Have to say, I absolutely hate Edge (no, not that EDGE). It seems to randomly hang while loading certain websites and is nowhere near as functional as Chrome. I'm sure it will get better over time but I certainly won't be using it as my default browser any time soon.
I wonder if it's just me... someone else with Windows 10 click around a bit on http://www.bbc.co.uk/news and see if the pages hang while you scroll up and down as they're loading?
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I have updated today to Windows 10. DCS in single player works well so far. In fact, and it might be nonsense, or predisposition to see good things where there's nothing, but I got the feeling that DCS was smoother than ever. Also the picture quality looked better. As I said, it might be exactly the same as with Windows 8.1, but I really tough, while flying that something was different. Bare in mind, that I haven't changed any hardware at all.
Also, if any of you is into FSX, it works, but not perfectly. I have run into some issues while starting the flight.
Not your imagination, windows 10 does run games much better. I gained 10 FPS in X-Plane 10, I have not benched marked DCS with windows 7 so I have nothing compare to windows 10. I also believe windows 10 was marked as a operating system geared for gaming.
Oh and Saitek said they are closer to windows 10 drivers and software. (I still think they should have been prepared since the stable API has been out for 2 months.)
Taking the plunge on one of my computers!
Due to weather and not feeling so well, I haven't turned on my gaming PC since flight night. I've been using my laptops and work PC's to keep up with the forum, last night I fired up my gaming PC that I installed 10 on last week to finally install the Capt Zeen P-51 Helios program and was reassured that it was a good move, everything is SO FAST, when you click on something, if you blink, you miss it and everything is running perfect......except LotAtc, but I seem to be the only one that is having issues with it and it's not that important to me anyway, I'm sure I will find a solution eventually.
One thing that does concern me a bit, I've read a lot of articles about how 10 spies on you. I did turn Cortana off until I learn more about it.
I'd like to hear Dojo's take on this subject as I know nothing of how it works.
It's a complex subject. Yes, Windows 10 has been designed to send more data about your PC use than ever before.
Now, I'm not one of those folks who say "Hey, If you're not doing anything wrong, what are you worried about?". But... do you Google?
Google, which is my most used website, collects more about our habits/interests than ANYTHING I will ever do on my PC off of it. Windows 10 is looking at the files you open, how long they take etc. It's not supposed to be concerned with the contents of anything you do, just your habits and the performance, across the board.
But, MS hasn't explicitly stated what they're doing with the data yet. That's the core problem. Since these tools, Windows 10, Google, etc, are so useful and valuable to me, as opposed to taking any stand and not using them, I've resolved not to have anything on them I'd be concerned with being exposed.
At best, everything Microsoft is doing is about telemetry. Windows "tacview" if you will. "How is it performing, and what are your habits so that we can make more money off of you." At worse, they're going to frame you for murder and kiddy porn.
In principle, I'm ok with that. No such thing as free lunch. What I'm not ok with, is experiments. Like what Facebook did when they intentionally sent users "depressing" articles to see how it would affect their mood.
So far im liking it. If I take the plunge on my cockpit computer, do I need to be worried about configuring anything DCS wise if im only upgrading not doing a fresh install? Also, I like to format and fresh install my computers from time to time, if im doing this digital upgrade, any thoughts on how id be able to accomplish this in the future?
Won't there be a Recovery image you can put up, like in prior Windows?