• Microsoft begins Window 10 unveil
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It's going to be free? Sweet!
I'm not sure if I understand well for this one, It's say "For a year" it is mean for 1 year and you need to buy it an another year subscription , or in the first year of the launch of windows 10 is the time for upgrade or else forget youll need to buy it full price ? (I mean like office 365 ?)
I think they meant that for one year you can upgrade to Windows 10 and have it for good, but after that one year, if you didn't already get Windows 10, you must pay for it
I wonder if it will be free upgrades for enterprise as well. We were looking at purchasing a site license once windows 10 came out. Hope I don't have to manage another 50+ keys.
I know it's not likely, but one thing I'd like to see of Windows 10 that Windows 7 sorely lacked (and is my only gripe about the W7 OS) is that some programs designed for a "dead zone" of sorts for programs between 1999 and about 2005 left many incompatible with Windows 7, with even more refusing to start if on a 64-bit OS despite other 32-bit programs working fine. XP Mode doesn't help because most of the programs that fail to work in Windows 7 need hardware acceleration and the use of graphics processing, two things the virtual console that Microsoft made for XP Mode does not have, making the upgrade moot for people like me that are trying to get older programs working without resorting to having a dual boot or backup tower for that sort of thing. I can understand not having functionality for Voodooo or Glide-using programs, but even some DirectX programs fail in Windows 7 but work in a standard XP computer, so I'd like a solution to that from Microsoft, themselves.
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