Windows 10 updates?

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(08-01-2015 06:51 PM)Jim Horn Wrote:  Lots of good points, above. As mentioned, Win 8.1 can be set to boot directly to the desktop, have a classic Start menu, etc. and generally be set up to look like Win 7 but faster and more robust (the new Universal API for software development and execution with its built-in sandboxing and such does look like a real improvement over the decades-long accumulation of layers in Win 7 and earlier).

All that said, my Surface Pro 3 installed 10 just fine. The only minor bug so far is that it no longer knew it had any internal sound capability - only Bluetooth. When I turned Bluetooth off and rebooted, it rediscovered its sound system and speaker and re-installed the drivers. Bluetooth works, too. But overall, when set up properly it's just a minor update on 7 (I consider 8.1 to be 7.2; this seems like 7.3).

Since the SP3 is a recent machine direct from Microsoft, its success with 10 is assumed. Success over the enormous range of other machines over the last decade or so is where the real questions lie.

Best to all!

Task View / Multiple Desktops is a long awaited feature no old Windows had. That and the new Windows Snap (try snapping an app in the most top corner) feature alone should worth the upgrade.

Plus if you want to develop to Win10-Tablets-Xbox-Phones-small embedded (like the raspberry pi) devices now they all will share the same unified kernel, hence unification and popularity of this version will be a plus for developers:

Quote:We already knew Windows 10 was going to be popular. So much so that Microsoft reportedly purchased as much as 40 Tbps of bandwidth from content delivery networks (CDNs). The company was already hitting 10Tbps on July 28, when the update was only available to Insiders. Now, it seems that Windows 10 has gained even more users, with an estimated 67 million users as of 8AM this morning.

A previous blog post by Microsoft put the number of updates at 14 million in 24 hours and it seems that the rate at which users are upgrading their systems has only picked up, with a report claiming that the upgrade counter hit 67 million at 8 this morning. That's almost five times the number of upgrades compared to the first day of the launch.

http://www.neowin.net/news/windows-10-is...cs-already