That's just pure evil, and should never be forced to exist. People should always be able to buy a current version outright, to force the cloud rented OS feature even on the average joe is madness. It might work for some companies but I want to own it. Good thing I went Mac, as Apple hasn't indicated plans for this kind of scumbaggery, and the alternative is probably Ubuntu.
So....they have already started developing Windows Vista 3.0 the Windows Store & Cortana are the first steps in this pure Evil plan...MS amazingly managed to put a fancy spyware on Windows & is fooling everyone by saying how "cool" & "personal" it is & how it "learns about you & your stuffs" & then there is the store,which is slowly trying to create an environment where only the apps allowed by MS will run on Windows & that's pretty much evident from the replacement of the Win32 apps with their "Modern" counterparts...What's with MS & this crap cloud computing??? why would someone want to share all of their detailed info & files with MS & friends??
Glad I have been using Ubuntu and WPS Office/LibreOffice for quite some years. Once these clowns at Redmond really force all these cloud BS over us, I'll have to ditch Windows.
Sorry guys, but this is more BS, just like what was being spouted around the media when Microsoft said Windows 10 would be free. The important part is 'if this is TRUE' Considering how much trouble Microsoft went to, to explain that the 'Free for the first year' quote meant you didn't have to pay if you upgraded in the first year. I don't think theres anyway they'd do something like this. Or if they tried it would backfire massively on them. More importantly, Windows 10 is basically Windows 8.x with a facelift. It was never designed to be a subscription based Operating System and would need a lot more than a 'Facelift' to make it work that way. If this is TRUE it will be for Windows 11+ not Windows 10.
Thanks for the insight! I could not figure out why itunes no longer launched. I rolled back the AMD driver as you suggested and now itunes is working again.
So is this free upgrade a download overwrite? or is it a clean reinstall numerous times? or something that overwrites your current install and is a one time only? If it is the latter it is of really no use ... correct? Does if overwrite daz? Regards