Windows 10 to be shipped on USB flash drives

Windows 10 to be shipped on USB flash drives

Optical media is old news.

I was wondering who would be the first to ship software on a flash drive, I honestly didn't expect it to be Microsoft though.

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Originally Posted by Ike_009

I was wondering who would be the first to ship software on a flash drive, I honestly didn't expect it to be Microsoft though.

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I was looking forward to this for a very long time. Was hopeing it would have been GTA V but they gave us so many dvds :(

I have had my Win 7 on a flash for a long time and the install times are so much faster then the ye old DVD player.

GTA on a flash would have been awesome. But I figured porn would be the first to bite the bullet.

Actually Dell has been using USBs for OS recovery media last year already. Read-only so you can't delete/rename/edit files on it. Can't format it either. We tried "whistling:

The problem I find sometimes with old laptops which support Windows 10 or 8 easily even though they have Windows 7 you can't boot from USB in bios on some so you have to use a dvd.

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Originally Posted by Ike_009

I was wondering who would be the first to ship software on a flash drive, I honestly didn't expect it to be Microsoft though.

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It was autodesk.

About damn time. Haven't had an optical drive in my PC for like 5 years.

USB >>> SSD installations rock.

Ah this is pretty sweet :D

With the drastic drop in the price of USB drives over the past few years, im really not surprised by this...