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Windows 10 to be free upgrade for Windows 7 and 8.1
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RE: Windows 10 to be free upgrade for Windows 7 and 8.1
January 22, 2015 at 1:55 pm
Windows has experienced total existence failure. Please go fuck yourself.
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RE: Windows 10 to be free upgrade for Windows 7 and 8.1
January 22, 2015 at 1:59 pm
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RE: Windows 10 to be free upgrade for Windows 7 and 8.1
January 22, 2015 at 5:08 pm
MS, nothing you offer will entice me away from my beloved Linux Mint. Sorry!
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RE: Windows 10 to be free upgrade for Windows 7 and 8.1
January 22, 2015 at 5:35 pm
I'm still using XP even though I've got an upgrade to 7. It works. No fanboi stuff for me.
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RE: Windows 10 to be free upgrade for Windows 7 and 8.1
January 22, 2015 at 5:53 pm (This post was last modified: January 22, 2015 at 5:55 pm by Chas.)
(January 22, 2015 at 12:26 pm)vorlon13 Wrote: So, Windows 10 is free?

What's the catch? What could possibly be up Microsofts sleeve?





OH, FUCK!!!!! WE ARE ALL GOING TO BE FUCKING BETA TESTERS !!!!!!!


SHIT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Are you from around here? We've been MS beta testers for 30 years.
(January 22, 2015 at 5:35 pm)rasetsu Wrote: I'm still using XP even though I've got an upgrade to 7. It works. No fanboi stuff for me.

Skeptical though I was, 7 is XP perfected improved. Smile
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RE: Windows 10 to be free upgrade for Windows 7 and 8.1
January 22, 2015 at 7:28 pm
I have to agree. They finally got it more or less right with 7. Pity 8 was such a disaster.
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RE: Windows 10 to be free upgrade for Windows 7 and 8.1
January 22, 2015 at 10:00 pm
(January 22, 2015 at 7:28 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote: I have to agree. They finally got it more or less right with 7. Pity 8 was such a disaster.

I'd say I'm satisfied with 7, it's reasonably fast, doesn't crash, it's user friendly and does everything I need it to do. Not perfect, but it's pretty good
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RE: Windows 10 to be free upgrade for Windows 7 and 8.1
January 23, 2015 at 10:58 am (This post was last modified: January 23, 2015 at 10:59 am by LostLocke.)
(January 22, 2015 at 7:28 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote: I have to agree. They finally got it more or less right with 7. Pity 8 was such a disaster.
I hate to say it, but I'm one of those nut jobs who's satisfied with 8.
Granted, this was after some tweaking and modding to bypass the Metro screen entirely and get back a "real" start menu, but from a technical standpoint it runs fine.
Although, the last version I was running was Vista, so I might not be one to talk. Tongue Plus, I really do miss the Aero glass look of Vista/7. W8 just looks so... blah.. compared to that.
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RE: Windows 10 to be free upgrade for Windows 7 and 8.1
January 23, 2015 at 11:10 am
(January 23, 2015 at 10:58 am)LostLocke Wrote:
(January 22, 2015 at 7:28 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote: I have to agree. They finally got it more or less right with 7. Pity 8 was such a disaster.
I hate to say it, but I'm one of those nut jobs who's satisfied with 8.
Granted, this was after some tweaking and modding to bypass the Metro screen entirely and get back a "real" start menu, but from a technical standpoint it runs fine.
Although, the last version I was running was Vista, so I might not be one to talk. Tongue Plus, I really do miss the Aero glass look of Vista/7. W8 just looks so... blah.. compared to that.

8 is a fucking pain in the ass for admins.

But for end-users, once they bypass the idiocy of the touch-screen interface with Classic Shell (or a similar tweak) it's certainly tolerable. As long as you're using it on a stand-alone home PC instead of trying to integrate it into an existing office network, you'll be fine.
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RE: Windows 10 to be free upgrade for Windows 7 and 8.1
January 23, 2015 at 3:14 pm (This post was last modified: January 23, 2015 at 3:28 pm by Jaysyn.)
(January 22, 2015 at 9:24 am)Animated Earth Wrote: Free is great. I won't feel I'm being ripped-off again. Ever since XP 64-bit and Microsoft's refusal to placate me I have vowed never to buy another OS from Microshaft.
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However, XP 64 isn't eligible for the free upgrade.
(January 22, 2015 at 11:14 am)Davka Wrote: i wonder if 10 is going to be as much more of a resource-hog over 7 as 7 was over XP?

I'll get the free upgrade and play with it, but I'm not expecting to like it. MS has a long history of fixing what's not broken.

It's supposed to be lighter-weight than 8, which for all its faults was an improvement over Win7 in that department.
(January 22, 2015 at 12:01 pm)SteelCurtain Wrote: Buy a PS4.

Can't use (or create) game mods with a console. Very important to me.
(January 22, 2015 at 12:09 pm)Alex K Wrote: I haz dual boot. I use Linux for everything and windows for video streaming portals that insist on MS silverlight and similar nonsense.

Ditto. Dual-booting Mint & Win7. Almost never boot into Mint since the only programs I use on a regular basis that have a linux version are QGIS, Google Earth & Firefox.

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ArcGIS = nope
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(January 22, 2015 at 1:32 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote: From my perspective here, what really sucks is that they removed mainstream support for Windows 7 before 10 was released, leaving users with a choice to continue using an unsupported product, or switch to one that is widely considered to suck (Windows 8).

Dick move, Microsoft.

Not quite as bad as you've stated. Win7 is still getting security updates till 2020, just won't be getting any new features & I guess non-security related bug fixes.
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