Windows 8 suffered from the "we know what's best for you and we don't care what you want" mentality, otherwise known as hubris. With Windows 10, I feel like MS listened to customer demands - for example, bringing back the start menu button, and shrinking the Windows 8 start screen down to a less annoying, and user-friendly size, cause let's face it, everything popping up full screen is frustrating, especially when it's not what you're used to - and delivered, at least in the tech preview, a snappy, intuitive, just plain nice to use OS.

ConEmu is a great tool. It can take PuTTY to a new level, making it feel a lot better integrated with the desktop.

@scottalanmiller said:

I don't know the spoon reference.

The Matrix...really?!

@MattSpeller said:

@scottalanmiller For sure, but I thought there was one to be integrated by MS... shrug

I think so, but sadly they aren't leading even in their own space here.

@Reid-Cooper said:

http://www.computerworlduk.com/blogs/open-enterprise/windows-10-3595262/

A bit snarky, but some good points too.

<snark> Best comment ever, "What horsemanure. You've got to be a moron to base your enterprise business on open source software." </snark>

Wish I could be helpful I haven't had a need to do this since... 2010? And that was for college.

I do remember that everyone was struggling with Ubuntu to get it connected to AD but CentOS (which is what I was using at the time) worked flawlessly.

@david.wiese said:

i setup plex on my win7 pc without any issues. Port forwarding for outside access is setup as well. It took me all of 30 minutes to install and configure so i could watch on any device inside my network. I'm not sure what issues you had however.

In all fairness, it may have been the VM I was using. I just rebuilt a new version of it, as it had originally come from my first and only ever P2V. It never seemed stable, but the new VM is much more so.

That's kinda how I feel. It actually feels overpriced. I can get a better Chromebook for less money.

@scottalanmiller said:

NTG uses 7zip, PuTTY, Notepad++, VirtualBox too.

@scottalanmiller , you should check out KiTTY. Built from PuTTY but way nicer!

@Reid-Cooper said:

The market for Linux just keeps growing and growing. One of the healthiest IT job markets today.

Yes, I see just a ridiculous amount of Linux work out there in all sectors.

@ambarishrh Super jealous of your funding there! If it were my $$$$ I'd get myself a nice Cleo or Sager or other custom setup. You can get just an insane machine for that money. http://www.xoticpc.com/

@thanksaj said:

I can see why this was done.

Exactly. I totally see why it is done. You just wrote out "confusion" in a really lengthy way. I never said that I didn't understand, my point was that I did understand and I was stating why.

@nadnerB said:

I wonder how many times this has already been exploited?

We'll never know. Possibly a lot.

@Carnival-Boy said:

I think I'm going to stick with 7 and then jump straight to 10 as I expect users will find the transition from 7 to 10 easier than 7 to 8.1. Plus, it means I'll only have two OSs to support (7 and 10) rather than three (7, 8.1, 10).

At this point definitely a good plan. Windows 10 is not far away and looks like it is going to be a really good release.

My understanding was that just as many of the vulnerabilities came from the fact that Microsoft released their source to China in order to get into their market in the first place. I forget where I heard that but I could be wrong.

@scottalanmiller said:

So this interesting. We have our first desktop added into InTune that is running Windows 10 Tech Preview. In InTune it does not display as "Windows 10" as I would have expected. Instead it displays as "Windows 6.4" which is slightly confusing as the kernel is "NT 6.4" and the name is "Windows 10." Blending the two is odd.

Just found it interesting.

I've seen this behavior before - I think it was WSUS - windows 8(.1) was reported by something than it's normal name.

Sure, but it appears that Chocolatey is now installing applications mostly into their original location (Program Files). That location can't be messed with by anyone buy local admins.