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If you're a developer or have a spare computer, sure, you can "play" with it.
But you can't uninstall it and will have to proceed with the upgrade as it keeps releasing. (I think I remember reading that somewhere).
If you want to protect yourself take point-in-time images of your drives before installing and know what you're doing. Check out the upgrade articles in detail. IDK what happens to your original win license, for example, even if you restore those drive images.
Or wait.
There's plenty of articles describing the details of what's new on the net so I won't bother.
I would stay away from it in most cases...those that need to install it will generally know why. It's a test/development version right now.
But you can't uninstall it and will have to proceed with the upgrade as it keeps releasing. (I think I remember reading that somewhere).
If you want to protect yourself take point-in-time images of your drives before installing and know what you're doing. Check out the upgrade articles in detail. IDK what happens to your original win license, for example, even if you restore those drive images.
Or wait.
There's plenty of articles describing the details of what's new on the net so I won't bother.
I would stay away from it in most cases...those that need to install it will generally know why. It's a test/development version right now.
the last rumor i heard is they think once windows 10 catches on windows will be going open source
Thats one of the reasons they are giving windows 10 away for free for the first year
I assume if they go open source they will be charging for proprietary programs to make up the money for windows 10
Thats one of the reasons they are giving windows 10 away for free for the first year
I assume if they go open source they will be charging for proprietary programs to make up the money for windows 10
I know more now than when I originally posted. It's not something I'll be experimenting with, at least not untill the official release.
Yeah, at least a sub-set of it. They've already opened-up some UI stuff and app platform stuff. And they're playing with the "internet of things".
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Won't bother with any pre-releases. But I will update my Yoga to Win10 as soon as it's released. Curious to see improvements for scaling beyond the "usual" screen resolutions. As well as curious in general. MS is doing some interesting stuff these days... and I'm hoping they will start to unleash the multi-device potential they have that neither Apple nor Google can really compete with - if done right.
My desktop needs to be reliable and "familiar". Won't update that one for a few months... unless Win10 turns out to be great out of the box. Which I somehow doubt.
My desktop needs to be reliable and "familiar". Won't update that one for a few months... unless Win10 turns out to be great out of the box. Which I somehow doubt.
I know I have one rig that will get windows 10 as soon as it is open to everyone, and that is my laptop. It's currently running 8.1 and I hate it with a passion. I don't like the tablet interface on a full laptop, touch screen or not. As for anything else I have that is a no. Any other gear I have runs linux.
I'd be very surprised if Windows went open-source. Free, yes, Open, no.
Microsoft has been focusing very strongly on "Security" which, to them, does not mean protecting your computer against attacks, but rather protecting their IP (and other commercial IP) against copying, supporting secure "subscription" licensing of music video and apps, etc. Going open-source would allow people to work around these measures.
Even the whole "Secure Boot" debacle had nothing to do with security for you.
Yeah, it's a free upgrade, so when it "goes live" for real....I'll wait a bit for any urgent updates and then go for it. Not much reason to avoid it.
Win 8.1 is much better than even Win 7 under the hood. It's the chicklet metro interface that puts most off. (tablets are ruining all UI interfaces! Grrrr.) I have the apps that I used most pinned to the taskbar and only use the metro interface on occasion since I start-to-desktop. So I mostly use my desktop in desktop mode.
Win 8.1 is much better than even Win 7 under the hood. It's the chicklet metro interface that puts most off. (tablets are ruining all UI interfaces! Grrrr.) I have the apps that I used most pinned to the taskbar and only use the metro interface on occasion since I start-to-desktop. So I mostly use my desktop in desktop mode.
They might be using the open community to code-check. I think that, regardless of what model, they will keep the code editing to themselves. So it's not "true" open code in that outside people can't contribute to it. But it's published (or a subset is). But that's just my guess.
I mostly use Ubuntu linux now but dual boot with 8.1. I had XP and bought the $40 upgrade to 8. I signed up for the 10 test but haven't done it yet. I don't mind formatting a partition but fear that end of test will require some kind of radical format.
I didn't mind 8 or 8.1 once I installed Classic Start to get the old menu back. Never use Metro UI.
I didn't mind 8 or 8.1 once I installed Classic Start to get the old menu back. Never use Metro UI.
I run Linux Debian on all my computers along with a dual boot of XP Pro or windows 7
As far as upgrading my windows 7 to windows 10 and not being able to go back to 7 thats not gonna happen until 10 is very stable
As far as upgrading my windows 7 to windows 10 and not being able to go back to 7 thats not gonna happen until 10 is very stable
How's Spartan or Edge or whatever they're calling the browser now? Do you talk to it?
I finally found the new browser. Start screen Project Spartan. Clicked it yesterday and it opened a window but nothing appeared. They call it Edge. Or is it Cortana? Guess I need to watch the get started videos.
Cortana is the voice assistant (like Siri but for MS)
Edge is the browser, codename/working-name Spartan during development.
Edge is the browser, codename/working-name Spartan during development.
Thanks
I have Rainmeter on my desktop and the system widget shows spartan_edge while task manager shows Project Spartan.
I have iheart radio running in IE at 121 mb memory while edge is only using 33 mb with twitter in one tab and ecf in another.
I have Rainmeter on my desktop and the system widget shows spartan_edge while task manager shows Project Spartan.
I have iheart radio running in IE at 121 mb memory while edge is only using 33 mb with twitter in one tab and ecf in another.
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