Windows 10

[mhm]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-30924022

Free. 

[Anmer]

Free. 

Has to be paid for somehow.

[IanH]

Paid for by getting people off the older versions so they can drop cost of support with updates?

[Anmer]

Paid for by getting people off the older versions so they can drop cost of support with updates?

In theory, except support will have to continue for Vista, Win 7 and Win 8.  Too many corporates won't do an immediate upgrade.

[shakysen]

Hope God mode works in 10

[IanH]

Corporates are probably on Win7 - the company I work for moved to it from XP a couple of years ago. Skipped Vista and I doubt they will go to Win8.

[mhm]

Corporates are probably on Win7 - the company I work for moved to it from XP a couple of years ago. Skipped Vista and I doubt they will go to Win8.

Free upgrade is to get rid of win 8

[Anmer]

Free upgrade is to get rid of win 8

The FREE upgrade is to try and compete with OS X, the growth in tablet applications and cloud based storage/profiles.

Microsoft's main concern is continuing decline in market share which it feels will be further eroded if it charges for this upgrade.

[Roadrunner]

Having reserved copies of the free Windows 10 download months ago for both my laptop and Desk-top  HP devices, yesterday my laptop told me that Windows 10 was available. 90 minutes later I have a working version of 10 and it is running well and looks good.  The desk-top PC, also an HP, was not showing that 10 was available and it said that downloads are being spread out. However, I did notice that on this machine the windows symbol (and reservation status data) on the right hand side of the task-bar has disappeared. Investigating further in windows diagnostics I got a pop-up window saying "Unsupported version - The Windows 10 app is not available for this version of Windows.  It is an HP 64-bit machine with 8.1 and is only 10 months old!!!. , If I go into the HP support window on the PC it says my copy of windows 10 is not ready yet and I will be advised when available for download. I am a little bit confused at the moment......When reserving the free version of 10 I checked suitability of the PC's and both came up as suitable. Any ideas

[mhm]

Took ages to download. Now installed works well

[Ian K]

All good here as well

[Bethsalem]

The force is strong with this OS, be functioning well, it is

[Keef]

I've put Win 10 on 2 of my 3 machines and am not experiencing any issues.
I expect I'll get a sharer code change for PP when I finally do that box but not a big issue.

However, if you are a bit of a nerd like me then you might want to take care when installing Win 10 as there is quite a bit of sharing of your data going on by default.

Some stuff you might want to allow, some you might not, but here's a useful guide:

https://fix10.isleaked.com/

Cheers,

Keef.

[Jamie]

https://fix10.isleaked.com/

Well that went off-line quickly.........

Microsoft throwing their weight around methinks.

[Anmer]

That url link works for me?