As we approach the end of the free Windows 10 upgrades this month and get used to the anniversary edition, it suddenly hit me the Windows we knew died with Windows 8 — what we got with Windows 10 really isn’t what we’ve come to know as Windows. Hell, looking at Microsoft’s latest financials, Microsoft really isn’t Microsoft any more, either. Both are so different from what they were just last decade, they are like a brand new product and company. We’re on the eve of big Windows changes.
I laughed at most of the comments on this article. Win 10 is a bloated mess (hence the 1500 preloaded apps), buggy as crap (no bugs?...really?), and updates are indeed frequent (too frequent with very little help to those these updates cause problems). I actually hated Win 8, until I actually gave it a shot at work...mainly because I'm in an IT support position and thought it would be a good idea to plan ahead of EOL for Win 7 and start delving into Win 8 before killing users with it.
What I found was that 8 (particularly 8.1) ended up doing a MUCH better job of memory management. It also only blue-screened on me once and that was 8 months after using it at work and realizing I wanted to put it on my machine at home. It blue-screened at the install (right afterwards) and then I never saw another one. That was about a year and a half ago. Plus, I don't have to let it update anything, unless I want to. I don't have to use Metro for anything, except that I do use it to put infrequently used apps on, just to get them off my desktop.
I tried Win 10 three times and pretty quickly realized it was a buggy mess that (despite this article's claims) made migrating yet another mass of obstacles to get around. It will not sit on my desktop again. You can't even pay me to take it...my time is too valuable.
Windows 10 works and is exactly what I've wanted for years. Windows 7 was constantly glitchy until a slew of patches helped bring it up to speed. I'll never speak of Windows 8 or 8.1 again. Best left in an unmarked grave. Windows 10 worked so well and fixed a lot of issues that have been a problem on constant hardware upgrades.
While a lot of people still rave about Windows 7, they surely must realise that it isn't supported anymore. While they carry on how perfectly fine and dandy it is, it is a security risk and a gamble that it will carry them through for the next few years unscathed. Good luck to them.
Windows 10 has not majorly crashed or BSOD on me, ever. I only wish they would market Windows better. Bring back the simple Windows name and just update it to newer versions regularly. Would be better than "the next number in a system that still looks mostly like the old system marketing".
Windows 10 is the mos bug riddled mess of an OS I have EVER seen, I've seen Linux unstable branches that are more solid than this thing is and its supposed to be their flagship OS! Not a month goes past we don't see OS BREAKING bugs that hit huge swaths of people, remember "endless reboot bug"? How about "Nvidia trashed driver bug"?
I spent 4 months on that OS with frankly extreme overkill hardware, we're talking octocores with 16Gb of RAM, SSD, 3GB GPU, and between all the glitches, the endless bandwidth sucking (despite flipping "privacy" every switch I could find) and feeling a sense of absolute dread when there were OS updates? Going back to Windows 7 felt like a breath of fresh air. I had honestly forgotten what a BSOD looked like...until I was on windows 10 with its "sad face of doom".
I am currently on win 7 and have a copy of 8.1 Pro sitting in a drawer if I need it, when they go EOL? Hopefully Google or Linux will provide a viable exit strategy or Nutella will have been fired and someone that realizes we want desktops and not SaaS platforms will be in charge, because frankly I'd rather be stuck on Vista for the rest of the decade than Win 10, its less painful.
The thing I have noticed is the lack of enthusiasm for new Windows anymore. When your having to practically install a new Windows version onto users devices with trickery even though it's been free for a year. This is a far cry from people standing in line waiting to buy a upgrade for $130. The reality is nobody cares anymore and those who still claim these upgrades improve anything people do on their PC's is smoking crack.
I could go back to Windows XP and do what I do on Windows 10 just as easily. Tell me how Windows 10 has improved anyone's productivity?
If it really did what Microsoft says it can do. How come they had to give it away? Anything really of value is sold for money. For me Windows 10 is free because it's not worth anything. It's new features are nothing useful, it's not that much faster. Security is another big question because for every new Windows comes another claim that this version is safer.
Microsoft's vision now is to sell users on stuff through Windows not sell Windows. This might work in subscription form. But I'll wait to see if cloud services really catch on with consumers. Office 365 is already slowing, and it could be plenty of free options do just as well for consumers. For me I finished upgrading all my PC's to Windows 10. Not because I am so impressed with the OS. But because not being on the current version means slowly falling behind and third party apps giving up support for older versions. Eventually everyone will ether have to embrace Win 10 or move on to another OS. Either way Microsoft has lost all ability to distribute a paid upgrade for Windows.
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Windows RIP: Thankfully It Died With Windows 8
Posted by: Rob Enderle July 25, 2016 10:22 AMAs we approach the end of the free Windows 10 upgrades this month and get used to the anniversary edition, it suddenly hit me the Windows we knew died with Windows 8 — what we got with Windows 10 really isn’t what we’ve come to know as Windows. Hell, looking at Microsoft’s latest financials, Microsoft really isn’t Microsoft any more, either. Both are so different from what they were just last decade, they are like a brand new product and company. We’re on the eve of big Windows changes.
What I found was that 8 (particularly 8.1) ended up doing a MUCH better job of memory management. It also only blue-screened on me once and that was 8 months after using it at work and realizing I wanted to put it on my machine at home. It blue-screened at the install (right afterwards) and then I never saw another one. That was about a year and a half ago. Plus, I don't have to let it update anything, unless I want to. I don't have to use Metro for anything, except that I do use it to put infrequently used apps on, just to get them off my desktop.
I tried Win 10 three times and pretty quickly realized it was a buggy mess that (despite this article's claims) made migrating yet another mass of obstacles to get around. It will not sit on my desktop again. You can't even pay me to take it...my time is too valuable.
If Microsoft keeps going the way they are I may just go back to using Dos.
While a lot of people still rave about Windows 7, they surely must realise that it isn't supported anymore. While they carry on how perfectly fine and dandy it is, it is a security risk and a gamble that it will carry them through for the next few years unscathed. Good luck to them.
Windows 10 has not majorly crashed or BSOD on me, ever. I only wish they would market Windows better. Bring back the simple Windows name and just update it to newer versions regularly. Would be better than "the next number in a system that still looks mostly like the old system marketing".
Windows 10 is the mos bug riddled mess of an OS I have EVER seen, I've seen Linux unstable branches that are more solid than this thing is and its supposed to be their flagship OS! Not a month goes past we don't see OS BREAKING bugs that hit huge swaths of people, remember "endless reboot bug"? How about "Nvidia trashed driver bug"?
I spent 4 months on that OS with frankly extreme overkill hardware, we're talking octocores with 16Gb of RAM, SSD, 3GB GPU, and between all the glitches, the endless bandwidth sucking (despite flipping "privacy" every switch I could find) and feeling a sense of absolute dread when there were OS updates? Going back to Windows 7 felt like a breath of fresh air. I had honestly forgotten what a BSOD looked like...until I was on windows 10 with its "sad face of doom".
I am currently on win 7 and have a copy of 8.1 Pro sitting in a drawer if I need it, when they go EOL? Hopefully Google or Linux will provide a viable exit strategy or Nutella will have been fired and someone that realizes we want desktops and not SaaS platforms will be in charge, because frankly I'd rather be stuck on Vista for the rest of the decade than Win 10, its less painful.
I could go back to Windows XP and do what I do on Windows 10 just as easily. Tell me how Windows 10 has improved anyone's productivity?
If it really did what Microsoft says it can do. How come they had to give it away? Anything really of value is sold for money. For me Windows 10 is free because it's not worth anything. It's new features are nothing useful, it's not that much faster. Security is another big question because for every new Windows comes another claim that this version is safer.
Microsoft's vision now is to sell users on stuff through Windows not sell Windows. This might work in subscription form. But I'll wait to see if cloud services really catch on with consumers. Office 365 is already slowing, and it could be plenty of free options do just as well for consumers. For me I finished upgrading all my PC's to Windows 10. Not because I am so impressed with the OS. But because not being on the current version means slowly falling behind and third party apps giving up support for older versions. Eventually everyone will ether have to embrace Win 10 or move on to another OS. Either way Microsoft has lost all ability to distribute a paid upgrade for Windows.