Posted on 06/01/2015 12:02:49 PM PDT by dayglored
Microsoft's next generation of its operating system, Windows 10, is due to be released next month.
The company said PCs and tablets running the software would go on sale on 29 July, at which point the OS would also be offered as a free download to existing users.
The roll-out of the product for smartphones, Xbox games consoles and other kit will follow later.
One expert said the release could prove critical to the Microsoft's fortunes.
Windows 8 - the current iteration - has had a troubled life, with many deciding not to update to its touch-centric user interface.
The company has acknowledged the fact by returning some features dropped from the more popular Windows 7.
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It pops up an alphabetically ordered list of all your software ... works just like "All Programs" in XP, Vista, or 7. Running XP games on Win10 will likely be a problem. I'm not much of a gamer, so I don't know much about that.
save for later
Can't venture an opinion there, as I've never used Firefox. Been a Chrome user for several years now, and it beats the heck out of Explorer (I utilized Safari for a while, and kind of liked it, but I understand that Apple is discontinuing it.)
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Most XP games I was able to run in Windows 7. Had to select run as an administrator then run in the compatibility mode.
All I want to know is will it run Flash Player without crashing all the time? The flash on my windows 8 cannot run a video without crashing multiple times before it finally runs.
Detailed steps, please.
I had to finally download some from Windows and it took several tries. Never could get it to download on another computer so a pile of games have gone to waste.
Thanks.
Not big hairy games, just simple ones.
I have no idea, really. I have a few that I could try ... Of course, they have two months before official release. That’s plenty of time for mischief.
And the wild ride begins, LOLOL!
Clicked on reserve my copy and download when available, but will take some time for the "dust to settle" before I install.
It didn't show up on my machine. I run XP. I will do just that for as long as possible.
I don’t know. I was planning on just ignoring it for now.
I didn't see an option I want, I do not want a block of apps on screen.
Yep I got one also, on each of my Win7 machines.
I believe the free upgrade from Win7 or 8.1 is available for one year from the official release date, so end of July 2016.
It does not apply to Win 8.0, BTW. You have to get to 8.1 before you can upgrade to 10.
And the upgrade doesn't apply to WinXP.
LOL! Good one.
The upgrade offer doesn't apply to XP.
If you don't mind the lack of security patches, and the resulting ever-increasing vulnerabilities, you can run XP literally for as long as you like. I know people who are still running Windows 95 and 98, and I have one friend who claims he has mission-critical software that only runs on Win 3.11.
Just be prepared for the day when you have to rebuild it. Make sure you have restorable image backups. Not just your original XP install disks -- those won't get you the Windows Updates. As of now Microsoft will still let you download Windows Updates for XP -- not any new ones, because there aren't any, but all the old ones.
But someday they'll take those offline. So be prepared and make full image backups of your system disk and every so often, get a spare disk and do a test "restore" to prove that your backup is still viable.
You'd be amazed how many people make backups but don't test them regularly to make sure they work.
I just installed “Bejeweled 3” on my Win10 (Build 10122) machine, from CD. I believe that was a WindowsXP era game. No fuss, no silliness. It just installed and runs.
8.1 will be supported until 2023, probably longer than I'll be around.
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