On Sun, 25 Oct 2015 08:28:02 -0400, Paul wrote:

Steve Hayes wrote:
On Sat, 24 Oct 2015 14:05:27 -0400, Nil
wrote:

On 24 Oct 2015, Steve Hayes wrote in
alt.windows7.general:

3) I'm not sure what features it has that makes it more desirable
than Windows 7, and whether I desire those features at all.
I have yet to hear a single advantage for me to upgrade to Windows 8 or
10 from Windows 7.

Aye, and that is why I am hoping that someone who has "upgraded" from
Windows 7 to Windows 10 will tell is what advantages there are, if
any.

And also what disadvantages they have found, if any.


Just for you, I did a benchmark.

7ZIP 9.38 Beta x64

Compress a 30GB file. Ultra, one thread per core.
Same hardware for each test.

Win7 SP1 27:04 minutes
Win10 10565 27:44 minutes

So Windows 10 was 40 seconds slower. About 2.5%.

On a web site, they used the built-in benchmark
function inside 7ZIP, and on Win10 it was 1.5% slower.

So no advantage there.

So if there is no advantage to users, perhaps all the advantages are
to Microsoft -- why else would the be offering it "free".

Some have suggested that they want to turn it into subscriptionware,
like Office 365.

Would that mean that if you "upgrade" to it, on a certain day it will
stop working, like ransomware, until you pay a ransom to Microsoft?


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