Win 10 is a free upgrade for the first year

[A nonymous]

Just installed the latest Beta and to be honest its not bad at all. Its everything that MS stuff usually isn't. Its fast, clean and well though out.







Nano

 

[Captain Jack]

But.....the tiles.... Are still there is there a proper Start menu there now or still a form of castration?

 

[timo_w2s]

But.....the tiles.... Are still there is there a proper Start menu there now or still a form of castration?

Tiles are the future!! Embrace the tiles.

Actually I quite like the simplified tile design, especially on my mobile.

 

[PaulR]

... I quite like the simplified tile design, especially on my mobile.

Which is where they should stay.

They may be fine for touch screen devices but they're cr@p for anything with a keyboard and mouse/trackpad. They take up far too much space and add absolutely nothing to this user's experience.

 

[timo_w2s]

Which is where they should stay.

They may be fine for touch screen devices but they're cr@p for anything with a keyboard and mouse/trackpad. They take up far too much space and add absolutely nothing to this user's experience.

I agree the Windows 8 Metro tiles layout is pointless but I like the look of the tiles on the Win 10 start button. It seems like a good balance with the desktop and the mobile/tablet version.

 

[2cvbloke]

I'm having a go with 10 beta, might aswell try it, can't be any worse than the pile of dog excrement that was 8, just waiting for it to download and I'll slap in a spare HDD in my laptop to install it...

 

[PaulR]

I'm having a go with 10 beta, might aswell try it, can't be any worse than the pile of dog excrement that was 8, just waiting for it to download and I'll slap in a spare HDD in my laptop to install it...

You may be able to try the beta out but for the release version upgrade you'll have to do an intermediate upgrade to W8.1. MS have said that only Vista and W8.1 (with a few exceptions) will qualify for the free upgrade.

 

[2cvbloke]

MS have said that only Vista and W8.1 (with a few exceptions) will qualify for the free upgrade.

If so, the BBC reported this incorrectly then:

In addition, the firm announced that the OS upgrade would be offered free of charge for devices running Windows 8, Windows 7 and Windows Phone.

Not that it matters, my copy of 7 is not exactly legit so I don't qualify for the free upgrade...

Anyway, presently running 10, seems okay, reminds me of a doctors waiting room though, rather flat, sterile and bland with a few old things scattered about, and where's that Cortana thing they're raving on about...

 

[2cvbloke]

Actually, I just realised, my laptop has a Visthag business license on the base, so, I if vista is in the "free upgrade" category then I could qualify if I slap that hateful pile onto my laptop...

 

[2cvbloke]

Got bored of 10, back on 7 now, at least it ran PaleMoon and Pidgin, so that's good, I don't ask much of an OS...

 

[Vipersan]

Well ...unless someone can show me a reason to migrate away from win7 ...inertia will take over..
I HATE FECKIN TILES ...
Maybe it's an age gap thing ..but greasy finger draggin and touch screens is for the bone idle imo ..
..and should remain the sole preserve of phones and tablets..(neither of which I use)
and definately a form of castration with regards to windows OS's
Just when I'd got used to XP ..they moved the goalposts..
It took me a few years to let go of 98 ..in favour of XP..
Never mind ...I'll be dead soon so it wont matter..
lol

 

[Lazarus]

^^^^^^ But please not before you've tried Linux Mint! ;)

 

[2cvbloke]

Funnily enough, while searching for an unscratched DVDR, I found a Mint 16 disc I must have written a year ago when messing about with my then-new (to me) laptop...

 

[PaulR]

Sorry. sorry, sorry.

I meant Win 7 not Vista. You have to pay if you want to "upgrade" from Vista, XP or anything earlier. Or, given that the hardware used for these early systems probably run it, why bother.

 

[2cvbloke]

Well, my Lenovo T61 was built for vista, but runs 7 nicely (that said Vista was a pig when it came to running smoothly), and after trying 10's beta today, it runs that smoothly too, it's just that 10 as it is now seems bland and rather uninteresting, just another OS to consume hardware resources while the user battles to run things that windows tries to muscle out...

 

[A nonymous]

To be honest its the best my PC has run for a long time whilst using a Microsoft OS.

Windows 10 runs a lot better than Win 7 does on my ye olde 64bit Dell optiplex GX520.

Nano

 

[PaulR]

Windows 10 runs a lot better than Win 7 does on my ye olde 64bit Dell optiplex GX520.

Yeah but that's a beta you're using. Wait until MS slug the release version with 5 million lines of useless code.

 

[Captain Jack]

I installed Ubuntu on my 'HTPC' laptop the other day and I just cannot get used to the UI. It feels like the entire thing runs as a Java applet.... Kinda slow and unresponsive. The laptop is with one of the first generation i7 CPUs so it's not 'old' but I find the experience underwhelming.

Still, it's only used to run XBMC /Kodi and a bunch of server services and it does that fairly well, thankfully.

I still think people, who are sick of Windows, should try getting OS X to run on their systems. It's not the most straightforward process and doesn't run on all hardware (it needs an Intel CPU at least) but I think it's more than worth it. And the OS is free just like many iterations of Linux.

 

[excollier]

You should try a Linux OS more closely based on Debian, they tend to faster, more responsive than Ubuntu or Ubuntu based OS.
Yesterday I installed pure Debian as a dual boot with Mint, both use the same desktop environment (XFCE) but while Mint is based on Ubuntu the pure Debian is much more responsive. Faster boot and faster application starting.