Speaking of XP, I remember that my old upgrade copies of Windows XP let me keep the prior versions of windows from which I upgraded. I can’t get past the 10 upgrade effectively turning my Win7 DVD into a coaster. In my experience, Windows 10 is hands-down better than Windows 8 (more of a testament of how bad W8 was) and I wouldn’t shed a tear at having to exchange 8 for 10 but there’s no way for you to keep 7 kicking around with 10?
Support is important, but I liked it was better when it actually was free support. IMO it is the least that MS can do with 10 since they’re presumably making money hand over fist with the rampant data mining in 10. Maybe they could do us all a solid and use that to provide support for 7 too, and save DX12/11.3 as the “killer app” for 10?
Why is it so hard to hook multiple Bluetooth speakers/headphones to the same host and have the same audio sent to all of them? Is there a real way to do this?
So far as I’ve heard, Windows 10 upgrade assimilates your win7 license, so if I tried installing Win7 from my CD onto a system I’d never be able to activate it. I’m not sure if you can use an image of the Win7 that you upgrade to 10 without Microsoft nagging you about it.
Considering that Microsoft allows you for 30 days to revert back to Windows 7, it shouldn’t be an issue with the image backup or reinstalling (and as far I know, unless you require a key server on your network for the key you use, Windows 7 doesn’t need to validate itself enough to bother nagging)
On that, shortly after W10’s release I saw it theorized that if one made a copy of the folder to which W10 copied W7/8 then it would be possible to revert after 30 days.
I did log in to check and while DreamSpark does offer Windows 10 full for free, it is the “education edition” while they’re offering the Professional edition of 7/8/8.1.
Right now, the only reason I’m seeing for me going W10 is a game that takes real advantage of DirectX 12, though that would be bittersweet as most of my PC gamer pals aren’t really DX12 capable (They went with the Green Team and/or AMD/Intel isn’t supporting enough of its hardware backlog).
On my PC, I can only watch Netflix if I use Firefox, which is clunky, 32 bit and old. If I use Waterfox, the faster 64-bit version of firefox (so similar, in fact, that Firefox won’t allow itself to be opened if Waterfox is running as “FIrefox is already running”), Netflix won’t play ball.
This is why no one likes DRM, because it is easier to circumvent than to go through and it only makes life difficult for the legitimate users.
I really don’t understand what is up with Netflix and Seven Deadly Sins on Android as it cuts out after the halfway point on every episode there yet I can watch hour+ long stuff on there without issue.
Valve used a quick delivery method to send me my Steam Link. Too bad I didn’t have time to go any farther than to hook it up and get it up and running.
