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Post by MartinT on Jul 18, 2015 7:27:27 GMT
It's confirmed, 10240 is RTM so Windows 10 is here! Earlier than expected, too. Beautifully finished, very fast and stable as far as I have tested. The included apps like Mail, Calendar & People are grown up compared with the 8.1 versions and every application I've installed works fine. The integration and sharing across the Microsoft account are better than ever, especially OneDrive cloud storage that is integral to central storage and can be used exclusively for the tablet and phone editions, where storage is tight.
I think this OS is going to do well.
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Post by John on Jul 18, 2015 10:28:08 GMT
Yes I got 10240 installed on both the laptop and PC
Using Bug Head with the PC right now and I am pretty sure it has also had a positive effect on SQ. Listening to Louis and Duke and the music is so alive and swings so well so a nice bonus
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Post by stanleyb on Jul 21, 2015 8:18:40 GMT
I am starting to get a bit paranoid about the fact that some of my software might not run on W10. I just could not afford to wait and then buy a W10 compatible version if and when they are released. Some of the stuff cost a lot more than the computers I run them on. I shall have to use one of my laptops as a guinea pig and install W10 on that, followed by the critical programs that I need to have working even under w10. If they don't work then I shall have to keep my main laptop locked to W8.1.
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Post by MartinT on Jul 21, 2015 8:40:14 GMT
You could make a VM and run W10 under W8.1 just for testing out your applications, Stan? If all is good, upgrade the W8.1.
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Post by MikeMusic on Jul 21, 2015 8:52:40 GMT
Is there an idea of how much W10 will cost *after* we have the free version up and running
My guess is £x per year or you are stuck
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Post by MartinT on Jul 21, 2015 9:58:24 GMT
There is no cost for the free version. Free means free.
Subsequent copies I believe will start at £99.
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Post by gazjam on Jul 21, 2015 12:36:30 GMT
Is there an idea of how much W10 will cost *after* we have the free version up and running My guess is £x per year or you are stuck Think if MS do this they will shoot themselves in the foot, especially after gaining some traction again after the Windows 8 rollout. Think if they do it will send a lot of people to running pirate copies. |
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Post by MartinT on Jul 21, 2015 14:25:18 GMT
They've been quite explicit and open about it.
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Post by MikeMusic on Jul 21, 2015 16:40:21 GMT
There is no cost for the free version. Free means free. Subsequent copies I believe will start at £99. Really, really ? Why would they do that ? Anti Mac marketing ? |
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Post by MartinT on Jul 21, 2015 18:30:30 GMT
Ancillary purchases from the Store, goodwill, brand image etc. They make plenty from corporate purchases of Server, Exchange, SQL etc.
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Post by gazjam on Jul 24, 2015 9:36:08 GMT
So no talk of ongoing subscription Martin like Office?
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Post by MartinT on Jul 24, 2015 11:31:49 GMT
I don't know how much clearer I can be: if you take advantage of the Windows 10 free upgrade offer then it's free! What happens afterwards is down to Microsoft. Frankly, I think people should pay for an OS as good as this.
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Post by MikeMusic on Jul 24, 2015 12:06:17 GMT
I had a certain company you and I know very well, promise we could have our software upgraded free of charge from XP to W7 when W7 was judge by them to be stable enough
We queried this in 2009 when the new kit came in with XP.
That changed =, after some arguing to
"You buy W7 and we'll install for free."
Not really happy I agreed
We decided to upgrade the PC as well.
£400 for the software upgrade
By the letter they are right as that was not what they agreed to.
Morally they are what I'd expect from the company they are
This is the world we live in
Who do you trust
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Post by MartinT on Jul 24, 2015 14:55:01 GMT
I can't vouch for any of them, but right now I would trust Microsoft more than Apple or Google.
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Post by Clive on Jul 24, 2015 15:51:05 GMT
I'm sure MS hope people will pay for Office 365 or Windows Media Player (if only to get the ability to play DVDs). There's plenty of free software that's pretty much as good as Office but I'm sure some will pay for Office. I have no doubt that when MS say it's free it is free.
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Post by stanleyb on Jul 24, 2015 16:32:22 GMT
I am still using Office 2007.
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Post by stanleyb on Jul 28, 2015 20:18:16 GMT
I have backed up the laptop that I am going to use to try out W10. It's a 3 year old Vaio VPC-Z23K9E/B that cost more than two grands then. But because of the small screen I had to put it aside and get something bigger when my eye sight got worse. It's a nice little i7 machine though with a speed up to 3.4GHz and HD performance in excess of SATA3. So I am eager to get back to using it for speed intensive work.
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Post by stanleyb on Jul 29, 2015 15:56:34 GMT
This update is not going so well. Failed to install a few times. I is downloading again so hopefully I am a bit luckier this time round.
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Post by zippy on Jul 29, 2015 16:21:27 GMT
I see that the download has completed on my main PC but not yet on my laptop or tablet.
Just waiting for the "we'll let you know when its ready to install" stage...
I'm very tempted to click on 'setup.exe' to see if I can force it !!
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Post by stanleyb on Jul 29, 2015 18:51:29 GMT
Open a CMD prompt as administrator and type wuauclt.exe /updatenow followed the enter key. That should normally force W10 to load and install.
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