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Upgrade to Windows 10 will be free for win7/8 users (pg. 3)
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| Jon_Snow |
| Feels good to be gangsta |
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| TranceElevation |
| The only thing I'm worried about are eventual compatibility issues with programs, plugins and what not...so far Windows 7 has been rock solid. |
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| KiNeTiC ENeRgY |
| quote: | Originally posted by TranceElevation
The only thing I'm worried about are eventual compatibility issues with programs, plugins and what not...so far Windows 7 has been rock solid. |
This will only be the case with very specific gear. For example Presonous Firebox. They stopped writing drivers for it after XP I think. Definitely not officially supported in Win 8 BUT...you can still install drivers written for older OS's and use it just fine. Stop being afraid of change. |
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| Psyshell |
| quote: | Originally posted by Mr.Mystery
Still, if you're running a fully functional Win 7, I see no reason why you should upgrade any time soon. Hell, I'd still be using XP on my main desktop if it had not gone up in smoke a while back. |
Well for a start it's faster and file copying isn't near completely broken, there's also EUFI support and a better task manager and a myriad of other things.
| quote: | Originally posted by Jon_Snow
Agreed people lose sight of that the primary purpose of an OS is to launch programs and manage files. While the interface has been dressed up over the years the fundamentals haven't changed much. Only significant change was Windows 7 64 bit. |
Actually the most major changes happened between XP and Vista.
Also, I don't think you understand the role of a modern operating system. Creating and maintaining standards for a variety of things (like graphics handling, coding feature support and hardware interfacing) is a very important part of a modern operating system. Things like whether compatibility breaks or whether a new OS handles certain situations in a way that causes it be less likely to crash can be quite important; and neither of those have to do with "launching programs" and "managing files". That's essentially a lot of what DOS did and yet there's a hell of a lot of features of modern OS's that you wouldn't want to be without.
It's looking like the changes from windows 8 are fairly incremental so there'll be few compatability issues between 8 and 10. I know a few people who've tested out quite a few programs to confirm this. In particular the different versions of directx are fairly compatible. |
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| DJ RANN |
| quote: | Originally posted by rubez
having to install it twice just to get a legit key? that's retarded. may as well get the pirate ISO in the first place. who pays for "support"?! - what the is that anyway?
you can update pirated windows 7 fine. |
Why do you always jump to the dumbest first conclusion?
Right now, they are offering it for free, you can't even buy the OS if you wanted to now, and the fresh install option isn't even available, so being annoyed at having to wait until it's launched is pretty stupid.
When they actually release it you can just buy a key and download the ISO/boot image for a fresh install.
| quote: | Originally posted by Mystery
Sure, that might be the situation now, but if MS sticks to their plan to only ever do gradual updates to 10, who knows what it will be like a few years down the line.
Still, if you're running a fully functional Win 7, I see no reason why you should upgrade any time soon. Hell, I'd still be using XP on my main desktop if it had not gone up in smoke a while back.
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Yes, who knows what 10 will be like in 8 years, but you can still run anything legacy in compatibility mode and I've never had problems on the rare occasions I'm trying to use a bit of hardware that was made to be used on an OS 4 generations gone. It's also life; moves on, some hardware becomes obsolete over time.
Windows 7 is fine, but there was a reason for 8 - Touchscreen compatibility sucks on it. M$ didn't at all nail it with 8, but at least it was a lot easier to use with touch interfaces that 7 and has tons more native support.
And don't let nostalgia blind you regarding XP. It was agreat OS at the time, but comapred to what we have today, it's actually fairly limited; there's not even quick search function built in to XP and even when you add the bolt on, the indexing is horrific so it's incredibly slow and misses items. Think about that; I can't like without a quick search function in OSX or W8.1. It's changed the way we use OS's.
| quote: | Originally posted by Psyshell
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Exactly. We aren't going to see the massive leaps like we did 15 years ago. Things have leveled out and improvements are going to incremental and complementary rather than fundamental shifts. |
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| Mr.Mystery |
| quote: | Originally posted by DJ RANN
It's changed the way we use OS's.
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Who's "we"? |
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| Jon_Snow |
| I picked up a copy of 8.1 wasn't as bad as I thought. Start up is slower, I don't like media player isn't included and changed to boot directly to desktop. |
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| DJ RANN |
| quote: | Originally posted by Mr.Mystery
Who's "we"? |
So do you not use faster, more efficient functions just to spite yourself?
Go ahead, use XP and try to find a file that contains a particular search term. See you in 30mins. |
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| Jon_Snow |
| Yeah but you going jeff goldblum on us is annoying |
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| KiNeTiC ENeRgY |
Find your apartment bitch |
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| Mr.Mystery |
| quote: | Originally posted by DJ RANN
So do you not use faster, more efficient functions just to spite yourself?
Go ahead, use XP and try to find a file that contains a particular search term. See you in 30mins. |
Search is for those who don't know where their files are. |
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| Jon_Snow |
| change your apartment change the world |
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