[TriEmbed] Windows 7 (and 8) users FYI: Msoft preparing to change 10 upgrade policy again

[jonjwolfe at anibit.com]

Same here, I've got 7 machines at my house running Windows 10, one of 
them is almost 10 years old, and it runs faster than the original 
OS(Vista). If you're upgrading from 8/8.1 the risk of anything breaking 
is quite low. I have two machines that started life running Win 7, and I 
haven't noticed anything broken on those machines.

The only Windows 10 specific major hiccup I ran into so far was some 
quirks in Virtual Box's networking (with Win 10 as the host OS), but it 
was fixed with a newer version of Virtual Box. I also have a Windows 
tablet that originally had 8.1 on it, and it's the only device I feel a 
slight remorse over upgrading to 10. I think Windows 8.1 was a better 
experience for small screen touch devices than Windows 10, and it's the 
only device that seems slower after the upgrade.

I can vouch though that many of the "non main stream" types of 
applications we tend to run as embedded tinkerers run just find under 
Win 10.

A couple new things with Windows 10 that are a good idea for "the 
unwashed masses" that might annoy the control freak power users are the 
forced system updates (you can no longer just choose to not install 
system updates), and the forced always-on antivirus (this one you can 
disable totally with a registry hack).



On 2015-12-08 08:42, jonathan hunsberger via TriEmbed wrote:
> Has anyone had any issues with tools, etc. on Windows 10?  I have yet
> to find anything that doesn't work, and my fairly old machine seems to
> run faster on Windows 10 than it did on 7.
> 
> On Tue, Dec 8, 2015 at 7:59 AM, Mark Sidell via TriEmbed
> <triembed at triembed.org> wrote:
> 
>> The GWX Control Panel, described in the article, is excellent. I'm
>> hoping the developer can keep up with Microsoft's machinations! Time
>> to give him a donation.
>> 
>> Here's a direct link to the app:
>> 
>> http://ultimateoutsider.com/downloads/ [4]
>> 
>> On Mon, Dec 7, 2015 at 1:29 PM, Pete Soper via TriEmbed
>> <triembed at triembed.org> wrote:
>> 
>>> Those of you who like your Windows embedded development host
>>> environment nice and stable should know that Microsoft is
>>> preparing to switch W10-related upgrade policies again according
>>> to this "Computerworld" article:
>>> 
>>> 
>> 
> http://www.computerworld.com/article/3012278/microsoft-windows/microsoft-sets-stage-for-massive-windows-10-upgrade-strategy.html#tk.rss_all
>>> [1]
>>> 
>>> -Pete
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> Links:
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> [1]
> http://www.computerworld.com/article/3012278/microsoft-windows/microsoft-sets-stage-for-massive-windows-10-upgrade-strategy.html#tk.rss_all
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> [4] http://ultimateoutsider.com/downloads/
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