Windows 10 Drop
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IanAvery-Leaf
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seems like its everything windows 8 shoulda been, no real reason to stay on win 7 if they're giving it away for free IMO. I've been wanting to bootcamp my mac for a while now for gaming so it looks like nows the time
dyyylan
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They said that there is not going to be a subscription. What they *did* say is that it will be service-based (which I guess might be confusing). Basically that just means that there won't be service packs every year or so, they will just be rolling smaller updates out on a much more frequent basis. For example if they want to update one of the core apps, they will now just push an update rather than waiting for some arbitrary milestone to release a service pack.
Itll be free for the first year if you have Windows 7 or 8(.1), you should be able to just go into windows update and it will ask if you want to upgrade. It only takes 30-60 minutes depending on your internet speed, much smoother than previous updates (I usually recommended doing clean installs).
I've been using the insider preivew for the last few months, it's very stable at this point and it's pretty nice overall. I have to use a mac for work but have windows on my gaming PC. It's basically the same as 8, just with a normal start menu. And all the "modern" apps can run in a window now instead of taking up the whole screen. Pretty nice improvement for the 99.99% of people who don't use their computer as a tablet.
Itll be free for the first year if you have Windows 7 or 8(.1), you should be able to just go into windows update and it will ask if you want to upgrade. It only takes 30-60 minutes depending on your internet speed, much smoother than previous updates (I usually recommended doing clean installs).
I've been using the insider preivew for the last few months, it's very stable at this point and it's pretty nice overall. I have to use a mac for work but have windows on my gaming PC. It's basically the same as 8, just with a normal start menu. And all the "modern" apps can run in a window now instead of taking up the whole screen. Pretty nice improvement for the 99.99% of people who don't use their computer as a tablet.
Jaggy_Snake
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Direct link to Windows 10 download:http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10
Lé.Skiing
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Something to take a look at with regards to a new security glitch built in as a security feature. It shares your Wi-Fi password with everyone on your contact list automatically in skype, and outlook.
check out the link here: http://www.consumeraffairs.com/news/windows-10-automatically-grants-home-wi-fi-network-access-to-your-outlook-and-skype-contacts-072915.html
I may not have explained that right so look at the link. I think there's a way you can turn it off too. I'll probably be checking out windows 10 tonight.
check out the link here: http://www.consumeraffairs.com/news/windows-10-automatically-grants-home-wi-fi-network-access-to-your-outlook-and-skype-contacts-072915.html
I may not have explained that right so look at the link. I think there's a way you can turn it off too. I'll probably be checking out windows 10 tonight.
yungsteeze
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probably a stupid question, but did i miss windows 9 or something? lol. also probably gonna get it.
AKhoodrat
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topic:byubound said:
if you want a start menu on windows 8 just go here: https://ninite.com/
and download "classic start" under utilities
theBearJew
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13470464:Lé.Skiing said:
I think they just wanted to get as far away from 8 as possible, so they made that shit up to be like TEN! Double Digits!
howlongcanausern
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13470418:VinnieF said:
no
13470033:SKI.ING said:
Do you really need to update it though?
Just curious. Windows 8 is the suck.
But Im not going to pay for shit so don't want to upgrade if it's not worth it
Yaraelpoof.png
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13469466:cornholio said:
be carefull. windows 10 your mouse wont work but watch a video how to fix it first. You can fix it without a mouse but will want to have an instructional video on your phone first
*DUMBCAN*
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13491701:theabortionator said:
He means update as in to from 7 or 8 to 10.
My brothers been running win10, switched back to 8.1 because it was annoying him so much.
- can't postpone system updates more than 4 hours, even if you do postpone them it restarts your computer anyway
- updates downloaded and installed automatically through p2p, opens security holes. P2p is only trustworthy if you can checksum verify the download before you open it, you can't do this here.
- everything you do gets sent to Microsoft, like typing data, search history, apps you use etc etc.
- yet to find a way to fully disable fast boot. Basically when you turn win10 off it hibernates rather than powers off, which means it stores some of the existing system state in RAM. Faster boots, but much harder to get into bios and if you boot into another OS all that data in RAM gets lost.
these are the things that stand out to me but there are more. he thinks it corrupted half his hard drive, but I feel that that was probably his fault.
im sticking with 8.1, I only use windows for occasional gaming (linux master race) and the start menu never bothered me anyway. I never really got all the shit it gets, some bits are annoying but it's stable and doesn't spy on you...
13491826:*DUMBCAN* said:
Lame