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Nope.avi.
Nope. I'm moving to Windows 10.
Nope. I'm moving to Windows 10.
I agree with all the posters here who are staying with Windows 7. I have 4/5 main machines all running Windows 7 Ultimate and I need absolute stability and Windows 10 is too new and most likely unstable. I am also not best pleased about the discontinuing of Windows Media Center. They almost had me and then I lost interest. More stupid UI changes so now you have no idea where the active window went. No Aero after being asked by 10K plus insiders. So I am sticking with 7.
I am also testing 10 on 4 virtual machines over 3 PC's just to see what happens but so far it is MEH. I'll stay with the insider program but I will not use 10 on a main system. Too much selling your soul to Microsoft for nothing in return.
One item that will always be an issue for me is 10 not dismounting or releasing other hdd's or sdd's on shut down
I shouldn't have to disable or sacrifice fast startup just so 10 acts right or like 7 and all prior windows versions with exterior or interior drives.
If I want to remove a drive or reconnect it in another os check disk should not be activated on the other os.
This alone makes 10 potentially data killing.
Hmm, Jeannie thanks for sharing. I guess all these are speculation at the moment? It won't matter to me as I will be upgrading my currently unused keys, but may be extremely important for anyone with only a single Win 7 key.
I've just built a new PC for my son and have installed one of my two remaining W7 licenses. It was SP1 but still required 160+ important update downloads. I still have error debugging effort!
My own PC has W7 and it suits me fine except for the numerous fairly recent patch Tuesday updates. Some of these can cause problems - a M$ plot?
I'll consider Windows 10 when you brave people have fully tested it but still have concerns about some paid software comparability.
Lady Fitzgerald
That is a little concerning. I thought you could always go back. I have an image restore of windows 7 sp1 and Xubuntu. Are you saying the if I use windows 10 for more than 30 day after the 29th, I can never go back to windows 7 ever even with an image restore?
They couldn't do that with my system. My key happens to be an dell oem-slp which is used on many dell systems. Some people will upgrade to 10 and others will not upgrade to windows 10. That could really foul up some people windows 7 systems if they block the oem-slp key.
I still don't have to worry about losing a key because someone was nice enough to give me a windows 7 retail version. I am currently triple booting with windows 7, 10 and Xubuntu.
Seems nothing much has been written in stone on what to really expect from Win 10 until it comes out. Even, some features aren't scheduled to be out right away and others will be subject to change. I find it frightening.