Windows 10 free for 12 months

Discuss…

Yess I will. But as… One, -no not by the latest st info.

regards

It will be free to upgrade within a year if coming from 7 or 8.1, not free for a year to use. Still no word on pricing for fresh installs, which makes me more than a little curious…

I have a spare hard drive with windows 7, I can reconnect it then and upgrade for free but how can I use it if not free to use. Am I missing something here.:\

My understanding is that when it is released you have 1 year to upgrade to Windows 10 from anything 7-9 ;). What happens after a year, I don’t know. I think they did this with Windows 8 to 8.1 but I didn’t have any Windows 8 devices so I didn’t pay much attention to it.

I am curious about upgrading my Windows 7 to 10 and try it out. Worst-case scenario would be to revert to Windows 7 (probably requires a fresh install) again.

The update looks like it is through the Update Manager and not a separate downloadable update or ISO. This eliminates the storing of media to upgrade after the 1 year mark.

I would not be surprised if within the year, they come out with something like a Windows 10.1 upgrade. They have mentioned they are trying to do more rapid releases (like Chrome and … Linux!) so I imagine something “new” will come out by or near the 1 year mark.

It looks like they are trying to get this out to start getting enterprises to move from Windows 7 and XP. The desktop interface looks usable on a desktop. We’ll see.

Yes mine too, but there is no “9”. After a year? You would pay to upgrade Win 7/8 by purchasing Win 10 is the simple conclusion one is left with, or there could be offers made at crunch time if a large enough number haven’t.

On Fri 23 Jan 2015 02:36:02 PM CST, dragonbite wrote:

My understanding is that when it is released you have 1 year to upgrade
to Windows 10 from anything 7-9 ;). What happens after a year, I don’t
know. I think they did this with Windows 8 to 8.1 but I didn’t have any
Windows 8 devices so I didn’t pay much attention to it.

I am curious about upgrading my Windows 7 to 10 and try it out.
Worst-case scenario would be to revert to Windows 7 (probably requires a
fresh install) again.

The update looks like it is through the Update Manager and not a
separate downloadable update or ISO. This eliminates the storing of
media to upgrade after the 1 year mark.

I would not be surprised if within the year, they come out with
something like a Windows 10.1 upgrade. They have mentioned they are
trying to do more rapid releases (like Chrome and … Linux!) so I
imagine something “new” will come out by or near the 1 year mark.

It looks like they are trying to get this out to start getting
enterprises to move from Windows 7 and XP. The desktop interface looks
usable on a desktop. We’ll see.

Hi
I’ve been running Windows Preview (aka Windows 10) since last year…
join the beta program and download the media…


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There can be quite a few changes between the Preview (now) and when they finally release it (Fall?)?

How stable is the preview?

That is my understanding at this point.

I am curious about upgrading my Windows 7 to 10 and try it out. Worst-case scenario would be to revert to Windows 7 (probably requires a fresh install) again.

I guess I could make a full disk image, then upgrade. If I don’t like it, I can restore from the image.

But I’ll probably try that with Windows 8.1 first.

On Fri 23 Jan 2015 04:36:01 PM CST, dragonbite wrote:

There can be quite a few changes between the Preview (now) and when they
finally release it (Fall?)?

How stable is the preview?

Hi
Works fine on my HP ProBook 4440s with secure boot, only thing is like
windows 8/8.1 don’t let it upgrade if your dual booting… wait for the
next build and re-install if using UEFI and use custom install to the
old win partition and backup the efi partition to copy files back.

I think the issue will be hardware drivers from the hardware
manufacturer that will throw a spanner in the works, will they provide
(or be forced?) windows 10 drivers for older hardware running windows
7…

Haven’t tried install on a mbr machine only UEFI.


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My own thoughts on the matter are “beware Greeks bearing gifts” as this could be a stepping stone toward the SAAS (Software as a shakedown) model as they are doing with Office.

Ubuntu/OpenSuse + VMware with Windows 7 - why would you need Windows 10?

Heavy duty/newer directx gaming, mostly.

Why would you need Windows 7?

That is certainly a concern. I won’t be rushing into an update to Windows 10. I’ll probably wait till near the end of that 12 month period before I decide.

And maybe I will hear that the HRBlock tax software runs well under Wine – then I would not need Windows at all.

Precisely what I was trying to say :slight_smile:

I’ve been playing around with the preview in VMware and was wondering the same thing. I read something recently about MS wanting to ensure users are on the same version of Windows, which makes sense.

“discus” --------------

I did not buy/pay for 7 and will almost NEVER ( you can never say never , there will always be an exception to the rule) install 8 nor 10
win 9 ( 64 bit) it seams will want to try to install win95 and 98 16 bit software so nine is being skipped

9 ??? the beetles( band) had a thing for the number 9
number 9 , number 9 ,… but Paul was the walrus??? …

the 3 windows programs i do use, run just fine on WINE so…

even back in the day when i was using XP
90+% of the software i was using i built in MinGW
a few i built in Visual Studio ( gtk was a pain )

there is really NOTHING i need nor even want from Microsoft

so there really is not much to discus !

And maybe I will hear that the HRBlock tax software runs well under Wine – then I would not need Windows at all.

seeing as the price for win is a DIRECT expense to preparing the taxes ( along with the cost of tax cut )
it would be deductible AND can be depreciated

question
have a look at the headers in the xml help files and see if HR block is still using Visual Studio 6 to build the software
-the last time i looked it was

On Sat, 31 Jan 2015 04:46:01 GMT
JohnVV <JohnVV@no-mx.forums.opensuse.org> wrote:

> there is really NOTHING i need nor even want from Microsoft

Unfortunately, I have to use it to view some TV catchup. Channel 5 here
just doesn’t work on openSUSE Linux. Ch5 say that it works for some
Linux users but they refuse to elaborate further. They’ve also scrapped
their forums so they’re no longer a solution.

Another reason for having MS is to check whether sound not working on
Linux might be a hardware problem instead of a software update changing
settings or requiring them to be changed.


Graham Davis [Retired Fortran programmer - now a mere computer user]
openSUSE Tumbleweed (64-bit); KDE 4.14.4; Kernel: 3.18.3;
Processor: AMD Phenom II X2 550; Video: nVidia GeForce 210 (using
nouveau driver); Sound: ATI SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA)

Is the catchup online, their reply sounds like a challenge to figure out how can watch it :wink:

Am in Australia and our ABC.net.au Iview ABC NEWS find on Firefox can only view their “ABC News24” while on chromium can watch all programs.

(Firefox problem report suggests shockwave flash needs update.)

It depends on what you are doing.

If you are providing IT consulting, you probably want to be ahead of the game and familiar with what is going to need the most troubleshooting and repair … and, thus, will deliver the most revenue to your coffers.:wink: