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Windows 10 Free Upgrade Available in 190 Countries Today

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Re: Windows 10 Free Upgrade Available in 190 Countries Today

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Post by acqq »

gambiting wrote: post #59
toyg wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Note that the upgrade will remove your Windows built-in DVD player. That's bonkers. Ok, it was never a great player and every half-decent geek uses VLC or better, but still, plenty of people use MediaPlayer every day. Tech support hotlines will be overwhelmed by furious customers.

Windows 10 still supports music and video playback just fine, through applications called Xbox Music and Xbox Video: "Xbox Video supports all the video files you’ve probably been downloading the VLC Media Player desktop app to watch." http://www.gottabemobile.com/2015/01/25/windows-10-vs-window...

But not the DVD playback, which has to be licensed additionally. Being the person who also legally bought the DVDs (all of them are DRMd nowadays) it really hurts:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_Scramble_System

Re: Windows 10 Free Upgrade Available in 190 Countries Today

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Post by batou »

0xffffabcd wrote: post #60
batou wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's only a notification until you can't turn it off. It's incredibly difficult to get rid of it on a non-domain attached windows 8.1 machine.

For me it was an icon next to the clock. Once I reserved my upgrade I just hid it in the action center and it never popped again.

It's still there and running though.

That's like you know there's a hissing cockroach living under the sink but you just close the door and stick your fingers in your ears.

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Post by netheril96 »

thescrewdriver wrote: post #51
VinzO wrote: post #9

If your windows copy is not genuine, can you still get a free upgrade?

If you had no concerns running a pirated copy of the old version what's stopping you from getting a pirated copy of the newer version?

Well, a legal copy is always better than a pirated one. The least of the benefits would be the lack of need to unlock it.

But I guess he/she asked the questions because Microsoft might have indicated that in the past.

Re: Windows 10 Free Upgrade Available in 190 Countries Today

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Post by gambiting »

acqq wrote: post #61
gambiting wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Windows 10 still supports music and video playback just fine, through applications called Xbox Music and Xbox Video: "Xbox Video supports all the video files you’ve probably been downloading the VLC Media Player desktop app to watch." http://www.gottabemobile.com/2015/01/25/windows-10-vs-window...

But not the DVD playback, which has to be licensed additionally. Being the person who also legally bought the DVDs (all of them are DRMd nowadays) it really hurts: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_Scramble_System

To which I already replied in the same thread - use VLC which decodes CSS on the fly, unless you live in a country that doesn't believe in your freedom to play legally purchased content and prohibits doing that(United States of America).

Of course, it would be nice if Windows 10 just included that and saved everyone the trouble.

Re: Windows 10 Free Upgrade Available in 190 Countries Today

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Post by crazysaem »

Osmium wrote: post #56
crazysaem wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I can confirm that. I didn't see anything about Windows 10 in the Windows Update window, but upgrading via the tool worked perfectly for me.

Do you have to burn it to a USB/CD as the page suggests, or is does the tool give a way to upgrade in place without doing that? Edit: can confirm crazysaem's experience. I did an in-place upgrade on a fully-patched 8.1 system and it worked flawlessly and relatively quickly (I kept my apps and settings). I'm not a heavy Windows user though.

You have the option to either create the USB/CD media or do an in-place upgrade. I did the in-place upgrade, which worked without problems for me. They also provide the option to either keep your apps and files or delete them. I chose to delete them, because I wanted a clean install.

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Post by Freaky »

acqq wrote: post #6

Note that the upgrade will remove your Windows built-in DVD player. The right to play DVDs must be paid for every computer. You paid it when you bought the Windows 7 or 8 that you'll maybe upgrade to 10. Now the upgrade to Windows 10 takes that feature away from you. They apparently (the twitter message isn't actually the company statement) plan to return it "sometime in the future" and "if it might be free or if it…

Yep, Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\Back up and Restore (Windows 7)

Exact same old craptastic System Image backup stuff. Still can't only backup my C drive, got to include my TB's of bulk data on non-system drives too, grr.

Re: Windows 10 Free Upgrade Available in 190 Countries Today

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Post by tdicola »

donkeyd wrote: post #58

Dear marketing people, please stop using "The best ever". If you make a new product it should be better than the previous version, it it's not, you did something very wrong.

> If you make a new product it should be better than the previous version, it it's not, you did something very wrong.

They broke that rule with Windows 8/8.1 and are trying to fix it with Windows 10.

Re: Windows 10 Free Upgrade Available in 190 Countries Today

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Post by melling »

donkeyd wrote: post #58

Dear marketing people, please stop using "The best ever". If you make a new product it should be better than the previous version, it it's not, you did something very wrong.

You might not have noticed but Microsoft has had a difficult time getting people to upgrade Windows. XP is good enough for many people. As much as you don't like it, hyperbole is part of marketing.

Re: Windows 10 Free Upgrade Available in 190 Countries Today

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Post by hwh »

acqq wrote: post #6

Note that the upgrade will remove your Windows built-in DVD player. The right to play DVDs must be paid for every computer. You paid it when you bought the Windows 7 or 8 that you'll maybe upgrade to 10. Now the upgrade to Windows 10 takes that feature away from you. They apparently (the twitter message isn't actually the company statement) plan to return it "sometime in the future" and "if it might be free or if it…

In the specs in the section "Feature deprecation" (http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/windows-10-specificat...) Microsoft mentions that removal and that eligible Windows versions will get a free DVD player app after the Upgrade.
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