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Here are the features that will no longer work when you upgrade to Windows 10
Neowin ^ | June 3, 2015 | Steven Parker

Posted on 06/03/2015 7:46:03 PM PDT by dayglored

ollowing the exciting news that Windows will be free for everyone currently on Windows 7 or 8.1, providing they upgrade within the first year, users should also be aware of a few features that will no longer work with Windows 10 after that upgrade.

The features that will no longer work are taken from the official specifications page on Microsoft's Windows website, and reproduced below. The good news is that in some cases alternatives are available.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Computers/Internet; Hobbies
KEYWORDS: upgrade; windows; windows10; windowspinglist
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To: dayglored

I just can’t hack it. I swear, I gave win8 and 8.1 an honest shot, I suffered with it for months before I finally reinstalled win7 and went back. I’ll move to linux before I deal with that smartphone looking tile BS. I sure as heck won’t be dealing with wind10. Heck, I stuck with XP until the cypher stopped working on all the newer stuff we run at work.


61 posted on 06/03/2015 8:41:18 PM PDT by FunkyZero (... I've got a Grand Piano to prop up my mortal remains)
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To: dayglored

That’s what I said about Windows 2000—in 2005.

Look how fast that came and went. :-)


62 posted on 06/03/2015 8:41:34 PM PDT by __rvx86 (Ted Cruz: Proving that conservative populism is a winning strategy. GO CRUZ!)
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To: __rvx86
> For the same money that my parents paid for a decent computer in 2003 (~$1600), I could get a high-end gaming computer, and maybe have a little left over. I never imagined computing power to ever be so cheap—even though I have fully understood the implications of Moore’s Law for quite a while...

Heh.

In 1989 I bought a Toshiba T-100 portable computer. A 20MHz 386 CPU, 8MB RAM, 100MB hard drive. Read those again, that's MB.

Cost me $8500. Eight thousand, five hundred dollars in 1989 dollars.

Two years later I needed a BIG hard drive for my desktop system. Bought a 500MB full-height SCSI drive from AVID. $1600 in 1991 dollars.

Tell me about it. :-) LOL.

Every day, I'm amazed.

63 posted on 06/03/2015 8:43:09 PM PDT by dayglored (Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is...sounding pretty good about now.)
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To: FunkyZero

Did you have TLS1.0 turned on?

In a default Windows NT 5.x installation, TLS has to be turned on manually. It’s in the Internet Options control panel, under Advanced. This is where you also turn off SSL2/SSL3.

In this day and age, you would be limited to 128-bit ARC4, or 112-bit (nominally 168-bit) Triple-DES.


64 posted on 06/03/2015 8:44:27 PM PDT by __rvx86 (Ted Cruz: Proving that conservative populism is a winning strategy. GO CRUZ!)
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To: catnipman
> I don’t see where Microsoft could recover the consumer marketplace after two major OS disasters in a row.

They're very careful to only schedule the major OS disasters on alternate releases. :-)

65 posted on 06/03/2015 8:47:19 PM PDT by dayglored (Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is...sounding pretty good about now.)
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To: shibumi

You need some Skyrim in your life. Modded Skyrim on the PC (console Skyrim games are very good but the mods are unavailable). It’s a great place to go and escape liberalism.


66 posted on 06/03/2015 8:47:44 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: FunkyZero
> I just can’t hack it. I swear, I gave win8 and 8.1 an honest shot, I suffered with it for months before I finally reinstalled win7 and went back. I’ll move to linux before I deal with that smartphone looking tile BS.

I feel your pain.

67 posted on 06/03/2015 8:48:24 PM PDT by dayglored (Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is...sounding pretty good about now.)
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To: SkyDancer

” Also I like watching movies on my PC and MS 10 will prevent me from doing that.”

Watched an old DVD movie just yesterday on Win 10 Build 10074.

I also watch free movies from Amazon Prime streamed to my PC.

Nothing wrong with Win 10 in my opinion.


68 posted on 06/03/2015 8:49:31 PM PDT by topspinr
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To: 4rcane

If time is money, then add up the hours spent being an unpaid Microsoft tech dept troubleshooting your driver issues and software incompatibilities. And still not get full functionality of your stuff.

Bet it will come up to more than what a stable/sorted version of W10 will go for in Service Pack 1 trim.


69 posted on 06/03/2015 8:50:44 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: SkyDancer
I’ve automatically signed up for it~ how can I stop it now?

No need to stop it. It will download to your computer, but it does not install automatically. You install it when you're ready. I suppose at that point you can delete cancel the upgrade if you wish.
You have a whole year after it is released to install it for free. If you don't like what you hear by then, you haven't lost anything but a few gigabytes on your hard drive.

70 posted on 06/03/2015 8:52:18 PM PDT by FreedomOfExpression
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To: topspinr

Earlier on someone posted that you’d loose your ability to watch movies on CD, like that Windows Media Center won’t play them anymore unless you buy an add-on package from some other company.


71 posted on 06/03/2015 8:52:56 PM PDT by SkyDancer ( I Was Told Nobody Is Perfect But Yet, Here I Am ...)
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To: FreedomOfExpression

M’Kay .. well I’ll watch it real close. Thanks.


72 posted on 06/03/2015 8:53:45 PM PDT by SkyDancer ( I Was Told Nobody Is Perfect But Yet, Here I Am ...)
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To: TheZMan
> Seems they’re beginning to purge some fluff. They need to purge a lot more.

They could lose those freakin' colored tiles on the desktop and non-touch laptop installs.

I don't mean "they can be mostly hidden so they only come up sometimes". I mean they're freakin' GONE.

I'm 63, I graduated from PlaySkool and Fisher-Price many years ago.

And they can lose the mandatory Candy Crush Saga. I mean really, WTF is up with that???

Just sayin'...

73 posted on 06/03/2015 8:54:00 PM PDT by dayglored (Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is...sounding pretty good about now.)
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To: Norm Lenhart

Same here. Actually my MGI photo program goes back to W95 and I wuoldn’t change it.


74 posted on 06/03/2015 8:54:16 PM PDT by arthurus (It's true!)
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To: dayglored

Vista was pretty bad. I never had it but my wife did.


75 posted on 06/03/2015 8:55:18 PM PDT by arthurus (It's true!)
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To: dayglored

I am not tech savvy so I may just pass on this update


76 posted on 06/03/2015 8:55:53 PM PDT by hsmomx3
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To: SkyDancer

Sorry, I’m late to the party. I didn’t realize that you received many answers by the time I submitted mine. Hope you have a good night!


77 posted on 06/03/2015 8:56:47 PM PDT by FreedomOfExpression
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To: arthurus
> Vista was pretty bad. I never had it but my wife did.

Vista was beyond awful.

It was well intentioned, but incredibly poorly executed.

Windows 7 is in many ways "Vista, fixed". And it's arguably the best Windows OS ever. I love it.

When I have to use a Vista system I nearly lose my mind all over again.

78 posted on 06/03/2015 8:58:37 PM PDT by dayglored (Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is...sounding pretty good about now.)
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To: FreedomOfExpression
Oh Hey, not a problem. I always enjoy those that answer a question I have. I learn quite a lot from FReepers. Thanks, and you have a good evening as well.

R/Janey

79 posted on 06/03/2015 8:59:46 PM PDT by SkyDancer ( I Was Told Nobody Is Perfect But Yet, Here I Am ...)
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To: All

I’m going offline for the rest of the night, see y’all on the morrow. Thanks to all for making this such an interesting and useful thread!


80 posted on 06/03/2015 9:02:06 PM PDT by dayglored (Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is...sounding pretty good about now.)
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