Let me Tell You Initial thoughts on Windows 10

Let me Tell You Initial thoughts on Windows 10

I like the look of the new start menu. It's a sleek mix of the old style that was easy to navigate and the new version which affords great customization. Oh, and the entire menu system is also really easy to navigate touchscreen on my Yoga Netbook. Bonus points for functioning smoothly on a hybrid device.

I didn't like the hiccups of the upgrade process. Previously I had my Google Drive and my OneDrive sync'd on my machine. The upgrade process defaulted my OneDrive INTO my Google Drive as its own folder, duplicating everything. I didn't notice, but somehow my OneNote notebooks were updating in my GoogleDrive/OneDrive/OneNote folder, but my Excel documents were updating in my GoogleDrive/Excel folder, so I had to manually re-sync some things.

I'm also annoyed that I can't easily add extra search engines directly to the Cortana. Automatically generating a bing link for any of your default browsers instead of allowing the user to choose the search engine is the kind of not-playing-well-with-others attitude I expect from Apple, not Microsoft.

Finally, I'm glad there's no more Internet Explorer. I don't have much to say about Edge yet, but it looks like a re-imagining. Hopefully good will come of it.

It's going to take some getting used to, but the interface is a definitely overall upgrade from Windows 8, so I expect it'll grow on me.  Keep this up and I might actually get a Windows Phone next as the latest Google Nexus phone no longer has the super-affordable price tag that kept me with them.