I have windows 8.1 with legal key.Can I update to 10 or should I wait awhile for bugs ect.Also,will my key still wiork after update to 10?Thanks. If ok to update,where is link?thanks.
It's still the timebombed EVAL which will activate automatically with the default Preview key. For more info check the PREVIEW REPO link in my sig.
Working hard or hardly working? Amirite? Or MS just lying hard to try to sell on corporate users; which won't happen. Businesses don't give a sh** about modern UI apps.
^^^ Maybe natural migration, of no real proof because it is within variation and the ones finally migrating would report that. With windows 8, 8.1 we have start menu classic, my favorite metro app, that lets you almost wipe out any sign of metro and forget about it. The problem is it still takes resources. With windows 10 it is in your face with pinned task icons that you can not get rid of "yet". That and the garbage on the start menu which you also need to get rid of, store, skippy etc. What corps want is all their employees to come in bright and early and click the search icon to see how they can waste their day. I like the add desktop but want it in the start menu and the mouse wheel following the pointer is well welcomed. I again think the decisions made by M$ are by kids that walk around with phones and none were born with the invention of the intel 8086 and MS DOS, how did IBM's world domination hold out? There is a whole world out there, governments and corporations, that back bone for productivity are desktops. Now about this world domination thing. We would like to make windows 10 all that it can be, will not be getting alive account, so we post here . Regards
^^^^ Yes but I hope u understand that I agree to disagree and not all corps do or have the time to deal with it. As far as I can see, to date, OS 10 will be another one that I will bypass on the corporate level, the OS's people actually pay for. That is M$ decision and for me and knowing how to get around we will not be incorporating this into our workflow, from what I see from its current development. We have that right and the right to push buttons in a hope of a professional alternative. Regards
I can see this. I have installed a lot of Windows 7 on company CPU's, I mean a lot. And I know of a lot of retail out lets that have Vista on there POS systems.
Vista has lower market share because M$ failed to market their product due to lack of stability and speed optimization and technically there wasn't much difference b/w xp and vista and People considered xp more solid as compared to vista
Longhorn Well, seriously, if Microsoft doesn't attract enough people from Windows 7 with their new shiny Windows 10, Windows 7 will become the XP 2.0 (in terms of how no one wants it to die)
Are you kidding me? The changes to the OS were huge. They rewrote the networking stack, the audio stack, they introduced the DWM, UAC, WDDM, etc. That's what actually caused the stability and performance issues, there were huge changes, and they had to release it unfinished because they lost so much time during the Longhorn reset. After SP1 and better driver support, it was actually a pretty decent OS, but it's reputation was already damaged. Windows 7 final-fixed and polished the system and became a huge success, but it wouldn't have been possible without the fundamental work done with Vista, which was, again, huge. The problem with Windows 8 is that it could have been like, but isn't, Windows 10. If they had decided to design Windows 8 a little more like Windows 10 now (an optional Start menu, Store-apps in floating-windows, Continuum-adapation, etc.), and if people are going to like Windows 10, it will be obvious that Windows 8 remains as "an avoidable disaster". I mean, they were bold in their no-compromises, touch-first (and foremost) way, but at some points you wished they would have been a little more conservative. They went like a bull at a gate to the tablet market, and a lot of people saw it coming that it won't work out, but they were so focused on their way that they never gave it a second thought.
Yah, Vista is extremely different under the hood than xp. It's like the difference between an old car and a mag-lev train. Nobody who knows anything about the inner-workings of an OS would ever suggest that Vista was too similar to XP. Vista had lower market share because it was a garbage OS. Everyone who knew anything about Operating Systems knew that it tried to do too much and was too unpolished. Even after 2 service packs, it's still bad. Whenever you do anything with the CBS or hardware, it chugs your hard disk for like a day straight.