Is available to insiders today. Features are:
 
Deeper color customization capabilities
Memory compression (in lieu of paging data to disk)
 
Any takers besides me? As always, try it out and report back!

My medication isn't rated for involvement in the insider program. You're a brave man.

lol. Valium. Lots and lots of Valium.
 
I had to go through the usual XLN wrong computer ID for Addictive Drums license dance but Sonar at first blush loads up a complex project and plays fine. There isn't a recording session on my plate for a bit but I'll report on that.
 
The memory compression feature works with paging. Normally when there are many apps demanding access to memory, the OS will write the content of suspended app's memory "pages" to disk and read the current app's memory pages in from disk. This "swap" creates a bottleneck because disk is very slow in CPU world. Memory compression works by simply running a compression (like zip) on the contents of the app's page, thereby freeing up memory for other active processes. Since compressing is a CPU and memory operation it can run potentially quite a lot faster than physical disk writes, so contention for memory is much reduced.
 
My system has 24 gig of ram so in the natural course of things I shouldn't hit the trigger for a swap.
 
 

I'm all in....been using it for a few days now.

So have I with no problems. I've even customized the color scheme.

kevinwal
 
Deeper color customization capabilities . . .
 
So have I with no problems. I've even customized the color scheme.

So, I am interested in the colour scheme/customization side of things, the only thing holding me back from jumping ship from Windows 7. Can you give a bit more info ? pics ? or point me to where I can find it ?

jih64

kevinwal
 
Deeper color customization capabilities . . .
 
So have I with no problems. I've even customized the color scheme.

So, I am interested in the colour scheme/customization side of things, the only thing holding me back from jumping ship from Windows 7. Can you give a bit more info ? pics ? or point me to where I can find it ?

Here ya go:
http://blogs.windows.com/bloggingwindows/2015/08/18/announcing-windows-10-insider-preview-build-10525/
 
It's toward the bottom of the article.

Thank you, looks and sounds like there will be more options/customizing in this area coming, I think that's a good thing

jih64
So, I am interested in the colour scheme/customization side of things, the only thing holding me back from jumping ship from Windows 7. Can you give a bit more info ? pics ? or point me to where I can find it ?

FYI if you are in to customizing the way Windows looks a ton, have a look at Stardock's products. WindowBlinds is their most well known one and lets you make the windows look however you wish. They've got a bunch of others to do various things. Most aren't updated for 10 yet, but they should be soon.

I haven't tried any of Stardock's products. Do they have useful and decent looking presets? I'm really not in to shredding on a theme. :)