On Mon, 03 Aug 2015 16:52:32 -0400, Wolf K
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On 2015-08-03 3:27 AM, Steve Hayes wrote:
On Sun, 02 Aug 2015 18:04:21 -0400, Wolf K
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On 2015-08-01 10:52 PM, Steve Hayes wrote:
On Sat, 1 Aug 2015 14:32:49 +0000 (UTC), "D. F. Manno"
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Steve Hayes wrote in message


What Windows 7 users need to know about updating to Windows 10
http://mashable.com/2015/07/30/windo...de-windows-10/

Here's my take on that nice article:
1. The "Start Menu" is back in Windows 10
2. Windows 7 "Gadget" is gone in Windows 10
3. Windows 7 "Windows Media Center" is gone in Windows 10
4. Windows 10 Pro has "Update for Business"
5. Windows 10 Pro has "Domain Join Services"
6. Windows 10 Pro has "BitLocker Drive Encryption"
7. Windows 10 Pro has "Group Policy editor"
8. Windows 10 Pro has "Remote Access Services"
9. Windows 10 has "DirectX 12 graphics API"
10. Windows 10 has game streaming from Xbox One
11. Windows 10 has "Cortana", the voice assistant
12. You have only 1 month to decide if you want to revert

Is any of that useful for the average Windows 7 user?

Yes: it tells me that there's nothing there that I actually want.

If it said "Windows 10 has built-in support for Blu-Ray discs" I might
look at it again.

Try Media Player Classic.

More disinfomation.

Will "Media Player Classic" copy my data, file by file, to a Blu-Ray
disc, as Win 7 does to a DVD?

No, it's just a player.

Writing to optical media requires completely different software than
reading/playing. I guess "support BluRay discs" is ambiguous.

BTW, I don't use Win7/8s DVD writing software.

In my understanding one of the main jobs of an operating system is to
connect the CPU to peripherals, like keyboards, mice, disk and disc
drives, monitors, printers and the like.

When new technology appears, like DVD or Blu-Ray, one expects a need
for an updated operating system to cope with them. If the newest
version of Windows can't do that, it's unnecessary.

If it weren't for the need to connect to USB-2 ports and DVD drives,
I'd still be using Windows 98 rather than Windows 7.

So that's why people are asking what Windows 10 can do, as an
operating system, that Windows 7 can't.

I regard things like music and video players as apps rather than as
part of the operating system. Likewise web browsers and e-mail
programs. Microsoft seems to want to bundle those into the OS, but
sometimes leaves out the essential functions of an OS -- communicating
with peripherals and running the apps. Too many bells and whistles,
not enough pistons and cylinders.

I want to know if the apps I use daily will run on Win 10, and that it
will connect them to the hardware that I attach to the system,

Some of the apps I use were written long before DVD drives were
invented, yet if I run them on Windows 7 (32-bit, of course) it will
write their output to a DVD. That's what I expect of an OS. If Win 10
is any good, it will write their output to a Blu-Ray disc as well. If
it doesn't, it's out of date already.


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Steve Hayes from Tshwane, South Africa
Web: http://www.khanya.org.za/stevesig.htm
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