Windows 10

Varsh said:
If it's going to be that cheap then I'm going to go with the Ultimate Edition this time around. Going with Windows 7 Home Premium at the time was good because I never thought I would need more than 16GB RAM... oh how wrong I was.
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With Windows 8 (64-bit non-Pro) you can use up to 128GB of RAM. If I'm honest, I doubt I'll be pushing that anytime soon. :p

Pro can use 512GB. I guess 10 will have similar limits.

PS for the record I did buy 8 Pro, but only for the (free at that point) Media Center addon which I use for live TV.
 
Mr-White said:
I heard 8.1 users get free upgrades and 7 will be £30, apparently Microsoft want people off older versions.

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I wouldn't pay any notice to this, it doesn't even sound like MS has decided yet? They said in the press conference no pricing had been decided yet.
 
When they push the tech previews out, where would we find them? What are the criteria to access them?

Would i likely be able to get it through my university software thingy, got all the older versions of windows there. from XP to 8.1 and all the server stuff.
 
DeathStorm said:
It was still a new version, considering the flak they were taking charging for it was never an option and it was supposed to address some of the complaints.



Vista was not solid, you're thinking of the fully patched and supported Vista which was a different beast from the mess we got on release.

The average punter doesn't care what's under the hood or who is ultimately to blame (I vaguely recall poor driver support being one of the major issues), first impressions count. It's not all bad, I'm sure Microsoft learnt some valuable lessons from Vista.
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The old Vista argument which I'm an expert on since I purchased it from day one on release,main issues were lazy companies taking ages to release drivers for Vista,the hardware company in question is responsible for drivers not Microsoft and that goes for any OS.

Also OEM companies shipping their PCs etc below Vista's minimum recommended specs did not help,FUD created etc and there was a lot of that.

I used Vista for good two years including beta games testing for PC game companies,I had no major issues.
I was lucky I had drivers for Vista on day one mainly due to companies of my hardware getting drivers out fast unlike other companies I could mention.

UAC nagging a lot users moaned about with Vista which was toned down on Win7,infact only two things stick out for me on Win7 ie less UAC nagging and some speed increase in the OS,but then we also had faster newer hardware as well.
Win7 had the luxury of two years further refinement over Vista and also had Vista drivers as backup unlike Vista which had no backup on drivers being a new redesigned OS,remember Win7 is based on Vista so that says a lot.

Win7 in many way is Vista SP3 IMHO and I used Win7 from day one until Win8 was released.
You can obviously argue any OS is not at its peak on release but then that goes for XP,Vista,Win7,Win8,Win10 etc so nothing new there,service packs ,updates are there for a reason on every OS.


Amazes me how much FUD from users on Vista and also Win8,I sometimes wonder do they know what they are talking about or just follow the clueless FUD internet wagon on the net for the sake of it.

I can't wait for the FUD on Win10 ;),got my seat booked at the front :D


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Elevon said:
The old Vista argument which I'm an expert on since I purchased it from day one on release,main issues were lazy companies taking ages to release drivers for Vista,the hardware company in question is responsible for drivers not Microsoft and that goes for any OS.
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I was there on release too as I usually am with every release thanks to MSDN. It's the only version of Windows I've downgraded from (never bothered with Me admittedly) but it brought nothing while having some serious drawbacks.

I fully agree that as an end user experience Vista SP3 isn't much different from Windows 7 but taking that long to get there isn't good enough and it ultimately doesn't matter who's to blame, it's Microsoft's product and they need to take whatever steps to protect it. Which is about the only point relevant to Windows 10... let's just agree to disagree regarding Vista.
 
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