On a side note, Cortana is most excellent. Ask her to sing you a song lol

LOL you said that same stuff when I went to Windows 8. Doing so gained me a good 10-15% performance in games that support more than two threads so I don't regret it. Windows 7 now to me feels like XP. It's all well and good not liking change dude but sometimes you just gotta go with it because it's for the best. There's no way I would operate a PC with more than 4 cores or HT on Windows 7 now it's fucking donkey's years old.

I even liked the way 8 is/was and 8.1 was good too. Some people actually like it.

I'd say you differ somewhat from the prevailing opinion, JC - most folks seem to be of the view that 7 is a superb OS, and 8 was a dog that was upgraded to 'decent' by 8.1. Still the standard rule of Microsoft OSs, that they alternate between awful (ME, Vista, 8 ) and great (2000, XP, 7) should make 10 a success

I'd say you differ somewhat from the prevailing opinion, JC - most folks seem to be of the view that 7 is a superb OS, and 8 was a dog that was upgraded to 'decent' by 8.1. Still the standard rule of Microsoft OSs, that they alternate between awful (ME, Vista, 8 ) and great (2000, XP, 7) should make 10 a success

Still on XP (SP3!) here ...





... Yup, I'll fetch m' coat. "Taxi!"

Still on XP (SP3!) here ...





... Yup, I'll fetch m' coat. "Taxi!"

Erm, don't connect that to the internet then.

There are many critical security flaws that have been fixed (in Vista and later) since XP went out of support.

You can mitigate somewhat by using Chrome as your browser and a supported AV product (such as Kaspersky).

Overall though, no.

I'm glad I upgraded and so far, I'm liking it but I only really use my PC for the internet and emulators so I had nothing urgent I need to make sure worked.

I used 8.1 before this and liked that too but I'm kind of missing my start screen now but there's not a massive difference between the two.

But sticking to 7 now is pretty crazy given how old it is and how dated it is. Sure, you skipped 8 I can get that, but why on earth use something so old? We're all pretty tech driven around these parts surely you would want to use the latest and greatest and not be so damn stubborn about spending a day or two learning how to use it? honestly, for tech heads getting people to switch to Windows 8 showed me just how stubborn man can be !

I really don't like where "This PC" is on Windows 8 or 10.

Glad to hear they've renamed it. 'My Computer' always sounded too twee for me, and changing it to 'Computer' (or something less polite) was always one of the first acts of customisation I did whenever I got a new PC.

Yeah, I know I'm on borrowed time, getting new lappies next month. (Btw, does anyone still do new laptops with integral, hard wired, "real"/physical RS232 ports, does anyone know?)

Am on Kaspersky and only use Chrome - but more by accident than design, I have to say.

Kerns next act of customisation is to alter the crash dialogue to have the title "suck it up bitch".

He hates it when his computer is polite and friendly.

Why is it 'crazy' to stick to an OS that is solid, fast, dependable, reliable, supported and proven?

We used USB to RS232 converters on a previous project.

Because it's not fast, it's not supported and it's not proven?

It's old, doddery and should be laid to rest. Were you one of the XP hanger onners too? I recall loads of people saying the same thing about 7.

You've had to physically disable parts of your computer and you make the claim above.. Excuse me but

There are many critical security flaws that have been fixed (in Vista and later) since XP went out of support.

XP only went out of support a week ago. Agree with your general point though.

Weird, last XP (not MS Office or whatever) Microsoft update was only a couple of weeks back, and it's only Pro running on an old laptop, not server. (But I think it was "embedded", i.e. pre-installed on the machine, which may make a difference with MS?)

I'd say you differ somewhat from the prevailing opinion, JC - most folks seem to be of the view that 7 is a superb OS, and 8 was a dog that was upgraded to 'decent' by 8.1.

Any one who balked at the front end simply didn't give it more than two minutes before deciding its fate.

We're all pretty tech driven around these parts surely you would want to use the latest and greatest and not be so damn stubborn about spending a day or two learning how to use it?

You just called the UI god awful. Considering what most people do all day is interact with the UI, I'd say that qualifies as a bad OS.

I don't think that's fair; a lot of people thought 8's interface was terrible certainly, myself included, but I don't think anyone ever claimed the OS itself was bad as such. It's just that it didn't bring any improvements I wanted enough to put up with the god awful UI.



We've argued this into the ground when you weren't here so I don't suggest we revisit the discussion at all but your above quote is pish dude. Plenty of people gave it a good go and just didn't like it. Sometimes people genuinely don't like stuff. That's how it goes.



This is a complete straw man you've just made up in your head. No one's suggesting not moving to it because they don't want to "spending a day or two learning how to use it". People are wary because a lot of products, especially major OS upgrades, have issues in the first few months which is a fact of life. And especially if you're quite happy with the OS you've got it makes perfect sense to wait. I'm not because fuck it, but I totally understand why loads of people will.

Bit hard when you didn't have the discussion in the first place.

Any way, this thread was supposed to be about Win 10 but it's just being hammered now by people who don't use Win 10 nor want to. The fuck? That's like "Can't cook won't cook" don't fucking cook then.

Bit hard when you didn't have the discussion in the first place.

Any way, this thread was supposed to be about Win 10 but it's just being hammered now by people who don't use Win 10 nor want to. The fuck? That's like "Can't cook won't cook" don't fucking cook then.

People are talking about Windows 10 on a Windows 10 thread; it's perfectly relevant. You just seem to be getting in a weird snit because people aren't as eager to upgrade as you.

I don't like how "Edge" does not allow Adblock yet and seems to be the only browser I can actually get working