Windows 10

Anyone know if the free in the first year is only for retail copies or also for OEM versions?

Since windows 8 they are one and the same thing, they "simplified" the licenses. Scrapped retail and OEM, you can uninstall and reinstall on a different computer, so it's basically the same as the old retail.
And it'll be an upgrade license anyway.
 
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Anyone know what will happen with Windows 8 Tablets, will they be updated to 10 through Microsoft or Vendors eg. Toshiba for my Encore 8?

Would also like to see pre-orders for £25 and discount for households with more than one PC like a family pack or something, I have 5 PC's at my gaff and new OS's are very expensive apart from OSX!

Or you now it's free and yes tablets will be updated like any other computer.
 
They said in the next week, so I assume within 7 days of the conference.

And rt will be win 10, it'll just be like it is with win8/win8.1, like the phone, it won't run win x86 apps, so isn't full win10. That article is really crap.
 
Please tell me I can get rid of silly start menu and have the start screen back. I can't see the option which used to be there. I don't know why they don't combine the two so you can do what ever you want. Just let me pin live tiles to the desktop. That would be great.

Other than that charms bar still doesn't work if I point to top right hand corner, hasn't worked in any version. I know it works for other people so confused.

Notification area is much improved and generally everything looks a bit nicer.
 
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Free to use for one whole year according to that article, i would then presume to continue to use win10 after 12 months you would have to purchase a licence, i'm not keen on microsoft and the push to sell more 'windows apps' along with its XBOX style GUI.

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No it's just free.
You have one year to upgrade, then you have to pay. No limit in how many years you can use it for free.
 
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I can't imagine too many people will be making that complaint!

Because people are idiots and don't like change.
Desktop is useless it gives me no decent info, and if I want to look at a pretty picture I'll go look at some art. Start menu is pretty horrible especially as you can't place live tiles where you want, with no where near the usefulness of the start screen.

In a perfect world I just want to pin live tiles to the desktop, taskbar at the bottom and pressing the windows button shows the desktop.
 
Unless it's a bug. Tablet setting doesn't bring back start screen :(. It just maximises apps, high is great for modern apps.
But it also changes how programs work and you cant resize normal programs.
So if a program launches in windowed mode and only covers half the screen, in tablet mode that's all it can do you can't maximise it or anything else. I hope it's just bugs/unfinished.

This version is pretty messy.
I want apps to launch full screen, can't think if anything I don't, but allow resizing of x86 programs.
 
The tiles are very useful.
And there's several weather apps, it all depends where they source their data from.
I wouldn't want to live without tiles. A quick press of windows key and can see emails, calendar, metrotube(if any new videos have been released), weather, rain alarm (weather radar). Far better than several seconds checking all off them by hand.

Then things like metrotube, Netflix, audible etc the apps are far far better UI compared to website/desktop versions.

And xp is terrible, even win7 looks old and isn't nearly as easy to use.
 
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So technically that is a keylogger. man thanx MS, hey hackers exploit this... That is why I do bank stuff/estore buying in linux... I hope that will be in the smartphone/tablet version only... Not in the computer version just turned off...

It won't be in any version. Calm down.
It's there to improve w40 while it's in development. So they can see how people are using it etc.
 
I would be very surprised if it wasn't a full GUI with apps and programming tools.
After all it seems the plan is to get people programming in the Microsoft eco system.

Time will tell.
 
It makes no sense for surface pro 4 to have Broadwell. When Skyhawk will be released in 2015. So if they have any sense they won't release win10 till they can release skylake devices.
They should skip Broadwell. Otherwise they'll release SP4 and within weeks/months new CPU will be out.
 
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so Windows RT/RT 8.1 won't be included in the free offer..

i can see one issue, if windows 10 is via Windows Update then there won't be a way to make a dvd or usb media, so after the year is up they'll remove it from Windows Update so if you need to reinstall it after the year you won't be able to.

It is but RT can't run the full OS. So it's different to the above.
They have already said there will be an RT upgrade to 10 for free, just that it won't contain all features, which is pretty obvious. Just like it isn't currently full featured win8/win8.1.

And just no. Ewing as they've Aida you'll be able to di a fresh install.
 
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thats only if u download mediacreationtool or WindowsSetupBox before.. upgrading via windows updates/store would only install it no options for making a media

You can download the setup of Ms site. Which will download the ISO and allow you ti vpcreate bootable media.
Or you can just download an ISO there are plenty of links posted in this forum.

All you have to do is use a place holder serial key until it's installed, then go in and change it to your official one.

Either way you can and have always been able to do it.
 
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