Windows 10 launches this summer in 190 countries around the world (opens in new tab)

They haven't announced a month, and there may be good reasons for that. They may have a target goal in mind, but still want wiggle-room if unexpected issues come up, and 'summer' sounds a heck of a lot better than 'At some point in the months of x and y'

Luckily at least the start menu should be fixed before RTM, as far as I know.

You must have a lot of faith in Microsoft when you consider giving up your stable Windows7 in favor a dot zero release of an Operating System that in a lot of way still looks like Windows8. Unless I can see any kind of track record that it is indeed stable, all the cloud crap can be disabled and they actually put back Themes so I can get rid of everything "modern" or metro or whatever they call this nonsense, I am very happy sticking with 7 for at least the next 5 years.

Meh. I can.

Windows 8 works quite well on both of my touch capable laptops, my gaming rig, and old 4-5 year development machine.

With 8.1 the Start button is back, but pressing the Windows key on the keyboard and selecting one of the pinned applications, or typing for search, works perfectly.

It took a while for me to put aside my feeling that things had to stay how they were, but once I did (touch capable device helped) I liked it. A lot.

I hope 10 refines things further. With the cost of touch capable Windows machines so low, the installed OS needs to work.

Edit: and if they can improve startup times even further with 10? Wow. Windows 8 was already faster than 7 on the same machines, even older machines and on non-SSD drives.

Don't get your hopes up, by all accounts 'Windows 10' on the Pi 2 is a special version just for running GUI-less embedded applications. Look at what they have already for the Galileo/Edison (C++ only apps, no GUI) and extrapolate a little bit from there.

The terrible media circus that said Windows 8/10 would run on a Raspberry Pi forgot to mention that it would be the embedded editions of Windows, specifically designed to run IoT-type apps. Not the desktop version.