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http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/ ... More_win10

Correct. Offered by Microsoft. Sign up while you can if you're interested.

You may also begin the upgrade process (reservation) here: http://www.microsoft.com/en-US/windows/features

These are all safe links and the real deal.

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- Aldous Huxley, Brave New World, Ch. 16

Considering it's all plusses and no minuses (you can change your mind and opt out later), this may be among the most important info ever given by Bro Steven1. We all owe you.

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"Amen, brother"-ED

Yes, Windows 10 will be the last numbered version of the OS and going forward it will simply become a ‘Windows’ subscription service. This upsets those who don’t like the idea of a subscription service, but the biggest concern is this: while Windows 10 will seamlessly upgrade to ‘Windows’ – this is a new beginning.
Your OS would evolve into a new product for which you have to pay Forever.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/gordonkelly/2015/05/12/free-windows-10-has-high-cost/

Phuck Bill Gates. He goes before Congress every year or so and urges that the H1B visa program has to be expanded because Microsoft and other high-tech firms can't find enough qualified Americans to fill IT positions. Bullshit. Microsoft has bought or copied most of their 'innovations'. Then there's major releases like the Vista OS

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Bill Gates may have won the battle but Steve Jobs won the War!

Yeah, maybe if he weren't so distracted by sick Ch*ldren in Africa, he could have put a little more thought into Windows Vista.

Certainly Bill Gates should be lauded for his philanthropic efforts. Over the years, he has given over $25 billion to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. As the world's richest individual, his current net worth is nearly $80 billion.

He has long been a proponent of increasing the yearly caps on the number of H1B visas, testifying before Congress every year or two. He claims that the increase is necessary due to the inability of Microsoft and other large companies to find qualified Americans to fill IT positions. That argument is ridiculous. Since 2000, the total number of H1B visas approved is over 1.5 million, an average of 100,000 per year. That has caused a huge number of layoffs of American IT workers, year after year.
An an example, last month Disney laid-off almost 300 IT workers, many of which had over 20 years experience. In order to receive their severence package, they were required to personally train their replacement workers from India. Incredible. Ask those Disney workers how they feel about H1B visas!

And I stand by my opinion of Vista

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"In a nation ruled by swine, all pigs are upwardly mobile, and the rest of us are phucked until we can put our acts together; not necessarily to win, but mainly to keep from losing completely"...Hunter S. Thompson (RIP)

To get back to the main thrust: Microsoft can make this (on the surface) incredibly generous offer because they then get a free testbed for all vulnerabilities, and permutations and combinations this OS might show. Invaluable and impossible to reproduce in a test lab. My advice? If you can afford it, buy the cheapest used computer you can that's robust enough to handle Win10 and use that extensively to wring it out for your uses, now and in the future. You could partition your main box and do it but you are much more secure on a separate box. Do what you can to prevent that testbed from teaming up or sharing any of your other boxes. Not being paranoid in questioning MS other intentions--isolation works for me.

I am solidly with Bro Grigotim on the scandalous use of H1B visas--an invented need to quash American wages including those of South Asians in the US--irony there.

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"A man accustomed to hear only the echo of his own sentiments, soon bars all the common avenues of delight, and has no part in the general gratification of mankind"--Dr. Johnson
"Amen, brother"-ED

Was the victor determined by death?

MIcrosoft and Apple are hardly competitors anymore. The Apple PC and OS are a small part of Apple's operations now.

I tried this on my laptop today, the download was easy however after the install the space bar key and the numbers 1 and 2 did not work. After a little research I found others with a Toshiba laptop having the same issue. I uninstalled the update with no problems. Will check back in a few days and see if it has been corrected.

I am so sick of the Windows pile of shit that I am looking forward to never using another Microshit product. The couple of programs that I use rely on the Windows platform but that is changing and hopefully next year they will be available I can ditch a program that has cause countless headaches due to their updates phucking up my system and having to reload the operating system. I have had this happen over a dozen times and each time I loose at least 3-5 days of work...... WINDOWS SUCKS SHIT.

Sorry for the rant but I hate Microsoft.

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i.e. Vista and Windows 8...WTF were they thinking
Maybe they should have more layoffs, then hire more Indians on H1B visas, while having Gates testify
again before Congress that they can't find qualified U.S. IT workers

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Qualcomm ethernet embedded network chipsets in certain laptops are not yet supported in Win10. That killed me.

Cisco VPN software has a bizarre workaround to be able to function. I never tested it out.

The rollback to Windows 8.1 worked fast and exact on two laptops.

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Actually, at the higher end of the IT education spectrum, this country trails behind almost every other industrialized nation.

If you look through the employee rosters of major security and innovation companies, you'll see floods of non-Americans. Though we have many mid-level engineers, we are short on quality-grade information architects.

I agree that outsourcing low-to-mid level jobs is BS, but our universities are not turning out the volume of Computer Scientists that are required.

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I've been using Windows 10 since its release on my MSI laptop and have only had one issue so far with my trackpad.....that a simple restart completely fixed.
It's a crapload better than Win8/8.1 and recommend everyone do it ASAP while it's still free. I am still not sure if I like it better than windows 7 yet though.
Just my 2 cents.