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DX12 news-Windows 10 upgrade free for owners of Windows 7 and 8.1

UTmaniac said:
Conspiracy theory...

Nvidia did some sort of deal with M$ to make this a free Windows upgrade, to try and completely kill Mantle (albeit DirectX is not owed by Nvidia, but M$).

If everyone had to pay for Windows 10, relatively few would upgrade quickly, so many would not have DX12...

Mantle would get a better chance to get a foothold and AMD would get a chance to improve their share of the market.
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If anyone thinks that, they've gone beyond the realms of fanboyism.
 
UTmaniac said:
Conspiracy theory...

Nvidia did some sort of deal with M$ to make this a free Windows upgrade, to try and completely kill Mantle (albeit DirectX is not owed by Nvidia, but M$).

If everyone had to pay for Windows 10, relatively few would upgrade quickly, so many would not have DX12...

Mantle would get a better chance to get a foothold and AMD would get a chance to improve their share of the market.
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Haha really?? I'm sure Microsoft has a 1000 more important reasons to wanting Windows 10 to grow through having it free than Mantle.
 
They've done it to avoid all the Win 7 users sticking with Win 7 and nuking the Win 8/8.1 market share as a result. They want everyone on Win 10, so they probably have some subscription model type deal in the pipeline to introduce when the year is up.

I myself am sticking with Win 7 unless Win 10 is a huge performance improvement or they launch a DX12 game I actually want to play. I don't care about Cortana or the new IE, none of the new features really tempt me, and Win 7 works perfectly fine for me.
 
unless they drop support in the near future for win7 like xp,then you wont have much choice

if its a free upgrade why wouldn't you?
 
UTmaniac said:
Conspiracy theory...

Nvidia did some sort of deal with M$ to make this a free Windows upgrade, to try and completely kill Mantle (albeit DirectX is not owed by Nvidia, but M$).

If everyone had to pay for Windows 10, relatively few would upgrade quickly, so many would not have DX12...

Mantle would get a better chance to get a foothold and AMD would get a chance to improve their share of the market.
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Nah, the Illuminati made them do it, to turn the tide of the war against the Lizard Kingdom, who all use Linux.
 
etched Chaos said:
I myself am sticking with Win 7 unless Win 10 is a huge performance improvement or they launch a DX12 game I actually want to play. I don't care about Cortana or the new IE, none of the new features really tempt me, and Win 7 works perfectly fine for me.
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This^

Sir, you are a voice of reason. I salute you. :)
 
wazza300 said:
unless they drop support in the near future for win7 like xp,then you wont have much choice

if its a free upgrade why wouldn't you?
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Namely because of potential compatibility problems on the software level, why would I change if I'm happy as I am? Sure it's free, but that doesn't mean I should upgrade for the sake of upgrading. I'll have a year to assess Win 10 before the free upgrade ends, and allow MS to fix any major bugs and problems.
 
etched Chaos said:
Namely because of potential compatibility problems on the software level, why would I change if I'm happy as I am? Sure it's free, but that doesn't mean I should upgrade for the sake of upgrading.
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But that's really down to the fault of the software developers not MS changing their OS.
 
malachi said:
But that's really down to the fault of the software developers not MS changing their OS.
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It doesn't matter to me whose fault it is, Win 7 works perfectly fine for me, meaning I'm at no obligation to upgrade, no matter what the cost is. I have no idea why some posters are shilling Win 10 so much, why does it matter so much if I choose not to upgrade right away? It has no effect on your desktop experience nor should it have any bearing on what others choose to do.

I have perused the new Win 10 features and frankly I see nothing that wows me, I have no use for Cortana, I don't give one iota what the new IE will be like and until a DX12 game releases there's no benefit there either. So allow me to sit and wait and if I'm missing out, who cares?
 
nomadd said:
This^

Sir, you are a voice of reason. I salute you. :)
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I do too (salute the following).......

etched Chaos said:
I myself am sticking with Win 7 unless Win 10 is a huge performance improvement or they launch a DX12 game I actually want to play. I don't care about Cortana or the new IE, none of the new features really tempt me, and Win 7 works perfectly fine for me.
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I have not yet installed Windows Hate on any PC that I`ve built, and I`ve directed laptop purchasers to models that are sold with Windows 7. A few customers have got machines with Windows 8, and most of them don't like it much.

Windows 8 is quite good on my phone though, although it does lack the app support of Android and the other one.
 
etched Chaos said:
They've done it to avoid all the Win 7 users sticking with Win 7 and nuking the Win 8/8.1 market share as a result. They want everyone on Win 10, so they probably have some subscription model type deal in the pipeline to introduce when the year is up.

I myself am sticking with Win 7 unless Win 10 is a huge performance improvement or they launch a DX12 game I actually want to play. I don't care about Cortana or the new IE, none of the new features really tempt me, and Win 7 works perfectly fine for me.
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There isn't a when the year is up. You just need to upgrade in the first year. You get a proper copy for free. It's to stop fragmentation, increase user base, which will increase devlopers, which will mean more money from OneDrive, office 365, app store, Xbox movies/music etc.
 
Glaucus said:
There isn't a when the year is up. You just need to upgrade in the first year. You get a proper copy for free. It's to stop fragmentation, increase user base, which will increase devlopers, which will mean more money from OneDrive, office 365, app store, Xbox movies/music etc.
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So I was right, but my reasons were off, fair enough.
 
Windows 8.1 is a wonderful thing,I ditched win7 on my other PC few months back had 0 issues on two machine's

Once you get used to it its fab,just hope its the same again for win 10

Win 7 does look and feel slower now,if your happy as you are then fair play but I think I'll upgrade again only because its free and for dx12
 
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