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Bring Back Microsoft Bob!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ....

yeah, quite a lot won't be satisfied unless everything remains as it was with Windows 7...

SD really should build their own OS. I said it before...it'll beat the hell out of anything MS can do IMO.

If only they would.  I mean, they couldn't do a worse job than Microsoft, could they.... which is a point of fact, not a question.  I had high hopes for Microsoft when Satya Nadella took over the reins from Steve Ballmer, but frankly, MS has taken a backward step under his 'leadership'... several backward steps, in fact, unless Bill Gates steps back in and rescues the company from the ugly place it's in right now.

It's not going to happen, not while MS still has its ears painted on and the vision for the future of Windows is heading too far down the path of visionary ideals rather than actual user needs.  Sadly, the people who SHOULD matter, today's users, that is,  are not considered in MS' bigger picture of things.  No, we are just incidental as MS forges ahead to capture the users of generations yet to come.

Progress is sometimes a great thing.  When it saves lives in the operating theatre, it's a good thing.  However, when progress ignores the current generation to pander to those yet to be born, then it isn't progress.  No, it is greed counting on being the dominant market leader, and MS sure wants to be that in 40 - 50 years time.

That's right: "We can milk those yet to be born of so much more than this spent out bunch, so fech them and let's go for it."

Funny, I'm really the only dude here who wants to see what they make of it?
It is always the same, as soon as there is an announcement from MS, we will immediately be negative about it.
The same happend with 7, 8 and 10.
Do not be as negative the whole time, just wait how the whole thing looks when it is finished.
Who knows, it might be an improvement to what Windows10 looks like without Stardock applications.


 

Absolutely agreed!

Quoting LightStar,

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Unfortunately benmanns, with the way it looks now or even how it looks in that NEON preview, nothing could ever make Windows 10 look good without Stardock fixing it, period. 

That has been true of every OS they have released to date.  The best were Vista and Win 7, appearance-wise, but the rest were pretty awful. 

'95 and '98 were too bland and uninteresting to look at.

ME was a total failure in appearance and funtionality.

XP looked like a Fisher Price reject with those gaudy colours.

And Win 8/8.1 were both bloody awful appearance-wise, what with that 'flat' look on everything.

So yeah, Stardock certainly has been the saviour of discerning users who hate the default 'MS look'

Oh, they finish lots of things... just rather badly is all.

Exactly!!  Because MS does not listen to its customers and blindly forges ahead with whatever, whether users will like it or not.  Sadly, there is no real competitor to challenge MS... just Apple with its piddling market share, and Linux, which still needs some maturing. 

Having said that, however, Ubuntu, Mint and Robolinux are all quite usable these days and have come a long way in the last couple of years.  Still, I would need to look at the latest versions to determine the best one to use, which at the monent I can't do because I'm reorganising/rearranging things in my man cave and my two main rigs are currently unplugged... and I don't really have the room on my HP 2-in-1 to do it properly.  Yes, I could run them from a USB stick, but I'd rather do it on an internal SSD to get a fairer idea of how they'd perform in the conditions I'd prefer to use them.

I'm using the Insider build 15031 and it has some really frustrating "features" already.

Let's hope that those frustrating 'features' do not make it into the finished product, then.

But then again, MS is notorious for including annoying, frustrating features, so I'll nay hold my breath.

Thank goodness for 3rd-party programs, is all I gotta say.... thank freakin' goodness. 

I guess when your pretty much the only game in town you can do whatever ya want.