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Less than 4 days to the death of Windows 10 Free Upgrade
On Tue, 26 Jul 2016 15:13:15 +0100, Wilf wrote:
On 26/07/2016 11:43 am, SteveGG wrote: With the uptake of 10 being so very far below what M$ wanted, they'll probably extend that freebee deadline. There's talk of an inevitable requirement for a subscription (already in place for the Pro version ?), so you can go right on paying for it ! Personal data gathering and pop-up adds are outragious ! For me, still NOT a good idea. I'll stay with 7 ... Has been working much better for me that 7 or 8 on my laptops. Not sure why there's been all this, what oft-times seems to be kneejerk, opposition to Windows 10. It's not as if the concerns haven't been written about, over and over, ad nauseam, for the past year. I'm not sure how you've missed it. |
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Less than 4 days to the death of Windows 10 Free Upgrade
On Tue, 26 Jul 2016 15:50:18 +0800, "Mr. Man-wai Chang"
wrote: On 26/07/16 15:47, Big Bad Bob wrote: cross fingers and toes, hope to the 7 hells that they don't "extend the offer" and make GWX even *WORSE* than before. Next... +1 for BBB's suggestion. |
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Less than 4 days to the death of Windows 10 Free Upgrade
Char Jackson wrote:
I think the wheels are probably already in motion to end the 'free' offer on schedule. If you haven't done your Win10 install by now, you're going to need to be a First Rate Rocket Scientist to finish in time :-) You may not have the time for multiple kicks-at-the-can. Paul |
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Less than 4 days to the death of Windows 10 Free Upgrade
Char Jackson wrote:
I rather doubt it, but I guess we'll see shortly. I think the wheels are probably already in motion to end the 'free' offer on schedule. The end date/deadline is firm https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/wind...s/default.aspx -- ...winston msft mvp windows experience 2007-2016, insider mvp 2016 |
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Less than 4 days to the death of Windows 10 Free Upgrade
On 2016-07-26 03:14, Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote:
Any suggestions? I'll jump in, but I haven't read everyone's replied, maybe this has been covered already: Do like I did last night, image your whole drive (I use TeraByte's Image for Windows, but Ghost or Acronis or whatnot work just as well). Then burn the Win10 DVD (10586 if you can) and run Setup from inside Win7. Do the upgrade (tell Win10 to keep nothing). Boot into W10 and make sure it's activated, then boot your imaging tool and put everything back the way it was. There, free Win10 for when you will need in, say in 8 years... Regards, -- ! _\|/_ Sylvain / ! (o o) Memberavid-Suzuki-Fdn/EFF/Red+Cross/SPCA/Planetary-Society oO-( )-Oo Is there another word for synonym? |
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Less than 4 days to the death of Windows 10 Free Upgrade
On Tue, 26 Jul 2016 15:42:04 -0500, Char Jackson wrote:
On Tue, 26 Jul 2016 11:18:09 -0400, Keith Nuttle wrote: By upgrading, you have already lessened the frustration when MS releases Window 11 or what ever they call the next version. That's demonstrably untrue. Just ask the folks who went from 7 to 10 versus the folks who went from 8 to 10. Their relative frustration levels didn't seem to be very different. If you want to avoid frustration, you don't upgrade more often, you upgrade less often! That's *very* true in the case of MSFT OS products. After win95osr2, I realised that win2ksp4 was *the* ultimate windows OS for me. There was more wrong than right with each of its successors (and getting 'wronger' with each of winXP's descendants). -- Johnny B Good |
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Less than 4 days to the death of Windows 10 Free Upgrade
On Tue, 26 Jul 2016 16:45:48 -0400, Paul wrote:
Char Jackson wrote: I think the wheels are probably already in motion to end the 'free' offer on schedule. If you haven't done your Win10 install by now, you're going to need to be a First Rate Rocket Scientist to finish in time :-) You may not have the time for multiple kicks-at-the-can. When the ice cream truck comes through the neighborhood and offers me a free "crap-on-a-stick-sickle", I'm able to say no. With Win10, considering what all comes with it, it's equally easy to say no. Win10 is far from free, but it's marketed that way, and people fall all over themselves trying to get something free, somehow not realizing what they've signed up for. |
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Less than 4 days to the death of Windows 10 Free Upgrade
On 26/07/2016 10:13 AM, Wilf wrote:
On 26/07/2016 11:43 am, SteveGG wrote: With the uptake of 10 being so very far below what M$ wanted, they'll probably extend that freebee deadline. There's talk of an inevitable requirement for a subscription (already in place for the Pro version ?), so you can go right on paying for it ! Personal data gathering and pop-up adds are outragious ! For me, still NOT a good idea. I'll stay with 7 ... Has been working much better for me that 7 or 8 on my laptops. Not sure why there's been all this, what oft-times seems to be kneejerk, opposition to Windows 10. It breaks computers with just slightly complex setups, like having an SSD and an HDD in the same computer, and you've moved your Users folder to the HDD. Yousuf Khan |
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Less than 4 days to the death of Windows 10 Free Upgrade
On Tue, 26 Jul 2016 06:43:43 -0400, SteveGG
wrote in With the uptake of 10 being so very far below what M$ wanted, they'll probably extend that freebee deadline. There's talk of an inevitable requirement for a subscription (already in place for the Pro version ?), so you can go right on paying for it ! Personal data gathering and pop-up adds are outragious ! For me, still NOT a good idea. I'll stay with 7 ... +1 -- Web based forums are like subscribing to 10 different newspapers and having to visit 10 different news stands to pickup each one. Email list-server groups and USENET are like having all of those newspapers delivered to your door every morning. |
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Less than 4 days to the death of Windows 10 Free Upgrade
En el artículo , Char
Jackson escribió: Win10 is far from free, but it's marketed that way, and people fall all over themselves trying to get something free, somehow not realizing what they've signed up for. Nicely put. I was nagged into trying the upgrade on a sacrificial PC, but install aborted saying the processor didn't support the NX instruction, so my foray into the "joys" of Win10 was mercifully short-lived. A friend has it and he's forever havnig to restore because the latest update (about which you are not told anything and are not given the option to refuse) has broken something. On two occasions it's rendered the machine unbootable and he's had to reinstall from scratch. To coin a phrase, **** that for a game of soldiers. -- (\_/) (='.'=) systemd: the Linux version of Windows 10 (")_(") |
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