#BelievetheDoge
Much improve. So amaze. wow.Sooo I tried the upgrade and it's OK so far.
I like the fact that after doing the upgrade they basically
gave me a new product key so with the ISO I can make a fresh install on renewed hardware without problems. I didn't have any trouble downloading and burning the ISO by the way..
The PIN code unlock is nice, it boots very fast and I noticed that the system is overall faster than my Win 7 similar installation. The dumb choices they made in Modern UI are reverted, you have a material design with traditional ergonomics, in short it works like Win 7 and that's good..
Here's the desktop (click to see 1:1 image size):
In the Start menu you can dock things on the right in a resizable area
ala Modern UI and keep a standard list on the left. You can customize it so you have only a list or only MUI tiles, or both like here. It works fine like this for me.
The new addition that I find very cool is the "exposed" view like you have on OSX and the Virtual Desktops - I used them a lot when I was working on Linux:
You can have multiple "desktops" to organize your apps and stay organized, it's about time they implement this feature. The dock window feature have been upgraded as well and fastens the process to dock windows side by side.
I tried the
Cortana thing and it's basically the very same thing than
Google Now on Android devices, it's an all in one search engine and voice command prompt for the system. If you use the Microsoft application ecosystem I suppose it can be handy, though if you don't it can still find stuff on the computer and send requests through your browser through Google instead of Bing with a little trick..
Concerning the Privacy subject there are plenty of places in the UI when there is mention of data collecting and how to disable it, at least they try to give you control over your data. You can choose not to use a Microsoft account tied to your system, it won't matter much if you don't use the Microsoft store and Windows Phone/Xbox applications ecosystem.
There's also a specific section about all the privacy settings in the control panel :
For now I didn't have compatibility problems, I'll try a strong hardware-demanding game to see how it runs with current GPU drivers but everything was smooth and ready when the installer finished.
The only problem I had was messing with the language and default keyboard settings since I use English language UI but with French keyboard, the thing was kinda lost. I also had to force through Registry the Num Lock. to be activated on the login screen, it's totally dumb that it's not on by default since you're supposed to log in faster using a
PIN NUMBER code..
