As long as you use the provided Standard P-Key, online activation will work all times. I used that on my own Machine 5 times and several Friends machines. There isn't any need for to use Phone Activation!
@zimu000 We can't allow sharing these ISOs as each ISO created from the ESDs are different & thus considered as homebrew.
Plus there would be no way of evaluating the contents simply. Someone could insert some really bad malware and you'd never know without mounting the various files and comparing each file.
I couldn't agree more. Windows 10 is of no use until it reached beta level, except for maybe checking it out for a day or so to provide some (hopefully valuable) feedback. This is not meant for end-users, I'd say it's not even meant for developers as there is no updated SDK documentation about new APIs etc. available at the moment. So from a developer's standpoint, considering software development, this technical preview is no different from Windows 8.1. You currently can't do anything on Windows 10 what you cannot already do on Windows 8.1. Well, maybe you could, but then you would have to spend (or waste) your precious time figuring out how some of the new stuff works on your own, but it will be just a waste of time since there are no features locked down and you can't be sure if one of the new APIs will still be available or in its current shape for the next build. No, for the time being, Windows 10 is nothing more than Windows 8.1 with a few alpha-level, and therefore half-broken and ugly looking, additional features.You just have to look at the top 10 of feedback to figure out that Microsoft is getting a lot of feedback from people who are not really the target group of this insider program. But I guess that's just what happens when you're crowdsourcing your own dogfooding process.
A reminder to all those who say its not much different from windows 8.1 so it shouldnt exist or be like it: its going to be released in summer 2015 (about a year of development left and we are still at the beginning so no new UI changes as these come last). As for those who say this is not for tech enthusiasts, 1st microsoft marketed insiders as such and there is a reason for that, they want opinions from those who believe they are tech knowledgable because these are the ones with self inflated opinions on windows 8 and resisted the change to windows 8.1 and 2nd to mass test the new update ways which are NOT just for the beta which vali20 should've read by now being a tech savy guy Although i agree this preview is not for everyone out there: ie those complaining about telemetry, that their explorer gives an error when shutting down or that windows 10 looks like w8.1 and is featureless (there is a reason for that people wake up only 20 days have passed from build 9841 dont expect to see all your feedback even a remote feedback being used on this build) or even that the "new ui" sucks so it needs updating.
When quoting a post it's better to read it wholy not only the first sentence. Sevenacids elaborates his standpoint very well and it's mostly matching with my opinion about this preview.
Top ten after 1 week of TP. 1) I can agree with 2) wth? Go get a top and spin it already... (see 6), 9), and 10)) 3) Although I might agree with Thurrott (omg!), it would be nice to simplify that. 4)Tabs in explorer would be tasty 5)It worked prior to an ALPHA build and WILL again. Thanks for wasting everyones time 6)Are you kidding me? 7)It worked prior to an ALPHA build and WILL again. Thanks for wasting everyones time 8)Yes, one or the other. No need for two. An Optional pick your flavor would work for me. 9)Are you kidding me? 10)Are you kidding me? So in the end, we might end up with new icons, a beautiful boot screen, multiple desktop wallpapers for virtual desktop on a system that is fit for a dolt with a rainbow colored fetish.
I put the PC Settings or Control panel in the sins list. We should not have 2 GUIs on a Operating System as we will be using one or the other. Put a god damn button into Windows that makes it so you can transition from Tablet to Desktop Functionality. That means I want metro gone because hey I won't ever use it.
It goes to show you why most of the users are not software engineers. They don't care about functionality. They only care about the pretty colors. Seriously fellow Windows Users... It has never been about the graphics. Windows was never the best looking OS around, ever. It's strong point was the powerful way you could control everything. They've been trying to out-dipsh** the Apple users for the last 2 years. Stop trying to turn Windows into something it's not. Windows has had tablet support for the longest time and nobody uses Windows that way. My suggestion: Make 2 different operating systems again. 1- For businesses and power-users 2- For the clueless crowd And then learn, yet again, why people don't buy a Windows OS when it's not tailored for business use.
Which zoom-out are you talking about? If it is the animate when minimizing and maximizing window then you can disable it in System Properties of the Control Panel, under the Advanced system settings.
I've been using my PC for 2 hours now and noticed the animation is different Just discovered that my windows build is now 9860, nice! auto upgrade
If that bordered people so much they can create e-mail accounts with bogus information for the process only while still retaining their important ones they wouldn't want Microsoft to have access to(I guess that is a joke).
After yesterday updates I can see the Metered Connection under device is back as in the previous Windows 10 Technical Preview 9841. So it's PC Settings | PC and Devices | Devices .