Supposedly already started distribution via internal upgrade a couple of days ago. So far not got an option but then again I'm still using Win 7. I suppose eventually I will get the free upgrade offer. It's supposed to be a push thing, little upgrade icon appears on your desktop.

Allegedly the games Solitaire and Minefield aren't going to be included. Bored employees could be spending more time trying to find some actual work to do.

Also heard various rumors that it shares your wifi password with facebook friends. It supposedly distributes itself via a peer to peer system too.

Expect lots of paranoid people to be turning that off.

Hopefully they have fully learned all previous lessons and haven't come up with some 'really good' new ideas which later turn out to be bad ones (some hope)

QA guy at work installed it earlier in a VM. It seems okay other than its insistence that you sign into a Microsoft account and hand over your life to them in order to do anything/use Cortana. You can skip it but its obvious that it will nag you forever to sign in at any given opportunity.

Edge browser isn't bad.

I got the notification to opt in to the W10 upgrade months ago.. you can force the notification apparently, google it..

Just turned on my laptop now so it should download imminently..

Still on 7

Updated here and all good so far.

What are you upgrading from? 7 or 8? I'm on 7 but thinking that there is too much 8 silliness in 10...

I'm on 7 too, but wimm 8 does have a few carrots, including being 'free'

Then M$ haven't been that well known for just giving away stuff for free, so what do they get out of it? 

Quote from: Serious on August 12, 2015, 10:46:55 AM

Then M$ haven't been that well known for just giving away stuff for free, so what do they get out of it? 

prob cause apple give away their OS

it keeps their market share for them

in the same way they didn't work hard against pirate copies of previous versions

they're better off keeping their market share and dominance and letting 2% of people have it for free, than pushing those 2% over to a different OS


(I just pulled the 2% number out of my ass, no idea on real numbers and google didnt; help)

All security or personal stuff are by default very open but going to 13  (!) different places in the OS and one homepage ! you can make it fairly safe.

I am happy with linux mint

Quote from: knighty on August 12, 2015, 22:33:59 PM
it keeps their market share for them

in the same way they didn't work hard against pirate copies of previous versions

they're better off keeping their market share and dominance and letting 2% of people have it for free, than pushing those 2% over to a different OS


(I just pulled the 2% number out of my ass, no idea on real numbers and google didnt; help)

I'd say its a lot higher than 2%, i don't know anyone with a genuine copy apart from me

Quote from: Bacon on August 13, 2015, 19:23:34 PM

I'd say its a lot higher than 2%, i don't know anyone with a genuine copy apart from me

anyone with a laptop comes with windows. anyone who buys a branded box comes with windows. any businesses - pretty much 99% of all them are genuine copies.

and there are still lots of people with pirated copies. I suspect there always will be illegal copies of software unless they make it freeware.

according to google (if you trust it)

over 75% of all software in china is pirate/counterfeit

no idea what percentage that is of the world percentage, but I guess it's noticeable

75% of everything in China is pirated or counterfeit!