Windows 10

Phil2008 · 5 Feb 2015 at 14:42

Windows 10 is not as free as you first thought

On January 21st we learned that those who are currently running Windows 7 and Windows 8/8.1 would be able to upgrade to Windows 10 for free, but today we have learned that this is not the case for all versions of Windows 7, 8 and 8.1. This means that they will not be getting an automatic update to Windows 10 through Microsoft Update like most of us Windows 7/8/8.1 users.

Thankfully the versions of Windows 7, 8 and 8.1 that will be affected are all the enterprise versions of Microsoft's OS', meaning that us personal or small business users will likely be unaffected.

mrk · 5 Feb 2015 at 14:45

Well Enterprise versions will be under bulk license agreement anyway wouldn't they so you'd think they would be void from this free offer anyway!

mid_gen · 5 Feb 2015 at 14:51

Yeah that's no real surprise, they'll have their own negotiated agreements in place.

MagicBoy · 5 Feb 2015 at 14:55

That's not news. Enterprise versions are available under Software Assurance agreements only, typically lasting three years.

Glaucus · 5 Feb 2015 at 14:56

Phil2008 said:
Windows 10 is not as free as you first thought

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Um, yes it is. what a stupid media click bait.

JRS · 5 Feb 2015 at 15:00

Phil2008 said:
Windows 10 is not as free as you first thought

Yes, it is exactly as free as we first thought. It was always going to cost Enterprise customers for the upgrade.

Move along folks, nothing to see here

russell664 · 5 Feb 2015 at 15:59

Tut tut, click baiting.

I'm happy with the way Microsoft are approaching the release of Windows 10, I know why they have done it, but i'm glad either way.

Hopefully it should gain a bigger user base in a shorter period of time.

robgmun · 5 Feb 2015 at 17:11

Is there a way to remove the Network and Battery symbols on the lock screen on my DESKTOP yet? :rolleyes:

JRS · 5 Feb 2015 at 17:25

robgmun said:
Is there a way to remove the Network and Battery symbols on the lock screen on my DESKTOP yet?

Wow, a truly show-stopping bug

They'll get around to sorting it.

djkav · 5 Feb 2015 at 20:09

I've used, as far as OS's go;

Acorn/BBC, ZX Spectrum, C64, GEM/TOS, Workbench/AmigaDos (best imho), MS Dos/DR Dos, Windows 3.1, Windows 95, Windows 98/SE, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows 7, Windows 8/8.1.

I'll be more than happy moving over to Windows 10.

I've never understood all the moaning over Windows 8. I use it for my server/development platform and gaming too. It's an improved windows 7 underneath.

djkav · 5 Feb 2015 at 20:20

Elevon said:
To be fair for example Win7 was built on Win95 over the decades ,about fifteen years and that is just making a simple PC desktop only OS.

That's technically not true. True in the sense of the GUI was based on Win95. But Win7 was built on the NT kernal, spawning from WinNT, Win2000, WinXP. WinXP was the first consumer OS to drop x68 kernal that was the base for MS Dos, Win95, Win98/SE and WinME.

Adam Holland · 5 Feb 2015 at 20:48

Woden said:
Can we get project Spartan yet?

That's the IE without branding?

m4cc45 · 5 Feb 2015 at 21:39

No it's IE with a new rendering engine, cortana speech support, gamepad support, etc.

http://www.sitepoint.com/microsoft-spartan-future-internet-explorer/

M.

mctiny · 5 Feb 2015 at 21:54

Anyone having trouble with pin (opposed to password) not working?

I've set a 4 digit pin and windows had accepted it but when I restart or logout/login it still asks for a password instead of pin

Trig · 5 Feb 2015 at 22:59

Yeah I'm getting that as well, thought it was because I was on a domain and just hadn't gotten around to doing the regedit to allow domain users to use pin codes..

mctiny · 6 Feb 2015 at 00:32

Trig said:
Yeah I'm getting that as well, thought it was because I was on a domain and just hadn't gotten around to doing the regedit to allow domain users to use pin codes..

I'm not on a domain... and it was working fine with windows8.1

must be a bug lol

Trig · 6 Feb 2015 at 00:51

Yeah, it has been mentioned before tbh

robgmun · 6 Feb 2015 at 10:04

Another bug is when i only have two things open and i choose "show windows side by side" it doesn't divide the screen in two. It kinda goes into thirds and shows the two windows in the first two 3rd's and the remaining 3rd id the desktop. Any way to change this?

Jamielicious · 6 Feb 2015 at 20:25

Have to say a fair few non techy people I know say they've heard good things about Windows 10 so Microsoft must be doing something right to get the message out.

andy_mk3 · 7 Feb 2015 at 12:09

Not sure if it's already been mentioned on here, but does anyone have any issues with hard drives powering down even though it's set to 'Never' in power options?