Thread: Windows 10 - free upgrade to those with PC using Windows 7 or 8
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Old 07-30-2015, 07:52 AM   #1098
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Originally Posted by dkperez View Post

1. Is it FER REAL, ABSOLUTELY FREE - NOW AND FOREVER?

2. WILL IT BE FASTER?

3. Can someone provide a succinct summary of the pitfalls of going to 10?

4. Will it be MORE productive?I have no problem going from 7 or 8.1 to 10, but I DO NOT want to spend hours a day for the next month chasing problems on my wife's laptop so she can skype with her sisters...
1- It is really and truly free. Go get the ISO for all the relevant versions, burn the DVDs, and go wait. If your win7 systems are stable and productive there is no rush.

2- Some parts *are* faster across the board (most notably the GUI) but we're talking incrementals. You're not going to see large double digit boosts.

4- If you are on win8, the answer is an unqualified yes just on the basis of getting rid of the dichotomy between Modern apps only running full-screen and desktop apps running normally. Now all apps run the proper way. If you ever dreamed of turning the win8 systems back to win7, win10 is the answer.

For all systems, a lot of the productivity boost will depend on your workflow: do you normally run a lot of apps and leave them running? Do you run out of screen real estate and are constantly resizing, minimizing, etc? The virtual desktops feature where you can alt-tab to any app on multiple virtual desktops will be valuable.

Win10 did a lot of housecleaning to the codebase so it is in general leaner and snappier but there are limits to how much better better can be just on OS improvements.

If you're productive, cover yourself and get the relevant Iso file and wait for the need to manifest itself.
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