Windows 10: Getting started

I just loaded Windows 10 on my system, using the Microsoft corporation process rather than the iso available online. The computer is a Lenovo W500 and was originally used to run Vista, so it is old, big and doesn’t have a solid state drive. It does on the other hand have 8 Gigs of memory.

The installation took longer than I thought it would but the corporate site did warn me it could take more than an hour and it did. Part of the problem is that the non-solid state hard drive is slow, so all of the restarts took several minutes. The excellent Unisys technician at Irvine was setting up a system with a solid state drive and that took no time. My plan is to install Windows 10 on the Toshiba $119 computer later today.

As to the interface, it has a Windows 7 feel with what seems like what you would expect for the step up from Windows 7. I have not tested this in the touch mode, but will shortly do the same to my other system. There appears to be no glitches, and since I mainly use Microsoft products, my review will seem like there are no problems.

Office  was preloaded on the corporate image, so the installation for Office was not a big deal. Naturally you have to connect with Office 365.

I am installing Visual Studio 14 Ultimate CTP on this Lenovo W500 system as well…might as well go all the way right? If you are installing Visual Studio 14 on your system, it requires that you have 15 gigs of space on the system if you are using the Windows Phone emulator, 10 gigs of space if you are not. This is quite a bit bigger than say Eclipse, but Visual Studio does a lot more. I have been using Eclipse with the Code Composer Studio from Texas Instruments, and I find it somewhat more difficult to use.

To see a video on the Windows 10 environment check out: https://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/preview

If you have a piece of junk laptop or desktop, load up Windows 10 and get started, I am!