Posted on 08/01/2018 7:17:07 PM PDT by dayglored
On September 30, 2014, Microsoft announced Windows 10, thus changing the firm's operating system as we know it. Windows was going to be serviced, rather than being refreshed every few years. We've learned since then that this means biannual feature updates, along with monthly (sometimes more often) cumulative updates.
Indeed, Microsoft was done competing with itself with new versions of Windows. On July 29, 2015, Windows 10 launched, and it was promised that there would never be a Windows 11. Here we are, exactly three years later, when we would normally see the next version of Microsoft's flagship OS.
Since then, there have been five feature updates, including versions 1511, 1607 (the Anniversary Update), 1703 (the Creators Update), 1709 (the Fall Creators Update), and 1803 (the April 2018 Update). Much has changed, and a lot of the OS looks completely different from when it started out.
I decided to take a look back, comparing the original version (1507) to version 1803. Most of the changes are good, although some aren't. A ton of features have been added, such as the Windows Subsystem for Linux, Windows Ink, and more.
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So how about the things we DO like about Win10?
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You can just hear Steve Ballmer screaming:
"It's the last Windows you'll ever need!"
Nothing that we didn’t already have with 7. I wish I had never allowed it into our organization. Biggest mistake of my career so far.
I’m still using Win-7 Pro on this main box, and have an identical unit downstairs. I have nothing derogatory to say about 10, but since I’ve not used it yet, nothing positive to say, either.
I am writing you all on XP. The best of the best, in its day.
I tried a win7 box five years ago. I hate that machine. My desktop is still the 15 year old XP.
I like that I don't have Win10 on this machine. I'm using 7, which is almost as good as XP.
OK, I'll be nice now. Windows 10 is the third best consumer operating system to come out of Microsoft.
Can’t see your graphic, seems to be some magic thingy none of my computers can decode.
Our very large organization is still running 7
I have no experience with 10 yet
Typed on iPad
Windows 10 sucks super hard. Even the preparatory updates disguised as “security updates” mucked up my Windows 7 so bad I wiped the drive and installed Linux Mint.
Am I correct in the following assumption ?
When my XP machine loses a hard drive or video card I am likely doomed ? XP was the first O/S that was keyed by an activation code to the hardware in the box. So significant hardware changes always needed a new authorization process, now shut down for years.
Nothing like perfectly good software killed by hardware change-out.
If your XP machine is installed "on the metal", I hope you have fulll-image backups, so that when it has trouble, you can restore it?
I have an XP virtual machine (VM), and so restoring it is just a single file copy. I'm pretty much done installing Windows on the metal any more.
Can I make that full image backup with the utilities that came with XP ? Or are you citing some other tool you recommend ?
Wish I had a list. But since I'm using Windows 7 Pro 64, I don't.
Everytime I'm put in a position where I have to use Win 10, it's a total turn off for me. But I'm just an old curmudgeon, perfectly happy where I am.
When I use my computer search I want to find out what's on my computer not what's on the web.
Not much to like. It spies on you and there is no way to keep it from spying on you. Run a pack sniffer and see. The only way around it is to use the Enterprise Edition and have group policies set to keep it quiet. It’s my understanding that this can also be done with some educational set ups. Forget about Pro, it spies.
I recommend that before your XP machine's hardware dies, you get another hardware box, put free Linux on it, install either free VMware Workstation Player or VirtualBox virtualization software, and run a "P-to-V" (physical to virtual) conversion on your XP hardware. That will make a copy of it that is a VM (virtual machine).
At that point the old hardware doesn't matter -- you run the VM on your new hardware.
Yeah, it's a somewhat technical process, but it will save your XP computer, and then backup and restore are simply a file copy (of the VM image). You'll be glad you did.
I’ve avoided it on my 3-yr old i7 but just bought another similar machine and it came with 10 installed. So far I’m pleased, other than fighting my file associations until I told it who’s boss it’s been fast and stable. I always banish the horrid Metro UI in favor of Classic Shell so with a few downloads I’ve got what I really wanted - a faster and more capable machine that feels like Windows 7.
No Microsoft OS has ever come with an adequate backup utility.
I've happily used Acronis TrueImage (home edition) for years with no problems. Highly recommend it. About $50 depending on where you get it, it's often on special sale.
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