I actually tried Windows 10 beta (I did a upgrade from Windows 7): all my GOG games (and the Galaxy alpha, too!) worked fine.

It seems a decent Windows version: there is no mandatory sign-in with MS account and overall it feels light, fast, mouse-oriented and customizable. I like it.

If anyone is interested you can download the latest build ISO here which is still currently build 10041:

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows/preview-iso-update-1503

No. For the next many years, if i am around of course, i am going to use 7, myself. GoG does not support them yet and they are potentially dangerous, as all devices and platforms can use them and communicate through them...

I still hope that Win10 will be good, not too locked and NSA free..

I'll decide after I see how much "phone home" crap it has in it after release.

Apparently it has plenty in it now - but the fanboy excuse is "it's a beta" so all is forgiven.

So I'll wait until the release and see how much is in that..

I've been using the Tec Preview since the first week it released. I have it on my main gaming PC, my main laptop, and my netbook. I had one issue with networking I had to fix with a registry hack. This was because I don't like using Homegroup. The only other show stopper issue I have is with the latest update the sound card in my netbook has vanished. I have not bothered looking for a fix for that, but I am not worried. I'm sure I'll find one, or MS will and release a patch. It is a Tec Preview after all.

On my main Game box I am running Steam, Origin, and Galaxy. A very common issue I have is alt-tabing out of a game set to full screen often breaks something, forcing a reboot. Steam Big Picture crashed frequently as well, so I just went back to using vanilla Steam. Galaxy is more stable than Steam Big Picture. Steam vanilla and Origin cause no issues.

As for the OS itself, its ... nice. The Start menu needs a lot of work, but all signs are pointing to that being corrected in the coming major update, as it is already improved on the current minor (Fast) update. The severely limited Settings app (apparently a replacement for "Control Panel") is just straight up useless. I've logged more reports about this than anything else. Control Panel is still available, you just need to get to it. Easy enough to type "control panel" > enter. File Explorer is also beyond saving. Completely lost cause. There is no way they will be able to completely replace that abomination before RTM, so a third party alternative is the only way. File Explorer is that bad.

Hey, at least it looks great! I know cosmetics are far down the list of importance, but I really like it. IMO it is the most aesthetically pleasing Windows OS yet.

What? You can't log in to Windows 10 with just an account name and a password? That makes Windows 10 as much a No for me as the lack of a Start Menu did for Windows 8. I'll stick to Windows 7 then. Clouds are for documents what online DRM is for games: making one too dependent on external parties for things that are basically mine only.

Ugh.. those are NOT good news at all :\
Not again that effin' MS online account! -_-

If this is right, Microshaft haven`t left much time to get their act together...

http://www.kitguru.net/channel/anton-shilov/microsoft-windows-10-expected-to-launch-in-late-july-amd/

Wait, what? Windows 8 is only 2 yrs old and before that win 7 was only 1 before win 8 was announced...Now we're talkin' the fuckin' 10th version!? Fuck you Micro$0.00ft You're gettin' nothing from me!

yeah, the upgrade is free

Well, I suppose not. I mean, win10 is supposed to be a free upgrade... :-/

I'm going to go for Windows 10 when it comes out; I have Windows 8.1 at work (so I'm used to it now), but it is one of those things where you wish you could have 'skipped' the "bad" generation. I hear they are reasons they called it "Windows 10", however, in the past.....

In DOS days, even versions of their OS were considered 'bad'. DOS 3.3 was the best, but 4.0 (from a source) ate the date on hard drives. 5.0 was awesome, but 6.0 had issues, the 6.2 had to step it up a bit.

Windows 3.1 was the best of its time too. Windows then decided to go by years.... 95, it was a great thing, Windows 98, not so highly accepted and Windows Millenium was like throwing something out in left field.

Windows NT was still active at the time and converging (funny how they are melding 'all' Windows into one), and Windows NT 3.51 was pretty solid while NT 4.0 with the Workspace shell was getting close to what was becoming Windows 2000.

Windows XP seemed to be that melding of the two, and Windows 2000 with Service Pack 6 was probably the closest thing to XP.

Windows Vista seemed to be a train wreck and they had to save that one by releasing Windows 7 ( a version I currently use and really like), until a bunch of Metro artists decided to turn it into their own art project and start melding it with tablets.

Thus came Windows 8 and 8.1 and 8.1 updates, it worked great for people who liked to touch their screen (for tablets, that's a given), but for monitors, I don't like looking through grubby fingerprints. I think they dropped the ball on the workflow between the 'desktop' and the 'tablet' user and they didn't really go through all the usability testing for desktop users.

Now we have Windows 10, I think they learned their lesson, it's a better hybrid of what they had and more friendly for tablet and desktop users. However, will your legacy software run on Windows 10?

Just as 16-bit Windows applications don't seemingly run on 32-bit Windows systems anymore, there may come a day when 32-bit applications won't run on 64-bit Windows. This is kind of the "move up, or move out" strategy one has to deal with in order to make sure their software can be ported and still working on new systems.

Sad, but true.

I'm not sure if I'm going to upgrade. I have a laptop that's a few years old, so I'm not going to benefiting from DX12 or anything like that.

What it will really come down to is how much...connectedness...is required from the OS. If I'm required to have a Live account or something, I'll just stick with what I've got.

My hope is to switch to FreeBSD when I actually get a desktop again.