Free upgrade for 5+ years! I am yet to find something bad about it.
(I'm not counting the STUPID settings app, because that's Win8's doing)
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I would be indecisive
first it looks like a good offer to upgrade for free
but what about after the first year then they slap you with a fee to continue using it. or what if your windows system craps out and you have to do a reinstall you would need a key in which you werent given one. then you have to drop $200 on a key jut to continue using it.
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but what about after the first year then they slap you with a fee to continue using it. or what if your windows system craps out and you have to do a reinstall you would need a key in which you werent given one. then you have to drop $200 on a key jut to continue using it.
After the first year you will not have to pay for anything, and there will not be a "fee" involved regardless of how many blowhard journalists try to say that this is Microsoft moving to a "Subscription based" model.
Also if you want to reinstall you can use an ISO. You do receive a key for the new version via the upgrade process.
I would be indecisive
first it looks like a good offer to upgrade for free
but what about after the first year then they slap you with a fee to continue using it. or what if your windows system craps out and you have to do a reinstall you would need a key in which you werent given one. then you have to drop $200 on a key jut to continue using it.
1) Once you have it installed there's no other fees or subscriptions.
2) In the Q&A, it reads this:
Yes. Once you’ve upgraded to Windows 10 using the free upgrade offer, you will be able to reinstall, including a clean install, on the same device. You won’t need to purchase Windows 10 or go back to your prior version of Windows and upgrade again.
You’ll also be able to create your own installation media like a USB drive or DVD, and use that to upgrade your device or reinstall after you’ve upgraded.
So if you've upgraded you can get an ISO or install it again.
P.S. It costs $119, not 200.
I am of course going to upgrade to Windows 10. It doesn't have any incompatibilities with Minecraft and everything else like people believe. Dinnerbone made a tweet a couple days ago saying that the PC edition of Minecraft would be played fine on Windows 10 (I can't find the tweet for some reason). I think you should always upgrade to the latest operating system.
Regarding the upgrade itself: I'm not upgrading either my desktop or my laptop. I've run the previews for a while on my older desktop and nothing about Windows 10 makes it worth the effort of upgrading either of my systems. Furthermore, it has a large number of annoyances that put it in "negative points' territory when it comes to actually replacing the systems I am using.
- Start Button STILL doesn't sometimes stops working. This is a problem they have "fixed" pretty much every update for the past few weeks. When I press the windows key on Windows 8.1 I always get the start screen. With Windows 10 sometimes the Start Menu simply won't appear at all and I need to reboot the system one or more times until it works- which requires me to start task manager with Control+Shift+Escape because, again, no way to open the start menu. even Winkey+R didn't do anything.
- Cortana is pointless. Though I have to say the "You're system administrator has disabled me :(" message makes me happy after fiddling with gpedit. At least it can be disabled, unlike desktop web search...
- Still haven't found a way to disable the web search. It takes far too long to show relevant results. When I search for "word" I want to start word. The first result should not be the dictionary definition of "word" as found via bing, and I should not have to wait nearly a full minute for the search tool to reach out across the web. I want to start a local program.
- Non-customizable window borders. This is oddly a deal-breaker for me. The borders on windows are completely gone pretty much, for consistency with the window style used by the windowed Modern UI applications. Every time I need to resize a window on Windows 10 I am reminded of this, and it infuriates me because it makes a very basic feature (resizing windows) a pain in the ass simply to be consistent with the compatibility shim they put into their latest and greatest app platform to make it work like their existing desktop programs.
Ideally they would address these before release, but hopefully now that release day approaches it is something they will address later via their "rolling release" approach.
Windows 8.1 will continue to work for the foreseeable future anyway. Having the latest and greatest version of an OS only guarantees that you also get the latest and greatest problems.
Regarding the upgrade itself: I'm not upgrading either my desktop or my laptop. I've run the previews for a while on my older desktop and nothing about Windows 10 makes it worth the effort of upgrading either of my systems. Furthermore, it has a large number of annoyances that put it in "negative points' territory when it comes to actually replacing the systems I am using.
- Start Button STILL doesn't sometimes stops working. This is a problem they have "fixed" pretty much every update for the past few weeks. When I press the windows key on Windows 8.1 I always get the start screen. With Windows 10 sometimes the Start Menu simply won't appear at all and I need to reboot the system one or more times until it works- which requires me to start task manager with Control+Shift+Escape because, again, no way to open the start menu. even Winkey+R didn't do anything.
- Cortana is pointless. Though I have to say the "You're system administrator has disabled me :(" message makes me happy after fiddling with gpedit. At least it can be disabled, unlike desktop web search...
- Still haven't found a way to disable the web search. It takes far too long to show relevant results. When I search for "word" I want to start word. The first result should not be the dictionary definition of "word" as found via bing, and I should not have to wait nearly a full minute for the search tool to reach out across the web. I want to start a local program.
- Non-customizable window borders. This is oddly a deal-breaker for me. The borders on windows are completely gone pretty much, for consistency with the window style used by the windowed Modern UI applications. Every time I need to resize a window on Windows 10 I am reminded of this, and it infuriates me because it makes a very basic feature (resizing windows) a pain in the ass simply to be consistent with the compatibility shim they put into their latest and greatest app platform to make it work like their existing desktop programs.
Ideally they would address these before release, but hopefully now that release day approaches it is something they will address later via their "rolling release" approach.
Windows 8.1 will continue to work for the foreseeable future anyway. Having the latest and greatest version of an OS only guarantees that you also get the latest and greatest problems.
But when 8.1 was released didn't people complain about similar problems?
Regarding the upgrade itself: I'm not upgrading either my desktop or my laptop. I've run the previews for a while on my older desktop and nothing about Windows 10 makes it worth the effort of upgrading either of my systems. Furthermore, it has a large number of annoyances that put it in "negative points' territory when it comes to actually replacing the systems I am using.
- Start Button STILL doesn't sometimes stops working. This is a problem they have "fixed" pretty much every update for the past few weeks. When I press the windows key on Windows 8.1 I always get the start screen. With Windows 10 sometimes the Start Menu simply won't appear at all and I need to reboot the system one or more times until it works- which requires me to start task manager with Control+Shift+Escape because, again, no way to open the start menu. even Winkey+R didn't do anything.
- Cortana is pointless. Though I have to say the "You're system administrator has disabled me :(" message makes me happy after fiddling with gpedit. At least it can be disabled, unlike desktop web search...
- Still haven't found a way to disable the web search. It takes far too long to show relevant results. When I search for "word" I want to start word. The first result should not be the dictionary definition of "word" as found via bing, and I should not have to wait nearly a full minute for the search tool to reach out across the web. I want to start a local program.
- Non-customizable window borders. This is oddly a deal-breaker for me. The borders on windows are completely gone pretty much, for consistency with the window style used by the windowed Modern UI applications. Every time I need to resize a window on Windows 10 I am reminded of this, and it infuriates me because it makes a very basic feature (resizing windows) a pain in the ass simply to be consistent with the compatibility shim they put into their latest and greatest app platform to make it work like their existing desktop programs.
Ideally they would address these before release, but hopefully now that release day approaches it is something they will address later via their "rolling release" approach.
Windows 8.1 will continue to work for the foreseeable future anyway. Having the latest and greatest version of an OS only guarantees that you also get the latest and greatest problems.
I think that the local search is tied into the Cortana package because you can't remove it with Powershell (Error saying it's part of Windows and can't be removed.) and manually removing it breaks the search bar along with Cortana. However in Cortana's settings you can go and set it to only search locally, don't know if that's what you are looking for or not. I don't use the search outside of Explorer which still works and it hasn't seemed to have broken anything else. I figure after some more testing and figuring out how to remove it from the all apps menu I am going to do that on my main system. IIRC that's the only modern app I have had trouble removing so far.
In this video I go over whether or not you should update to Windows 10. Enjoy!
You damn well should!!!
Free upgrade for 5+ years! I am yet to find something bad about it.
(I'm not counting the STUPID settings app, because that's Win8's doing)
Yes its very quietNOT ANYMOREI would be indecisive
first it looks like a good offer to upgrade for free
but what about after the first year then they slap you with a fee to continue using it. or what if your windows system craps out and you have to do a reinstall you would need a key in which you werent given one. then you have to drop $200 on a key jut to continue using it.
Adam Webb
Computer Technician
Magnus IT Computer Repair
After the first year you will not have to pay for anything, and there will not be a "fee" involved regardless of how many blowhard journalists try to say that this is Microsoft moving to a "Subscription based" model.
Also if you want to reinstall you can use an ISO. You do receive a key for the new version via the upgrade process.
1) Once you have it installed there's no other fees or subscriptions.
2) In the Q&A, it reads this:
So if you've upgraded you can get an ISO or install it again.
P.S. It costs $119, not 200.
I am of course going to upgrade to Windows 10. It doesn't have any incompatibilities with Minecraft and everything else like people believe. Dinnerbone made a tweet a couple days ago saying that the PC edition of Minecraft would be played fine on Windows 10 (
I can't find the tweet for some reason). I think you should always upgrade to the latest operating system.Edit: Found Dinnerbone's tweet: https://twitter.com/Dinnerbone/status/625946681847218176
Regarding the upgrade itself: I'm not upgrading either my desktop or my laptop. I've run the previews for a while on my older desktop and nothing about Windows 10 makes it worth the effort of upgrading either of my systems. Furthermore, it has a large number of annoyances that put it in "negative points' territory when it comes to actually replacing the systems I am using.
- Start Button STILL doesn't sometimes stops working. This is a problem they have "fixed" pretty much every update for the past few weeks. When I press the windows key on Windows 8.1 I always get the start screen. With Windows 10 sometimes the Start Menu simply won't appear at all and I need to reboot the system one or more times until it works- which requires me to start task manager with Control+Shift+Escape because, again, no way to open the start menu. even Winkey+R didn't do anything.
- Cortana is pointless. Though I have to say the "You're system administrator has disabled me :(" message makes me happy after fiddling with gpedit. At least it can be disabled, unlike desktop web search...
- Still haven't found a way to disable the web search. It takes far too long to show relevant results. When I search for "word" I want to start word. The first result should not be the dictionary definition of "word" as found via bing, and I should not have to wait nearly a full minute for the search tool to reach out across the web. I want to start a local program.
- Non-customizable window borders. This is oddly a deal-breaker for me. The borders on windows are completely gone pretty much, for consistency with the window style used by the windowed Modern UI applications. Every time I need to resize a window on Windows 10 I am reminded of this, and it infuriates me because it makes a very basic feature (resizing windows) a pain in the ass simply to be consistent with the compatibility shim they put into their latest and greatest app platform to make it work like their existing desktop programs.
Ideally they would address these before release, but hopefully now that release day approaches it is something they will address later via their "rolling release" approach.
Windows 8.1 will continue to work for the foreseeable future anyway. Having the latest and greatest version of an OS only guarantees that you also get the latest and greatest problems.
But when 8.1 was released didn't people complain about similar problems?
I'm back
Of things not working? no the start screen worked right off never recall having issues and I updated to both day 1.
I think that the local search is tied into the Cortana package because you can't remove it with Powershell (Error saying it's part of Windows and can't be removed.) and manually removing it breaks the search bar along with Cortana. However in Cortana's settings you can go and set it to only search locally, don't know if that's what you are looking for or not. I don't use the search outside of Explorer which still works and it hasn't seemed to have broken anything else. I figure after some more testing and figuring out how to remove it from the all apps menu I am going to do that on my main system. IIRC that's the only modern app I have had trouble removing so far.
Too poor to afford my certs.