Jenny you do realize people like you are the reason Microsoft forces updates in 10 right? Also re: whoever was bitching about wanting to install updates when the damn well want to, 10 let's you schedule updates now sooooo
Probably got bored, hard to say. Blizzard asked and they did it
Would be nice if they confirmed/denied it on Win 8.1 too.
Upgrading's too pricey for me, just gonna stick it out with 7 and hope things work out.
I run Windows 8.1.
It's the best compromise between winold 7 and spydows 10
Tell me more tell me more.
passing this along from my frienderino on the display team: it was all possible because WoW isn't doing anything fancy like cross-device texture sharing but they're still getting a perf boost from this. however, even small things like just presenting the game on the screen uses the older and much slower blit mode vs the new flip mode because it just isn't possible in win7.
this is really interesting, thanks for passing it on! that's an interesting quirk, but not altogether surprising given what I've heard about how the compositor and such got updated for Win10
honestly i think that less people would be avoiding upgrades if the actual updating system would be improved from what it is now.
even bleeding-edge linux distributions like arch linux have pretty painless upgrades because it all applies in the background, and one only needs to perform one reboot (which takes no more than a regular reboot) in order to reload the new kernel (and depending on the packages being upgraded and their amount you can sometimes even skip the reboot step, simply closing and opening again updated programs).
windows on the other hand has to apply updates during shutdown/reboot (afaik because it doesn't like overwriting stuff that's in use) and sometimes has to reboot several times, turning what should be a quick & simple process (barring any cockups with updates which can always happen) into an often-annoying disrupting wait
This actually is actually true. Windows 10 updates are....better(?) than 7's, but its still a piece of shit compared to the package managers in Linux. Though, fundamentally, they would need to completely uproot everything about Window's design to make it work. And that probably won't happen until MS is done with Windows NT as a platform.
Microsoft has been always choosing backwards compatibility over latest bells and whistles when it was possible. Linux-like seamless patching will never appear in windows because microsoft will never drop the concept of file locking.
I think that Windows 7 needs to go. It has had it's time in the limelight but Windows 10 is quite obviously better for keeping end users secure. The updates are pretty bad and extremely annoying but necessary if you have a sufficient understanding of what the world is like for normal PC users today.
Windows 7 is no longer a modern operating system and isn't sufficiently protected against a modern threat environment, an environment which has become far, far more active and hostile to underprotected PCs than it used to be even five years ago.
Plus every Windows 7 PC I manage inevitably loses it's ability to boot without needing to repair disc it. Sucks.
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