10 reasons Windows 10 is better than Chrome OS and Mac OS X

Economic Times ^ | 07/21/2015 | Krystle Vermes

[Bubba_Leroy]

Well excuse the Frak out of me.

I miss MS-DOS. It never crashed.

All I needed were MS-DOS, Lotus 123 and WordPerfect along with a stack of 5.25 inch floppy disks. Then Algore went and invented this Intertube thingie and it all went to hell.

[Bubba_Leroy]

They renamed it about 2 months ago, but I was too stupid to know that.

http://www.kitguru.net/channel/generaltech/matthew-wilson/the-spartan-browser-has-been-renamed-to-microsoft-edge/

[__rvx86]

I’m typing this on an x86 computer running Windows (NT) 10 RTM.

[dayglored]

The "Economic Times" (of India) thinks you should switch to Windows 10 ... PING!

You can find all the Windows Ping list threads with FR search: just search on keyword "windowspinglist".

Thanks to Swordmaker for the ping!!

[SWAMPSNIPER]

When they prove that all my software will work I’ll consider it.

[Dalberg-Acton]

You missed some. Like 2000 and the two NT versions that preceded it.

[Utilizer]

Try Mepis Linux. Stable and reliable across many machines and incredibly easy to install and use.

I have been recommending it to customers for years. :)

[Lurkina.n.Learnin]

Will there still be a windows media player or will we be forced to Xbo?

[MayflowerMadam]

“I miss MS-DOS. It never crashed. All I needed were MS-DOS, Lotus 123 and WordPerfect.”

Amen to that! Also Paradox instead of Access. Word sucked so much that I bought a WordPerfect program, then found out they’d “Word-ized” it so much that I didn’t even bother with it. DOS WordPerfect was so powerful!

[Bubba_Leroy]

Will there still be a windows media player or will we be forced to Xbo?

Windows Media Player is crap. Use VLC Media Player. I have used it in its various versions for over 10 years. It plays all audio and video media formats.

[miliantnutcase]

I’m enjoying windows 10. Extremely fast.

[amigatec]

We have heard MS make all these promises before, heck MS invented vaporware.

[raybbr]

Does anyone know if the download can be used for more than one PC?

[Cold Heat]

10.1

lol

[Cold Heat]

Far as I know, each download is tailored to the individual device...it will have it’s own code number and it’s free, for a while anyway..

Like any MS OS, you can’t use it on another device and this will download and install like a beta test.

On thing I might add, is that it may not be reversible on many machines, so......back it up and do a image.

[Cold Heat]

I agree....I use VLC and can’t find a reason to knock it..

[Squawk 8888]

2000, XP and subsequent versions were all based on the NT kernel which loaded directly, while 3.1, 95, 98 and ME all loaded on top of DOS. There was a startup switch in 9x and ME that would boot to the DOS prompt, at which point one could load the GUI by typing “win”. For a couple of years Novell servers were running on Win98 machines using this switch because NetWare was not a standalone OS; the NetWare server software was actually a DOS app.

[Cold Heat]

Late to the game and Apple can make a policy change to match. And, not a Windows 10 feature.

One drive was introduced with win 8.1 in 2013..so it is not new but is still a feature included in win 10 which is good for some people..I use a networked drive for backup and I move a copy off site.

[Neidermeyer]

You can’t be sure of that. There was no Windows 9.
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Two reasons why there wasn’t a win9 ,, first poorly written software might check the win version and only care about WIN9_ where _ is a wildcard ,, 95 98 98se etc. etc.

Second is psychological ,, had to skip a number to make a clean break and not suggest that it’s just the “next” number... ,, we skipped a number so it’s WAY better!!! Yippee.

[tacticalogic]

We’ve heard this song-and-dance before. . .

I don't recall ever seeing this particular list of features in a previous release.

Anybody else remember "hearing this song and dance" before?