Win10 is free to current users of 7 and 8 but I'd wager it won't remain free. I suspect that to do anything useful on Win10 you'll have to buy apps from the MS Store. I also suspect that MS is trying to create a developer model for Win10 that emulates Apple's. I think they'll fail.
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"A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.”
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From the link Qqmike posted:
“We are upgrading all qualified PCs, genuine and non-genuine, to Windows 10,” says Terry Myerson, Microsoft’s Windows chief, in an interview with Reuters.
Someone must be spiking the water in Redmond.Comment
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10-yr life cycle ...
http://www.zdnet.com/article/microso...or-windows-10/An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way. Charles BukowskiComment
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Did the voters of Washington follow the lead of Colorado's voters?Originally posted by ronw View Post
"A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.”
– John F. Kennedy, February 26, 1962.Comment
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Slightly OT, but whilst my home is 100% kubuntu, work is (mostly) windows. We recently installed our first server running windows server 2012, and OMG........ they gave it that stupid windows 8 metro interface! On a server OS! For f**ks sake......
I have never used windows 8, so naturally I wasted hours trying to work out how to do all the simple stuff that worked the same way back to the NT4 days.
I mean..... just....... WHY?Comment
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Right. From MS FAQs:Originally posted by GreyGeek View Post
"The retail prices for Windows 10 are the same as Windows 8.1.6. Windows 10 Home is $119.99. Windows 10 Pro is $199.99. And Windows 10 Pro Pack, which enables you to upgrade from Windows 10 Home to Windows 10 Pro, is $99.99. All these are available in stores or online."Comment
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Come one, come all ...
What kind of mood are you in today?
http://www.amazon.com/Microsoft-Wind...Home%29+on+USB
http://www.amazon.com/Microsoft-Wind...7P3ESBT1W91QZRAn intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way. Charles BukowskiComment
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I run Win7 Pro on my other HDD, paid $33 for it; I'll probably upgrade a couple months after it's out. I have a spare copy of 8.1 Pro laying around somewhere- paid $35 for thatComment
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If I was a software engineer and was going to make an application, game, or whatnot....
I would show them all an incorporate my own bootable OS into my product. So when the consumers asks, "Will it run on my system?". My answer is "Hell yes! It will run on a freaking toaster plugged into a waffle iron!".
End of the OS wars in nutshell.Comment
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More news on Windows 10
Full article here -> http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-33637586Windows 10 is destined to change the way millions of us interact with our computers and gives Microsoft's chief executive, Satya Nadella, the opportunity to steer the company in a new direction.
He describes the OS as "Windows as a Service", which means he plans to release improvements as they become available, via the internet, rather than working towards another "big bang" upgrade in a few years.
So my question is "How many of you will be returning to Windows when 10 is released?"Comment
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July 29th -- now the roll-outs will appear sometime ...
http://lifehacker.com/the-best-new-f...-10-1680904614An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way. Charles BukowskiComment
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A couple weeks ago I scrubbed Win7 off of my Acer and gave the ENTIRE HD to 14.04.
I see no advantage in making endless micro payments to MS. In fact I predicted this move by MS several years ago in a post in which I described Win users doing some word processing and when the they hovered their mouse over a word with a squiggly red line under it they were presented with a popup asking if they'd like to purchase the spell-check feature. The big question being if they'd sell spell-checking based on a renewable subscription or per so many corrections?
In other words, how long will you get to use an app or feature before you are required to "re-subscribe"? The automatic updates will always go on in the background because the app you are using is full-featured, just not fully activated. MS will continue making their billions by nickel and dimeing their sheep.
As as far as Linux goes I have no objections to paying an annual subscription fee for either the distro or access to the repository as long as the result is the same freedoms I have now.Last edited by GreyGeek; Jul 30, 2015, 07:09 AM."A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.”
– John F. Kennedy, February 26, 1962.Comment
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I think a lot of apps are going to be subscription like Office365 or Adobe CS GOComment
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A perk of retirement I'm looking forward to. It will be with glee that I respond "Yes" to parted's warning that deleting that partition will destroy all data on it. It would be nice if parted detected Windows on the partition and offered a "Hell Yes!" button.Originally posted by GreyGeek View PostComment
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Eh, I haven't been following the Win10 news at all. I have like negative infinity interest in it. But if there were blue screens, I wouldn't be surprised!Originally posted by GreyGeek View PostAnyone notice if the live stream threw the obligatory Blue Screen of Death? (Sorry, Steve, I couldn't resist! )Comment
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