{"id":387,"date":"2014-10-06T16:36:09","date_gmt":"2014-10-06T16:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zulfikar.co.uk\/blog\/?p=387"},"modified":"2014-11-05T20:08:49","modified_gmt":"2014-11-05T20:08:49","slug":"windows-10-and-the-moving-goalposts-or-start-menu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/zulfikar.co.uk\/blog\/windows-10-and-the-moving-goalposts-or-start-menu\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows 10 and the moving goalposts (or Start Menu)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Microsoft have decided to create a new Operating System designed for users! Yup, plain old folk like you and me. Now that is cause for celeberation. Windows 8 was a panic, a device centric response to the rise of touch tablets & smartphones from rival Operating System companies (i.e. OS X and Android). All hail Windows 10, designed for YOU. All hail Microsoft. All hail the Empor….ahem!<\/p>\n

If you want to mess with the TP version, then do know that I easily installed it under vSphere 5, I simply set it as a new version 8.0 virtual machine and chose ‘Windows Server 2012 x64’ as the Operating System. It installed without any problems whatsoever. Others have had success with VMware Workstation.<\/p>\n

Start Menu is back. All hail Mr Menu. We missed him. He’s back…or She’s back. Whatever, he’s gender neutral(!). Here he\/she is in all his\/her glory.<\/p>\n

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Return of the Start Menu<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Oh and during the final steps of the installation phase it asks you to define a few options before ‘getting your PC ready’ and at one point in that long winded process this cryptic message comes up:<\/p>\n

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Taking care of WHAT exactly?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I did notice something though. When you click Start > All Apps<\/strong> the list presented is suspiciously similar to the menu list on a Nokia Lumia (and presumably other) Windows based phones. Will new Windows phones come with a start menu too? We can only hope(!)<\/p>\n

It comes with Skype installed, and you need a ‘Microsoft’ account for it to define the first User with. Much like Android phones require you to have\/setup a Gmail account. You get presented with a tile that is your ‘mail’ – in my case it had about 3 zillion unread e-mails!<\/p>\n

Full windows deep dive tech analysis to follow. How different is it to previous Windows? Is the Hosts file<\/strong> still there in etc? Does Mr Paperclip<\/strong> make a glorious return (can only wish)? How does it translate between devices<\/strong>? What’s this OneDrive sync<\/strong> and how do I switch it off? Does this new version take care of your *ahem* problems (seems to claim to!). Coming soon…for now revel in the glory:<\/p>\n

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full windows 10 TP desktop<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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