Windows - Pick your flavour
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As much as people are saying they won't upgrade to Windows 10 from Windows 7 or 8.1, what are your future computing plans? Yes, there have been some... not so pleasant... versions of Windows, but it is a prevalent product in the workforce, and, it will just be a matter of time before we are required to upgrade our work computers to something else. So.. will you stay on Windows 7 until Windows NEXT (whatever comes after 10) is available? If you work on systems for clients and they are on Windows 10, how will you test/support them? Not for or against any particular version, just asking question.
10 all around for my computers; barring any major surprises I suspect I'll be upgrading all of my families 8.x PCs to 10 (not sure if any of them still have working w7 laptops). Also, older versions of Windows are more likely to get pwnd[^] by hackers; I'd rather do a bunch of OS upgrades than one "Yeah, you're infected; Time to take of and nuke it from orbit" discussion. The long tail for family machines is my Dad's laptop; but since he tends to buy and abuse a worstbuy special to death every other year (while on the road so calling me for help isn't a problem), I'm less concerned about it. And while my uncle has 3 vista boxes for his kids to do homework on; $150-200 will get a Win7 installed reburb corporate desktop that's significantly faster (the single core AMD chips in them now really suck) for only marginally more than an OS upgrade (kids are agitating for not-vista) and minor repairs (at least one of them has a dead cd drive) would run. If he does have me setup the new boxes, I'll be bumping them to 10 before delivery. Kids are ground zero for malware. :sigh: As a gamer the performance gain from DX12 is a killer app. That said, I'll probably upgrade my laptop early on; and may hold out on my desktop until Christmas/New Years break to give more trouble shooting time if something goes wrong. OTOH if the laptop (and my spare desktop) go smoothly I might not; backup restore is easy enough after all and while I don't have any major problems with 8.1, it looks like W10 will reduce the friction involved.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason? Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful? --Zachris Topelius Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies. -- Sarah Hoyt
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As much as people are saying they won't upgrade to Windows 10 from Windows 7 or 8.1, what are your future computing plans? Yes, there have been some... not so pleasant... versions of Windows, but it is a prevalent product in the workforce, and, it will just be a matter of time before we are required to upgrade our work computers to something else. So.. will you stay on Windows 7 until Windows NEXT (whatever comes after 10) is available? If you work on systems for clients and they are on Windows 10, how will you test/support them? Not for or against any particular version, just asking question.
(at work) I'd like to, but it always depends on 3rd party support. (at home) I'd like to, but I need to update hardware; current hardware is lacking (even on Win7)
I'd rather be phishing!
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As much as people are saying they won't upgrade to Windows 10 from Windows 7 or 8.1, what are your future computing plans? Yes, there have been some... not so pleasant... versions of Windows, but it is a prevalent product in the workforce, and, it will just be a matter of time before we are required to upgrade our work computers to something else. So.. will you stay on Windows 7 until Windows NEXT (whatever comes after 10) is available? If you work on systems for clients and they are on Windows 10, how will you test/support them? Not for or against any particular version, just asking question.
Tim Carmichael wrote:
it is a prevalent product in the workforce
Yes, for the moment. Just like DBaseIV once was a leader. A single bad version is easily skipped, but it appears not to be limited to a single version; if you ignore Win7 you see a clear path of degradation. It will remain in the office for quite some time to come - even if you actively try to kill old technology, someone will still be out there using it (hello VB6). Personally, I started moving toward different Linux-distro's after the release of Vista. It has been a pleasant experience, at a price that Microsoft simlpy cannot beat.
Bastard Programmer from Hell :suss: If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^][](X-Clacks-Overhead: GNU Terry Pratchett)
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As much as people are saying they won't upgrade to Windows 10 from Windows 7 or 8.1, what are your future computing plans? Yes, there have been some... not so pleasant... versions of Windows, but it is a prevalent product in the workforce, and, it will just be a matter of time before we are required to upgrade our work computers to something else. So.. will you stay on Windows 7 until Windows NEXT (whatever comes after 10) is available? If you work on systems for clients and they are on Windows 10, how will you test/support them? Not for or against any particular version, just asking question.
I switched to OSX as my main OS when Windows 8 came out. At work, I used to be 100% Windows (.NET development) but I'm currently on about 75% Windows, 25% Mac (iOS development) these days. With the direction .NET is going in (Roslyn, Visual Studio Code, Office 2016), I'm looking forward to seeing some good stuff from Microsoft in terms of IDE somewhere down the line, while at the same time enabling me to leave the crappy Windows platform behind for good :) I don't think that Windows really has much of a future unless they do something radical with it.
How do you know so much about swallows? Well, you have to know these things when you're a king, you know.
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just wait until they release each build individually
You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
At exactly what point do we stop calling them "updates" and start calling them "forced pull requests"?
Proud to have finally moved to the A-Ark. Which one are you in?
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As much as people are saying they won't upgrade to Windows 10 from Windows 7 or 8.1, what are your future computing plans? Yes, there have been some... not so pleasant... versions of Windows, but it is a prevalent product in the workforce, and, it will just be a matter of time before we are required to upgrade our work computers to something else. So.. will you stay on Windows 7 until Windows NEXT (whatever comes after 10) is available? If you work on systems for clients and they are on Windows 10, how will you test/support them? Not for or against any particular version, just asking question.
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At exactly what point do we stop calling them "updates" and start calling them "forced pull requests"?
Proud to have finally moved to the A-Ark. Which one are you in?
Author of the Guardians Saga (Sci-Fi/Fantasy novels)when MS copyrights that phrase (probably next Tuesday)
You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
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I will stick to my DOS 6.22 and Windows for workgroups, can't do with all this updating of OS's
You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
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when MS copyrights that phrase (probably next Tuesday)
You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
And patents each and every build...
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As much as people are saying they won't upgrade to Windows 10 from Windows 7 or 8.1, what are your future computing plans? Yes, there have been some... not so pleasant... versions of Windows, but it is a prevalent product in the workforce, and, it will just be a matter of time before we are required to upgrade our work computers to something else. So.. will you stay on Windows 7 until Windows NEXT (whatever comes after 10) is available? If you work on systems for clients and they are on Windows 10, how will you test/support them? Not for or against any particular version, just asking question.
As a programmer, whether I like Windows 10 or not it doesn't really matter. I'll have to support my applications on it so I might as well use it so I know it. I'm on 8.1 now and don't have a problems with it, going back to the start menu on Windows 10 really slows me down now that I'm used to not using it. Personally don't see the big deal, rarely used the start menu in Win7 either.
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OriginalGriff wrote:
t could destroy them in the desktop market.
We can only hope
Mongo: Mongo only pawn... in game of life.
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Just making a joke. I complain about MS but they do have a large market share and some times it works :-D .
Mongo: Mongo only pawn... in game of life.
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As much as people are saying they won't upgrade to Windows 10 from Windows 7 or 8.1, what are your future computing plans? Yes, there have been some... not so pleasant... versions of Windows, but it is a prevalent product in the workforce, and, it will just be a matter of time before we are required to upgrade our work computers to something else. So.. will you stay on Windows 7 until Windows NEXT (whatever comes after 10) is available? If you work on systems for clients and they are on Windows 10, how will you test/support them? Not for or against any particular version, just asking question.
The work machines are controlled by our IT department, who will probably wait until the system is replaced. I learned my lesson on my personal machines doing the 8.0 -> 8.1 *grade. Upgrade, never, only clean install. Short story, the performance of the upgraded machines stink. Worse, Lenovo doesn't support my laptop running any OS version other than the one it shipped with, so now that it's no longer the nice machine to use, it's my fault for upgrading and I'm SOL (well, till I restore it back to 8.0, but I've been too busy).
We can program with only 1's, but if all you've got are zeros, you've got nothing.
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As much as people are saying they won't upgrade to Windows 10 from Windows 7 or 8.1, what are your future computing plans? Yes, there have been some... not so pleasant... versions of Windows, but it is a prevalent product in the workforce, and, it will just be a matter of time before we are required to upgrade our work computers to something else. So.. will you stay on Windows 7 until Windows NEXT (whatever comes after 10) is available? If you work on systems for clients and they are on Windows 10, how will you test/support them? Not for or against any particular version, just asking question.
Offhand, this time I think I'm just going to let "nature take it's course" (if you will) and let my systems upgrade. I've been at this a long time and have been, for the lack of better term, "micromanaging" things quite a bit. As long as the upgrades don't break my development system (I mean, nothing major) then I'm just going to sit back and let them do the upgrades. Generally speaking, version upgrades of Windows haven't really broken anything significant (for me anyway). At this point I'd rather just focus on the content I produce (my software, websites, etc.) than what version of the O/S is present on the machine. You might say I'm a bit tired of fighting the thing. -CM
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Just making a joke. I complain about MS but they do have a large market share and some times it works :-D .
Mongo: Mongo only pawn... in game of life.