W7 and 8.1 to get free upgrades to W10

[Joose]

26th July is the release date. Like Mr J says, the little button is just so you can "reserve your copy" whatever the fuck that means. I suspect its just a way of getting an email address off you and so they can gauge interest.

[Dog Pants]

I clicked it anyway and it didn't ask me for anything. Might record your product key or something. It doesn't horse the upgrade so at least I can get it if I want, and The Internet seems generally positive.

[Joose]

Yeah, everyone ive seen writing about their experiences with the prerelease have said that its been pretty solid, no major driver issues or anything like that.

[Dr. kitteny berk]

My playing with W10 on a random laptop was pretty pleasing, certainly not a terrible experience.

Incidentally, the register your interest thing is effectively their preorder dohickey, IIRC they're aiming for 1bn installed copies at launch, so that'll be why.

[Dog Pants]

My experience of Win 10 so far after being told preview builds will be upgraded to full builds on release:

1. Realise that getting a laptop built to a new OS is not as simple as a desktop.
2. Do a complete rebuild. Keep original partitions to be on the safe side.
3. Fanny about for hours getting laptop to build. It went on fine, eventually.
4. OS looks OK, but it's slow as fuck on the old hardware.
5. Read that Microsoft have declared that they didn't mean it that way, and that preview builds will not be upgraded.
6. Be really grateful I did step 2.

So it looks like it's back to Fista for my old Dell.

[TezzRexx]

Tried this?

http://www.windowscentral.com/windows-1 ... peed-it-up

[Dog Pants]

No point now, I'm going to have to build it back to Fista because they're not doing the preview upgrade after all. Handy tip though (seem to remember Aero slowing Win 7 down too).

[TezzRexx]

Oh, must've missed the news on that! It's a shame but I can't really blame them.

[Dr. kitteny berk]

So, I'm installing W10, just because I can.

[Dog Pants]

Beware the wi-fi sharing thing (sorry, still on mobile so it's a pain to link but it's been pretty well covered). Hopefully they'll do something to sort that soon. Interested to hear how it is though.

[Dr. kitteny berk]

Not really an issue, our wifi network is open

[Dog Pants]

Not much chance of your neighbours nicking your bandwidth when you're in darkest Wales I suppose.

[Joose]

You can just turn the wifi sharing thing off I think. Im sure I saw an option for that somewhere, but I skipped right past it.

Thoughts so far: Upgrade was piss easy, nothing broken so far. Also, Xbone streaming is remarkably good.

[Dr. kitteny berk]

The neighbour borrows it anyway, otherwise the nearest house is well outside wifi range.

So far it's fast, clean and has really fucking sharp corners, I'm not sure I like the default theme.

[Dog Pants]

You can just turn the wifi sharing thing off I think. Im sure I saw an option for that somewhere, but I skipped right past it.

You can, but all that stops is you using other peoples' wireless. If I came to your house with my Surface or a Win 10 phone (haha, yeah right) and you gave me your wi-fi password, and I hadn't disabled it, then all my mates on Win 10 could use it too. It's not all tinfoil hats - they won't get the password itself, although Microsoft presumably will, and my mates would have to be at your house too, but it's all a bit free and easy with my data for me to be entirely comfortable with. Probably not a deal breaker, but something worth being aware of.

[buzzmong]

I'm hanging on a bit for W10 to get some more patches.
People have been trialing it in the office and there's still a number of BSOD's and pain involved plus one chap got into a reset loop during the install process.

Aside from that, it's looking pretty hunkydory.

[HereComesPete]

http://www.wired.com/2015/07/share-not- ... indows-10/

[Dog Pants]

That's not too bad, being able to choose which contacts to share wifi with. Facebook can fuck off, that's never getting connected to anything. Skype and Outlook are Microsoft owned so are probably already shared, but I'm reasonably happy that they're a bit better curated. It'd be nice if you could authorise individual contacts though.