Windows 10
Posted: July 28th, 2015, 11:08 pm
I have been doing some digging on Windows 10 since the last email that Allen posted on his blog (Tuesday July 21st 2015) and I have found out the following:
From my supplier he tells me.
1. You no longer can control when updates are applied unless you buy the enterprise version
2. The pricing for retail will be between $150 and $200 depending on circumstances and version
3. He has also heard rumors of a subscription, but has not heard anything officially.
From one of my geek buddies who is probably the only guy on the planet that I would trust and take his word on computer stuff at the same value as myself without testing it.
1. He is played with the beta versions and sees no compelling reason to upgrade.
2. He says he would recommend upgrading if you have a Windows 8 or Windows 8.1 and/or are buying new hardware.
Again backup makes sense just so you can ensure you can get back to your starting point, there are lots of disk cloning software's available for free, just to make sure you can get back to square one. I would recommend an off-line disk cloning, which means you need to download and build a CD/DVD and boot off of it. I find off-line disk cloning better even though it is a bigger pain to do. I’m not sure that I would trust Windows backup for this type of upgrade. After having lunch with my buddy and discussing Windows 10 I'm considering that Microsoft is given it away for the first year just to get market saturation because without giving it away, it could be in non-event. They may want to have bragging rights as to Windows 10 has bla bla percentage of market share for marketing purposes. I believe most intelligent people would believe that it's anybody's guess as to what Microsoft is up to and until all the cards are on the table we will not know.
I can tell you for sure that I will be buying a 32-bit version of Windows 10 this week and upgrading a notebook to see how that goes. I am choosing 32-bit over 64 because I need to test the 16-bit subsystem in DOS which apparently does not work in the 64 bit of Windows 10. The notebook will never have more than four gigs of RAM and quite frankly I never use more than four gigs of RAM anyway because the amount of processes it takes to eat six gig of RAM will literally Bog your computer down just from servicing all the interrupts.
Again I will reiterate there is entire year to do this upgrade for free and no compelling reason to be one of the first guys out of the starting blocks just to be on the bleeding edge. Many years ago geeks would say never upgrade/never buy .0 version always wait for the .1 version, I find that advice still compelling today. If you consider.
1. Vista was a piece of crap
2. Windows 7 was good right out-of-the-box. Behind the scenes we all knew it was a bug fix Vista that was rebranded and the build numbers didn't lie.
3. Windows 8 was a piece of crap
4. Windows 8.1 was a better piece of crap
5. Windows 10 is unknown.
Considering Microsoft has had one home run in the last four trips to the plate statistically is a 25% chance that Windows 10 will be good but the other side of that argument is there long overdue to hit something out of the park.
I'll let you know how my upgrade goes next week. Please keep in mind that I have no means for testing all the drivers and every single piece of hardware but I will be testing for good points and bad points.
The last piece of advice would be not to buy into all the columnists, because they get paid for being on the Microsoft bandwagon. Microsoft will not advertise in any magazine that is giving them bad reviews. So based on “following the money” magazine reviews are somewhat suspect, that does not mean they’re wrong, just highly suspicious.
PS: I don't wish to sound so jaded because I'm an optimist at heart but I've been burned too many times over the last couple of decades to be anything other than cautious.
From my supplier he tells me.
1. You no longer can control when updates are applied unless you buy the enterprise version
2. The pricing for retail will be between $150 and $200 depending on circumstances and version
3. He has also heard rumors of a subscription, but has not heard anything officially.
From one of my geek buddies who is probably the only guy on the planet that I would trust and take his word on computer stuff at the same value as myself without testing it.
1. He is played with the beta versions and sees no compelling reason to upgrade.
2. He says he would recommend upgrading if you have a Windows 8 or Windows 8.1 and/or are buying new hardware.
Again backup makes sense just so you can ensure you can get back to your starting point, there are lots of disk cloning software's available for free, just to make sure you can get back to square one. I would recommend an off-line disk cloning, which means you need to download and build a CD/DVD and boot off of it. I find off-line disk cloning better even though it is a bigger pain to do. I’m not sure that I would trust Windows backup for this type of upgrade. After having lunch with my buddy and discussing Windows 10 I'm considering that Microsoft is given it away for the first year just to get market saturation because without giving it away, it could be in non-event. They may want to have bragging rights as to Windows 10 has bla bla percentage of market share for marketing purposes. I believe most intelligent people would believe that it's anybody's guess as to what Microsoft is up to and until all the cards are on the table we will not know.
I can tell you for sure that I will be buying a 32-bit version of Windows 10 this week and upgrading a notebook to see how that goes. I am choosing 32-bit over 64 because I need to test the 16-bit subsystem in DOS which apparently does not work in the 64 bit of Windows 10. The notebook will never have more than four gigs of RAM and quite frankly I never use more than four gigs of RAM anyway because the amount of processes it takes to eat six gig of RAM will literally Bog your computer down just from servicing all the interrupts.
Again I will reiterate there is entire year to do this upgrade for free and no compelling reason to be one of the first guys out of the starting blocks just to be on the bleeding edge. Many years ago geeks would say never upgrade/never buy .0 version always wait for the .1 version, I find that advice still compelling today. If you consider.
1. Vista was a piece of crap
2. Windows 7 was good right out-of-the-box. Behind the scenes we all knew it was a bug fix Vista that was rebranded and the build numbers didn't lie.
3. Windows 8 was a piece of crap
4. Windows 8.1 was a better piece of crap
5. Windows 10 is unknown.
Considering Microsoft has had one home run in the last four trips to the plate statistically is a 25% chance that Windows 10 will be good but the other side of that argument is there long overdue to hit something out of the park.
I'll let you know how my upgrade goes next week. Please keep in mind that I have no means for testing all the drivers and every single piece of hardware but I will be testing for good points and bad points.
The last piece of advice would be not to buy into all the columnists, because they get paid for being on the Microsoft bandwagon. Microsoft will not advertise in any magazine that is giving them bad reviews. So based on “following the money” magazine reviews are somewhat suspect, that does not mean they’re wrong, just highly suspicious.
PS: I don't wish to sound so jaded because I'm an optimist at heart but I've been burned too many times over the last couple of decades to be anything other than cautious.