If you've been dragging your heels on upgrading to Windows 10, now is the time to take action. Free upgrades to the new OS from previous versions of Windows will end on July 29, Microsoft reiterated today. The company initially said the offer would only last one year, and indeed that date marks Windows 10's first anniversary. After July 29, you'll have to shell out $119 to upgrade to Windows 10 Home (or to put it on a new device).

Read: http://www.engadget.com/2016/05/05/windows-10-upgrades-will-cost-119-after-july-29/

 I feel $119 is expensive for a Windows upgrade because there are not a lot of important new features in Windows 10 which are not available on Windows 7, and Windows 8/8.1.

 If I were to spend $119 on upgrades for improving my computer, I rather upgrade to more RAM, install a faster CPU, and motherboard rather than pay $119 for a Windows 10 upgrade.

Windows 10 is bad for AAA title or high power games anyway. I'm sticking with 7.

25 minutes ago, 0taku said:

Windows 10 is bad for AAA title or high power games anyway. I'm sticking with 7.

Nonsense

Just now, Darkmyre said:

Nonsense

Most of the people I've talked to have had issues getting games to work. Some of them they even get alot less frames then they did with 7/8

Just now, 0taku said:

Most of the people I've talked to have had issues getting games to work. Some of them they even get alot less frames then they did with 7/8

It was quite bad when it first came out, mostly cause there were barely any drivers ready for it. I rolled up to 10 around sept/oct last year, and haven't looked back. Granted I don't play every AAA game that's come out in that time, but I've had absolutely no issues with any of the ones I do.

30 minutes ago, 0taku said:

Windows 10 is bad for AAA title or high power games anyway. I'm sticking with 7.

I've Windows 10 since december and I had 0 problem running all my games. Like, all of them. And I've a Steam library of 93 games. I suspect the people you talked to to not be able to configure their computer and OS correctly.

Windows 10 uses less resources overall than 7. It boots faster, runs faster, so there's no reason any game would have less frames than it did with Windows 7, left alone Windows 8.

I been using Win 10 for almost 6 months now and I haven't had any problems with it really.

 

14 minutes ago, Darkmyre said:

It was quite bad when it first came out, mostly cause there were barely any drivers ready for it. I rolled up to 10 around sept/oct last year, and haven't looked back. Granted I don't play every AAA game that's come out in that time, but I've had absolutely no issues with any of the ones I do.

Well can I complete turn off the 'apps' like weather that are always online? Because thoses things are a data killer with a cap plan 

1 minute ago, 0taku said:

 

Well can I complete turn off the 'apps' like weather that are always online? Because thoses things are a data killer with a cap plan 

I'm not sure if you can turn off specific apps, but you can flag certain wifi connections as "metered" and Windows will reduce its data usage on that network (I think you could also do this on 8/8.1?). Never really had to use this myself though, so I'm not sure how well it works.

I couldnt do the free upgrade and have already mentally prepared to buy a usb version of 10 this summer

I like windows 7 I don't want to upgrade to 10

14 minutes ago, matt1008 said:

I like windows 7 I don't want to upgrade to 10

same here

Many optimizations were added to Windows 8 and 10 which are not available in 7, I think a few SSD tweaks and general speed improvements have been made since 7.

Support for Windows 7 has been terminated, and within 4 years you will not receive any further security updates.

That being said, it is a bit of a fun meme to mock Windows 10 however, most of the criticisms are simply hogwash.

Installing Windows 10 for me, on my Laptop at least boosted the performance of my Grand Theft Auto V, albeit very slightly, but it still made a difference. 

My roommate installed Windows 10, then it said he didn't have authorization to open any of his files and locked him out of his hard drive. He said "fuck that" and after a bit of coding, was able to boot in safemode and reinstall 7.

Illusionary had issues with files too. This is probably the 5th instance I've heard of that. I'll stick to 7 until the very last day I can.

I thought W8 was garbage, and W10 is worse. I didn't know why they couldn't just stay with a W7 style platform.

6 hours ago, 0taku said:

 

Well can I complete turn off the 'apps' like weather that are always online? Because thoses things are a data killer with a cap plan 

I think there are plenty of third-party apps out there to disable the "apps" feature. 

I upgraded to Windows 10 when it first was possible to do so, and I can't say I miss Windows 7. I run Windows 10 on all my Windows devices, both at home and at work. 

Plus, you can use ctrl+c and ctrl+v in CMD. 

I'm alright with Windows 7, thanks. I don't like my computer forcing updates on me with no option to turn them off (hence probably why I haven't had it sidegrade to 10 on me yet)

Edit: Also, I suppose I'm fine with them charging for it since that means they'll most likely stop trying to take control of people's computers and force them to do it.

Edited May 11, 20169 yr by EvilJackCarver
my mind is not the most elegant at phrasing things at 01:20

5 hours ago, MikoFiticus said:

I thought W8 was garbage, and W10 is worse. I didn't know why they couldn't just stay with a W7 style platform.

I've noted very few differences between Windows 7 and 10, so I don't know exactly what you're saying by that. Sure some people got some problems with their files when they upgraded, but that's the risk of upgrading, it'd be the same for any OS really, it's not particularly Windows 10's fault. Besides, the great, great, GREAT majority of people had 0 problem once they upgraded, so those are minor cases that might also be related to how they configurated their Windows 7 before the upgrade and what they did with it.

1 hour ago, EvilJackCarver said:

Edit: Also, I suppose I'm fine with them charging for it since that means they'll most likely stop trying to take control of people's computers and force them to do it.

That's a common popular (and biased) belief, which is actually... well, false. First, you can turn off automatic updating, and second, well... they never tried to take control of people's computers. And the supposed 'data' Microsoft is collecting from Windows 10 users are exactly the same as they were collecting from Windows 7 users. And they're all pretty harmless, since it's hardware and OS data.

Edited May 11, 20169 yr by Hystery

8 hours ago, MikoFiticus said:

Illusionary had issues with files too. This is probably the 5th instance I've heard of that. I'll stick to 7 until the very last day I can.

I didn't lose anything upgrading from 7 to 10 though, it wasn't until I reinstalled Windows 10 the other day that the files on my harddrive deleted themselves. I still had my documents, pictures, videos, music and all that stuff, only my C: drive was wiped.

7 hours ago, Hystery said:

That's a common popular (and biased) belief, which is actually... well, false. First, you can turn off automatic updating, and second, well... they never tried to take control of people's computers. And the supposed 'data' Microsoft is collecting from Windows 10 users are exactly the same as they were collecting from Windows 7 users. And they're all pretty harmless, since it's hardware and OS data.

 

Show me how you can turn off automatic updating. Show me the option, because I have multiple news articles that say otherwise.

As for trying to take control of people's computers, anything which forces someone to do something with no say in the matter (such as, say... restarting their computer for updates) is taking control of their computer, in itself. In addition, there was a big stink all over Reddit a month or two back when Microsoft changed Windows 10's sidegrade to download automatically if users hadn't changed the update settings, to the point where it pretty much was "half of everyone went to sleep one night with a Windows 7/8/8.1 computer and woke up with Windows 10".

And, if you were one of the lucky few who had Windows 7/8/8.1 after that, you were faced with a prompt that said "upgrade now" or "upgrade tonight".

 

Edit: Let me appear on the record stating that I'm not one of those people circlejerking over "how shit the new UI is" - although I'm not a fan of the flat scheme, it really isn't all that different from Aero. That's not what upsets me; what upsets me is Microsoft telling me what I can and cannot do with my own damned computer. If I don't want to update, I don't want to be forced to. That's one of the things I like about Linux - if I don't want to update something, they don't say "well fuck you, you're updating anyway". Ubu will remind me "hey, mate, you still have updates", but Ubu won't say "hey mate, you had this update for a while so I installed it anyway, so I'm rebooting your computer now whether or not you want me to".

Edited May 11, 20169 yr by EvilJackCarver