Microsoft finally prices Windows correctly.
Microsoft to Provide Free Upgrades to Windows 10. The article doesn't discuss how the different "subtractive" editions will work. I suppose you get a free upgrade to whichever edition you are curr...
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BobsYourUncle wrote:
Maybe I might try it myself. I bought a really fancy state of the art laptop about a year ago. It came with 8.1. I hate 8.1 so much that I refuse to even turn the thing on. I have had it fired up exactly 4 times in the past year. And every time it became so frustrating trying to find things and figure out where anything it that I shut it off and push it aside.
Shame, I paid 1600 bucks for a paperweight. I still use my old laptop running XP. Rock solid and never skips a beat.
And I can find stuff on it. And I know how to access everything. 8.1? You can't pay me enough to try using it.
But I wonder what kind of GUI that 10 will have. Or what it will be modeled after..... Hopefully not 8
Get or ask someone you know to install a copy of Classic Shell on your 8.1 computer. It is a free program and it makes your 8.1 look like win 7. Then, when win 10 comes out you could load it if you want to. Just my opinion.
