Here's another method for getting a free Windows 10 upgrade

Sometimes I have a really hard time figuring out if you're a real person, or just some cruel hoax the Microsoft Corporation is visiting upon us...:confused:

Just be pleased about the average Day's worth of scrolling-abuse that you saved your mouse (and yourself) in Any phone review.. No possible way they are real, but I've said the same about 98.765% of political scrotums (nut-cases, just wanted to make sure that translation software was accurate), so I am, obviously, deluded.
 
Just be pleased about the average Day's worth of scrolling-abuse that you saved your mouse (and yourself) in Any phone review.. No possible way they are real, but I've said the same about 98.765% of political scrotums (nut-cases, just wanted to make sure that translation software was accurate), so obviously I am deluded.
"Nut cases", those are made by Speedo, are they not?:eek:
 
That -could- work..
I was forced to recall the unintended comedy of network news inventing the term 'Coup-Plotters' again, after the Latest Turkey ordeal, I'm thinking the opening sound byte of, "The Trump and Clinton 'Speedos' were out in Vivid force again this weekend, with their latest proclamation that the world will indeed END unless their party wins.."
 
I don't know what all fuss is about with Win10 - I don't have anything to hide so they can look at my web browsing etc. as much as they like.
I still don't see any ads in my copy of Win 10 anywhere either - nothing on the start menu, lock screen, anywhere...
Is this because this was an upgrade of a Win7 retail??
 
Easier to live with doesn't mean better.

It is definitely not as stable as windows 7 in our work environment at least. We have 1000+ endpoints and continue to have many compatibility problems and just odd quirky things going on all the time with Windows 10, 7 is still solid. Granted there may be other contributing factors in our environment but 10 has not impressed me.

Many of Microsoft's documented processes for creating custom wim files with the Windows ADK were broken as of early summer. WSIM answer file documentation was a mess and half the stuff was just broken. I need to have another go at it soon though, I hope things have improved.
I'm using fast ring insider builds on my main gaming rig, apart from the steam client updating during game play and triggering a bsod, I'm not having any other issues. The bsod is a valve/steam problem.

I upgraded my Primary Gaming desktop and my wife's laptop to Windows 10, initially an enjoyable experience... I rolled them both back after a simple move of a file on my desktop locked up my desktop and would not allow me to even shut the machine down. I also noticed that my laptop purchased with Windows 10 is extremely flaky requiring constant reboots to clear issues and unable to play some windows 7 games. I like Windows 10 even the Anniversary upgrade but this seems Windows ME quality as nothing works quite right...
 
Vista was pretty much as good as Win7.
It was actually better in numerous ways. Few examples:

7 has problems with text painting. In Vista, everything was displayed instantly. In 7, it takes time to load.. for some reason. Example: Open task manager, delayed. Open an explorer window full of a bunch of different files. Delayed. Maximize it, hangs delayed. Why does 7 have such major issues with something no previous OS has?

WDDM 1.1. Caused major issues with multi-monitor setups. It may have fixed the memory issues WDDM 1.0 had (DWM used at least 2-3x more memory in Vista), but at the cost of crippling issues, which you can sample here: http://lmgtfy.com/?q=windows+multi+monitor+lag Vista wasn't issue free, but 7 was worse.

This remained unfixed until Windows 10.

Vista also kept classic features that were removed from 7 for.. no reason. Quick launch, been in Windows since 95, removed from 7 yet kept for some reason, so you could manually add it back if you knew how. Classic start menu.. completely gone, required Classic Shell. Status bar, unused, required Classic Shell to restore functionality. Ability to sort with categories? Restricted to detail view only; required Classic Shell to restore. Right click on taskbar icons, brings up a horrible bordered menu; classic menu available if you hold SHIFT.. 7+ Taskbar Tweaker reverted that.

The only thing I see 7 doing better as a power user is the ability to move things on the taskbar and notification tray. That's it. The OS itself has some better stuff at its core (ability to remove certain programs, better native media support), but overall to me personally it was a big downgrade. 7 feels like the alpha test for 8. It was supposed to be Vista SP3, but then it was moved to its own OS version with a slightly different UI.

DirectX11? Oh, Vista got all that... before Microsoft and Intel abandoned it. Had to switch to 7 when I upgraded my CPU to Haswell-E, and when I had my 3770K I couldn't even use the iGPU due to no driver support.

If only the mass market wasn't full of ignorance and Vista didn't suffer its fate due to driver developers and computer manufacturers ruining its initial launch with poor hardware and software support.
 
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