Windows 10 Up-gradation fee

[SNGX1275]

Xp still looks fisher price, but the leaps and bounds it made over the previous OS's, (ME, 98) was enough to make people switch. The same cannot be said from windows 7 to 10.

And it took all of ten seconds to put it back to the classic appearance after installation. The same can't be said of 10.

True, however you can download Classic Shell for free and come pretty close to the classic appearance.

 

[captaincranky]

Well, It was already installed in my Laptop and I did not pay any single penny for it and that's why I am asking.

Well, if you already have Windows 10, "how much will it cost for the upgrade", is pretty much a rhetorical question, now isn't it?

There would be a fee to "upgrade" from one level of Windows to a better version. For example, if you have "Windows 10 Home Premium", and you wanted to bump that up to, "Windows 10 Professional", that would cost "xx.00" dollars, a number you can quite easily Google.

If you don't have a Win 7 or 8 license to surrender, you're not getting Win 10 for free anyway.

Up until now at least, those of us who need to buy Windows for our home built machines, are accustomed to paying about $100.00 USD for "Home Premium", and about $140.00 USD for a "Windows Professional" disc & license. Those numbers likely won't change much, if at all with OEM copies of the new OS.

 

[sac39507]

I am not running it, thats the point. Will never install it again. 7 will be the last OS from Microsoft that will be on any of my PC's, unless they change drastically.

but eventually they will stop supporting it and you will have all sorts of security vulnerabilities

 

[captaincranky]

but eventually they will stop supporting it and you will have all sorts of security vulnerabilities

I know right, the same way they did with XP?

I tell you, I am always on the edge of my seat surfing p0rn with my XP-SP-2 machines....

 

[bluto 2050]

$199.99, is $199.99 too much for that POS. Microsoft can keep it. In fact you couldn't pay me $199.99 to install that junk.

Windows 10 upgrades 07/2016 I think home retail is 119.00 and pro may be $ 179.00 both are no brainier free upgrades in the free upgrade window outside of insurmountable HDWE software incompatibilities and home is quite possibly worth $119.00 for an upgrade or build if you don't need win 10 pro .or just spring for pro the 1607 -14393.5 build rolling out at the anniversary update they are faster and miles ahead of what came before or whats out there now with stable 10586 th2 with better text rendering , audio and video stacks and DX 12 for the Dx12 games and far too many (significant ) improvements and code optimizations under the hood here to mention even since 10586.th2 .

The stuff you should want outside of what you can see (* you may like or not ) is the far more important stuff under the hood in the redstone one build ☺

If you know the reg and elevated cmd hacks you can boost your internet speed by 20% at the PC anyway if you have the bandwidth or over provisioning ,windows reserves 20% overhead for itself and doesn't use it a lot anyway and these hacks will work in 8.1 and maybe 7sp1 . .
Win 10 1607-14393.5.rs1 is scalded dog fast on this SSD .and will be rolling in my 3 stable windows 10 boxes here and the other 1Tb hdd on its own 250GB volume in this test mule ~ at the anniversary update which is basically what 1607-14393.5.rs1 is I'm driving now on this test mule/daily driver .

FWIW its miles ahead of regular 10586.th2 Windows 10 Just turn off the nag ware and clean up most of the the WUP apps start menu live tiles and roll in some shortcuts and folders and web links there there instead and it's all good and faster than what came before

FWIW I been using windows 10 on this test mule since 01/15 and likewise windows 10 on 3 PC here for 1 yr (tomorrow ) now because we had the inside job MS links to the 10240 RTM MCT's the first day and did not have to wait in line ..

I'm ruining what is the anniversary update-here now on this test mule we got it maybe on 7/20 or so with a cumulative update after that so it's prety well baked and what it's going to be for the proletariat .



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[bluto 2050]

There was a time dating back to Windows 95, that I could not wait for the next generation of windows to come out. So much so, I was installing alpha, and beta builds, just to see what they were like. I remember WinBeta being only an IRC channel, and that was the only way of getting a hold of the incremental builds that came out. Since the metro abomination, I have had no desire to go any further than Windows 7.

The W10 stuff you should want outside of what you can see (* you may like or not ) is the far more important stuff under the hood in the red stone one windows 10 build ☺

FWIW Windows 10 in general and much more so with this new Redstone one build is miles ahead of regular 10586.th2 Windows 10 or anything all before that and I was staunch supporter of win 7sp1 so I'm not hating on it and I will not hate on it but it is what it is and good in it's own right but 10 is better (outside of insurmountable incompatibility or software that wont play nice in widows 10 ) just saying ........oh .Just make sure to download a decent web browser like Chrome and or Firefox thats about all EDGE is good for ....

Just turn off the nag ware ,cortanna and most of the fly out WUP ( what you incorrectly call cal Metro....W10 never had metro even though it was just a name for WUP anyway and a gimped WUP IE 11 ☺) anyway just turn off those app notification nagware things and clean up most of the the WUP apps start menu live tiles and roll in some shortcuts and folders and web links there there instead and it's all good and faster and more productive than what came before 'or just ignore all that and use it like windows 7 the default boot is to the x86 desktop now anyway just like win 7sp1 and the file explorer is loads better .

oh the groove music music WUP app and player UI and WUP mail client are decent and the settings WUP app is not bad now

Win 10 may be worth buying for a build or upgrade if missed the window for a lot folks and dx 12 gamer's or music production with the significantly lower latency audio stack that takes thousands of HDWE dollars to get outside of windows 10.

Outside of what you can see again you may like or not , the brand new (for the public) Windows 10 redstone one builds are more about whats under the hood and the new NT kernel and audio and video API being closer to the metal or silicon and page file ram compression and better memory and hdd caching and jettisoning a lot of legacy windows code bloat .

Windows 95 was just mostly DOS with an GIU overlay I.e., Windows 95 merged Microsoft's formerly separate MS-DOS and Windows products and you can only put so much lipstic on that slow bloated pig but an overclocked Celeron 300A didn't hurt back then on Win 9x.

If it were me I would be roling 10586.th2 in now and trying to get an automatic swift ,painless activation , you can probably still cop some legal downloads or the MCT and a digital entitlement or WU download on this side of the dateline maybe not for long though ☺

FWIW 1607- 14393.rs1 is scalded dog hast on this test mule we got it maybe 07/20 and I beating it pretty good and if you turn the PCI Link State (OFF) it's usually more reliable IM shared opinion but MS doesn't want to talk about all that anyway because those are not de fault settings or for the rock stupid or average users or newbies and you have to know where they are (they are advanced settings that an expert enthusiast may already know where to find ) but that's a heads up for sure .

 

[sac39507]

I know right, the same way they did with XP?

I tell you, I am always on the edge of my seat surfing p0rn with my XP-SP-2 machines....

Good thing you could do that now on a Linux virtual machine until your eyes pop out and not have to worry.

 

[Raiderman]

I know right, the same way they did with XP?

I tell you, I am always on the edge of my seat surfing p0rn with my XP-SP-2 machines....

I still see XP on machines all the time. Seen it on the maintenance supervisors computer at a local Marriot hotel. I will not have security issues. Microsoft can pound windows 10 up their collective arses.

 

[captaincranky]

I still see XP on machines all the time. Seen it on the maintenance supervisors computer at a local Marriot hotel. I will not have security issues. Microsoft can pound windows 10 up their collective arses.

The truth of the matter is, "yea though I walk through the shadow of the valley of p0rn princesses, I will fear no malware, for AVG art with me". As soon as you hit a bad site, it lights up like a Roman candle.

When the security publishers give up on software for XP, then we're in trouble. Windows itself isn't secure, and never was, no matter many bogus updates they publish for it.

If it wasn't for Firefox, NoScript, and a good AV, I would swear nobody is really "safe on the web".

If I run FF with "NoScript", after the session, CCleaner might find 1 or two cookies. If I run IE, CCleaner will find 100, maybe more.

And that's spending as little time as possible online with IE. In fact, the only thing I use it for is to rent movies from "Redbox". FF is apparently "too secure" to play nicely with their site.