Windows 10?

[Smokin Joe]

[QUOTE 3804143, member: 9609"]that says 2016 ?[/QUOTE]
Yes, it is released 29th July this year and you have twelve months to download for free.

 

[Piemaster]

I doubt the OS will be free with MS as they have no other income stream to talk of

Office.
Think they make a few quid from that.
I'd sort of disagree with the Windows phone too - not much in the way of market share but I've played with the one my son has and quite like it. If it had the apps I use Android has I'd probably switch.

 

[phil_hg_uk]

Office.
Think they make a few quid from that.

Not for much longer they took too long to release office mobile version and now most people are using Quick Office other such clones and very happy with them. Open Office now works just fine as a desktop replacement for home and light users and now supports extended formats such as .DOCX and .XLSX . So that means the main market is corporate and that wont provide as much of an income as they are used to and I have seen quite a lot of my corporate customers also moving over to free versions.

Unless they decide to introduce another format like they did with .DOCX to "stimulate" the market of course

 

[John the Monkey]

I'd sort of disagree with the Windows phone too - not much in the way of market share but I've played with the one my son has and quite like it. If it had the apps I use Android has I'd probably switch.

Likewise. It runs very well on pretty modest hardware too. Until the advent of the Moto G, it was probably the best option in the low/mid range. Both Mrs M and number one son had Lumia 620s, a super little phone. Mrs M upgraded to a Lumia 830 which is excellent too. If I wasn't so tied in to Google services, I'd have one.

 

[fossyant]

Not for the last couple of generations. If it'll run 7 well (and that was released in 2009), it'll run 8, 8.1 and 10 well. The one thing that really makes a difference these days (as long as you're not a hardcore gamer) is having a Solid State Drive as the OS's drive.

I got a 10 year old PC to run Win 7 better than a clogged up XP machine. It was long ovedue a clean out having been a family PC, now it's just the email/web machine that the kids arent allowed to break. Boots up much faster.

 

[fossyant]

Looks like there have been a few last minute issues. Problem with Windows update and Nvidia's GE Force Experience drivers - conflicting updates and driver bugs.

Hopefully it will be sorted ASAP as the main laptop has a GE Force GT 740M and my lads gaming rig a GTX 970

 

[Fnaar]

Miss Goodbody says she would welcome 10" rather than 8"

 

[TVC]

Miss Goodbody says she would welcome 10" rather than 8"

I know you haven't upgraded Miss Goodbody's computer for years because you still like to go round and insert your floppy.

 

[Piemaster]

[QUOTE 3824510, member: 259"]They make money from office and drawing people into the SharePoint family. Once they are committed they are stuffed, big time.[/QUOTE]
Can't be many big software companies that don't use some form of that business model, have users commit to their ecosystem and keep them there - Apple, Google, etc....

 

[Profpointy]

I know you haven't upgraded Miss Goodbody's computer for years because you still like to go round and insert your floppy.

and takes an increasingly long time to boot up

 

[PeteXXX]

Today is, apparently, the day..... Good luck out there!! It;s been nice knowing you

BTW, on my old Dell Inspiron Desktop PC, as I'd upgraded from Vista to 7, I couldn't use the recovery sector to sort it out when the pixies killed it so I ended dumping the PC. Jus' saying

 

[Smokin Joe]

This is being posted on Windows 10. Everything seems to work ok, anyone else jumped in?

 

[numbnuts]

This is being posted on Windows 10. Everything seems to work ok, anyone else jumped in?

Someone has to be first so well done

 

[psmiffy]

This is being posted on Windows 10. Everything seems to work ok, anyone else jumped in?

I doubt many people will have had the chance - MS are doing it incrementally - If everybody that felt inclined to upgrade did - It would probably shut the internet down

 

[Smokin Joe]

I doubt many people will have had the chance - MS are doing it incrementally - If everybody that felt inclined to upgrade did - It would probably shut the internet down

Bill Gates must fancy me then, I'm one of the first