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Apart from having to format my laptop to install correctly, and apart from slowing my laptop down by about 30%, apart from having hardly any programs that actually work correctly, and having the worst interface of any windows OS.... it works great

That's why its a "preview" - it's still under development.

Not really sure why people download things before they are at least at RC stage or even preferably at final if they can't grasp there will be issues.

I think it's a case of shouting "I've got it already"... there is at least 6 months worth of development (and then probably a further 12 - 18 months of development until all the bugs and issues are ironed out, providing MS have not backtracked by then), during which there will be many revisions and much refinement take place.

People do make me laugh, it has this wrong, it has that wrong, haha it's a dev build, I have lost count the amount of times TopUp TV dev builds have broken more things than they have fixed, have corrupted every existing recording on dev boxes, have even totally wiped out boxes on occasion. This is the reason we never released dev builds to the general public and never encouraged the public to use them, because they inherently run a high risk of breaking things, or at best, running shite.

If you are not comfortable with the idea of testing a development build, don't download it, simple as. I won't be bothering, because a. it's not worth my time to bother my arse and b. it's very rare Microsoft get anything right upon public release, nevermind a build currently in development. Since they're not paying me to test their software etc, I won't be working for free.