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12th July 2016, 12:22 | #21 | |
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Life is just too short - I am happy with XP or W10.
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12th July 2016, 14:48 | #22 | |
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It's a fair enough analogy but cars are pretty stand alone things, basically they work or they don't and you can drive them on any road you want no matter how old they are, but the toys vary depending on age: Linux is like having a faster old car but you can only drive it on B roads and some A ones (absolutely fine if that's all you need obviously), XP means you have an old car and can travel on all B and A roads but not most motorways. Win7 is a lot like Rover 75/MG's in that you can travel on any road, the toys are all there but perhaps not quite as many of them as you'd get with a modern car/Win10 whether you need the extra toys (or if they're worth having) is obviously up to you I thought Win7 was great tbh but Win10 is as good really once you are used to it |
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12th July 2016, 22:13 | #23 |
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To expand the car analagy a bit further;
You keep copies of all your important info inside your car as (say for arguments sake) you travel a lot. Obviously that's quite attractive to a thief. Older model cars are easier to break into, and beyond a certain point they may as well have a universal key. The same is true for computer OSs. New cars also phone home to the dealership and can provide realtime downloads of telemetry data. Nobody's really sure what data is sent or what the dealers do with it....Older cars don't do this.....I think you can see where I'm going with that! |
21st July 2016, 18:58 | #24 |
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Win 10 free copy countdown. you have until the 29th July to get/reserve your copy.....That's if you want one
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25th July 2016, 09:08 | #25 |
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Like a lot I upgraded from W7, which I loved, and it was somewhat strange at first however once I got a lot of the 'little annoyances' halted under control I am quite happy with it now I have to confess.
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28th July 2016, 08:48 | #26 | |
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MS are going to miss their 1 billion target by a long way. I'll also make a little prediction, all those who have "upgraded" to 10 using their hooky copies of 7 / 8 will be in for a nasty surprise when MS kill their Windows 10 after the free period ends, I did some research and found ALL pirated copies of Win 7 used to upgrade to 10 are being given the same install key.
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28th July 2016, 09:18 | #27 |
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Win10 is superb, much much faster, so much smoother and a cleaner operating system for the user. Win10 is the future of all operating systems, why get left behind, you need to future-proof yourself.
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28th July 2016, 09:30 | #28 |
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Yeah errmm right.
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29th July 2016, 06:07 | #29 |
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Well it' the last day and I have no changed to Win 10. Not sure how this PC would cope as it does not have that much RAM really and I am not the best and learnign new computer stuff so will stick with win 7 methinks.
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29th July 2016, 07:15 | #30 | |
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I would it to be all those, but not by a large margin. I found it not that much different to use from what I had, Win 8. Had it been as bad as some in this thread suggest, I would have gone back - I didn't.
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