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Exciting news from MS yesterday

9 years ago

W10 will be a FREE upgrade for all W7 or 8 users and will come with a new browser that speaks kinda like Siri. How kewl is that? later this yr. it will be out.

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anne_ct
9 years ago
"FREE" only for one year...but it still remains an exciting offer. It's an easy way for MS to work the glitches out of W10...and to hopefully increase their popularity. :-) Also very interesting is the planned demise of IE. For a while both IE and the new browser will be available with W10...but I, personally, don't think that'll last too long.

I won't be first in line...but I'll be watching the calendar. ;-)

Anne
mikie_gw
9 years ago
Apparently its Free UPGRADE to win10 insiders users/beta-testers, as well as win7 thru win8.1 licensed users.

Apparently most anyone beta testing would have a chance at free too. So xp, Linux, etc. Free for all that load the previews.

This post was edited by mikie on Fri, Jan 23, 15 at 13:56
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jane__ny
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Anne it will be free to anyone as long as they install it within the year. It doesn't end after the year. They are giving users one year to install.

Jane
Elmer J Fudd
9 years ago
I have an iPad with Siri and also a Android phone with about the same capability, and I find neither to be so useful as to warrant regular use. Similarly, my two family members with iPhones tell me they rarely use Siri when out and about. I'm not sure how much different such an onboard feature in Windows would be.

Microsoft's offer to upgrade everyone to Win 10 is likely for its benefit, not that of users. In 12 months or so, after the upgrade to Win 10 period has passed, expect to hear that Microsoft will be ending security and other maintenance services for any earlier versions.

Is that sinister? No. It's just practical. I'm sure they realize how much effort they wasted with XP hanging on for so many years. It's much better to bring everyone up to current and then move one.
aputernut
Original Author
9 years ago
Question do you think as with all new OS's that we will need to burn new recovery disks? after we install W10.
anne_ct
9 years ago
Jane...I thought that's what I said....but perhaps my eyesight needs checking. :-) It's never 100% these days.

Snidely....

In 12 months or so, after the upgrade to Win 10 period has passed, expect to hear that Microsoft will be ending security and other maintenance services for any earlier versions.

I agree completely...and I agree with their probable decision to do so. As it is these days...there are still too many balls in the air IMO. I got a bit cranky years back when I couldn't get a few older graphics programs to work with my upgraded system...but in the long run...I found better programs and was glad for the push to do so.

Edited to remove confusing info.

Anne

This post was edited by anne_ct on Fri, Jan 23, 15 at 16:10
Elmer J Fudd
9 years ago
nut, I'm not sure if you intended your question for me, but I'll jump in.

You raise an interesting thought, in the following way. Many people don't bother to make recovery disks, and indeed they really don't need to, because so many (most or all?) PCs ship with a recovery partition on the hard drive.

So take a PC with Win7 on it. A year from now, the user does the free upgrade to Win10. If the offer for upgrades to Win10 from earlier versions is time limited, then the recovery sector is of no use. In that case, it would be essential to make Win10 recovery disk for each PC. I don't know if that guess describes what the state of affairs will be, or if something else may happen. Might PC manufacturers put out updates for the recovery sectors?

I'm sure more will be said about this topic by the normal sources when the time comes.

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