Windows 10

strollin wrote:

rk911 wrote:
... well I have although it's been years and Eric&Lisa are (is) correct. a lot of software is bloated and buggy and is dependent on users to find and report problems.

Bloated I can agree with but no company would ever be so arrogant as to depend on users to find and report problems.

Garmin

rk911 wrote:
... well I have although it's been years and Eric&Lisa are (is) correct. a lot of software is bloated and buggy and is dependent on users to find and report problems.

Bloated I can agree with but no company would ever be so arrogant as to depend on users to find and report problems.

strollin wrote:

Eric&Lisa wrote:
Welcome to Microsoft where the first customers are the last beta testers! ...

Spoken by someone who obviously has never written a single line of code!

well I have although it's been years and Eric&Lisa are (is) correct. a lot of software is bloated and buggy and is dependent on users to find and report problems.

joebedford wrote:

Eric&Lisa wrote:
Question... How many of us could do everything we do today with Windows 98 & Office 97 (assuming the software was stable)?

Answer ... that software was **** compared to what we have now. I don't think I could do ANYTHING with Windows 98 now.

I use Windows XP, barely, to look up the occasional web page.

dunt know about '98 but I sure did like XP and would still be using it had it not been buried. surfing, e-mail, taxes, quicken, word processing, excel...that makes up the majority of my use. Win7 is nice...starting to like it almost as much as XP. no interest in 8 and I'm reserving opinions on Win 10. publish or perish, Microsoft.

Eric&Lisa wrote:
Welcome to Microsoft where the first customers are the last beta testers! ...

Spoken by someone who obviously has never written a single line of code!

Eric&Lisa wrote:
Question... How many of us could do everything we do today with Windows 98 & Office 97 (assuming the software was stable)?

Answer ... that software was **** compared to what we have now. I don't think I could do ANYTHING with Windows 98 now.

I use Windows XP, barely, to look up the occasional web page.

rk911 wrote:
....these things never seem to go smoothly and I'm happy to wait until others have blazed the trail, encountered the problems that MS eventually addresses.....

Welcome to Microsoft where the first customers are the last beta testers!

Question... How many of us could do everything we do today with Windows 98 & Office 97 (assuming the software was stable)? Yeah, there might be a few little nice-to-have features here & there, but the bulk of what I could do then - email, web, spreadsheets, docs, etc - hasn't changed. That is MSFT's biggest problem - how to get money out of people when they don't really need the changes. Users do not want to invest the time & energy to learn a new GUI when they already know how to get the job done in the old GUI.

I avoided Vista, 8.0, & 8.1. I am afraid MSFT will force me in to Win10 for my primary workstation. Although my recent Mac & Linux usage has picked up, so maybe that will be an option...I dunno...

Just my $.02....
-Eric

I just got the report this afternoon. Noy sure what i will do.
Sorry about the misreport.

ReadyToGo wrote:
...To the person who will wait until SP1 is out, may be waiting a long long time. MS states that there will only be updates, no SP1.

that was me. i will still not be in the vanguard of those making the switch as soon as it's available. there's no rush.

Far as I know 10 final is not yet released.. Reserved yes, released no

10 BETA has been in the wild for some time now.. I have just read a review and it was very very positive. May install it later this month if I find the time.