Windows 10 Comes Out July 29 This Year

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

I haven't seen much about it that interests me. All my software is too old to run on it mostl ikely and any software that would require it, would be too new to work on my machines as far as hardware goes.

So frankly I have no need for it. I'll just keep gazzing into blissful serenity for another five years. When I need something newer, I go for a stroll along the mirrors edge in my Windows Seven machine.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Odd that they're offering a free upgrade.

They are scared to death that a significant percentage will stick with Windows 7 and be a thorn in their side like XP's residual usage post support expiration. It could mean the difference between crazy rich and outrageously rich and Microsoft has to have the best, in profits that is. Seven has five years left before it faces the same axe, and it wants its share of the market displaced well before that time so it can kill it without anyone complaining.

They also fear that Windows Seven, just as both it and XP did with eight and XP did with Vista, will keep 10 from reaching market saturation. Something it is never going to achieve with a new Windows every other year. 

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

http://www.extremetech.com/computing/134760-pc-obsolescence-is-obsolete

Also, many people don't have the need to buy a new machine until the old one breaks, unlike in the 1990's and early 2000's.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Of course I wont buy it I am a Windows 8.1 user which means I get a free upgrade

Judging by your posting history, it doesn't seem you'll have enough processing power to get the upgrade anyway.

In that case he should consider downgrading to XP. Stay off the naughty sites, don't open any unsolicited mail or pop-ups, run a good firewall and Anti-virus (you know the crap you have to do on every windows regardless) and you should be pretty secure. Of course it lacks that ASRL or whatever it is called, but hell, Windows have never been crash hot with security and 10 will be no different so the marginal difference is nill unless you have $$$ to be made off the situation, then it is W2K, only real, times a billion.

But if speed is what you wwant, then 2.5 or 3 gig of processor, most of which is actually at your disposal instead of being sapped by the latest Windows. He'll be posting "like never before."