Friday, November 21, 2014

Windows 10 Technical Preview Fundamentals for IT Pros Jump Start

Unlike the previous Jump Starts I attended so far, this one has no demos whatsoever and posting Feedbacks in the Q&A section might be pointless. At the time, the new OS is still at the technical preview and that they mentioned the features that will be in the next build or something. In the meantime, there may be slides to go through.
Things like Wipe and Load, In-Place Upgrade, Provisioning, Enterprise Mode Site List, Enterprise Site Discovery, etc. are what I can describe about from the Jump Start.

  • Wipe and Load: It has been a traditional process regarding of whichever OS the computer still has and the OS you're installing to in the ways of deployment.
  • In-Place upgrade: This may be a risky way when combined with deployment and this combination is something I've never done as part of the online education of MVA. The Jump Start surely had mentioned that Windows 7, 8 and 8.1 may support In-Place upgrade to Windows 10. However, what's not supported is the move from standard BIOS to UEFI in which you have to use Wipe and Load method as the way UEFI works technically may be different.
  • Provisioning: Regardless of whatever computer model the company has, the computer can still get the same exact OS image and be connected to the same domain. It may be useful for the clients but most of the time, the company prefers having the number of copies of the same exact computer manufacturer and model for work that provisioning may be a rare case.
  • Enterprise Mode Site List: Enterprise Mode may be useful for compatibility purposes in which it can displays websites that are previously compatible with IE8 or any other version of IE and this one lists down the enterprise websites that are like that.
  • Enterprise Site Discovery: This one tries to search for enterprise sites through some connectivity for collection purposes. Speaking of collection thing, you should be warned that you're collecting data in which there may be concern for privacy or any other kind of security. Think tons of times before using this tool.
Other stuffs mentioned from this Jump Start were the technical overview, security, features and IE for Windows 10 but most of the topics may seem to be standard kinds of topics although there may be some improvements in this upcoming OS to the features already mentioned. As this is still a Technical Preview phase, expect some bugs and the improvements will be implemented in the next preview which is the Consumer Preview that will be coming out sometime next year. Again, like the Technical Preview, there may be the same security controversy in the Consumer Preview in which whatever you do will be keylogged and recorded by Microsoft for customer feedback detection and collection purposes so that they can use that purpose to improve Windows 10 even further. But the good news is that the final version WILL NOT HAVE this controversy! That will look like a reason to use Windows 10 once it is finalized. Other good reasons to come back to other OSes besides Windows 10 are that Unity 8 will take out the privacy violation controversy that you'll be able to use it in future Ubuntu OS versions in the future that come with it.
And they've better not screw this OS up like they already did with Windows 8. Even Windows 8.1 doesn't seem to help a lot in terms of improvements as if those improvements still target towards the tablet users and not the other types of consumers like the desktop and laptop users in which the classic elements are still missing in Windows 8.1. Hopefully, Windows 10 will have everything for all kinds of consumers.