A couple of days I decided to update my main/daily laptop to windows 10 technical Preview. Prior to this, I have had it in a VM but hardly used it for anything I do normally. The build I installed was 9926. I use a lenovo yoga 13 pro. A month or so ago I did however get a break on the screen so I unfortunately do not use the touch any more as I don’t want to cut my fingers and touching around the break seems to send confusing signals.
Overall very impressed with this; although technical preview. Installation was smooth; I did not really time it but I think it took about an hour give or take. I like the way all my programs stayed and continue to work. Awesome migration/upgrade there.
I have not noticed anything out of whack with my settings, looks like most things carried over seamlessly. The only thing I noticed around settings was with my touch screen; I have a break on my screen so have disabled that since then. When the installation was complete, this got re-enabled; I think was just due to driver updates or something similar.
I think this is a simple transition from my previous windows 8.1 update. The UI is pretty intuitive and there should not be much to learn coming from either windows 8 or even windows 7.
I like the idea of the notification center; something from the windows phone world (by the way can’t wait to have windows 10 on my lumia 1020). My mail app does not seem to update its notification like it used to though. There seems to be some sort of lag there. Even after reading mails it still indicates that I have unread mail for a while.
One idea I also like is being able to resize modern apps (metro-styled apps). Will be awesome if I could have a setting to always keep on top though. I was using netflix last night and something like that would have been awesome. For some reason my netfix captions were not updating but that could be a netflix thing rather than a windows 10 thing as I did not go back to compare.
The search on the taskbar is cool although I think it takes quite a bit of usable space on the bar; not a big deal though. I have noticed that sometimes when I go to the start screen and start typing, the focus is not on the search. I am rather used to just beginning to type on the start screen as was the case in windows 8.
All in all, I like this. And so far appears real stable as well, and I am already getting pretty frequent updates.