Windows 10 Release Date Announced

I'm gonna wait till both windows 10 and Minecraft are stable and actually worth the investment. So far Mincraft windows 10 edition just sounds like the console version; which is a lesser version of the original PC version.

My desktop PC runs Windows 10 preview (from W7) and my new XPS laptop runs Windows 8. There is absolutely nothing that makes me want to drop Windows 8 for 10. It's uglier, slower and the new features like Cortana I couldn't care for.

There's nothing I want from a windows operating system, that Windows 7 can't do.

For DX12, I'd rather wait and see if it's really THAT worth upgrading to Windows 10.

Maybe there will be some kind of incentive to actually buy a Windows Phone with this OS. I've always been curious about getting a Windows Phone, because I like the layout & functionality of it, but there's just not enough support. Not to mention, I only use high-end phones and Windows Phones aren't very powerful. I think just last year they finally moved past using 1GB of RAM, where as Android is using up to 4GB's in their top-end models (and even some mid-range phones like the Asus ZenFone 2).

It's pretty bad that Microsoft makes more money off Android phone sales, because of patent royalties, than they do selling their own phones right now. They should drop Windows Phone completely and make Android phones. They could even keep the same look of the OS. Have Nokia build a beastly Android phone with a Windows skin over it. That way they can have all the developer support of Android and Google, and still make it a Windows Phone. It's win/win.

Dang... I should be running their phone business (before they drive it too far into the ground). People would buy a Microsoft Android phone just to get the best of both worlds, but they obviously won't leave Android behind for just a Microsoft phone. I think a phone like that would put a serious dent in both Samsung AND Apple sales. But its gotta be affordable like the Google Nexus phones USED to be... $300-$350 OFF CONTRACT!

I would rather have a more private experience instead of a more "personal" experience.

So games run faster on 10?

I just did a rebuild about a month ago & bought a copy of 8.1. I'm glad 10 is coming soon, 8.1 is such a weird OS. Whenever I plug in a USB I get a popup saying "Tap here...". Seriously? Tap?

Maybe later. When bugs are fixed.

"Genuine Windows has a high risk of malware, fraud, public exposure of your personal information, backdoors for our friends in the spy biz, and a higher risk for poor performance or feature malfunctions," -mumbles microsoft quietly

bring Halo 3 to the PCs seriously thats all fans ever wanted.

I just noticed that I have a "get windows 10" icon on my pc's tray. until it can be guaranteed that it is fully compatible with all the games I can play on my windows 7 system, I'm not messing with it.

W10 should be for free regardless if you had W7 or W8. MS can make the money using the Windows Store, just like Apple did with MACOSX (free now) and their Apple Store.

Will the new OS even be faster? It doesn't look that revolutionary.

So say for example Halo 5 is capped at 900p 30 fps (not that it will be) on Xbox One, Will I be able to play it at 1440p 144 fps on my PC? Will the graphical limitations of the Xbox One be applied to my PC during crossplay?

"We will definitely offer this as an upgrade for people not running genuine copies of Windows."

"We definitely won't be doing that thing we said earlier."

That's kind of typical Microsoft, but I'm still looking forward to Windows 10. You can't deny they make good operating systems.

I'm just wondering what's going to happen to people running non-genuine versions of Windows that upgrade to non-genuine Windows 10...

Are they just going to get locked out until they upgrade?

Non-genuine copies of Windows 7 here in China are pretty much indistinguishable from the real thing, updates and all.

I *seriously* doubt you'll be able to download *any* updates for your officially unofficial Windows 10, in which case you're *far* better off staying the hell away from that download.

Looking forward to this, already signed up to upgrade my 8.1- I heard some good things about it, so hopefully it's true.

Breaking news, Tom Tucker OS coming to a store near you tomorrow.

Hey guys, like everyone else in the world, you are probably wondering about the damn "Get Windows 10" icon in the system tray.

It's a windows update app, called GWX.

There is a way to remove it - you need to uninstall the windows update: KB3035583.

After this you need to search updates again - and hide it.

Problem is, that you won't get a notification when you can DL win 10....

Not sure why MS gone the path of forcing a process to run at the background and tray like this.

Cross play will be sweet.