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There are good things to say about it. Personally I don't think it's too bad except for the privacy issues. I'll run through a few thoughts here:
Good:
- Virtual desktop support FINALLY!
- Dragging windows to the desktop edge intelligently brings up a list of all other windows to maximise on the opposite edge. This is a huge productivity boost for me.
- Integration with windows account makes backing up encryption keys and the like very good.
- Resource usage is excellent. Windows 10 feels snappier and seems to run a bit better than Windows 7. I would put this down to placebo if it weren't also reflected in some synthetic benchmarks.
- Stability has been fine.
- Interface is better than Windows 8 in all regards, and far better than windows 7 when using a touch screen.
- Onscreen keyboard, handwriting recognition, voice recognition are all much better.
- There's a notification system which tracks persistent notifications. This is good as there's an indication of when something happened so if you miss the little pop-up bubble it's no longer the end of the world.
- The file copy dialogue is excellent in my opinion, and no longer a cluttered mess when doing multiple operations.
A few bad things which haven't been mentioned in other threads:
- I'll skip the whole forced windows updates, and privacy issues, they're detailed in the other threads.
- The control panel replacement is still quite poor and doesn't include all the features. Worse still they've removed a link to the control panel so the only way I've figured out how to start it is to type "Control Panel" into the search.
- A lot of the settings and control for the computer is really dumbbed down which makes it hard to do some more technical things like setup a VPN.
- A personal gripe is that the brightness control now works in steps of 25% which isn't fine enough for my liking. Windows 8 had a slider.
- The side bar has a notification section, this is good. The bad part is the notifications aren't obvious in their nature. Some require actions (do virus scan, you have an email, etc), some were past events that are now irrelevant (choose what happens when you plugin your camera, oh you already did). I'm hoping they fine tune this.
- The integration with the Microsoft account can get a bit messy. I have found that to sign in on a local account is fine, but then when you sign in with a microsoft account it wants to send you a pin code with an sms. In the process the email app (not outlook itself) got its account information screwed up.
- The default email program is called Outlook (not to be confused with Outlook installed with the office suite, they are different).
- The default note taking program is called OneNote (not to be confused with Onenote installed with the office suite, they are also different).
- I have so far found no use for the start menu tiles. This may be a personal taste thing.
- Cortana the much lauded feature of Windows 10 doesn't work in Australia.
- A tablet issue is sometimes Windows gets confused as to the state of the keyboard and doesn't show up the onscreen keyboard when I need it. This sucks when it happens at the login screen and thus requires a reboot.
- Speaking of tablet mode. ... don't. We don't speak of it either. It's useless. Just pretend the button doesn't exist. The so called "continuum feature" ended up being a useless non-starter for me and in desktop mode my tablet ended up being far more useful.
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