danachiraq said:
I agree that Win 10 is not entirely devoid of advantages; it's better than Win 8, which was pretty much a downgrade from Win 7.
1) Its the latest and greatest update of all the windows editions. Even critically acclaimed.
Critically acclaimed compared to what and by whom?
2) From gaming perspective, its got directx 12, which promises high frame rates with future games
Games are designed and written with certain platforms in mind. It's no surprise if MS improves its gaming capabilities in order to draw business away from competitors in that sector. Users who don't play resource-intensive games on Windows don't benefit from it being more gamer-friendly than its predecessors.
3) The UI has been redesigned so the users of windows 7 or earlier can be comfortable using it.
(^ typo corrected) Maybe closely enough for the comfort of some users. MS doesn't favor backward compatibility, and isn't shy about alienating users of its older systems. MS thinks it can rope them into paying for newer stuff, and it doesn't much care about their objections.
4) The metro/modern apps are redesigned to be comfortable using with mouse and keyboard
The bloatware that was designed to sell the product on touch screens is now also usable on other systems.
5) For windows phone users, better integration with the OS, like seeing the missed calls from mobile, sending text from mobile using windows 10 and lots more
Windows phone users are a small minority of Windows 10 users and of phone users.
6) Cortana, a virtual personal assistant has made her way to the OS, she can be very useful.
Cortana is intrusive, and like Edge, is treated preferentially when the user wants it removed from the taskbar.
7) General stability and performance has been greatly increased. Windows 7 users would feel like riding Ferrari
Often Ferrari vehicles have a power-to-weight ratio advantage over other vehicles against which they are tested. Some Win 10 systems, despite having some faster components, can run slower than some Win 7 systems, depending on the workload.
8) With windows store, users can access lots of modern/mobile apps like twitter, fb, etc
That just more of MS trying to get its fingers into every pie it can smell.
9) With windows 10, most of the drivers will automatically updated by the OS itself, gone are the days when we used to search drivers of the hardware manually. But still some drivers have to be updated manually
Device drivers should be, and usually are, supplied by the hardware manufacturers. Most modern mature Linux systems can immediately recognize, and promptly install drivers for, any hardware configuration they encounter, and failing that, can, automatically, find and download them from the net, and install them.
10) New browser called Microsoft Edge is introduced
That's MS trying to push its new browser on users, now that IE has for decades failed miserably compared to its competitors, despite having 'undocumented' OS 'fast paths' available .
11) Virtual desktops is introduced
Introduced? Belatedly --
VirtuaWin is open source (GNU license), leaner, and has more functionality, and it's been around since Win ME.
That's pretty minor.
13) I found significant improvement in gaming, especially the frame rates have improved.
Anecdotal. Better compared to what? Win 7 on an older system?
None of your listed 'advantages', nor all of them, nor those along with others you didn't list, excuses the high-handed elimination of features and functionality that users of prior versions relied upon, or the preferential treatment of the bundled bloatware, or the attempted denial of simple options, such as obscuring prevention of auto-update.
Despite all that, I think that once it's customized appropriately, Win 10 can be a not-too-hateworthy OS for everyday use.
Even so, I still think users are right to object to its annoyances.
What do you see in Task Manager. . . Suspended, I hope ?
