Some of the new features that Joe demoed on Wednesday will be available for our Windows Insiders starting today with our newest build – 9926. However, not everything you saw on Wednesday is included in this new build. Much is still in-progress and we’re getting it out to you as fast as we can – so you can try it out and give us feedback. Over the course of the next few builds, you will see us refine Windows 10 and continue to improve the experiences as well as quality and stability.
This new build contains the first set of features unveiled earlier this week. Neowin has a bunch of screenshots.
Can anyone check if notepad.exe supports unix line endings (LF instead of CRLF) yet?
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha.
Uhm. No.
Yeah, and File Explorer still doesn’t have tabs either. Last I checked, this was the #1 requested feature on their feedback site. It’s like they have nothing but contempt for power users …
Haha of course not
Why should it?
I don’t remember Mac OS <= 9 supporting them either.
Because it’s ~ the only editor that doesn’t support them (even wordpad does), rest of the world uses LF, and supposedly MS has paid people working on notepad.exe
It is a quick note editor for Windows files, not a developers editor.
As for Wordpad, I keep forgeting it is even there.
That’s just excuse for sucking. “This app doesn’t need to work correctly because it’s meant for trivial things”. If you have paid people working on it, get it fixed or change the people to ones that can get it fixed.
Notepad is the default text file handler that comes up when you double click a text file. Not working with many text files is a flaw.
Notepad.exe works with 100% of the files created with Notepad.exe. Not supporting a method or feature found in other programs, common or not, doesn’t qualify as a flaw. If Notepad.exe doesn’t support something you want, you can choose to use something else. But to call it broken, flawed, or buggy for that reason?… No.
And it still manages not to display many text files found as readme files etc., and given it’s the tool used by Windows to display them that’s pretty ridiculous.
How much work could it really be to fix it? Surely some school intern could do it as their work experience project. That way they get it fixed for free, and give an intern something other than filing to do for a few hours…
I doubt they really have anyone working on Notepad. Most likely the app is officially maintained by Raymond and his team. But they probably have countless other apps too they maintain (such as Explorer, calc, the command prompt, and so on). Last they touched Notepad was probably when they gave it special access rights in Windows 7!
Clearly noone with power gives a damn about this feature, or they would have invested the less than 1 day development time required to add it.
Because not rendering a Line Feed symbol correctly is a bug!
Ugly, monochromatic, icons floating in vast desolation of shapeless white space, juxtaposed with areas of over sized Fisher Price aesthetics. What’s not to love?
I agree. Modern UI is ugly as hell. Windows ME looks like a gem in comparison, and that’s saying something.
Purely subjective statement. I actually agree with you, but there are others that like it. Point is, I don’t care how much time and how many millions you spend designing a UI – you’re NEVER going to please everyone. Some will like it, and some won’t.
I don’t remember many people moaning about Windows 2000 or 7 aesthetic. At least not as much as XP, 8 and 10 had generated.
Windows 2000 was pretty much like the 9x UI, so that doesn’t really count. I myself prefer the flatter style of Windows 8 than the glassy, Aero in Windows 7. But I like the Win32 classic look more than either of those.
Like I said, it’s all subjective
Actually Windows Me (and it’s NT cousin Windows 2000) had the cleanest, most usable Windows UI in recent memory. I think almost every techie I know speaks highly of Windows 2000’s simple, clean UI and rock solid performance (of course that can’t be said for the horrible Windows Me, but if judging the book by its cover…)
You are absolutely right.
I don’t really like windows, and don’t use it myself, but i am occasionally forced to use it professionally … and …
W2K was by far their best release. Clean, simple, easy on resources, in a word … good.
The installation of Win 2000 was a bit troublesome. Win XP supported more hardware (as far as I can remember)
Yes, this is true, but the situation improved as they kept releasing the OS with service packs built in (as with XP)
The hardware always sort of worked, though, and once you had the ethernet adaptor going, it was easy to get the rest sorted.
As a person that actually likes Modern UI on phones, I have to say that this is ugly because it’s half-arsed! Windows 8 was half-arsed. Windows 8.1 was half-arsed. And windows 10 looks like it’s half-arsed.
Take a look at the Plasma 5.2 (that is not even regarded as production ready, with near none KDE based distros shipping it by now in their stable releases) article below this one, and then open the Neowin screenshots.
What i really want to know by now is what improvements is being done under the hood, because, UI wise, MS is pretty much lost. It still looks as something created for a tablet, and patched together without any direction whatsoever, much like Win8.
Overall it looks childish and cartoon-like.
And I really hate those g-d- tiles.
I’m curious to see how customizable the GUI will be.
Hopefully VERY customizable. I can’t stand these flat simplistic guis that look like a 5 year old with a box of crayons designed them.
We can have usability AND luxury both. It’s 2015, we have the technology.
It looks horrible, it seems Windows gets more Fisher Price with every release. Are they releasing a keyboard with just one chunky red button with it? Would fit perfectly!
Well, at least they’re dropping the full-screen “Start” menu and going back to the more traditional layout of desktop and start menu. Other than that there’s not a lot to tell from the screenshots – could just be an ugly skin for Windows 7 with a Start menu hack.
So,
– zero improvements for desktop users
– Microsoft still fixated on one-size-fits-all design.
Start menu over start screen, apps in windows, and you can finally resize the terminal windows. 8.1 is already perfectly usable (even if the juxtaposition of metro with non-metro is ugly), so I’ll settle for small incremental improvements.
Think I’ll “upgrade” to Windows 2000, would be a massive improvement.
I actually did install and “tried” using it over the weekend. My laptop had an older X2300 ATI video so I didn’t have an acceptable resolution (defaulted to 1024×768 instead of 1280×720).
The previous build UI was better in that the start menu was more/easier to customize. You can move the tiles around by long clicking. The menu itself was alphabetical. Yes, alphabetical; all of your programs appear in an alphabetized order and not in folders. I couldn’t find any way of changing that either. Took forever to upgrade (about three hours) but only 30 minutes to return to Win7.
Upgrade was painless, all my programs and files remained safe (made a backup a few days ago just in case) and it even asked if I wanted to change to a Live account; I did and it didn’t affect anything.