Good reply Puiu... all those points gets me salivating, I WANT Windows 10 NOW! hehe
I like Win 8.1, but Win 8 was a disaster...The new OS is made for desktop users & touchscreen users alike.
Getting excited over a list of superficial bullet points, that when translated into the real world, don't really alter your experience over Windows 7 all that much?
You may want to talk to a doctor about getting prescription meds. You excite too easily.
"Win 10 UI is fully 'functional'" - Oh you mean, it isn't broken then? Good news!!!
"Better memory management" - And this translates into what exactly? Memory is so cheap these days there isn't really any need for silly built-in memory hacks. I am running Windows 7 with 16.0GB of memory and do not have any issues. Why get excited about something that doesn't tranlsate to anything tangible in the real world?
"DirectX 12" support. No games even released that target this yet that I am aware of.
"Better battery life" - for desktop users, who cares? For Windows 10 desktop users, who cares? My phone OS is Android.
"Apps support"?? You mean I can run a half-assed version of a full-blown application on my quad-core PC?? "Gee Wally. That sounds swell". *banging head against the wall in disbelief*.
"Cortana"?? That's a benefit? Only if it falls under the category of "accessibility" for those have typing issues or if it's used on a mobile device. I don't foresee ever using it on the desktop.
"Multi-desktops" - a feature that has been in Linux since the beginning of time and available in Windows as a 3rd party software addition for a long while. I personally think Microsofts native implementation sucks. It's not very intuitive or easy to figure out.
"Notifications" - thats a bullet point? They're in windows 7 for God sake. But if you like little system messages "jacking" the far right half of your screen to tell you about every little update that the OS is doing or has done then I can see your excitement. I think the notification system is obnoxious and over-sized on Windows 10. Its painfully obvious the desktop notification system on the Windows 10 desktop are "leftovers" from the mobile UI or drop-in substitutions for a true desktop notification system. One that doesn't hijack your screen from top to bottom to make much ado about ...well...nothing most of the time.
"Better touch-screen support" - for phones good. For desktops, who cares? This is why I never even acknowledged Windows 8 as a true operating system. the mix'n'mash approach causes both of the UI's to suffer. Windows 10 is still drowning in "leftovers" from Windows 8 as far the UI goes. Putting a crappy start menu back didn't make Windows 10 "magically" better. It simply stopped the bleeding.
I will say Windows 10 is an improvement over Windows 8 but let's not get overly excited. Windows 10 is as Microsoft rightfully claims. A work in progress. I am not sure if I like the fact that Windows 10 will "never be finished". I don't know if that's good or bad. But I am thinking its bad.
Edit: Oh one last thing, which has been the origin of most of the Windows 8 hate. The square windows gotta go. At the very least, add the ability for round window corners to be turned on as an option. My Intel CPUs can handle it.
I feel confident this will be implemented in a future patch/update/whatever hip word they're using now akin to "apps". Maybe they will be called "ups" soon, yeah, thats hip. Damn, I feel hip now. Apps and ups. Sweet!
Why am I so confident round-corners will make a return to a future Windows?
Because like a dripping faucet I will keep bitching about it until they do. Plus, they'll have an extra bullet to use when the time comes.