Si_Crewe wrote:Can't say I'm that fussed TBH.
Colour me shallow but I only tend to update my OS either when some must-have app' appears for it or when I get bored of my current OS.
Currently using W8.1 x64 with Classic Shell and I'm quite content with it.
Gotta say, I've still got a couple of laptops which originally came with XP installed and, barring a hiccup with Vista, they've all run just as well under each new MS OS which suggests MS have been making an effort to optimise their code so it's nice to hear that W10 is supposed to be even quicker than W8.
I'm sure I'll update eventually but I'm happy at the moment and, given that my main PC is a self-built one, it probably won't hurt to leave it for a few months so that outfits like Asus and nVidia can sort out all their W10 drivers for the bits in my PC.
Kind of interesting the way MS are pushing the whole "free upgrade" thing.
I guess they realised that they created something of a monster with XP and had people continue to be happy with it for over a decade so they're trying to find ways to avoid that happening again.
Stooo wrote:I dunno, 99% of MS's income is from enterprise. By simply issuing compulsory service packs and upgrades for free to home consumers it ensures that the software is familiar to the same people who go to work and use the same stuff (that's been paid for) without retraining and bollocks like that. When PCs break (usually within the ten year service limit of the software) the customer upgrades to the latest Dell or HP which will have the goodies to last for the next projected six years or so. As I've said before, touch, and verbal input are here to stay, dial in what ever Hololens brings to the market and it all looks quite exciting.
Si_Crewe wrote:Stooo wrote:I dunno, 99% of MS's income is from enterprise. By simply issuing compulsory service packs and upgrades for free to home consumers it ensures that the software is familiar to the same people who go to work and use the same stuff (that's been paid for) without retraining and bollocks like that. When PCs break (usually within the ten year service limit of the software) the customer upgrades to the latest Dell or HP which will have the goodies to last for the next projected six years or so. As I've said before, touch, and verbal input are here to stay, dial in what ever Hololens brings to the market and it all looks quite exciting.
True enough.
I always kinda got the feeling that MS's main motivation for W10 was to create a platform capable of incorporating a bunch of new stuff that W7 and W8 couldn't handle.
With that mindset, I guess you can see why they'd be willing to give away W10 for free because, in the long-run, it gets everybody onto the "same page".
I bet that the people at MS (and everywhere else) are secretly rather jealous of the way Apple usually manages to persuade/force it's user-base to upgrade to the latest OS and, thus, means they only have a small variety of things to support at any given time.
Compared to that, it must be a right PITA for MS to have to keep supporting up to half a dozen OS's at any given time.
Kinda funny; one of the main features of W10 seems to be the incorporation of Cortana.
Was listening to a techie podcast the other day where some guy was saying his kids are quite happy to wrestle with Siri or OK Google for 5 minutes, using voice commands, to get something done rather than just typing something into google or manually setting an alarm on their phone etc.
Seems like voice commands are still a bit of a novelty at the moment (albeit, a quite impressive one) but the only way this stuff gains traction is through use.
In another few years, we'll probably all be routinely using voice-activated satnavs and asking our cars how much fuel we have left and to find us a suitable petrol station and plot a route to it etc.
Si_Crewe wrote:Whoops. Too late to edit....
Meant to say, as well, I'm really put off W10, at the moment, by the idea of installing it "over the top" of W7 or W8.
Half the joy of a new OS is formatting your HDD, getting rid of all the shite and getting that warm-fuzzy feeling from a PC that boots up in about 20 seconds because there's no junk on it.
No idea if there's an OEM version of W10 available yet but I won't be installing W10 until there's a method of doing a fully clean install of it.
Stooo wrote:No bloatware, it's a vanilla install for me
Big Fat Frosty wrote:wow
when it was setting up amd vidcard asked to change settings
that never seemed to make any difference to games
when I tried them
fucking does now
the golf is so crisp and clear
wonder if its the updated directplay
might update the win 8 downstairs later
last day today to get it free...
17 hours or so
id say go for it
Stooo wrote:Big Fat Frosty wrote:wow
when it was setting up amd vidcard asked to change settings
that never seemed to make any difference to games
when I tried them
fucking does now
the golf is so crisp and clear
wonder if its the updated directplay
might update the win 8 downstairs later
last day today to get it free...
17 hours or so
id say go for it
Told ya
Big Fat Frosty wrote:spoke too soon
this morning when I tried to read the papers
IE and edge were both crashing
mirror mail argos b n q all media rich sites crash them
when I looked at resources
win 10 was using 1.83 gb of my 2 gb ram
compared win 7 uses .99 gb
so I uninstalled it
which happily was very painless
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