battery saver icon on the tablet, and the estimated time dropped from 9 hours 31 mins to 8 hours 50 mins. To which I responded it seems like pressing the battery saver icon forced it to recompute the estimated time remaining, where before it had been showing a stale value. Pressing it on and off a couple more times we got it to shift up to 10 hours some minutes. Its like they can't smooth the power consumption for longer than a few seconds, and the recompute timeout is longer than the smoothing, so the value has large jumps instead of smoothing changing.
I could go on and on but its pretty obvious that no one is actually testing the UI, they are just letting some random people throw crap into it, and ship it. Worse its like their user metrics come down to, if less than 50% of the installs are using something then its ok to remove it (say classic mode).
https://www.reddit.com/r/Surface/comments/3s14un/just_a_remi...
As far as I can remember from "How Google tests software" , Google doesn't have whole QA division too (other than a elite kinda testers) and testing is integrated to developers job(SDET). This was not true for Microsoft for long time. It would take a lot of time for Microsoft to become on par with Google in testing.
Later, the quality org was merged with engineering, "eliminating" the testers by making them devs. This change happened across the company but not simultaneously.
Disclosure: Microsoft employee, but this has all been reported on. e.g. Ars Technica covered part of this:
http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/08/how-mi...
When we finally got cleared by IT to go ahead with Windows 10 I was cautiously optimistic but after using it for a few months I was totally bought in. I will/would never go back to any pre-10 release.
I'm back on OSX now (new job) and still miss Windows 10 most days. I'm going to be building a personal machine soon, and unless the new MacBook Pro's can astound me it'll be a Windows 10 rig – no question.
I don't even remember if i followed said procedure, but my win7 installs no longer beg to be upgraded. Maybe MS pulled back its aggressive policy (also, i m in europe).
why?
I was making a list of things I like from Windows 10, but some are as good in Linux and OSX. To be honest I'm not entirely sure why I'm sticking to Windows 10. I think it is comfortable to use and I have no reason to leave it either. It is installed in the computer, it gets big updates every now and then. It looks stunningly beautiful compared to any other Windows before.
In any case here's a list of things I like right now:
- It just works
- PowerShell and PowerShell ISE
- Office and especially Outlook (with an Exchange server) and OneNote
- I've got Bash now, which runs Linux binaries, with apt-get and in a terminal that sucks less than cmd. I had a tingling feeling the other day compiling a Go app in my WSL window. I know Go is multiplatform, but it was fun to compile a Linux binary in a Windows OS and run it.
It feels a lot how OS X used to make me feel years ago. It just worked. The difference is that here I've got all the Windows software and I can choose laptop from Macbook-like stuff to a £149 Lenovo Ideapad 100S, passing through tablets of all sorts. The OS is the same.
I don't feel like I'm tied to a platform when I'm working on my laptop. I guess having multiple putty sessions to Linux servers opened helps a lot :)
I'm not so sure about Cortana and Edge. I want to like both, but so far my feelings are just "meh".
On the other hand, the updates are definitely more insistent than before; but I don't think I ever got an ultimatum without prior notice of pending updates. I too defer many times (after all, if I'm looking at the computer means I'm probably busy), but it helps me keep up to date. Now that I think about it, I think I've found my computer restarted and installed updates overnight a couple of times in the last year.
- I run win10 on a Vaio Canvas Z, a pretty recent machine. Graphics driver crashes regularly, although it remains stable doing so, screen freezes for around 2 seconds.
- when I wanted to install international keyboard profiles it has become way worse then older windows versions, which already weren't great. On OSX this is a totally solved problem. On Windows it would often show me the wrong thing installed until reboot, couldn't switch over to something newly added, the whole list is buggy.
- the terminal... god I hate it. It's stuck in the mid 90ies. Even Apple who supposedly doesn't care about power users anymore, has continuously improved its terminal application and it has become pretty great. On Windows I can't even have a decent color setting that would make all the standard unix colors readable without doing all kinds of hacks in .bashrc. Yes it's MinGW, but it uses the MS given terminal as-is.
- preinstalled PDF support is still a joke. Can't even annotate or rotate or really do anything with it.
- I can't get the preinstalled Mail/Calendar to reliably connect to gmail, gave up after an hour of fiddling around. That thing is a complete joke. And I hate Outlook's UI even though I've developed for it in the past.
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/commandline/2016/09/22/24-b...
I don't think it's better than Ubuntu, but it's not worse. There are some aspects where Windows would be a no-brainer (gaming) and others where it is catching up with Linux (development outside Visual Studio? I'm just a hobbyist).
I never got 3 monitors to work reliably on Ubuntu or Fedora, though. Apart from that, I could probably switch back to Ubuntu and be as happy.
I'm in the market for a cheap-ish ultraportable with good battery and I'm considering a second hand Air or MacBook. When it comes to the OS, why would I go back to macOS?
(Note that I would go back if I've found a cheap enough Air ;))
The 10% that annoys me is mostly around the way update works. If you have long running processes (like security camera DVR software, big render jobs, etc...) having the OS decide to reboot in the middle of the night is a bit of a headache. I know you can disable the update service, but it would be nice if they just put that in the windows update UI.
The other part that bugs me are the re-appearing bloatware apps like 3d builder, weather, contacts, xbox, groove music, etc.... The flipside of the reappearing apps issue is Microsoft uninstalling my VPN client. They don't think it's compatible with W10, but it works perfectly for me so I have to reinstall it every time.
To get back on topic though, Microsoft's Azure is fantastic. The earnings boost is well deserved.
But I laugh at your comment because I, as well, spent a day uninstalling the re-installed bloatware apps and re-installing my VPN client.
You completely misunderstood the whole point. The one windows does not imply it is one thing which runs on many thing , not at all. one windows whole point is you can use same design/API for your program and target as many device as possible, kinda like Java.(but not compile once , run everywhere part)
No, you can't in Windows 10.
http://www.trishtech.com/2016/01/how-to-quickly-enabledisabl...