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Windows 10 - why

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Have read several articles......none gave any compelling reason (or much of any really) to "upgrade." Anyone?
 
Hopefully the performance of 8 with the familiarity of 7. I'd call that win-win.
 
If you're a PC gamer than DirectX 12 is quite compelling.
 
Why did they skip Windows 9? Were they afraid people would be saying "Vindows?! Nein!!!"

Or it may be just because Apple's Mac iOS is on X already and they didn't want to seem behind.
 
I understand the reluctance to upgrade an OS. Sometimes it's a real mess: things break, functionality is lost, and these things can interrupt or even halt your workflow.

Apparently Win8 was an improvement under the hood, though its UI was a disaster. If Win10 has the benchmark improvements of Win8 and provides a UI that's not a dog's breakfast, then that's worth something in itself. Also Win7, though a pretty good version, won't last forever, and there's the future to think about.

For myself, I'll upgrade to Win10 out of curiosity, but I have the advantage of not having to rely on it to get my things done.
 
eerok said:
I understand the reluctance to upgrade an OS. Sometimes it's a real mess: things break, functionality is lost, and these things can interrupt or even halt your workflow.

Apparently Win8 was an improvement under the hood, though its UI was a disaster. If Win10 has the benchmark improvements of Win8 and provides a UI that's not a dog's breakfast, then that's worth something in itself. Also Win7, though a pretty good version, won't last forever, and there's the future to think about.

For myself, I'll upgrade to Win10 out of curiosity, but I have the advantage of not having to rely on it to get my things done.
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We have a variety of computers to test WIN1010 on, and if I don't like what I see on any of the sacrificial machines I'll happily go on ignoring it as long as I can.
 
RayG said:
Were there a lot of compelling reasons -not- to upgrade?

RayG
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For me, I tend to think it's a good rule of thumb not to be among the first adopters of a new OS version- let others run into the problems and bugs, stress out and bitch about them, and upgrade once the problems have been fixed. :cool:

I've managed to make my Win8 behave, opening straight to desktop, and with a freeware start button that makes it seem more like windows 7, so while I certainly welcome any much needed UI improvements in Win10, that's not enough of a draw for me to be an early-adopter.

So, I'll wait a while before updating. Probably going to delay it until close to the time limit when you can still get it free.
 
alfaniner said:
Why did they skip Windows 9? Were they afraid people would be saying "Vindows?! Nein!!!"

Or it may be just because Apple's Mac iOS is on X already and they didn't want to seem behind.
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someone posted on reddit the below when people were asking that question..
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"Microsoft dev here, the internal rumours are that early testing revealed just how many third party products that had code of the form

if(version.StartsWith("windows 9"))
{ /* 95 and 98 */
} else {

and that this was the pragmatic solution to avoid that."
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not sure how true it is, but it makes me chuckle anyway.
 
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Swordfishtrombone said:
For me, I tend to think it's a good rule of thumb not to be among the first adopters of a new OS version- let others run into the problems and bugs, stress out and bitch about them, and upgrade once the problems have been fixed. :cool:
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I tend to agree, but I've got three other desktops that don't have a Win10 reservation, so I'll see how it plays out.

RayG
 
p0lka said:
someone posted on reddit the below when people were asking that question..
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"Microsoft dev here, the internal rumours are that early testing revealed just how many third party products that had code of the form

if(version.StartsWith("windows 9"))
{ /* 95 and 98 */
} else {

and that this was the pragmatic solution to avoid that."
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not sure how true it is, but it makes me chuckle anyway.
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No it's not true. It's based on the build number, which is what an application would get returned anyway when it queries to find out what it is running on.
 
alfaniner said:
Why did they skip Windows 9? Were they afraid people would be saying "Vindows?! Nein!!!"

Or it may be just because Apple's Mac iOS is on X already and they didn't want to seem behind.
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Lerxst said:
No it's not true. It's based on the build number, which is what an application would get returned anyway when it queries to find out what it is running on.
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You're only correct if you assume every developer queries the OS version properly. It would seem that a non-trivial number of developers have not. Note that they've been checking the OS name, not the version.

I find this reason for skipping "Windows 9" to be fairly likely.
 
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alfaniner said:
Why did they skip Windows 9? Were they afraid people would be saying "Vindows?! Nein!!!"

Or it may be just because Apple's Mac iOS is on X already and they didn't want to seem behind.
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That would not be unprecedented. IIRC, Micorsoft Word jumped from version 2 to version 6 because WordPerfect was on version 6.
 
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