Windows 10 is 5 years old

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  1. ohenry

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  2. Carlos Detweiller

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    Five years later, it's still an OS you don't need to buy.
    Five years later, KMS still works.
    Five years later, free upgrade is still available.
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  3. Mr.X

    Mr.X MDL Guru

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    Five years later "improving" the perfect advertising machine...
     
  4. luzea

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    5 years later and old control panel is still present.
     
  5. Enthousiast

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    Insiders are coming up on 6 years
    1st Build (9841) was released on 1 Oct. 2014.
     
  7. El_Heffe

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    Nope.

    I'm still using 1809 because everything after that is unstable garbage that sucks. 1809 suffers from the design flaws that all Win10 versions have, but it is has the least suckage.
     
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    I would agree that it does get better (mostly). But off the top of my head, I can't think of anything that has been added or updated in the last 5 years that was really a major improvement. Nothing earth shaking, nothing revolutionary. I am running the latest production version of Windows 10, but I feel fairly certain that I could get by just fine with Windows 8.1 or 7 or even Vista, as long as my hardware was supported.
     
  11. R29k

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    You have some other issue, I never had instability with 10.
     
  12. Michel

    Michel MDL Expert

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    LOL! i never faced issues with windows 10. Your machine is probably the problem.
     
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    #13 cbsvitzer, Jul 30, 2020
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    In fact, the KMS protocol has not been changed since 2013.
    Perhaps Microsoft fired all the people that could renew the system!
     
  14. Mr.X

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    Ignorance and stupidity probably is.
    I don't use "AdMachina10" but my friend came the other day with a sound issue. Damn driver update was the culprit. And this issue replicate ad infinitum I have read on many forums. Poor girl lost 4 days of online school sessions. This never happened to me on prior Winblows versions. How about that?
     
  15. zen45

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    and after all this time it still locks up on me on outlook mail or facebook if i let it set for a while it seems to correct itself, i have plenty of memory so thats not it, internet speed is good, i think its related to a combination of the edge browser and windows update. i see where MS has said dont use CC any more for cleaning up your browser or registry !
     
  16. mhussain

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    well the biggest change from my point of err view should I say is
    the ability to run windows narrator when the dvd is booted i'm blind so I can now install windows 10 with out sited assistence.
     
  17. WindowsGeek

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    Decent improvements in its 5 year development :)
     
  18. case-sensitive

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    >Windows 10 is 5 years old

    WOW !!! When will it finaly reach the beta stage ?
     
  19. SacredKnight81

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    Generally been happy with it. I certainly don't miss 7 at all the way I did when 8 was around. Its just the visual consistency that's maddening. Only instability I ever had outside of an Insider build was the high latency issue from...1903 was it?
     
  20. MS_User

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    its gotten a lot better over the years to my surprise;).