Windows 10 to be a recommended update in early 2016

Re:Windows 10 to be a recommended update in early 2016 by toxican on Friday October 30, 2015 @09:54AM (#10477783)

In regards to your first question, Win 7 _is_ pretty great. Windows 8 is more the OS with the funky tiles and touch interface and 10 is the answer to those complaints. It has some of that still, but it's a nice hybrid of the features we saw in 7 and the features of 8. For me at least, 10 fixed all of the problems I had with 8.

For the 31 days thing, I strongly suspect it's mostly just a marketing thing. "Try the newest Windows out for 31 days, risk free!". I could see it being an issue of storage on tablet devices with minimal storage or laptop/desktops with similar issues.

I've since wiped out my Win10 machine (by accident...oops) and went back to 8, since that's what I had a license and disc for. Not sure if I'll go back to 10. The privacy issues concern me greatly.

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Re:Windows 10 to be a recommended update in early 2016 by tdkl on Friday October 30, 2015 @10:17AM (#10477925)

> For the 31 days thing, I strongly suspect it's mostly just a marketing thing.

Windows.old directory gets purged after 31 days, so there's no going back.

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Re:Windows 10 to be a recommended update in early 2016 by toxican on Monday November 02, 2015 @08:46AM (#10491755)

Oh I know, I meant that them placing the limitation for 31 days is primarily a marketing thing.

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Re:Windows 10 to be a recommended update in early 2016 by ilek on Friday October 30, 2015 @10:01AM (#10477827)

Re: the privacy, didn't they put these in 7/8 anyway? I swear I saw some things about them doing that in an update. Perhaps it was just something they were thinking about?

I use 10 at work, honestly it's not bad. I haven't upgraded on my home machines though...

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