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Win 10 - will you upgrade?

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    #11
    Reports of weird things being broken 2 days before launch are making me hold off:

    Microsoft plays whack-a-mole with Windows 10 bugs

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      #12
      I'm installing it now my my laptop - pretty install screen so far.

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        #13
        What innovative OS features does it bring?

        It seems to me more lipstick on the pig.

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          #14
          El reg review:

          Windows 10: THE ULTIMATE GUIDE as Microsoft says sorry for Windows 8

          Multiple desktops is probably quite good (I remember seeing the same thing on a UNIX Workstation 20 years ago), and DirectX 12 will be worth it for gamers (there was some big technical advance to do with multiple cores that I can't remember). Mostly just GUI fluff though.
          Will work inside IR35. Or for food.

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            #15
            Originally posted by DimPrawn View Post
            What innovative OS features does it bring?

            It seems to me more lipstick on the pig.
            Never had a real issue with win 8.1, though the upgrade on my Lenovo Helix was painful. I don't consider it to be a pig either.

            I'm looking forward to using the multiple desktops, but I really haven't used it long enough to say if the Edge browsers or any of the other changes are massive improvements.

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              #16
              Originally posted by DimPrawn View Post
              What innovative OS features does it bring?
              DirectX 12.

              That's about it.

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                #17
                Will try at the weekend. I skipped 8. If it's no good then I shall be replacing what's left of the Microsoft Windows based computers at home with OS X
                …Maybe we ain’t that young anymore

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                  #18
                  Originally posted by AtW View Post
                  DirectX 12.

                  That's about it.
                  And better multi core performance allegedly, but I thought with 8 games used cores efficiently so ????
                  Socialism is inseparably interwoven with totalitarianism and the abject worship of the state.

                  No Socialist Government conducting the entire life and industry of the country could afford to allow free, sharp, or violently-worded expressions of public discontent.

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                    #19
                    Originally posted by MicrosoftBob View Post
                    And better multi core performance allegedly, but I thought with 8 games used cores efficiently so ????
                    Better multi core usage is the key part of DX12 rather than OS per se (it was already good with it in terms of scheduling tasks).

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                      #20
                      Originally posted by VectraMan View Post
                      Multiple desktops is probably quite good (I remember seeing the same thing on a UNIX Workstation 20 years ago)
                      Multiple desktops is probably the same crock of tulipe it is on OSX, Linux or p.o.s.OS generally : program windows will always appear/be visible in the wrong desktop and you will not be able to find whatever you are looking for whereever you are looking for it...

                      Gave up on multiple desktops the same 20 years ago you first saw them...

                      Of course MS do have a deserved rep for getting things to work well that the authors of p.o.s.OS fail to do, so I may be pleasantly surprised...

                      Boo

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