Is anyone planning to jump on this upgrade? Hey Cortana! Microsoft Windows 10: Release Date, Features and More
Supposed to be good. Perhaps 10 will be to 8 what 7 was to Vista. I hate Win8; it practically bricked a new Toshiba laptop that came with it installed. I'm hoping an upgrade to Win10 will fix that.
Agreed. I am still using Windows 7 on my laptop. My wife has Windows 8 on her laptop and using it is pretty rough.
I've watched people trying to use 8. Not for me! 7 is OK but they took out some things I liked. 7 has no command-line editor, something I've always used, from DOS days to XP. Also, some of my very old (3.1) Windows programs still work fine on XP but not on 7. At home, I use XP and various Linux distros. I have also recently revived a 1988 Sharp laptop - DR-DOS 3.41 and 2 floppy-drives (720K). I have any amount of software for it and a couple of months ago bought some never-opened boxes of 720K floppies in the Salvation Army for $1 per box (10). Just for kicks, I am running the world's oldest PC spreadsheet, VisiCalc (1981) and other ancient programs on the XP machine - under VDos, a relatively new (free) program which enables full-screen (1366x768 in my case) display of DOS programs, in perfect aspect ratio with clear crisp fonts - as we never saw them on our old CRT monitors! J.
Ditto - except I switched to Apple (macbook pro) after the Vista debacle. I couldn't be more happy. I never have to worry about my laptop. It just works!
I've already upgraded to the Windows 10 preview and it's pretty nice. I didn't mind Windows 8 once they upgraded it to 8.1, though. I use Windows 7 at work, but it's starting to seem a bit dated. For most things, though, I used Xubuntu and the rest of the family uses Chromebooks, both of which are very reliable and easy to fix if something does go wrong.
I've used Linux for a long time with no regrets. But Windows 7 is also fine, 8.1 is much better than 8, and I'm willing to see about 10. I use keyboard shortcuts a great deal, though, and since those work differently on Macs (for no reason I can see), I find them unusable.
Let me ask you guys a few questions. I'm eligible for the free Windows 10 upgrade on both my PC and laptop when it's released on July 29. 1. Is this free upgrade the full Windows 10 OS? 2. Does this free upgrade allow one to use the full Windows 10 OS for a limited time and then one has to pay for the OS? Or is it free to use as though you indefinitely as if one bought the product at full price? 3. Would you go ahead and download Windows 10 and begin using it the day it's released, or wait a few months to give Microsoft time to work through some of the bugs?
Elsewhere in Off-Topics I started a thread on my favorite/new websites. One is called slashdot [http://slashdot.org/] It's a cs/sci/tech aggregator site. Here's the result of a search a search string on Windows 10. Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters
Unless your computer doesn't work properly the way it is, what reason is there not to wait a long, long time before upgrading?
It might be wise to let Windows 10 have a few updates before upgrading. As I recall, Microsoft finds and fixes a lot of bugs after a release. Windows 8 was terrible at first, but got quite a bit better over time and then made a big leap with Windows 8.1.
I have a mini-laptop that I don't use much. I'm thinking of downloading 10 on that ddevice and checking it out there. It seems lower risk.
Windows 10 is now running on over 14 million devices. Over 14 million devices now running Windows 10 - CNET