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RE: Windows 10 to be free upgrade for Windows 7 and 8.1
February 1, 2015 at 2:22 am
Pfft, I'll be getting it for free from DreamSpark anyway:
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And if not, I can see three unused Windows licenses I can upgrade to v10 right there!
If I ever want Windows v10 that is...
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The WIN/Gallup End of Year Survey 2013 found the US was perceived to be the greatest threat to world peace by a huge margin, with 24% of respondents fearful of the US followed by: 8% for Pakistan, and 6% for China. This was followed by 5% each for: Afghanistan, Iran, Israel, North Korea. -LINK
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RE: Windows 10 to be free upgrade for Windows 7 and 8.1
February 1, 2015 at 3:22 am
Daniel, you may want to cover your private info in there...
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RE: Windows 10 to be free upgrade for Windows 7 and 8.1
February 1, 2015 at 3:34 am
pfft. u want to spam my uni email go ahead, lol. 
For Religion & Health see:[/b][/size] Williams & Sternthal. (2007). Spirituality, religion and health: Evidence and research directions. Med. J. Aust., 186(10), S47-S50. -LINK
The WIN/Gallup End of Year Survey 2013 found the US was perceived to be the greatest threat to world peace by a huge margin, with 24% of respondents fearful of the US followed by: 8% for Pakistan, and 6% for China. This was followed by 5% each for: Afghanistan, Iran, Israel, North Korea. -LINK
"That's disgusting. There were clean athletes out there that have had their whole careers ruined by people like Lance Armstrong who just bended thoughts to fit their circumstances. He didn't look up cheating because he wanted to stop, he wanted to justify what he was doing and to keep that continuing on." - Nicole Cooke
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RE: Windows 10 to be free upgrade for Windows 7 and 8.1
February 1, 2015 at 9:16 am
I'll upgrade a netbook. If that's satisfactory I'll upgrade an four year old laptop. If that's satisfactory I'll upgrade the wife's laptop. If she doesn't kill me I'll upgrade my Gateway beastie.
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RE: Windows 10 to be free upgrade for Windows 7 and 8.1
February 2, 2015 at 6:25 am
Windows 10 will be a free upgrade for most editions of Windows 7, 8 and 8.1, but not for Enterprise customers. This doesn't really surprise me given the fact that enterprise editions are a volume licensing option to larger companies and are sold at a much lower per-unit cost than other editions of Windows. I don't see it as Microsoft trying to milk the cash-cow; after all offering a free upgrade from their "legacy products" is an unprecedented step.
I think Microsoft is keen to avoid the mistakes they made with Windows XP. When XP was released it didn't really support USB devices, it didn't support a lot of other hardware that has changed since 2001, and nor did it support x64 architecture. In fact, Windows XP Professional x64 was released 4 and a half years after the original in 2005.
Windows XP was very widely criticised on release, with most people claiming that Windows 2k was better. XP though was very very successful in what it was designed to do: bring consumer and business customers onto the same platform. Extended support for Windows 2k ended in 2010, whereas XP ended in 2014 since it was pushed out further by Microsoft since a large consumer base were still using it. And the truth is that Windows Vista wasn't really a great update to XP - in fact many older systems would run slower on Vista than XP. Not so much the case with Windows 7 which was in most respects a huge improvement over both Vista and XP.
So Microsoft should be, as I mentioned, keen to avoid this issue with Windows 7. If Windows 10 is an actual improvement for people running Windows 7, 8 and 8.1 then it will mean they can end support for those products sooner, and I imagine the cost savings will more than make-up for the loss of sales given that consumers rarely choose to purchase a new OS to upgrade their older systems.
For Religion & Health see:[/b][/size] Williams & Sternthal. (2007). Spirituality, religion and health: Evidence and research directions. Med. J. Aust., 186(10), S47-S50. -LINK
The WIN/Gallup End of Year Survey 2013 found the US was perceived to be the greatest threat to world peace by a huge margin, with 24% of respondents fearful of the US followed by: 8% for Pakistan, and 6% for China. This was followed by 5% each for: Afghanistan, Iran, Israel, North Korea. -LINK
"That's disgusting. There were clean athletes out there that have had their whole careers ruined by people like Lance Armstrong who just bended thoughts to fit their circumstances. He didn't look up cheating because he wanted to stop, he wanted to justify what he was doing and to keep that continuing on." - Nicole Cooke
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RE: Windows 10 to be free upgrade for Windows 7 and 8.1
February 2, 2015 at 9:09 am
Windows 2000 is probably the closest a Microsoft OS comes to being "beloved" for me, because it took the best parts from Windows 9x and the best parts from Windows NT and got rid of a heck of a lot of the worst of both. It was like hey, twenty or so years later and you fuckers finally got it right! I was worried when XP first came out and it took a long time for me to start using it, but it turned out to be a good OS... it lasted the longest of their graphical OSes, didn't it?
I'm cautiously optimistic about Windows 10. But to be honest I don't intend to be an IT tech as a career after this summer, so my only real concern would be using it, not supporting it. That's a very different scenario for me because the geek in me likes futzing around with this stuff, and I'm willing to deal with the changes and adjustments. The only headaches Windows 10 will cause me are my own, and I can handle those without breaking a sweat.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
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RE: Windows 10 to be free upgrade for Windows 7 and 8.1
February 2, 2015 at 10:54 am
(February 1, 2015 at 3:22 am)pocaracas Wrote: Daniel, you may want to cover your private info in there...
Why? He might just get hired by microsoft. The poor chap.
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RE: Windows 10 to be free upgrade for Windows 7 and 8.1
February 2, 2015 at 10:57 am
I'm actually pretty happy with Windows 8.1. Though if DirectX 12 is as good as rumored then I'm game to switch.
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RE: Windows 10 to be free upgrade for Windows 7 and 8.1
February 2, 2015 at 10:59 am
AHAHAHAHHAHA DX!
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RE: Windows 10 to be free upgrade for Windows 7 and 8.1
February 2, 2015 at 11:04 am
(February 2, 2015 at 10:59 am)LastPoet Wrote: AHAHAHAHHAHA DX!
Hey.. not my fault nothing can be bothered to untilise my 770 and instead decided to have all its fun with my CPU I wouldn't need it.
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