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Re: Windows 10 Free Upgrade Available in 190 Countries Today

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Post by LMAlVvQjSGj »

anoncow wrote: post #295
inversionOf wrote: post #180

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Note that the upgrade will remove your Windows built-in DVD player. Windows 8.1 had no built in DVD player. Nor did Windows 7 Starter or Basic. Further, I suspect it's a feature that the vast majority of people have never used, exactly why Microsoft decided that they wouldn't subsidize the licensing for no reason. This is a very 2002 discussion. Not that your point isn't valid -- at least for those users who ever act…

"Windows 8 with Media Center" did contain DVD playing capability.

The Media Center addition was given to early adopters of Windows 8 for free.

Re: Windows 10 Free Upgrade Available in 190 Countries Today

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Post by anonymfus »

WorldWideWayne wrote: post #370
WCityMike wrote: post #283

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I'd be curious as to your reaction to Ars Technica's review, in which they complained about what they perceived as a "debilitating" Start Menu issue: "This database is (inexplicably) maintained by a system service running as the super-privileged SYSTEM identity. And at the time of writing, this database has the oh-so convenient feature of being limited to around 500 entries. [...] The All apps view didn't show all my…

I'm a Microsoft fan and I love Windows, but this is the worst Windows yet in my opinion because they removed features and useful screens just to replace them with bland UWP style screens that don't have half as much functionality. - Start menu keyboard acceleration is poor. I used to be able to hit the Windows key and then just hit ENTER to run the first app on the Start screen. Now, you have to hit tab or use an arr…

>Why can I not middle-click task-bar items to close the app yet? This seems like an obvious feature since that's how you close tabs on a tabbed window.

Because middle-click on taskbar button opens new window/instance of application.

Re: Windows 10 Free Upgrade Available in 190 Countries Today

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Post by pound »

megablast wrote: post #121
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.

Maybe they are trying to say this will not be another Windows 8. Or Vista. Or ME.

I actually liked ME. It booted fast, was relatively lightweight and worked without any problems for me.

/I know it's not a common view on ME/

Re: Windows 10 Free Upgrade Available in 190 Countries Today

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Post by yrro »

egeozcan wrote: post #215
throwawaykf05 wrote: post #152

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> And in Europe, we don't have valid software patents. That is categorically untrue, and you should stop telling people that. In Europe, software is not patent-eligible "as such", but it is if it solves a technical problem. The only thing that eliminates is "business method" patents, which are just a subset of what people generally refer to as "software patents".

I'm interested, could you please give an example?

There are plenty of patents listed at http://www.mpegla.com/main/programs/avc/Documents/avc-att1.p..., http://mp3licensing.com/patents/ and http://www.mpegla.com/main/programs/hevc/Documents/hevc-att1....

Re: Windows 10 Free Upgrade Available in 190 Countries Today

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Post by Aldo_MX »

kozukumi wrote: post #356
Aldo_MX wrote: post #304

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If your machine was OEM preloaded with Windows 7, you can rest assured it has a product key.

It is a ThinkPad T420s. The product key is on the CoA behind the battery not in the BIOS.

Yes, you have 2 cd keys, the key in the CoA sticker, which you have to activate by phone, and the OEM key embedded in the BIOS.

Re: Windows 10 Free Upgrade Available in 190 Countries Today

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Post by yrro »

FireBeyond wrote: post #349
random_2azkXJ wrote: post #322

The naked truth about this new Windows from user's perspective: http://i.4cdn.org/v/1438148570882.jpg

There's a whole bunch of stuff in that that's inaccurate/outdated, re Wifi Sharing (opt in, even for contacts). Not to mention a bunch of stuff (Do Not Track) that is set by default that has been explicitly enabled (or disabled, depending on defaults) to look worse. You can argue about whether you should have an "opt-in" for some of these things at all, yes, but this image makes it look like many things are opt-out,…

> There's a whole bunch of stuff in that that's inaccurate/outdated, re Wifi Sharing (opt in, even for contacts).

So if a random visitor asks for my wifi password, I can prevent it from being sent to Microsoft?

Re: Windows 10 Free Upgrade Available in 190 Countries Today

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Post by yrro »

FireBeyond wrote: post #351
yAnonymous wrote: post #164

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And I thought disabling all the check boxes during the install would be enough. Damn. Windows 7 it is.

It is. A lot of these are not the default options, despite the pretense that they are. For one really simple example, "Do Not Track" is the enabled default, not the disabled example here.

In setting "Do Not Track" to on, Microsoft handed their partners in the advertising industry an excuse to ignore the setting entirely.

Re: Windows 10 Free Upgrade Available in 190 Countries Today

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Post by yrro »

lawnchair_larry wrote: post #276
Osmium wrote: post #4

Any news on how to get a free 'reserved' copy? The Verge seems to suggest that you just have to wait, and it might take weeks, since Microsoft wants to do a gradual rollout...

Why reserve something for which scarcity is impossible?

Their capacity to upload copies of Windows 10 is not infinite (though only because they have chosen not to distribute via BitTorrent).

Re: Windows 10 Free Upgrade Available in 190 Countries Today

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Post by WorldWideWayne »

anonymfus wrote: post #372
WorldWideWayne wrote: post #370

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm a Microsoft fan and I love Windows, but this is the worst Windows yet in my opinion because they removed features and useful screens just to replace them with bland UWP style screens that don't have half as much functionality. - Start menu keyboard acceleration is poor. I used to be able to hit the Windows key and then just hit ENTER to run the first app on the Start screen. Now, you have to hit tab or use an arr…

>Why can I not middle-click task-bar items to close the app yet? This seems like an obvious feature since that's how you close tabs on a tabbed window. Because middle-click on taskbar button opens new window/instance of application.

It doesn't do anything in Windows 10. (Perhaps, just when taskbar items are ungrouped, but I'm not sure.)

Re: Windows 10 Free Upgrade Available in 190 Countries Today

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Post by anonymfus »

WorldWideWayne wrote: post #379
anonymfus wrote: post #372

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>Why can I not middle-click task-bar items to close the app yet? This seems like an obvious feature since that's how you close tabs on a tabbed window. Because middle-click on taskbar button opens new window/instance of application.

It doesn't do anything in Windows 10. (Perhaps, just when taskbar items are ungrouped , but I'm not sure.)

That is strange. It works for me both with conventional (just checked FireFox 39, Opera 12, Visual Studio 2015, Notepad) and WinRT (Calculator) applications.
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