Windows 10

[tompalm]

Anyone in line to get Windows 10. I reserved my free copy, but plan to wait a month before installing it. Will it be worth it?

 

[Passepartout]

Waiting may be prudent. The final build will ship July 29th. MS is able to produce a complete build- as in new modifications to code- multiple times a day now as opposed to taking 2 to 3 weeks for a build as recently as a few months ago.

DS is a manager at MS- Bing and Cortana are his babies. He advises to hold back from being an early adopter.

Win10 will be a departure from Win 7-8-and 8.1. It will not require the updates in the way your current Windows does. It will do them 'on the fly' in the background, and users probably won't even know it's happening. Internet Explorer will disappear for a new browser called Edge. You'll have Cortana on your desktop, waiting to answer your questions and provide information. A LOT of cloud service has been added to support this. Or so I've been told.

Jim

 

[SMHarman]

People who are in the final beta say it is great.
This is smart for msft. It gets us to try New software and possible upgrade to a touch based computer.

 

[Ty1on]

Waiting may be prudent. The final build will ship July 29th. MS is able to produce a complete build- as in new modifications to code- multiple times a day now as opposed to taking 2 to 3 weeks for a build as recently as a few months ago.

DS is a manager at MS- Bing and Cortana are his babies. He advises to hold back from being an early adopter.

Win10 will be a departure from Win 7-8-and 8.1. It will not require the updates in the way your current Windows does. It will do them 'on the fly' in the background, and users probably won't even know it's happening. Internet Explorer will disappear for a new browser called Edge. You'll have Cortana on your desktop, waiting to answer your questions and provide information. A LOT of cloud service has been added to support this. Or so I've been told.

Jim

I'll upgrade one laptop next week. I have the other as backup if things go south with it.

I abhor 8.

 

[tompalm]

I'll upgrade one laptop next week. I have the other as backup if things go south with it.

I abhor 8.

Thanks, please keep us posted on how it goes. My son is an engineer for Time Warner and advised me to wait a month or more so the bugs get out before I jump in. However, he plans to install on day one. But he stays really busy and I can get updates from TUG faster than trying to connect with him.

 

[pedro47]

Anyone in line to get Windows 10. I reserved my free copy, but plan to wait a month before installing it. Will it be worth it?

I am going to follow your plan.

 

[Patri]

So they skipped 9?

 

[bogey21]

About a year and a half ago I searched far and wide for a laptop with Windows 7 installed. It works great and satisfies my needs with something I understand. I plan to stay with it until my laptop ups and dies.

George

 

[dioxide45]

Anyone in line to get Windows 10. I reserved my free copy, but plan to wait a month before installing it. Will it be worth it?

If you reserved your copy, are you able to control when it is actually installed on your machine? I reserved initially and then went in and cancelled my reservation. Want to wait a while before installing it so they can work out the kinks that always come when they open these things up to the masses.

 

[artringwald]

I've been using the Windows 10 Insider Preview for many months now. The W10 Tile World applications do work better with the Desktop World environment that I prefer. W10 still doesn't allow pinning documents to the start button, a W7 feature that got me hooked on it. Fortunately, a 3rd party utility can bring back the start button the way I like it. If I had to pay for the upgrade, I'd wait a long while, but since it's free, I'll install the release version as soon as I can download it.

 

[DaveNV]

So they skipped 9?

Yes. But 10 is promising to be better than the "improved" 8.1. Innovative changes make it something to look at, after the initial flush of fixes for bugs in the intro rollout.

I plan to wait awhile before buying into it. I've grown weary of being on the bleeding edge of technology.

Dave

 

[tompalm]

If you reserved your copy, are you able to control when it is actually installed on your machine? I reserved initially and then went in and cancelled my reservation. Want to wait a while before installing it so they can work out the kinks that always come when they open these things up to the masses.

The way I read it, you have up to one year to install it. But maybe they mean MS will start charging in one year. Take a look at Q and A below.

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/wind...q=upgrade&ocid=reserve_r_PostReserve_mod1_faq

 

[dioxide45]

So they skipped 9?

A few explanations of why there is no Windows 9. Though Windows 10 is actually version 6.4.

http://www.extremetech.com/computing/191279-why-is-it-called-windows-10-not-windows-9

 

[SMHarman]

The way I read it, you have up to one year to install it. But maybe they mean MS will start charging in one year. Take a look at Q and A below.

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/wind...q=upgrade&ocid=reserve_r_PostReserve_mod1_faq

Msft is not leaving much money on the table here. Most never upgraded their pc os.

Potentially it makes their lives easier to sunset Windows7 earlier.

 

[Ty1on]

A few explanations of why there is no Windows 9. Though Windows 10 is actually version 6.4.

http://www.extremetech.com/computing/191279-why-is-it-called-windows-10-not-windows-9

The second explanation sounds most plausible. 4 is death in Japanese, and they had no probs with NT 4.0.

I could see wanting to run VERSION LIKE '%WINDOWS 9%' and returning 95 and 98 along with 9.

 

[hvsteve1]

My understanding is MS will roll out the downloads over time so, even though you have reserved a copy, it may be weeks or months before you actually get the download as there will be million of people in line.

 

[SmithOp]

Anyone in line to get Windows 10. I reserved my free copy, but plan to wait a month before installing it. Will it be worth it?

I'll wait for Service Pack 1, a month is not long enough imo.


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[Passepartout]

I'll wait for Service Pack 1, a month is not long enough imo

There will not be a Service Pack 1. Win10 will upgrade itself continually. You won't be aware it's doing it.

Jim

 

[SMHarman]

I'll wait for Service Pack 1, a month is not long enough imo.


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There will not be a Service Pack 1. Win10 will upgrade itself continually. You won't be aware it's doing it.

Jim

Correct. Even W7 is like that. Do a fresh install from the disc and then download 138 updates.

The service pack comes from a time this needed to be distributed by CD and vulnerabilities could be open longer as our computers were not online or online irregularly through a Dial up modem.

Back the IP v4 had enough addresses for everything for ever!

 

[SMHarman]

A few explanations of why there is no Windows 9. Though Windows 10 is actually version 6.4.

http://www.extremetech.com/computing/191279-why-is-it-called-windows-10-not-windows-9

Which also highlights why this upgrade should be clean for anyone on W7 and W8.

You could almost say w7 is Vista SP1, 8 is SP2 and 10 is SP3. They are all continued development of the same code base.

 

[Fisch]

If you reserved your copy, are you able to control when it is actually installed on your machine? I reserved initially and then went in and cancelled my reservation. Want to wait a while before installing it so they can work out the kinks that always come when they open these things up to the masses.

Yes, can install it at anytime you want after it downloads.. You do not to install right away.

Al

 

[SmithOp]

Correct. Even W7 is like that. Do a fresh install from the disc and then download 138 updates.

The service pack comes from a time this needed to be distributed by CD and vulnerabilities could be open longer as our computers were not online or online irregularly through a Dial up modem.

Back the IP v4 had enough addresses for everything for ever!

You guys are drunk on the Redmond koolaid. I'm on Windows 7 Service Pack 1, Build 7601.

Type system in your search box and see what it says.

 

[pgnewarkboy]

There is plenty of Kool Aid to go around. I believe that MS new "Chief" is a sharp guy and knows what is at stake with this launch. I read that it is already on 5 million computers. I will install shortly after download. I am looking forward to digging in to the improvements.

 

[SMHarman]

You guys are drunk on the Redmond koolaid. I'm on Windows 7 Service Pack 1, Build 7601.

Type system in your search box and see what it says.

But compare to xp service packs 2 and 3.
What SP is 8 on?

 

[dioxide45]

But compare to xp service packs 2 and 3.
What SP is 8 on?

You could consider it SP1 since they now have a version 8.1. They just didn't call it SP1.