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Microsoft Windows 10 Will Be Available In 190 Countries And 111 Languages By This Summer
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| 03/19/2015
| Amit Chowdry
Posted on 03/19/2015 11:44:00 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: molson209
Will you get a Product Key with the free Upgrade?
Product key for Windows soon to be a thing of the past? (It's put in the BIOS by Microsoft since 8 or 8.1.)
To: NorthMountain
I just this week restored my Toshiba Win7 to out of the box condition. Was thinking of upgrading to Win8.1, since that’s what I’m running on my phone. It has 2 gig of ram and a 60 gig drive (aka cheap). Should I just wait and go straight to 10?
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posted on
03/19/2015 12:18:54 PM PDT
by
Excellence
(Marine mom since April 11, 2014)
To: Excellence
Your call.
Me? I’m not putting Win8.anything on any computer under my control.
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posted on
03/19/2015 12:22:18 PM PDT
by
NorthMountain
("The time has come", the Walrus said, "to talk of many things")
To: Resettozero
Stick with 7 or even 8.1 as long as possible, even if 10 is offered for free.I'm running the technical preview. One or two things are a little goofy but everything does the job or works exactly the same.
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posted on
03/19/2015 12:22:42 PM PDT
by
Stentor
("The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.")
To: NorthMountain
I had 8.1 on my Dell Inspiron and was happy, but the memory cards died.
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posted on
03/19/2015 12:25:43 PM PDT
by
Excellence
(Marine mom since April 11, 2014)
To: Stentor
One or two things are a little goofy but everything does the job or works exactly the same.
Same as 8.1 or...what? If you mean 8.1, I disagree.
To: Resettozero
Same as 8.1 or...what? If you mean 8.1, I disagree.Crappy writing on my part. I mean all of the non Microsoft stuff I use. Sorry. It is different than 8.1.
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posted on
03/19/2015 12:33:09 PM PDT
by
Stentor
("The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.")
To: the_individual2014
WIn-7 Pro here also. If Win-10 improves performance over the 7-Pro I might be interested.
The interface change would be a least of my concerns as long as the customizing ability is there.
I skipped 8.1, never even messed with it, no reason to.
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posted on
03/19/2015 12:51:02 PM PDT
by
MaxMax
(Pay Attention and you'll be pissed off too! FIRE BOEHNER, NOW!)
To: SeekAndFind
I liked it better when MS disappointed people in just a handful of languages.
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posted on
03/19/2015 12:51:55 PM PDT
by
SampleMan
(Feral Humans are the refuse of socialism.)
To: RayChuang88
it goes back to the Desktop user interface by default, not that weird Modern tiled interface that drove users crazy.
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Hallelujah !!!
To: SeekAndFind
XP killed a scanner and printer.
Win7 killed a laser printer and some old DOS programs.
IE10 kills a tabbed browser with editing features not found on other browsers.
I skipped VISTA and Win8.
What hardware and software Win10 kill?
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posted on
03/19/2015 1:20:25 PM PDT
by
TomGuy
To: the_individual2014
windows 7 type GUI
What idiot came up with ribbon menuing? That stuff is gosh-awful. Not only does it take up too much real estate, but it is difficult to navigate and find the functions.
What happened to buttons and blue-text links? They were easy to see, click on, and use. Win7 (and VISTA) changed from the buttons and blue links. Now, one has to move the mouse around to see if anything lights up.
The only advantage I found moving from XP to Win7 was the increased use of memory. Microsoft should have just upgraded XP with the capacity to use more memory.
Windows lost sight of productivity and replaced it with glitz. Glitz may be fine for those just wanting to check email and view Facebook, but it is not good when productivity is the objective.
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posted on
03/19/2015 1:29:16 PM PDT
by
TomGuy
To: SeekAndFind
WOW. A ‘free upgrade’ to a new microsoft product. Hmmm. I’ll wait a while. I’ll test out on a windows 8 machine I hardly use. I hate Windows 8. Just hate it.
To: Tennessee Nana
I couldn’t agree more. The Desktop user interface is far better suited for desktop and “conventional” laptop machines, especially in corporate and government environments.
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posted on
03/19/2015 1:49:48 PM PDT
by
RayChuang88
(FairTax: America's economic cure)
To: TomGuy
“Win7 killed a laser printer and some old DOS programs.”
While it’d be worthless for your laser printer, did you try DosBox with your old DOS programs? I was able to run a bunch of old PLD software without a hitch in DosBox not to mention several old games I had lying around. If not, check it out. It’s pretty slick if you have to run a lot of legacy applications and don’t want to set up VMs and the like.
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posted on
03/19/2015 2:12:42 PM PDT
by
edh
(I need a better tagline)
To: American in Israel
Wasn’t it an issue of systems being confused by the 9, i.e. thinking it was Windows 95 or 98?
Or just in a hurry to get to the magical double-digit...
To: edh
I have actually used DosBox. It is just inconvenient to have to load it to run an old DOS program.
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posted on
03/19/2015 2:59:02 PM PDT
by
TomGuy
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posted on
03/19/2015 3:52:35 PM PDT
by
Lurkina.n.Learnin
(It's a shame nobama truly doesn't care about any of this. Our country, our future, he doesn't care)
To: SeekAndFind
the free upgrade to Windows 10 is available for all qualified PCs, genuine and non-genuine.
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So if you have pirated windows 7 you get a licensed copy of 10? If I build a new pc and load a bad copy of 7 I can instantly upgrade?
This is great for India and China...
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posted on
03/19/2015 5:09:41 PM PDT
by
Neidermeyer
("Our courts should not be collection agencies for crooks." — John Waihee, Governor of Hawaii, 1986-)
To: SeekAndFind
“Windows 10 will be offered as a free upgrade to customers who have Windows 7, Windows 8.1 and Windows Phone 8.1 for the first year after it is released.”
Not sure what this means. Does it mean that if I am a windows 8.1 user I have one year from the release date to upgrade to Windows 10 for free; or does it mean I can use Windows 10 for one year after its release, after which I must pay for it?
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posted on
03/20/2015 6:59:25 AM PDT
by
ops33
(Senior Master Sergeant, USAF (Retired))
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