First look at Windows 10

First, I have to admit that I am a Windows 8.1 user and that I love Windows 8.  I work with Windows 7 as well and I like it too.

When Windows 10 first booted up - there it was the Windows 7 Start Menu that everyone in the enterprise community was screaming for.  It had the metro like screen attached to the side of it.  This is best described it the picture.  There are a couple of things missing though.  The menu item "Computer" which, in Windows 7, takes you to File Explorer. The other thing that I think the Windows 7 crowd will miss is when you click on the user, at the top of the menu, you no longer go to a screen with "Documents, Picture, Music and Videos."  This is where most people go to get their stuff.  All this is still there though in "File Explorer" but people like enhancements not change.  The "All Programs" item is now changed to "All Apps."  This is not that big a change but the menu system now will include apps downloaded from the Microsoft Store as well as your Windows 7 like Programs.

Windows 8 users (and lovers) will like the fact that Microsoft kept the Start Screen.  You can actually use the new (old Windows 7 like) start screen or chose to you the Windows 8 start screen.  Just right click on the task bar, select "Properties" the "Start Menu" and un-click "Use the Start Menu instead of Start Screen.

When using Windows 10, everything now runs as a task on the desktop - programs and apps side by side.  They can be snapped to the sides and you can reduce the height to show 3 or more at the same time.

There is a new icon on the task bar - the "Task View"  Click this and it will show all the current tasks running on your computer.  You can use choose between things you are working on.  Here is a thing that is taken from Linux that I love to use.  When you click on the Task View you can add another desktop.  You can have a bunch of things that you are working on on

one and you don't have to interrupt it to work on something unrelated.  You can simply switch to another desktop and use it there.

So far Windows 10 looks pretty cool.  By the time it is released, in late 2015, given all the user feed back and maybe the integration of Cortana, it should be pretty awesome.