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Get Windows 10

Cassie

Cassie

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Are any of you reserving your free copy of Windows 10? How can we even know if we should? I like Windows 7, I've tried Windows 8 IT SUCKS and I never want it - so how do I know if Windows 10 will suck like 8 or be fairly decent like 7?
 
I'm on the fence, but one should cover one's bases in case it starts making more sense to upgrade down the road.

I'M NOT SURE.
 
Bottom right hand corner? Its not a message as such, just a small icon of a window, possibly to the left of your speaker icon.
 
If you have Windows 7 or 8 there will be an icon in the system tray, it's shaped like the Windows logo, but white. If you hover over it, it says "Get Windows 10", if you click on it, it will take you to a page where you can reserve your free copy. If you do that, Windows 10 will automatically download on your computer when it's released, and then you can install it or not.
 
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lol, this is from a website telling you how to get rid of the icon.
 
Windows 10 is going to be a free upgrade until July 29th next year, so you can reserve it now and not do anything with it for a year, by which time we'll know how shit Windows 10 is.
 
^ This. But MS will download files onto your computer between now and then to facilitate the installation when you're ready. I don't know how bloated or sketchy or disruptive these files will be.
 
I don't have that even though I'm on Windows 8 (ugh... UGH!!). Maybe it was in one of the 68 updates I didn't install.
 
The other day I was doing some important work and decided to have a 10 minute break. When I came back, I found Windows 10 had decided by itself to restart the computer to install "important updates". No, of course I hadn't fucking saved anything.

So it's business as usual.
 
It's ok. Pretty much everything's back to normal except for the Start Menu, which is a load of old shit. It has a "most used" list of programs, but if you ever use shortcuts on your desktop to access programs then these won't show up in the list. So it's just some of your most used.

And the main list of programs has chunky icons (which haven't been programmed properly and show as non-descript folder icons instead of the apps' logos) and big alphabetical divisions, which make it take longer to find what you want. Basically, it's still designed for touchscreens, where everything needs to be spaced far apart to avoid people with big fingers tapping the wrong thing. This is the opposite of how you design an interface for the fine, accurate point of a mouse.

Still better than Windows 8, though!
 
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