Will Windows 10 be awesome?

phalen said:
any word on when 7/8 users can upgrade to 10? i heard we have 1 year to upgrade for free, thereafter you buy it as normal.
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According to the conference some days ago, we're looking at some time in the middle of the year or later, IIRC.
 
You can't compare current builds to final. I run the current build on virtual and it is quite nice.

Laptop didn't have any driver issues but I know there are many issues with gfx / sound drivers currently.
 
TBlaar said:
So, I wonder if my "acquired" Windows 7 will also get a free upgrade :D
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Glad I upgraded from my acquired Win7 to Win8(that seemed to work) when they had that promotion to get Win8 for R350, so now I don't have to wonder :D

phalen said:
i'm just worried it will be another vista monster.

so far i'm not impressed with my brothers win10 - he's running on his pc. but since he has he has had hardware problems - strange noises, pc just crashing, force installing updates and constantly rebooting.
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Also, what Nimatek said. They are busy with so much updates and fixes still.
 
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phalen said:
i'm just worried it will be another vista monster.

so far i'm not impressed with my brothers win10 - he's running on his pc. but since he has he has had hardware problems - strange noises, pc just crashing, force installing updates and constantly rebooting.
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Running it since the 1st technical build and still not a single crash, on 3 PC's 2 Laptops. (Update rates can be set under PC settings on how fast you wanna do it)

Either your brother should stop surfing porn or check his hardware cause something is a miss.
 
i just hope they finally kill of the god-awful METRO nonsense. thats the reason why i didn't want to touch Win 8
 
Windows 10 will be available as an automatic update from Windows Update

In a media event Microsoft unveiled that their latest build of Windows 10 will make updating from older operating systems much easier than it has ever been before.

Windows 7 and 8 users will be able to update to Windows 10 directly through Windows Update, negating the need for us to burn a DVD or making a USB boot drive to then fiddle about with the Bios. It is great to see Microsoft make the upgrade process so easy now, especially given how it will be a free upgrade for Windows 7 and 8 users for the first year
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They're really pushing it, aren't they? I still hope they give us the option of a clean install if we choose to use their free upgrade. It will be annoying if I have to install Win7 or 8 before 'upgrading' to 10.
 
Hiro said:
i just hope they finally kill of the god-awful METRO nonsense. thats the reason why i didn't want to touch Win 8
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Embrace the future.
Move with the times or get left behind.
Survival of the fittest GUI.

Or you can do what I did and not use it.
 
At least in 10 metro is incorporated into the desktop. Not forced as replacement. (not that it isn't easy to bypass metro anyway ;) )

I do have my reservations about the Windows update thing though, the store update from 8 to 8.1 was a disaster !
Spent MONTHS trying to get it to load on my laptop, however my pc updated in one night. Just sucks for us IT professionals who have to update multiple machines :/

3.4gb download per pc is silly.
 
Nimatek said:
Just sucks for us IT professionals who have to update multiple machines :/
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I already have a WSUS server set up, so it might actually make our jobs easier. I won't upgrade until SP1, or the free year is about to run out. Haven't looked into how it will work with our licensing yet though.
 
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