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I've been hearing about Windows 10 being a free upgrade to current Win 7 users, and it's got me thinking about upgrades. I use Win 7 at home, of course, but my office uses Win 7, as well, and has about a dozen users. Since I haven't bothered to keep up with new developments in the Windows world, owing to being buried in work, can anyone suggest a good reason not to upgrade when it becomes available? Bear in mind that I/we have no intention of ever using a touch interface for anything, now or forever, and we no longer have any "legacy" software to support in the company; I think we're in a good position to upgrade, skipping all the garbage attendant to the whole Win 8 travesty. Does it matter that the office currently uses a Win Server 2008 and we don't plan to upgrade to 2012?
Am I missing anything that I should know about here?
Will Rogers never met me.
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I tried the CTP on an old laptop a few weeks ago and it seemed OK. Granted I'd prefer to still have the Windows 3 interface, but at least it's better than 8.
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Personally I would upgrade to windows 10 - it is pretty easy to ignore the touch stuff in Windows 10 and I wouldn't be happy with unsupported software given the number of bad guys looking for exploits etc.
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One of the hardware requirements is SecureBoot. You definitely want all of your non-developer relatives to upgrade.
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Only for the mobile versions. Speculation in the comments on the winbeta article from the Insider are that even that is probably only a logo requirement for OEMs.
That makes sense to me too; otherwise they'd completely undercut the intended benefit of offering free upgrades to lots of existing customers.
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"If it ain't broken, donut fixit"...
Wait until you have compelling reasons to upgrade (mainly software/libraries that stop supporting old versions of Windows)
I'd rather be phishing!
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Compelling Reason. FREE for first year.
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Compelling anti-reason - free for the first year ... then what?
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If it goes to OSaaS you stop there, if you want.
Otherwise people have been on XP since 2001, and been on IE 6 since then too.
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Windows is becoming closed development platform and service based platform instead of one time licensing fee. Proceed with caution and look for alternatives if you want be in control over your own computing environment.
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I'd recommend OpenSUSE or Ubuntu, with Wine and Mono.
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If you are using Mono why would you need Wine? Considering Gnome is built on mono.
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They're not the same thing, and one thing does not replace the other. Mono is a .NET implementation, while Wine is a WinAPI implementation. I'm using Mono to run my .NET projects, Wine for small windows-applications that I love, like Notepad++.
SteveS@TrippStudios wrote: Considering Gnome is built on mono.
Gnome existed before Mono 
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Agreed. Gnome was before Mono, latest version though is mono-based.
Run ubuntu 14.10 on vm in win8, always nice to be able to check things from multiple perspectives.
Even have xamarin studios on my RPi 2 
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SteveS@TrippStudios wrote: Gnome was before Mono, latest version though is mono-based.
Cool, you learn something new every day here
SteveS@TrippStudios wrote: Even have xamarin studios on my RPi 2
I don't have Xamarin on there, but Samba is already installed. Too bad there's no network here, could be fun.
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Depends.
If it's "OS as a service", they can keep it.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: OS as a service
Apparently not YET, yet being the operative word.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Just from my experience with MS products I'd stand well back until the other shoe drops.
Even as far back as DOS, 6.0 was a disaster that destroyed many a user's HDD data before it was fixed with 6.1;
Particularly if they're letting Win 7 users upgrade for free, I can not help but think that it's bait on some hook. Maybe just because Win8 is a flop and they need to pull the Win users back onto the same level as best they can, but I don't trust in corporate altruism (an oxymoron if ever there was one).
And what about intrusiveness - I keep trying to control updates to Win7 PC's so they don't happen at bad times - and it keeps getting set back to them doing it to me, anyway. Maybe some Lenovo inspired spyware as part of the O/S?
I'd take a step back until they clear the bodies.
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I remember those days very well. I got Win2000 for free (back when they had the Insider program and served lunches), and it fixed everything on my PC that I never got to work properly under Win95. That lulled me into a false sense of security and trust. Then the updates started coming in, and every third one destroyed the computer and forced me to rebuild from scratch. That continued up through 98SE, then got a little better with XP, and I've had very few issues with Win 7. It seems they're getting a bit better at this stuff, finally.
I'm thinking I'll wait until the Win 10 release is about 6 months old, clone my current hard drive to something removable, then try the experiment. If my PC survives, then we'll consider it for work.
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Bait on some hook?
Nah, SOMEONE'S trying to get their app store a userbase. Android went from nothing to 2 billion in a few years.
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Waow it's all doom and gloom here so far!
I think Windows 10 looks great, will be upgrading as soon as I can.
As long as you are tech-savvy, you can always roll back if things go wrong.
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Haha, no joke. Doom and gloom galore!
I upgrade all of my dev systems, dev servers and sqa servers every December. Windows, office, visual studio, SQL management, SQL server, TFS, etc. Takes about 4 hours to go through all 10 systems.
Then I upgrade staging/production every februrary, after a 2 month burn in.
I have not had an upgrade problem since SQL 2000 - SQL 2005. So for 10 years, I've been upgrading 2 months after MS releases all their stuff, not one problem that was worth committing to my brain's storage.
In my experience, people hesitate over fear of the unknown, or hate towards Microsoft, or lack of funds to be on SA/msdn/bizspark.
But for productivity, I'd upgrade and always stay current. Try getting a job in quick basic on novell netware! Shoot, try getting a job in .net 2.0 and VS 2005. Interviewers will laugh you out of the building if you don't stay current.
Robert
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I haven't looked at it yet, but... I'll probably upgrade.
MS have a habit of "Good one" followed by "Cr@p one" followed by "Good one" again, and TBH I don't think they can afford to mess up too badly after the débâcle of Win8. It was meant to be a "uniting OS" pushing market share into the mobile market, leveraging their share from the desktop market. That failed, badly - and expensively - and probably improved the competitions position in all markets.
They aren't dumb; they know the damage it will do if their "core users" don't go along with them this time.
I think it'll be a good one. (Damn well hope so!)
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OriginalGriff wrote: (Damn well hope so!)
Me, too, Griff! 
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I'm hoping that win10 is a good one. If it proves to be a flop, I'll be switching to Apple or securing a copy of one of the UX platforms from one of the university labs.
The difficult may take time, the impossible a little longer.
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