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steve2470

(37,457 posts)
Mon Jul 13, 2015, 06:38 PM Jul 2015

Windows 10 available on July 29th

A poll for fun only!!!!

Are you going to use it ?


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Hell no
3 (33%)
Hell yes
3 (33%)
Other which includes any conceivable answer to this question
0 (0%)
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Parakeets
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I just love taking polls!
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Windows 10 available on July 29th (Original Post) steve2470 Jul 2015 OP
I'm taking a wait and see approach. lpbk2713 Jul 2015 #1
I'm waiting for 11, it'll be one windower. n/t PoliticAverse Jul 2015 #2
I'll be definitive and say eventually. discntnt_irny_srcsm Jul 2015 #3
Only if I get a new computer. ManiacJoe Jul 2015 #4
using Windows 10 x64 Build 10166 right now steve2470 Jul 2015 #5
I always wait a longtime for others to suffer the bugs and glitches of windows 'upgrades' Sunlei Jul 2015 #6
You betcha, looking forward to it. MicaelS Jul 2015 #7
My nephew gave me an HP laptop with 8.1 installed... Earth Bound Misfit Jul 2015 #8
I have to use it. Windoze pays my bills. RoccoR5955 Aug 2015 #9

steve2470

(37,457 posts)
5. using Windows 10 x64 Build 10166 right now
Tue Jul 14, 2015, 03:35 PM
Jul 2015

Some fit and finish issues still to be resolved, but otherwise stable. MS is providing regular Windows Defender updates for it. Not sure what other antivirus works on W10.

MicaelS

(8,747 posts)
7. You betcha, looking forward to it.
Sat Jul 18, 2015, 01:11 PM
Jul 2015

I have been using the Technical Previews for months now, and have been very pleased.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/109514445

I have another SSD ready to go for doing a clean install, and i have started downloading driver and programs, so I will have a folder ready to go when the iso. becomes available.

Earth Bound Misfit

(3,554 posts)
8. My nephew gave me an HP laptop with 8.1 installed...
Sat Jul 18, 2015, 03:37 PM
Jul 2015

... he went back to OSX... been running the TP since build 10041, will restore a backup of 8.1 & upgrade to 10 when it goes RTM sometime after the 29th.

 

RoccoR5955

(12,471 posts)
9. I have to use it. Windoze pays my bills.
Fri Aug 7, 2015, 04:39 PM
Aug 2015

I fix broken users, I mean computers, so I better know Vista version 3.

I prefer OSX myself.

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