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Windows 10!

I am seeing the Windows 10 logo on my TaskBar, I read a while back and it's really good, comparing to Wins8.

I will upgrade this weekend and report back....
 
My work machine was running a bad copy of Win7 and it activated Windows 10. Guess you don't need a legit version
 
I'm late adopter, so I will not jump into it now. I stick to "don't break it if it ain't fixed". If I build a new PC though, I will install the '10 for sure.
 
I had beta access to WIn10 and boy I hated it. Like Ice Im going to stick with Win7 as long as I can. On a good note it is better than Window 8 and 8.1 thankfully...
 
Ghonzo said:
I had beta access to WIn10 and boy I hated it. Like Ice Im going to stick with Win7 as long as I can. On a good note it is better than Window 8 and 8.1 thankfully...
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Well you can't wait too long. From what I've read, it's only a free upgrade in the first year.

@kaM I thought it was funny my friend and I were booting up multiple computers each and doing updates and all that jazz and the first one to update & activate was my friend's only non-legit Win7.

If anyone else is impatient like me, you can use MS' Media Creation Tool to download & upgrade:
Windows 10
 
Theoretically, you can dual boot if you really need to. Just have to go through the process of partitioning, setting up an image, and then installing a clean Win10
 
It's a free upgrade because of data mining included with Win10 (data is huge and targeted ads are huge income). There's a lot of privacy issues with it but I don't think it's anything we haven't seen in OSX, Android, GMAIL services etc. The problem is that Win10 installs with it TURNED ON and you have to turn it off if you don't want it. Kinda annoying and a little sketchy.

It's better than 8/8.1 because that crap metro is outta the way but metro UI in Win8 can be stopped will Classicstart/Start8.
Win 10 feels a little snappier than 8 and definitely snappier than 7. It's obviously been polished in that regards.

The most important part of Windows 10 is the DX12 API that will translate to better performance for both AMD and NVIDIA GPUs for the future. If anyone ever used Mantle with AMD (BF4 as an example) it will add performance increases like that. That's really the only reason to upgrade to Win10.

I use 8.1 at work. What I'm currently trying to do is run a virtual Win10 with PCI passthrough and KVM inside of linux (think baremetal hypervisor). If I can get that to work then I'll stop dual booting. Right now I haven't been able to get Win10 to work but it hasn't been out long.

Honestly, if it wasn't fort he DX12 API I would stick with 8/7.
 
I made the jump at work. Started the update to windows. Came back and it was done. So far no issues. Make sure all your work applications are compatible!!!
 
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