So, are you upgrading?
With a Pentium CPU, DX12 is really hyping the heck out of me and it makes me undecided if I should wait a few years and get the best gaming laptop (a one-place PC would be useless for me) or get a new HDD for this one. Just waiting to see, just waiting to see...
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I have the option sitting in my taskbar to upgrade for awhile now, but I chose to wait till its more tested & further along. Even after official release, it will likely need some more work. I may wait a lil while after just to see how its going, but I will certainly upgrade when I feel comfortable with it.
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i've used the preview versions since the windows 7 preview, and i've only ever had one single game (some free2play i wasn't interested in but was tied to steam event-specific achievements) not run as a result. it seemed to be using some sort of anti-cheating system that was like "windows 8? i don't know what that is so to be safe to everyone else i just won't let you play"
of course you might play a different set of games than i do and they might need to be patched i guess.
with windows 10 preview i'm on the fast update track and have had no problems with any games. the only issues have been when they broke search on the start menu and when they set it to use zoomed-in low-res icons.
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Actually it's already very solid. I've been using the preview builds since they released them in October and it's been stable the entire time. I've been pretty impressed. I'm very ready to run it on my daily driver desktop at home.
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Minesweeper and the Solitaire stuff were removed from the default installation of Win8 but are available via MS-store for free. In Win10 those games will be pre-installed again. This news came out a while ago but was overshadowed by the typical internet-outrage when people discovered this also applies to a version of Candy Crush Saga
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just yesterday i put windows 7's games onto windows 8.1 for my mother-in-law because nobody wanted her to have to create a microsoft account to download ms solitaire collection. if it was already on there like it seems to be in my windows 10 install she probably would have just used that.
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will likely switch all my pc's over to it a couple months after its out and they have worked out some bugs,it is supposedly going to be the last version of windows made (they will just keep updating it) so we will all likely be running it sooner or later.
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But... but... Microsoft said it's July 29th... Ok, I trust you more, than Microsoft :)
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Windows 10 will come with candy crush pre-installed. In case someone needs another reason not to upgrade soon !
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I still use Microsoft BOB Win10 GUI doesn't make me feel at home ;)
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Any upgrade done from a pirated copy of Windows 7 or 8 will still be flagged as pirated, with all the "functionality" that conveys (desktop resets to black every 60 minutes, permanent nag notification, etc.) I have no idea what Microsoft's angle is there, since only a complete moron would "upgrade" from, say, a perfectly functional, cracked copy of Win7 x64 Ultimate (cough, ahem) to a flagged install of Windows 10 instead of simply waiting for it to appear as a torrent.
I haven't owned a legitimate copy of Windows since my first prebuilt PC (which sported a 300MHz Celeron, for dating purposes). If Microsoft ever pulls its head out and starts offering bare/"enthusiast" licenses for $30 or so, I'll happily give them my money; until then, I have zero desire to subsidize their soccer-mom tech support network or their various brilliant forays into other segments (e.g. the Zune, GFWL, $2.5 billion game acquisitions which they subsequently do absolutely nothing with and so on).
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i want to upgrade asap since some months ago some shit happened to my win7 and now i have every day a warning saying that my copy is not authentic (which of course is false, it's is a somewhat common problem and not so easy to solve); my plan is to profit this microsoft policy and get back to legitimacy my windows machine going win10. what i don't want is being flagged, in whatever way.
can you confirm that not authentic upgrades are going to be flagged as pirate?
in that case i'd sort out a new win7 licence.
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This exactly. You'll still get a free upgrade to 10, but it won't make your copy of window legit or activated.
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I prefer to wait i have a lot of programs that i use a lot and don't know if works correctly on new windows 10, also emulators and games etc..
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Have been using the latest version of Windows since Windows 7 Milestone 1. Never had a problem upgrading as soon as possible since that moment and I don't expect any real problems with W10 either.
First weekend after release will be the moment I install W10 on my laptop, unless weird shit happens like all systems bricking after installing W10 somehow.
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I've been using Windows 10 at work since the first technical preview builds were released back in October 2014. I was VERY pleasantly surprised that even then it was pretty well polished (though without all the final features enabled). Each month or so since then they've introduced a new feature and added it to the technical preview build.
I've had absolutely no stability issues in the 8 months I've been running the pre-release builds so I have to imagine the release build will be quite stable and ready to go. It seems as though they actually got this release right.
I very much like the combination of Win7 style start menu and the tiles from Win8 as it lends a degree of customization to the start menu that previously hadn't really been there.
I like the ability to snap to 4 quadrants of the screen as well instead of just left and right halves.
I ESPECIALLY LOVE the addition of "desktops" (think workspaces from most Linux distros). This has been something I've been wanting in a stock Windows implementation for some time now and I don't have any idea why it took them this long to do it.
Spartan is fine, though I'm sure I'll largely ignore it and continue using Chrome.
The Xbox app is interesting, but probably more so to those that actually play console too. I have a 360 but almost never touch the thing.
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we tried Win10 (an early build) in a VM, and i kind of like the new start menu, too. i will miss my selfmade custom button though: http://puu.sh/i8nBP/43aec93dc7.jpg ^^
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Hhaahahahahahahahaaa
I'm sure you'll be able to replace the standard image though in 10 too
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yeah, i'm sure there is a way to do that. on win8 it was simple, since i use StartIsBack, which has this functionality integrated. i guess it does nothing else but to overwrite a file, or maybe a registry entry.
just found my first and only piece of art:
http://www.deviantart.com/art/Windows-8-start-button-weed-for-StartIsBack-V2-404671648
:)
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does project spartan actually work for you? for me it usually pops up and then immediately disappears
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I've not had that problem yet. I'll try using it some more today and see if it gives me any trouble. Either way, it's not something that will probably make or break the release for most of us type folks as generally we are the type of demographic that's going to opt for Chrome/Firefox/Opera, but it's definitely something I'd expect them to be able to get working right.
Have you done and clean installs from an updated image or have you just had the built in windows update client do the near full upgrades from month to month releases?
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yeah i don't see how something that looks like a new browser we didn't have before would keep anyone from upgrading, and i am nowhere near considering it as a default browser choice, but i would like to verify that my website works in it.
i've done a clean install twice from the original technical preview (or whatever it was called) iso, then set it to fast updates and let it keep up-to-date. the latest clean install was right after project spartan got added.
i figured it was acting the same for everyone, but maybe it quits if it can't start one of the services i disabled or i did something else to break it.
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found this in the application error log, which doesn't tell me much:
Activation of app Microsoft.Windows.Spartan_cw5n1h2txyewy!Microsoft.Spartan.Spartan failed with error: The remote procedure call failed. See the Microsoft-Windows-TWinUI/Operational log for additional information.
googling that entire message turned up a powershell script that loops over all apps and turns off development mode. now it doesn't do anything at all when i try to launch spartan (doesn't even close the start menu) but that guy says i have to reboot for it to take effect, so maybe it'll work next time i boot.
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You realize that's only for the technical previews, right?
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I'd keep this just in case.
http://forums.mydigitallife.info/threads/57339-Guide-Way-to-Disable-Keylogger
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Just spotted on microsoft.com, doesn't get a lot more official than that...
So, who is moving, who's waiting it out for a bit
Update: changed thread title to reflect current information
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