[opendtv] Re: Windows 10 growth sluggish as Windows 7/8.x users stick with their OS | ZDNet
- From: "Manfredi, Albert E" <albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2015 03:06:02 +0000
Donald Cooleman wrote:
Because the updates go wrong, MS even has people touring computershops to
repair the updates. If you don't want to wait you have to pay the shop to do
it for you. Often this means fallback to win 7. So pay a couple of hundred
bucks for nothing.
Often true, Donald. I read the Microsoft.com/community posts to see just what
problems people are having. Very often, it's the same old issue with
incompatible drivers.
I've updated two PCs to Win10 from Win7, and in both cases, my only problems
were in getting started. In order to begin the process, you have to launch the
Win7 "Windows Update" app, and it seems you have to have all the Win7 updates
either installed or hidden. In one case, one of the Win7 updates would not
install (and updated graphics driver for Win7), so that prevented progress,
until I figured out that hiding the blasted thing was all I needed to do. In
the other case, I got a consistent error message when beginning the Win10
installation, even though all my Win7 updates had installed successfully. I
searched under the error code and luckily found a Microsoft utility that solved
the problem.
So I had to sort those two problems out. After that, the installations went
smoothly, and it took something like 40 minutes for each PC. Luckily, the
Win10-compatible drivers worked for our two PCs, with no problems. From what
I've read, that's usually the case.
Win 7 works, why upgrade.
Because it's fun (uuh, when things work)? Win7 was a very good OS, but Win10
has some very nice smartphone-like features. There's even this new "action
center" that gives you breaking news, right on the taskbar, or other notices.
And so-called "live tiles," which are essentially live icons. Sort of like
those moving pictures in Harry Potter movies. It's very cool.
People that liked their old Win7 Microsoft games get annoyed, because those
don't work with Win10. But there are equivalent games in Win10, at the app
store. Microsoft games have become more of a cloud service. They get updated
frequently, more are added all the time, some free and some for $$$, etc. I
don't care, because I don't play them, but my wife does!
Bert
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