Windows 10 upgrade to be free

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Just seen THIS, good news if you can put up with the regular updates that come with new releases.
 
Windows 10 looks good in the few clips I have seen.

 
Ah, the good old Windows Update "...is installing update 1 of 307" message just as you're shutting down.

The day I moved to Mac has to be the single most beneficial decision I've ever made in my IT life.

:D
 
I prefer windows 8 to Win10. The start menu has returned in win 10 but has not been improved, it is just as bad as it was in windows 95.
 
The day I moved to Mac has to be the single most beneficial decision I've ever made in my IT life.
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Sound like someone whose never heard of shellshock and heartbleed.
 
I don't even know where he got 300 updates from either, 7 sp1 doesn't even have that many from a fresh install. It's a comparible total size to the updates required on a fresh OS X install last I checked.

But let's not let facts get in the way of a good trolling.. ;)
 
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Mart61 said:
Ah, the good old Windows Update "...is installing update 1 of 307" message just as you're shutting down.

The day I moved to Mac has to be the single most beneficial decision I've ever made in my IT life.

:D
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I'm sure I remember OSX on my Mac mini (the Mac is just a hardware platform, not an operating system) auto installing updates all the time as well until I removed it, or have Apple stopped it doing that now? If there are vulnerabilities in the OS do Apple not push patches?
 
redsnappa said:
Sound like someone whose never heard of shellshock and heartbleed.
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Chant the mantra after me:
Macs don't get viruses.

I had to deal with both of those, seemed like a new version of bash a day for a while during the whole shellshock thing.
 
onomatopoeia said:
I'm sure I remember OSX on my Mac mini (the Mac is just a hardware platform, not an operating system) auto installing updates all the time as well until I removed it, or have Apple stopped it doing that now? If there are vulnerabilities in the OS do Apple not push patches?
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Yup, their latest (ntp) flaw triggered a "Required update" notice in the corner of the screen of our machines at work.

But normal updates light up the App Center icon with a red spot.
 
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Hey I'm not knocking Windows and I offer my apologies if anyone thinks I am. I used it from 1988 until 2014 and it did the job. However since moving to my MacBook this time last year I'm extremely happy with my decision and, whilst I have a choice in the matter, I will not be going back to Windows.

OS X Mavericks, the last version, and Yosemite, the current version do get updated but, in my experience, it's about once a month as opposed to just about every Tuesday (or coincidentally when it's least convenient) as Windows seemed to do.
 
neil_g said:
Yup, their latest (ntp) flaw triggered a "Required update" notice in the corner of the screen of our machines at work.
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Oh yes, ntp, I was reading about that before Christmas. Wouldn't have thought too many Mac users would be running publically accessible ntp servers though, unless apple are concerned about people on the local network exploiting it.
 
neil_g said:
doesn't surprise me. media types like to (think they) look cool.
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Every time I see him present, Joe Belfiore makes me wonder how much the way he looks/his style has helped put him to the position he is in now. I work around geeks all day, every day and he looks and behaves like no one I work with (or have come across at any level in the companies I have worked in TBH). I can see how the media types and Apple daahlings would think he were cool & trendy and hang off his every word though. The snippets I saw (I have a major Microsoft fanboy as one of my Facebook friends so was living life a tad vicariously yesterday) I thought Microsoft out-Apple'd Apple.

I know the packaging doesn't matter... well, it doesn't to me... but ;)
 
If t is free, who is paying for it?
I'm guessing its will be free like Facebook or Android where you become the product???
 
same as what apple do and offset the cost from other areas. and its only free for the first year, so anyone wanting it after that date will have to buy it.

8.1 was free for 8 users remember.
 
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Hey I'm not knocking Windows and I offer my apologies if anyone thinks I am. I used it from 1988 until 2014 and it did the job. However since moving to my MacBook this time last year I'm extremely happy with my decision and, whilst I have a choice in the matter, I will not be going back to Windows.

OS X Mavericks, the last version, and Yosemite, the current version do get updated but, in my experience, it's about once a month as opposed to just about every Tuesday (or coincidentally when it's least convenient) as Windows seemed to do.
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Mart61 said:
Hey I'm not knocking Windows and I offer my apologies if anyone thinks I am. I used it from 1988 until 2014 and it did the job. However since moving to my MacBook this time last year I'm extremely happy with my decision and, whilst I have a choice in the matter, I will not be going back to Windows.

OS X Mavericks, the last version, and Yosemite, the current version do get updated but, in my experience, it's about once a month as opposed to just about every Tuesday (or coincidentally when it's least convenient) as Windows seemed to do.
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We have mac's at work, and the network connectivity problems we have had are insane, I'll take updates (not a problem if you use WSUS in enterprise/SMB obviously) against system reliability any day of the week. The amount of people hoping for a fix is simply insane and laughable if you don't have to support it lol

Cabled connections fair a LOT better but still not 100%, however the MacBook pro owners who don't have the 1Gbps thunderbolt>Ethernet dongle don't really have a choice.

I just need to wait for the new build of W10, supposed to be next week :)
 
Neilc28 said:
I just need to wait for the new build of W10, supposed to be next week :)
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I think you'll have to wait a bit longer than that, AFAIK the hope was, it was going to be released in April but, it's going to be later in the year, at least for the PC version.
 
The next build of the preview, not RTM, sorry for the confusion.
 
No worries Neil, should have realized what you meant.
 
Neilc28 said:
We have mac's at work, and the network connectivity problems we have had are insane, I'll take updates (not a problem if you use WSUS in enterprise/SMB obviously) against system reliability any day of the week. The amount of people hoping for a fix is simply insane and laughable if you don't have to support it lol

Cabled connections fair a LOT better but still not 100%, however the MacBook pro owners who don't have the 1Gbps thunderbolt>Ethernet dongle don't really have a choice.

I just need to wait for the new build of W10, supposed to be next week :)
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I'll be the first to admit that I'm not an IT pro and networking to me is a black art. All I know is that, comparing my Mac to my Windows machine, my workflow is both slicker and faster.

Perhaps I've just been lucky.
 
There's a fair amount of users who prefer OSX (~7-8% at present), and Apple do make nice looking machines, but for me Windows 10 is winning, 8/8.1 was pretty good but 10 has brought some fantastic changes, so much so that I couldn't bring myself to go back to 8 so have been using the 10 Technical Preview as my daily driver at work.
 
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