Microsoft silently preparing your PC for Win 10

My W8.1 and W10 run on the same VMware Player. That's what I compared.

I just read a PCWorld article that claims that W10 will be a continuous series of weekly or biweekly build releases after the official release date, like Office. W10 is to be a free upgrade for W7, W8, & W8.1 users for the first year. After that, a subscription is required for future "builds". I guess I wasn't paying attention before, so if this is old news, I apologize.

Windows forever: Windows 10 builds will continue even after Microsoft ships it | PCWorld

I think PC World is speculation. MS has not yet announced what is going to happen after W10 RTM and what the pricing scheme is going to be. But I would not be amazed if they did in fact come up with a yearly fee for the updates. That would give them a steady cash flow.

Sounds like he's confusing the Technical Preview releases (now called Insider Preview) with a production release scheme. Sounds crazy to me and too much like Linux with it's daily updates. That would definitely be a deal breaker to me. Who has time to download a 4GB ISO every few days?

groze said:

carwiz said:

Sounds like he's confusing the Technical Preview releases (now called Insider Preview) with a production release scheme. Sounds crazy to me and too much like Linux with it's daily updates. That would definitely be a deal breaker to me. Who has time to download a 4GB ISO every few days?

Carwiz,

Linux updates are not 4 gb every day unless you are doing beta testing for the next release. In fact, I always wait about a week to update my Linux partition. The size of the updates very. Most days no updates, the maximum update I have seen is 300 megabytes but most run under 80 megabytes or lower.

I think carwiz meant if the W10 Release version updates were like the current W10TP updates.

I wouldn't go as far as ugly but isn't as pretty as 7 is out of the box,
Once you get rid of all the unneeded apps it's just another touch screen created os
Issue is if you really don't need a touch friendly interface when your not interested in it or not using a touch compatible display :/

Windows knows this but installs an interface anyway which M$ will not develop a real alternative to that which is really just throwing desktops to the third party wolves because it's focused on selling cell phone and surface's which would need a touch interface.

So yes it's another win-8-8.1 expansion with little to offer mouse users in the name of change,
Start menu is another start screen which was better in 8.1 than in win-10
So I see 10 as a net gain of zero personally
8.1 and start8 is just as good if not better than 10 and start10 except for another 5.us for start10

Although free classic shell is looking like the go to for more edits,
Problem is the re-installing of either after every 10 update possibly ???
Is 10 worth the squeeze for the juice even if it's free ?
Jury still out for me not for a while yet to worry about it.

Towards the end of the year it will be interesting to see what the millions of desktop users that fell for the free upgrade will say. My guess would be that we will get a lot of requests on how to get back to W7. The W8.1 users may have less problems.