Yesterday, Microsoft announced the newest version of Windows. Today, the company is allowing adventurous users (like yourself) to try it out for free. Here's how.
Before You Install
There are a couple warnings you should be aware of before you do anything:
- Back up your data first! Not that you had any excuse not to anyway, but be sure to perform a backup on your data before you upgrade if you have anything you can't recover. Or even if you don't. Just do a backup.
- You won't be able to use your recovery partition to downgrade. If you have a recovery partition on your system, it will no longer be able to restore your computer to the version of Windows you had before.
- You'll need external recovery media to undo the upgrade. As you might expect since you don't have a recovery partition, you'll need a disc or USB drive with Windows 8 (or older) on it to get back to the way things were if you don't like or can't use Windows 10.
As Microsoft mentions multiple times, this is pre-release
software and is expected to be very buggy and probably crash-prone.
Furthermore, they can collect a lot of data—including text you type or the kinds of files you open—to improve the product. It's not advisable that you install this on your work machine or anything you need daily or sensitive use out of.
We'll show you how to install it on a spare PC, or—if you don't have
one—in VirtualBox. If you aren't sure whether you want to install it, our video walkthrough can give you a brief glimpse into what it looks and feels like.
Here's What Windows 10 Looks and Feels Like
What You'll Need
This time around, Microsoft has created the Windows Insider Program
to allow users to test out the new hotness. You'll need to agree to a
special terms and condition, which likely mostly consists of "don't
blame us if this breaks your stuff" in addition to the usual jargon. In
addition to downloading the update, the Insider Program will be how you
provide feedback and get help from the community.
Once you're enrolled in the program, here's what you'll need:
- A DVD or USB drive large enough to hold a 4GB ISO file.
- One of the Windows 10 ISO files
- A spare computer to install it on (Microsoft does not recommend using your daily driver), or VirtualBox installed on your main machine.
As soon as you're enrolled in the Insider Program, you'll be directed
to download one of several ISO files. Currently, there are four
languages supported (English, English UK, Chinese Simplified, and
Portugese Brazil), in both 32- and 64-bit configurations. Grab the
version that matches your needs and let the download do its thing.
Though you may want to grab a snack, as the downloads range from 3-4GB,
depending.
Option One: Install the Windows Technical Preview on Your PC
once you have everything you need, follow these steps:
- Copy the ISO to a disk or USB drive. You can use a tool like ImgBurn to unzip the contents, though if you're installing on a device that's already running Windows, the OS should be able to mount the ISO itself.
- Insert the disk or USB drive in the computer that you want to install Windows 10 on.
- If you have an older copy of Windows installed on that machine, start it up and double-click setup.exe from the installation media. If not, you can boot up your PC from the installation disc to start installation.
- Follow the wizard to install Windows on your machine.
Microsoft's wizard will walk you through the rest of the installation
process. If you want to do a clean install, make sure you choose to
"Keep Nothing" during the wizard.
Option Two: Install the Windows Technical Preview in VirtualBox
- Download and install the latest version of VirtualBox, and star t it up.
- Click the "New" button in the main window to create a new virtual machine.
- Give your operating system a name (like "Windows 10 Technical Preview") and choose Windows 8.1 from the list (since VirtualBox doesn't have a Windows 10 option yet).
- Follow the VirtualBox wizard to set up your virtual machine. You can read more about VirtualBox's settings here, but the default settings should be fine.
- When it finishes, you should see your new machine in the left-hand sidebar. Click on it and hit the Settings button along the top of the VirtualBox window.
- Head to Storage in the left sidebar, and next to "Controller: IDE", click the Add CD button.
- Select "Choose Disk" and navigate to your downloaded Windows 10 ISO.
- Click OK.
- Press Start to start up your new virtual machine and go through the Windows 10 installation process
Here are 10 things you need to know about Windows 10:
1. Why Windows 10?
The natural name would have been Windows 9, but Microsoft is eager to suggest a break with the past. “We’re not building an incremental product,” said Terry Myerson, head of Microsoft’s Operating Systems Group.Microsoft considered the name “Windows One,” he said, to match products like OneNote and OneDrive and its “One Microsoft” business strategy. But he noted the name was snagged a long time ago, by a young Bill Gates.
Perhaps Microsoft didn’t like the idea of being numerically one step behind Apple’s OS X. Whatever the reason, Windows 10 it will be.
“When you see the product in its fullness, I think you’ll agree it’s an appropriate name for the breadth of the product family that’s coming,” Myerson said.
2. What devices will it run on?
All of them. Microsoft demonstrated only the desktop version Tuesday, but Windows 10 will be for tablets, smartphones and embedded products, too.3. Is there a start menu?
There is, and it tries to combine the familiarity of Windows 7 with the modern interface of Windows 8. That means the menu is split: On the left, apps are displayed in the familiar Windows 7 style, while on the right are more colorful “live tiles” that open the modern, Windows 8-style apps.The start menu is customizable, so you can resize the tiles and move them around, and make the start menu tall and thin or long and flat.
4. Is there a Command Prompt?
You’re kidding, right? Well, actually there is. Microsoft showed how it now supports shortcuts like CTRL+C and CTRL+V so you can paste in a directory listing from another app, for instance. Belfiore called it a “niche, geeky feature” but said he wanted to show the diverse range of users the OS is trying to support.5. What car does it resemble?
Microsoft came up with a car analogy. It wants you to think of Windows 10 as a Tesla.“Yesterday, they were driving a first-gen Prius, and when they got Windows 10 they didn’t have to learn to drive something new, but it was as if we got them a Tesla,” Myerson said.“It will run on the broadest types of devices ever, from the smallest ‘Internet of things’ device to enterprise data centers worldwide,” Myerson said. “Some of these devices have 4-inch screens, and some will have 80-inch screens. And some don’t have any screen at all.”
6. Will I still toggle between two distinct app environments?
Apparently not. In Windows 8, when you launch a modern-style app, it takes you into that modern UI, and when you launch a Win32-style app, it launches to the traditional desktop environment.In Windows 10, “we don’t want that duality,” said Joe Belfiore, a corporate vice president with the OS group. “We want users on PCs with mice and keyboards to have their familiar desktop UI—a task bar and a start menu. And regardless of how an app was written or distributed to your machine, it works the way you expect.”
7. So how does it look now?
If you launched one of the new-style apps in Windows 8, it filled the whole screen and there weren’t many options to resize it. With Windows 10, the familiar “windows” metaphor is back; you’ll be able to resize the new-style apps and drag them around the screen like an old Win32 app. Conversely, if you’re using an older Win32-style app, it will be able to “snap into place” and fill all the available screen space just like the modern apps.8. What else is new?
Some users have been confused by the Windows 8 interface and can’t figure out what’s open on their screen or how to get back to an app. Windows 10 has a feature like OS X’s Mission Control that lets you zoom out and see everything that’s open on a PC, then select any app to enter it.You can also have multiple desktop configurations open and switch between them. So if you have two apps on the screen for a particular task, sized just how you want them, and then you change to some other apps, you’ll be able to get back to those first apps easily without having to resize them again. You can navigate through several of these desktop displays at the bottom of the screen.
9. Will it still be touch-enabled?
Yes. “We’re not giving up on touch,” Belfiore said. That means you’ll still be able to use touch to do things like scroll and pinch-to-zoom on laptops and desktops.There’s also a new feature, tentatively called “continuum,” for people using two-in-one PCs. When you detach the keyboard from a Windows 10 hybrid, it will ask if you want to go into tablet mode. If you say yes, the UI changes to better match a tablet. The app expands to full screen, for instance, and the start menu switches into a larger-icon mode.
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