RADU, post: 335269, member: 222 wrote: BTW those who mistakenly believe W10 is free, think again as once W10 rolled out there will be an annual access fee.
According to this PC World Article, that's not true. It quotes a Microsoft release that says, "Once a qualified Windows device is upgraded to Windows 10, we will continue to keep it up to date for the supported lifetime of the device, keeping it more secure, and introducing new features and functionality over time ÛÒ for no additional charge."
OK maybe I'm an outlier here but I don't see the problem with Microsoft perhaps charging an annual fee. I don't think that many of you would do a mortgage survey for $200 (I know, I know, but I'm from Florida land of the great bottom feeders) if that fee included having to "maintain" your survey, and by that I mean replacing corners that are destroyed (maliciously or otherwise) or constantly reissuing new and improved versions of your survey plat to meet ever changing laws and /or adjoining information...and yet many seem to expect Microsoft to sell them a product for $200 and then stand vigilant for hackers malicious code, and/or inept users who fubar their own systems and provide constant real time solutions to these varied and complex problems into perpetuity.
RADU, post: 335269, member: 222 wrote: I was away surveying and staying at a motel 850 K from Adelaide when I received the option to download W10 and chose to defer as I was about to commence a 9.5 hour return drive. Mr Microsoft thought different so I had to cool my heels while loading
Fortunately the Motel proprietor had a geek son in law and they advised to not choose automatic download and manually select options. I personally am not into being tracked or monitored on purchases and pages so that I am bombarded with pop up advertising, ( I also have Adblock ) so I made sure those options were all turned off .
Two glaring problems I have is that the memory for screen brightness at start up does not work when starting up laptop on battery I get in seconds a dark screen making navigation of cursor impossible . I also have to reboot to change sound system to or from earphones . So would love a solution as the other gripe is that W10 do not have a fix it page and i am not in the business of contacting the thousand and one make believes ready to plant a virus or drain your bank account.
BTW those who mistakenly believe W10 is free, think again as once W10 rolled out there will be an annual access fee.
Also here in OZ there are complaints from many with three gig mobile (cellphone) plans. Not only from the original download but from the constant patch update downloads.For those coming from W7 have to say explorer is very familiar.
A recent discovery is that my traditional Liscad screen merge with white screen, making the white drop down commands from tool bar hard to view. I swear they were originally light grey.I would wait for a few other hiccups to be fixed if you are on W7 as the can currently be much time lost in trying to find away of fixing your problem when in fact you find out it is a programming errorÛ?That means getting behind with work!
RADU
. Nice to see you Richard.
Randy Rain, post: 335287, member: 35 wrote: OK maybe I'm an outlier here but I don't see the problem with Microsoft perhaps charging an annual fee.
I would MUCH rather pay for my operating system than have them snooping on me and selling me to advertisers
Randy Rain, post: 335287, member: 35 wrote: OK maybe I'm an outlier here but I don't see the problem with Microsoft perhaps charging an annual fee.
The $200 or so retail price of Windows -- and even the discounted OEM price -- has plenty of room to provide bug fixes and security updates for an extended period, given the production numbers and the automated mass distribution of the latter. MS isn't dumb, and I'm not going to stay awake at night worrying that they might not be making money on Windows.
Retail is Portable... not tied to a machine.
OEM is tied to the specific hardware.
Cost is not the issue for me.
I am mostly concerned about privacy and to a lesser degree Bloat.
about Bloat: I don't relish the idea of using W7 because it is so dog slow, and constantly demands "updates" requiring a reboot. lots of down time.
From what I read W10 is no better, perhaps worse. I really would like the option of using windows on all of my machines, but only my "hot rod" is not brought to it's knees by the bloat.
Peter Ehlert, post: 335319, member: 60 wrote: I don't relish the idea of using W7 because it is so dog slow, and constantly demands "updates" requiring a reboot.
Most of the updates seem to be security fixes, with the odd bug fix thrown in. I don't know how much of this is due to sloppy coding and how much to the size and lack of sophistication of the target market for malware.
We will never know
Jim Frame, post: 335275, member: 10 wrote: According to this PC World Article, that's not true. It quotes a Microsoft release that says, "Once a qualified Windows device is upgraded to Windows 10, we will continue to keep it up to date for the supported lifetime of the device, keeping it more secure, and introducing new features and functionality over time ÛÒ for no additional charge."
JIM I thought it was only surveyors who never charged for updates. LOL !
All specialist software companies have an annual fee for upgrades and support.
RADU
Just upgraded and it went smoothly.
I did have to call Carlson for a change key as it reverted back to a demo mode and wouldn't allow me to save or really manipulate anything, but as always Carlson came through and responded very quickly.
So far so good. I really like some of the features and the new look. It has a flavor of 8 but not too much as to drive you nuts like 8 did. That whole home screen with all of the blocks was stupid. The new look is more a combination of 8 and 7.
