Windows 10 review

Windows 10 is here. It's right: Windows 10. Does this mean that Windows 9 will be skipped? No, because Windows 9 is already here as Windows 8.1 (8 + 1 = 9).

Windows 10 will appear in mid 2015. This is for laptops, PCs and smartphones. People with a laptop or PC that is still running Windows 7 or Windows 8.1 can perform a free upgrade from their system to Windows 10, this must be done within the year. You may have already sign up for the upgrade app from Windows 10.


Novelties
Windows 10 should work quicker and easier to use than previous versions.
There would be a new browser that should let you have a better web experience.
Windows 10 and your Xbox can be linked together from now on.
Microsoft HoloLens will be a new feature in Windows 10, which could create high-definition Holograms. So you can make objects appear in 3D in your living room, just like real physical objects.


Windows 10 = free trial backup, a Forewarned is forearmed!!
On the official site of Microsoft you can download the Windows 10 Insider Preview ISO-file. But befor that you have to first sign up for the Windows 10 Insider Program. After you downloaded the ISO-file of Windows 10 Insider Preview. Place it on a USB stick or DVD so you can run the setup.exe from there. But safety first, after installing Windows 10 you can not go back to your previous version. The recovery partition that was previously used by Windows 7 or Windows 8 will not work any more, everything on it will be deleted. The only thing you can do is use the original Windows-install-DVD supplied with your computer. And that's where the shoe pinches, most computers running Windows 7 or 8 do not have such a DVD. Everything is on the recovery partition, so you first need to burn the whole recovery partition on DVD's. This can usually with software that was installed on the computer. These DVDs are usually made just after purchasing the computer, but I know from experience that almost nobody does this. If you decide after several years to still make this DVDs, than you need a lot more DVD's to make a reinstall DVD. Also very important to know is that for the installation of Windows 10 you certainly need to backup all your files to an external hard drive or USB Stick. Otherwise it may happen that the files are simply deleted during the installation of the new Windows.

Download Windows 10 Insider Preview

Disadvantages after installing Windows 10
After Windows 10 is installed on your PC it can that there are plenty of hardware does not work anymore. For example, the sound or the WiFi does not work anymore because there are no drivers available for this hardware. When the hardware will be supported is a guess. It reminds me to the switch from Windows XP to Windows Vista. If you did turn your XP computer to a Windows Vista computer than most drivers were not yet suitable for the Vista version, many drivers of devices where never upgegraded. With Windows 7, there were fewer problems. Here do I go again: a man warned is forearmed!!

Conclusion
If you can wait until the end of 2015 to upgrade your machine to Windows 10 than wait, to avoid problems with hardware that is not yet supported by Windows 10.

More about Windows 10 on the official website.

Slow Internet connection with Wi-Fi using Windows Vista operating system

Some Vista users has the problem that their wireless internet connection connect very late even 4 or 5 minutes after Windows Vista is booted.

There is a solution that can help connecting your Vista machine to the internet, trough the router, almost immediately after starting up your Vista computer.

1. Go to your 'Configuration Screen'
2. Open 'The Network Center'
3. Go to 'Change Adapter Settings'
4. Right click 'Wireless Adapter'
5. Click 'Settings'
6. Checkmark the 'IP/TCP V6' Off

Your done!

Chromium OS van Google, het snelste besturingssysteem ter wereld, beschikbaar eind 2010

Chromium OS Logo

Het Google-Team is hard aan het werken om zijn Chromium OS klaar te krijgen voor het einde van 2010. Het besturingssysteem genaamd 'Chromium' is gemaakt voor mini-laptops, maar zal ook werken op laptops en PC's. Voor GSM's en SmartPhone's was er al Android die ook op minilaptops wordt gedraaid. Met Google's Chromium OS kijgt het Android besturings- systeem er een geduchte concurent bij.

Het is speciaal gemaakt voor internet gebaseerde toepassingen die kunnen worden benaderd via het internet. Nadat u bent in-geloged, spring je bijna onmiddellijk in Google's Chrome internet browser.

Chromium zal enkel werken op SSD, Solid State Drive, zoals USB-Flash Disks en SD-kaarten. Er zal geen ondersteuning zijn voor harde schijven, voor zover we weten. Chromium zal zeer snel kunnen opstarten mede omdat Solid State Drives sneller zijn. In de toekomst zullen mini-laptops enkel nog beschikbaar zijn op SSD. De voordelen hiervan zijn: minder vermogen nodig en minder bewegende delen die kunnen breken. Google's Chromium OS zal dus sneller laden dan een Windows of Mac Besturingssyteem.

Zie hoe Google zijn OS snel en licht maakt

Chromium OS by Google, the fastest OS available on the end of 2010

Chromium OS Logo

Google is working hard to get their Chromium OS ready for the end of 2010. The Operating System called 'Chromium' is made for mini laptops but will also work on laptops and PC's. Some Minilaptops and SmartPhone's that are using the Android OS are now getting competition of Google's Chromium OS.

It's made for working with internet based applications that can be accessed through the internet. After you log in, you almost immediately jump in Google's Chrome internet browser.

Chromium will only work on SSD, Solid State Drives like USB-Flash Disks and SD-Cards, it will not support hard-disk drives, for so far we know. Chromium will boot very fast partly because Solid State Drives are faster. In the future mini-laptops will be only available on SSD. The advantages of this are: less power needed and less moving parts that can break.

Google also dropped unnecessary services. So it's loading faster. After 2 seconds you get a login splash screen, type in your Google account name and password and you're set off.

See how Google made it's OS fast and light

Microsoft Windows 8, a 128 bit platform! Is it going to be real or is it just a hype or a rumor?

The start screen in Windows 8

Windows 7 just arrived in 2010 and the workers of Microsoft are already busy making a better operating system. It will be known as Windows 8, what else did you expect?

128 bit?!
XP was known as a 32 bit operation system, Windows 7 made 64 bit the standard but Microsoft has plans to make the Windows 8 OS a 128 bit platform.
Here for, your computer has to have an 128 bit architecture to manage the data processes. The question is what for CPU it need to drive on. Will it be a single core 128 bit processor or do you need several 64 bit cores. No panic the 128 bit processor already exists.

What does it means in reality?
First you need more RAM Chips. And new software that is 128 bit compatible including Microsoft's own Office. Now a day there is no such a software available for the masses. Software companies has just made their software 64 bit compatible for Windows 7. Another investment for a 128 bit version of their software seems a little too far.

How to use Windows 8? The look and the feeling of Windows 8?
When you start your Windows 8 computer it starts very fast and you can log in with your Hotmail account. When logged in you get the start screen, not the usual screen with the Windows start screen and the task bar. Instead you get a screen with big icons that you can arrange. The big icons tell you a lot stuff like how the weather is, if you have new mails with additional information of who the mail is and the subject.

Where is my usual desktop?
On the start screen you can find the big icon 'Desktop'. By clicking it you get the normal desktop screen like you have in Windows 7.

When does Microsoft Windows 8 arrive?
According to some rumors it will be 2012 until we can expect a public beta version. The question is: will the hardware be good enough adapted to the needs of the new OS. Are do we have to reverse the question: will the new OS be ready in 2012? An ex-Microsoft employee said on a French blog: www.blog.ma-config.com that Windows 8 RTM will be released on Friday, July 1 in 2011. There are no release dates so far for Windows Server 2012 and Office 2012. We hope to test the beta version in 2010.


Presentation about the concept, look and feeling of the new Microsoft Windows 8 OS