Without a doubt, this is the best consumer release of Windows ever.
It just works
Windows 10 is immediately familiar
Everything you do win Windows is where you expect it to be. Start and full screen Metro apps no longer dominate the screen.
Your Windows desktop applications are now first-class citizens once more.
They just work.
That same ideal extends to a very high percentage of device drivers. Most pre-Windows 10 printers and peripheral device drivers should work for you as they did for us.
Windows 10 is immediately new
Windows 10’s new flat UI, which I absolutely loath, by the way, is no doubt new. Supposedly, the flatness conveys modernity.
Start is now customizable. It is more useful, and despite a few design choices I disagree with, it conveys more information than ever. There is now a user choice to almost never see it.
Microsoft Edge is the new default browser in Windows 10. I am using it daily to see what the deal is. I’m not a fan. Yet.
We dogfood it
During the beta, and as with all Windows client betas, 100 percent of Logikworx staff were required to run Windows 10 on their primary systems.
Since it RTM’d, that requirement shifted to all PCs. (We are not crazy: we maintained either VMs or bare-metal instances for those quirky clients.)
Shifting gears
The relatively smooth gestational period for Windows 10 allowed us to identify the clients most ready for this OS upgrade, and determine the viability of their hardware for it.
We have concluded that task for all clients which we manage.
Today, we shift into the next phase: transitioning our managed client companies to Windows 10.
What we have done over the past several months, was delay new hardware purchases at our client firms, where possible, due to hardware enhancements slated to be introduced into Windows 10.
We have validated our management software suite for this operating system, and the four test companies that served as guinea pigs have not experienced any STOP events.
Now, it is time for business.
I shall continue to blog on issues we encounter. Because the successes will be too numerous to blog about.
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