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Re: Hello World: Windows 10 Available on July 29

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Post by joshuapants »

radiorental wrote: post #88
baldfat wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But the answer is going to be that Apple Updates are free. Which is going to be the same reply for Windows 10 for the next year.

Just to clarify. MS said users of win 7 & 8 will be able to upgrade for free to win 10 within a year. I believe I read somewhere that this will be MS's last release #. It will be a rolling release from here on out. I have not seen details on how they monetize that unless they switch to Apple's HW model.

Microsoft has stated that most of the money they make from Windows is from selling licenses to hardware partners. Of course, they are also starting to move into an Apple-like hardware model (though of course they still allow third parties to make hardware).

Re: Hello World: Windows 10 Available on July 29

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Post by yRetsyM »

nly wrote: post #75
yRetsyM wrote: post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can get a digital download of the Technical Preview now - I'd do that. They've announced that Windows 10 will be free to all Technical Preview participants. That way you can upgrade to the latest version and away you go.

> They've announced that Windows 10 will be free to all Technical Preview participants Got a source on this?

http://m.windowscentral.com/windows-insiders-will-be-able-up...

Re: Hello World: Windows 10 Available on July 29

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Post by usaphp »

getsat wrote: post #70

Will there be a way to buy a digital download of it? I recently wanted to bootcamp my Macbook Pro to play some games Windows-only games. I went to Microsoft's website and looked at the options for buying Windows 8. The only options were a retail DVD which would be shipped (and I don't have a DVD drive) or to upgrade from Windows Vista/Windows 7 which I had neither of. I ended up pirating it because I couldn't figure…

I would not recommend installing windows 10 on a Mac to play games at this moment, I did it using boot camp and it was horrible, poor driver support for my video card (rMBP) so I end up installing a windows 7 which gives me about 3 times more fps per game compared to w10, and about twice as fast as windows 8.1, also my mouse seems lagging when gaming in both 8.1 and 10, works perfect on 7 thought.

Re: Hello World: Windows 10 Available on July 29

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Post by getsat »

usaphp wrote: post #103
getsat wrote: post #70

Will there be a way to buy a digital download of it? I recently wanted to bootcamp my Macbook Pro to play some games Windows-only games. I went to Microsoft's website and looked at the options for buying Windows 8. The only options were a retail DVD which would be shipped (and I don't have a DVD drive) or to upgrade from Windows Vista/Windows 7 which I had neither of. I ended up pirating it because I couldn't figure…

I would not recommend installing windows 10 on a Mac to play games at this moment, I did it using boot camp and it was horrible, poor driver support for my video card (rMBP) so I end up installing a windows 7 which gives me about 3 times more fps per game compared to w10, and about twice as fast as windows 8.1, also my mouse seems lagging when gaming in both 8.1 and 10, works perfect on 7 thought.

Thanks for the tip. I've been playing games on Windows 8.1 without any noticeable issues, but I will keep this in mind. I'll likely not upgrade this pirated copy of Windows 8.1 to 10 (since it literally only has Steam installed), but I will buy 10 to run it in a VM for development.

Re: Hello World: Windows 10 Available on July 29

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Post by getsat »

m_t wrote: post #74
yRetsyM wrote: post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can get a digital download of the Technical Preview now - I'd do that. They've announced that Windows 10 will be free to all Technical Preview participants. That way you can upgrade to the latest version and away you go.

It is free only if you have a valid Win7/8 licence.

Should I just buy a Windows 7 license to get a free upgrade to Windows 10?

Re: Hello World: Windows 10 Available on July 29

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Post by castell »

kozukumi wrote: post #5

I have been running the technical previews since the very start and I have to say I am quite surprised at the July 29th release date. Even today's builds are riddled with problems. They have a lot of work to do if they really think it will be consumer ready by the end of July.

Will Win10 ship with an optional Win7 theme?

The "AeroGlass" theme was beautiful and my hardware is fast enough - sure some low end mobile hardware can't handle it.

Will Win10 RTM still requires a Microsoft Outlook/Live/Passport/Hotmail-Account? The non-obvious small almost hidden "offline" profile option during Windows install wizard is not okay. It should be an equal option.

And for OneDrive and Cortana there should be an option to disable them and remove them from the interface in all Win10 editions, not just an option in the Enterprise edition.

It seems to me that Microsoft still doesn't care about a larger sizeable margin of the user base at all. Well I don't care that much about Win10, my beloved Win7 is supported til 2022.

Re: Hello World: Windows 10 Available on July 29

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Post by StavrosK »

arenaninja wrote: post #108

Do we know what "free for the first year" means yet? What about the second year? I've been running Ubuntu for personal use for about a year now. I miss steam so I might jump onto Windows 10, but not if I only find out the price after I jump in

What's wrong with Steam on Ubuntu?

Re: Hello World: Windows 10 Available on July 29

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Post by skymt »

arenaninja wrote: post #108

Do we know what "free for the first year" means yet? What about the second year? I've been running Ubuntu for personal use for about a year now. I miss steam so I might jump onto Windows 10, but not if I only find out the price after I jump in

It means that if you upgrade to Windows 10 by July 2016, you have it for the lifetime of the computer.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2873214/windows-10-will-be-a-...

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