evilrob
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Sees the return of the Start Menu and a unified codebase across PC, tablet and phone - this means developers can write their app once, and it will run on a user's desktop PC, laptop, Windows tablet device and Windows phone. Pretty exciting stuff.
http://www.techradar.com/news/software/operating-systems/windows-10-unveiled-microsoft-ushers-in-the-next-era-of-windows-1267199
[Edited on 30-09-2014 by evilrob]
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evilrob
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You'll be able to play with it from tomorrow if you're so inclined:
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows/preview-coming-soon
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deano87
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Much better. I'm on Windows 8 with the minor upgrade and although I'm not a "power user" it can get irritating.
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ed
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Windows X?
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evilrob
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quote:
Originally posted by ed
Windows X?
Cheetah?
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pow
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Was reading a little about this today. Ohhh baby...
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Welsh Dan
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Wheres Windows 9?
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pow
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The thing is, it's not a major upgrade is it!
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Skinz
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Rumour is Windows 8.1 was counted as 9 but they didn't want to call it 9 as they didn't want 8 to be seen as a failure.
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I think they've finally got the start menu right, making it resizeable, I really like the look of that; http://www.neowin.net/news/start-menu-resizing-in-windows-10-results-in-some-interesting-behavior
once you strip out the useless crap like the weather and only keep your key day-to-day apps in there, it'll be quite useful.
From what I've read, during setup if it detects a mouse and keyboard it'll adjust the UI and settings and set it up more as a PC as opposed touch device (tablet).
I want to try it, but cant be arsed to setup a virtual machine, I might if I get bored sometime.
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Jambo
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Knew they would bring a new one out as soon as I bit the bullet and get Windows 8 
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Rob_Quads
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Looks like have taken Windows 7 and then just back-ported some of the good bits of Windows 8
Good to see it only took will 2015 for them to get copy & paste working in a command prompt
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pow
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Copy paste in a command prompt omfg
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Steve
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Does anyway?
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Steve
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Although granted it's not labelled copy. It's called mark.
Right click, Mark, highlight what you want, right click contents are copied to clipboard.
Then just right click paste when u want.. Been like that for ages
[Edited on 01-10-2014 by Steve]
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Rob_Quads
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Try copying a multi-line bit of text from the command prompt and paste it. It pastes it with a line break!
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pow
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I do know about that Steve lol
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DaveyLC
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RTFM?
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Dom
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Think it's more of a case of traditional copy/paste shortcuts being add which'll save a bit of time 
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Rob_Quads
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quote:
Originally posted by DaveyLC
RTFM?
Either you don't understand what I am saying or you need to RTFM because it doesn't do it. Fact proven by them talking about how it does now do it in the preview.
Copy a command which goes over multiple lines and then paste it into a different command window and then run it. it won't work i.e.
Run this in a command prompt (it won't work as you don't have the command installed but that does not matter). Then copy and paste that command (from the command window) into another window
"mqsicreateconfigurableservice IB9NODE -c JDBCProviders -o TEMP_1 -n connectionUrlFormat,databaseName,databaseSchemaNames,description,jarsURL,portNumber,securityIdentity,serverName,type4DatasourceClassName,type4DriverClassName -v "\"jdbc:db2://[serverName]:[portNumber]/[databaseName]:user=[user];password=[password];\",TEMP_1,,default_none,,50000,ADIIRI_1,lime59,com.ibm.db2.jcc.DB2XADataSource,com.ibm.db2.jcc.DB2Driver"
[Edited on 01-10-2014 by Rob_Quads]
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DaveyLC
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I guess the new command prompt isn't emulating dos properly anymore as most people don't require a properly emulated DOS.
[Edited on 01-10-2014 by DaveyLC]
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Rob_Quads
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Thats more like it
[Edited on 01-10-2014 by Rob_Quads]
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kz
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Windows 8 took me about 8 days to get used to... it's fine now, I actually like it. Windows 10 looks pretty good, I think they should have called it Windows One though!
Signed up for the Insider program, but not sure I'm going to use it. Back in the days I was always into beta testing but not so bothered any more.
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evilrob
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quote:
Originally posted by kz
Windows 8 took me about 8 days to get used to... it's fine now, I actually like it. Windows 10 looks pretty good, I think they should have called it Windows One though!
Signed up for the Insider program, but not sure I'm going to use it. Back in the days I was always into beta testing but not so bothered any more.
Fire it up on a separate partition / virtual machine?
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Rob_Quads
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Thats what I've done. Seems overall a good update.
We'll be testing it at work no doubt.
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