Anyone who is really familiar with Windows 10 should be able to answer this simple question;
I am very happy with Windows 8.1. Why should I upgrade to 10?
I’m still running Windows 3.1 and it’s fine.
I don’t know why they say Vista was “a disaster.” I’ve got one laptop that has been running it non-stop for seven years without a problem. Never seen a blue screen of death once.
Don’t know anything about 10, but 8.1 IMHO is many times worse than Vista. I was happier with pre-windows DOS. BTW, did I tell you I hate 8.1? Please tell me I’ll be happier with 10. When will it be out? You say the upgrade from 8.1 is free?
Ah, progress.
Google “This Week in Tech” and “Windows Weekly.” They have had a lot of info about W10. I had the tech preview on a machine for testng and it looked great. Too early a release though so back to W8.1 until the full release is out.
In any case Leo Laporte, Paul Thoroutt and Mary Jo Foley have posted very interesting reports about W10 even from the recent event in Redmond.
I ordered a Surface Pro 3 on Friday. Patiently, sort of, awaiting it’s arrival.
Before you get to giddy about the “free” upgrade from 7 and 8 you should know there was a conversation on here a couple of weeks ago that said once you get it installed that eventually one would have to pay a yearly licensing fee for patches and updates.
I’ll wait until I find out how well it works on older equipment.
When my HP Pavilion dies with its Windows 7 Premium and the latest piece of trash IE, I will go to the system below.
http://promos.asus.com/us/chrome-os/chromebox/
I got tired of waiting for my Comcast site to even sign on or down load or just to get on my bank’s site or Amazon or to stay on after I logged on.
So I asked a younger relative what to do.
His advice was to use Google Chrome instead of IE.
Instead of watching the maddening and ever lasting circle showing that I couldn’t log on to Comcast or Yahoo or AOL, Shabam, I was logged on in seconds to any of the above with Chrome.
Then, I tried logging on to my bank site to pay bills and zoom, I was there. It works with no problems.
Next, I went to Amazon and never had a problem even with their terrible Store Card. It works even better with my new Chase Amazon Card.
Every internet site I use or buy items on, Chrome works fast and quicker versus the seldom working IE/Windows 7 system.
Windows 7 is probably not the problem. It appears to be the IE with Windows 7.
My wife and I gave each other new Android phones for Christmas and I got an Android pad from relatives.
We both had gmail accts and that made the transition for the most part easy, quick and reliable. My wife has become a semi expert with her Alcatel Android Phone. She uses it for emails, texting, phones and to search the internet for weather, news and whatever. She has taken some incredible outdoor pictures with her new Android phone.
We had a little problem with transferring photos and downloading them with all 3 new Androids. That seems to be related to the latest KitKat OS.
The systems are fast, reliable and work well with our WiFI and on the 3G system outside our house.
Also, I don’t have to waste a lot of time downloading the latest MS/IE/BS several times a month. Chrome does its updates/downloads without the hassles.
So, when my HP Pavilion dies or shows signs of decaying, I will go to the following and gain more desk space while saving on electricity.
http://promos.asus.com/us/chrome-os/chromebox/
I have no direct investment with Google. We do own the ETF, TDIV, which invests in dividend paying tech stocks. MS is one of the stocks owned by TDIV as well as Google.
I just want my icons back. I don’t care what they do internally, but I want it to look like Windows 7 when I start up my computer.
I don’t believe it, how is it possible that in a post about a Microsoft product there have been 73 responses without the forbidden fruit being mentioned( I refuse to be the one who does it).
3.11, 98, XP, 7...
Now 10.
Pretty much every other version of Windows has been one step off from being outright malware.
I have seen nothing about the availability of Windows Media Center for win10. Without that I will stay with win7.
I actually have a working Windows 3.1 PC down in the basement. It's been a while since I fired it up but it's a 1993-era IBM PS/1 Model 2133 with a 486DX 33MHz processor and 8MB or RAM (upgraded from the original 2MB). Yes, that's MB, not GB!
It will boot up and I think most of my Prodigy BB files are still intact on there. Remember the Prodigy BBs? They used to have this BB manager program that would let you use the BBs offline. It would then upload your posts and download any new ones that came in. This was because Prodigy would charge something like $3.60 an hour to be online, once your 20 hours was used up.
I got a Prodigy bill over $100 one month and my wife almost divorced me over it.
Windows 8 forced you to use a touch-friendly menu for all your apps
This writer sounds like someone who knows nothing about tweaking/personalizing Windows - A single free app would have given him his precious start menu back. And Win8.1 does that natively.
digital assistant Cortana
Cortana is very useful on my Lumia 1020. We'll see if conversing with my laptop works for me.
option to stream games from your Xbox
Looking forward to trying this out - playing on my XboxOne without having to sit in the game room. I'll be running some Halo:MCC Spartan Ops missions (and maybe Halo 5 by then) on my laptop. Just wish it was a Surface 3 i7 tablet. *drool*