Anyone else receiving this notification on your taskbar asking to reserve your copy which becomes available this July?
Just wondering how this new version might act with DataCad.
Just wondering how this new version might act with DataCad.
Ted B wrote:Anyone getting feedback on how stable Windows 10 will be for Datacad 16 and earlier users?See my post above.
Ted B wrote:I don't have the time as a one-man/one-PC office to learn all the intimate and gruesome details of Windows arcana, I don't even use the Windows 8.1 interface...that damned blue start screen and mysterious icons.It's pretty much back to a windows 7 type start menu that can, but doesn't have to, be expanded a bit like the Windows 8 Start menu. I couldn't stand the Windows 8/8.1 Start menus either and installed Start 8 on all the systems for our users to get a normal start menu in Windows again. I stuck with Windows 7 on all my systems. Windows 10 is a return to the normal style windows and start menu. The newer style Windows universal apps (App store apps) run in windows again instead of the weird full screen mode like in Windows 8. All in all it's a great upgrade over 7 and a HUGE upgrade over 8/8.1.
Ted B wrote:And I certainly find disquieting the rumors that Microsoft is going to a subscription system, and will demand money every few months just to use the Windows OS.This will not be the case with Windows 10. Can't say that the following versions going forward won't have subscription options but I would bet that when a subscription option is available, that you will still be able to get a standalone version at that point too, just like with Office and Office 365 (and Datacad )
Nobody can force you to upgrade. It will have support for a long time from Microsoft.
Ted B wrote:I read on the Forbes.com website several articles referencing that if you decline to install even one Windows 10 update, MS is going to cut you loose and you don't get ANY of the following updates or security patches, ever.Part of that is correct. If you are really interested in following people who actually follow Microsoft day in and day out follow Mary Jo Foley and Paul Thurott. Forbes' freelance writers time and time again have been getting this stuff wrong or flat out making stuff up. I would personally find another source on the topic.
Ted B wrote:And that there's strong suspicion that within two years MS will start requiring a pay-subscription for updates. And the next generation after Window 10 will definitely be an annual subscription OS. MS is of-course denying this, in a tepid and weaselly-way.Suspicion is all there has been on this, so feel free to be suspicious if you want to. I can guarantee Windows 10 updates will not be charged for for the life of the Windows 10 product. Can't say for future versions of Windows, but not worried about it at this point.
Windows 10 is famously ‘free’, but Microsoft has been worryingly silent about just how free it really is. Now, only 17 days before release, leaks suggest ‘free’ Windows 10 might not be a good deal at all…
The news comes from ComputerWorld which attained Microsoft internal slides that strongly suggest many Windows 10 owners will have to start paying to receive updates within two years.
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This sucks. It sucks because there could be a perfectly good explanation but Microsoft is not being open about it.
It sucks because upgrading Windows versions is not an easy task for many users and even more of a hassle to downgrade if users find they’ve been shortchanged. And it really sucks for those who buy a new Windows 10 PC and are locked into the unknown. But most tragically it sucks because Windows 10 is actually a great OS. Throughout my participation in the Windows Insider testers program it has been the fastest, most stable series of Windows betas I’ve used, but Microsoft may be about to hamstring the whole thing.
Promising ‘Free Windows 10′ then delivering ’Freemium-Windows-10-Get-Your-Credit-Cards-Out-In-Two-Years’ would be a disaster and right now Microsoft’s ongoing silence about how everything works feels ever more suspicious. Ultimately at this stage the company is either playing us or its naivety is now bordering on idiotic. It’s a crazy situation to be in where we all have to hope and pray it is the latter…
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