britfrog 180 Posted January 22, 2015 Report Share Posted January 22, 2015 I am a great believer in the American phrase "there aint no such thing as a free lunch" and the English phrase "beware of Greeks bearing gifts" however it would appear that M.S. are going to give windows 10 away if you "convert" in the first year their announcement goes : Free Upgrade Offer Great news! We will offer a free upgrade to Windows 10 for qualified new or existing Windows 7, Windows 8.1 and Windows Phone 8.1 devices that upgrade in the first year!* And even better: once a qualified Windows device is upgraded to Windows 10, we will continue to keep it up to date for the supported lifetime of the device, keeping it more secure, and introducing new features and functionality over time – for no additional charge. Sign up with your email today, and we will send you more information about Windows 10 and the upgrade offer in the coming months. could be a case of slowly , slowly monkey catchee! I am still running their latest Beta on one hard drive and have to say I still prefer win7 Still I suppose we shall have to all go with the flow. Link to post Share on other sites
ddavid 149 Posted January 22, 2015 Report Share Posted January 22, 2015 Ouch - a holographic platform! A bit like landing helicopters, then?!. Thanks for the heads up, Nigel. Maybe I'll try it when I upgrade my MoBo... Ciao - Dai. Link to post Share on other sites
MyPC8MyBrain 273 Posted January 22, 2015 Report Share Posted January 22, 2015 im terrified thinking MS is doing a move like this the sentence beware of Greeks bearing gifts; is screaming in my head with red underscores flashing if it was anyone else, it would be considered as a promo move since its MS; it’s so ridicules it’s not even a suspicion; convicted! what are you afarid of MS? Link to post Share on other sites
britfrog 180 Posted January 22, 2015 Author Report Share Posted January 22, 2015 Chris there is more to this than meets the eye, are they scared of Apples gains? however every add on is payware and third parties need not apply, so perhaps they are expecting to catch the unaware like that? 1 Link to post Share on other sites
Auger 22 Posted January 22, 2015 Report Share Posted January 22, 2015 Not only no, but NO FRIGGING WAY!!! I've seen what they did with MS 8. Talk about lock in. I want my computer to do what I want it do, when I want it to do it. I will install what I like, whenever I like, whereever I want. I do not want another television which allows me to passively consume what the content providers shovel. <sigh> If it weren't for a strong gaming addiction MS products would have disappeared from my PCs long ago. Link to post Share on other sites
MyPC8MyBrain 273 Posted January 23, 2015 Report Share Posted January 23, 2015 not sure what's the rant about Pete, my win8.1 does exactly what i tell it, when i tell it and it never downloads anything unless i tell it to it's just a matter of knowing how to disable the crap MS pile's on i got rid of metro and all of their apps with the help of http://sourceforge.net/projects/windows8appremover/ i have a clean win8.1 with nice start button like I'm used to http://startisback.com/ got my old TaskManager back http://winaero.com/blog/how-to-restore-the-good-old-task-manager-in-windows-8/ i use Autoruns to remove pesky startup application https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb963902.aspx and CCleaner to keep my PC clean from time to time https://www.piriform.com/ccleaner FW is disabled, sys restore is disabled, security center is disabled completely; all security features are off, sys update disabled, and i do not allow to check for solutions or updates online Explorer has been removed, and replaced by Firefox i don’t run AV of any kind or active FW; i keep safe with few browser plugins AdBlock Plus Flashblock NO Google Analytics redirect Cleaner and... common sense Link to post Share on other sites
britfrog 180 Posted January 23, 2015 Author Report Share Posted January 23, 2015 Interesting Chris, i also have win 8.1 and whilst I also have customised my desktop to look much like windows 7 it will not run fsx correctly , no way, it has a higher VAS signature than win7 thus reducing what one can run in fsx , sadly my pre beta version of win 10 is not that much more different to 8.1 , yes i will play with it and use it, but my fsx will be under win 7 for the foreseeable future. As for antivirus/ internet protection i dont think you would last 5 minutes without one here in France perhaps europe with the amount of phishing and attempted back door entries that go on. but hey if your system does it for you , well done! 1 Link to post Share on other sites
MyPC8MyBrain 273 Posted January 23, 2015 Report Share Posted January 23, 2015 just curious what’s not running well with FSX and win8.1? nothing can touch XP when it come to mem footprint Link to post Share on other sites
MartinW 0 Posted January 23, 2015 Report Share Posted January 23, 2015 Still I suppose we shall have to all go with the flow. I say no we won't. At least not until we have to. I base that on all the negativity I've heard about add-on's and other stuff having issues with W8. If it aint broke, don't fix it. Link to post Share on other sites
britfrog 180 Posted January 23, 2015 Author Report Share Posted January 23, 2015 just curious what’s not running well with FSX and win8.1? nothing can touch XP when it come to mem footprint it falls over like fsx does in earlier windows when using the wrong uiautomation.dll Link to post Share on other sites
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