Windows 10 Free Upgrade Available in 190 Countries Today

Post by acqq » Wed, Jul 29, 2015, 1:30 PM UTC

inversionOf wrote: post #198

acqq wrote: post #197

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> it's just pretty odd that such a comment sits at the very top of an enormous technology event. What you call "an enormous technology event" I call a disaster, showing perfect "we don't care for the current users" attitude, even after the public demonstrated what it thinks about the "improvements" in Windows 8. The commenters here rightly point that the returned Start menu is even worse than it was during the tech p…

Okay, so I hope others see your real motives. Don't upgrade. You paid $0 for Windows 10, had absolutely no expectations about it when you apparently bought Windows 7, and now it's a "disaster" because an unused feature was openly and clearly removed. Give me a break. This sort of "take a shit on everything" attitude is one of the worst facets of HN, and your comments in particular exemplify them. Don't upgrade . Move…

Post by theandrewbailey » Wed, Jul 29, 2015, 1:33 PM UTC

melling wrote: post #2

Let's hope Windows 10 is a big hit with PC users. Consumers trade in those old XP boxes and hundreds of millions take the free upgrade. Then maybe within 24 months lots of old IE's will fade away. https://www.netmarketshare.com/browser-market-share.aspx?qpr... Edge appears to be a much better browser: https://html5test.com/results/desktop.html

Post by dmsimpkins » Wed, Jul 29, 2015, 1:33 PM UTC

signal11 wrote: post #141

tdicola wrote: post #81

Looking at the deprecated features that won't make it to Windows 10 I see: > Solitaire, Minesweeper, and Hearts Games that come pre-installed on Windows 7 will be removed as part of installing the Windows 10 upgrade. Microsoft has released our version of Solitaire and Minesweeper called the “Microsoft Solitaire Collection” and “Microsoft Minesweeper.” Does anyone else find it kind of sad that they killed off the old…

I just noticed that the old EXEs -- sol.exe and winmine.exe -- are not bundled with Windows 7 (Win7 has Solitaire.exe and MineSweeper.exe). I wonder if copying the EXEs over to Win10 will work.

Post by theandrewbailey » Wed, Jul 29, 2015, 1:38 PM UTC

nly wrote: post #138

I'll be waiting until before a week or two before the one year free upgrade period is up before I subject any of my family to it. In the meantime, it's popcorn time. Btw, Windows 10 now forces critical updates. You can find a registry tweak to disable this behaviour here: http://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/8013-windows-update-autom...

Post by asyncwords » Wed, Jul 29, 2015, 1:41 PM UTC

rg_ wrote: post #98

gambiting wrote: post #59

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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...

Why can't I just play my media (which I paid for) on my hardware (which I paid for) in "normal" software (which... I thought I paid for). Instead I have to have the Xbox brand shoved in my face at every opportunity?