Windows 10 "Anniversary" Update.
Posted by: Mike-B on 29 June 2016
In case you've not heard, MS announced today that the Windows 10 "Anniversary" update will be available from 2nd August. The blurb says its the biggest Windows 10 updates yet and will include a lot of new features.
The other info is the MS free Win-10 update for old versions of Windows expires on 29th July, after that you will have to pay & I also hear support for the old pre Win-10 revisions is to be phased out.
Mike-B posted:Time to move !!!! (???) Problem is if you have Win-7 its more than possible your PC/Laptop doesn't have enough in the engine room for Win-10. If thats the situation it's way past time for new hardware.
You don’t need a fast processor or that much RAM for Windows 10 (1 ghz and 1gb for 32 bit, 2gb for 64 bit). There’s more chance the software you want run will need a higher spec.
I took advantage of the free upgrades and moved from W7/32bit to W10/64bit, the main reason was I wanted to use DXO photo processing software and this doesn’t run on any Windows 32 bit OS. It took quite a bit of time to get there, but I must say the installation of W10/64 was very smooth, no searching/loading drivers etc, when it finished install, everything connected to the PC worked fine.
Don’t think I’ll bother with the anniversary upgrade if it only includes more features, I’ve switched off most of the features that came with W10.
Adam Zielinski posted:Time to explore the dark side of the moon and move to Apple.
They are boring - they just work all the time.
Really, I seen a couple of members complaining about their apples in the past week alone.
fatcat posted:You don’t need a fast processor or that much RAM for Windows 10 (1 ghz and 1gb for 32 bit, 2gb for 64 bit). There’s more chance the software you want run will need a higher spec.
Don’t think I’ll bother with the anniversary upgrade if it only includes more features, I’ve switched off most of the features that came with W10.
Problem is a lot of laptops loaded with Win-7 in those days did not have much grunt. My wife had one & the MS web check wouldn't allow it. I forced it & it was a pain.
I believe in keeping right up to date, but no need to run anything you don't need - & me too have most of the W-10 stuff switched off
fatcat posted:Adam Zielinski posted:Time to explore the dark side of the moon and move to Apple.
They are boring - they just work all the time.
Really, I seen a couple of members complaining about their apples in the past week alone.
True - so have I. But truth be told, I don't get how they ended up in this mess - the explanations they were giving, meant that the system implementation was being complicated for no particular reason. I hate to say it, but it seems as it was set up by someone who did not really understand how the end system should run.
Mac are relatively fool proof - a lot of features are designed and built in and cannot be altered. The objective is that a user cannot mess it up. That is one of the reasons why the sysems built around Apple products are so stable.
Mike-B posted:Problem is a lot of laptops loaded with Win-7 in those days did not have much grunt. My wife had one & the MS web check wouldn't allow it. I forced it & it was a pain.
I see what you mean regarding a laptop, my wife has a samsung notebook (1.2ghz/2gb) with windows 7 starter, it's rediculously slow. She kept getting a message to upgrade to W10, but I told her to ignore it.
(Hope Adam doesn't notice this. 
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fatcat posted:Mike-B posted:Problem is a lot of laptops loaded with Win-7 in those days did not have much grunt. My wife had one & the MS web check wouldn't allow it. I forced it & it was a pain.
I see what you mean regarding a laptop, my wife has a samsung notebook (1.2ghz/2gb) with windows 7 starter, it's rediculously slow. She kept getting a message to upgrade to W10, but I told her to ignore it.
(Hope Adam doesn't notice this.
Noticed .... Still beats me why people choose to torture themselves with, what essentially is a legalised virus called Windows...
Noticed
Because unless you are capable of setting up a Linux system, the only alternative is a locked down restrictive overpriced underpowered uninteroperable (is that a word?) POS that won't run anything you have that was written more than a year or so ago.
Pev posted:Noticed
Because unless you are capable of setting up a Linux system, the only alternative is a locked down restrictive overpriced underpowered uninteroperable (is that a word?) POS that won't run anything you have that was written more than a year or so ago.
Add to that the version of Free BSD that Apple use is appallingly out of date...
Actually I disagree with the under-powered, Apple's top spec stuff is pretty much the same as any top-line PC, it just costs 50% more!
But restrictive - yes, and that's why they were thrown out of the Open Software Foundation, despite claiming to be Open Source.
As for backward compatibility, Win 10 runs most (but not absolutely all) MS compatible applications, even most of the ancient stuff; with just three main exceptions, all security related:
1 DOS applications that directly access hardware in a way that would represent a security risk
2 Win16 applications (as they all inherently expose security risks)
3 Win32 & Win64 applications that make explicit calls to deprecated interfaces (security is the usual reason for deprecating an interface rather than mapping it to the new interface by defaulting the additional parameters).
That's actually remarkably good customer service.