Are you going to try out the Windows 10 Technical Preview?

I'm thinking about it, though also think some of the features being added were things that should've been in win 8 to begin with(like snapping more than 2 apps). Wonder if they'll do a cheap upgrade for win 10 when it's finally released. I have heard rumors that it could possibly be a free upgrade for Win 8 users.

Luckily I'm in IT, so I've got some hardware to throw at this thing. I definitely want to check it out and see exactly what it can do. :) Not gonna even attempt gaming on an unfinished OS. I mean, there's SOOOO much that could be weird with drivers, and it's not going to be supported by anyone. But still, exciting to have a new OS coming soon-ish.

No, but it has always been my policy to never take these kinds of upgrades to my main machine (why risk taking a perfectly functional gaming machine offline for a preview that even if it does install cleanly will in most likely will not support an upgrade?).

Multiple workspace has been around forever, even on Windows but for whatever reason was never officially supported by Microsoft. Although multi-monitor support is pretty good these days for games, I have never come across a game that supports multiple workspace because it is meaningless in that context.

ps. Microsoft has always let previews out for developers. They did it for Windows 8 and got a lot of feedback in official channels and unofficial channels that there were problems, serious issues with conveyance and flow, and people would not like it...where Microsoft took all that feedback under advisement and release Windows 8 more or less exactly what was shown in release candidates.

No windows 9? So are they skipping the good ones?

@extomar: Dualboot.

Unless it fits on a USB drive, no thanks.

I'm in the IT field as well. That's probably why I'm so excited to try it out. Just finished downloading the Win10x64 Technical Preview ISO and have my product key. Really excited to test it out when I get out of work today. Will give feedback here when I can.

You're right about the possible driver issues with an early build like this. Hopefully drivers aren't an issue. The one that concerns me the most is video drivers.

Running it in a virtual machine. Seems like a new version of windows 8 all right.

Messing about making sure some software runs well on it under virtualbox, vmware, kvm and hyper-v on various hardware. So far it seems ok I guess, more of the same really. I won't use the start menu just like I didn't use the W8 start screen or the W7 start menu. Haven't gotten around to looking at powershell yet, hopefully they add some cool stuff there.