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Windows 7 Prof with Windows 10 Pro License?
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14/09/2016 15:46:23
 
 
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Windows
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Other
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01640796
Message ID:
01640838
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My experience:

- Multiple Monitors. I have no issues figuring out the active window. Perhaps it's a color scheme issue.
- Sticky screen corners. I had that in Windows 7 too.
- Extended task bar across monitors is so intuitive and improves usability
- Older hardware issue *may* not be Microsoft's fault. Hardware manufactuers may have told Microsoft the old stuff works
- Free or not, there is not excuse for Googles non-privacy policy. "Do no evil" be damned
- Unsigned drivers are a security risk
- Why should Microsoft go back tp older OS and update the HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) to support newer hardware? This decision makes total sense
- How is Microsoft's taking control over your computer different that say, Apple, where they control both OS and hardware?


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>My experiences using Win10 vs Win7:
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>Win10 pluses:
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>- Includes File History (actually introduced with Win8). This can be a useful backup option
>- For one site I connect to via the built-in Windows VPN client, the Win10 version connects much more reliably than the Win7 client
>- Has a multiple desktops feature which I haven't yet investigated, but which might serve to work around some of the UI issues below
>
>Win10 minuses:
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>- Lack of control over application of updates. There is a Group Policy "hack" that restores the "download and notify" option which I had set up in Win7 but apparently that is defeated in the Anniversary and later builds of Win10
>- I find the UI very flat compared to Win7 Aero Glass. I find it hard to tell which window is active especially with multiple monitors
>- With multiple monitors the screen corners are "sticky" - if you try to go from one to another at (say) the top of the screen, the cursor won't move from one to the other (actually if you're within 6 pixels of a corner). So you get "stuck" on one monitor until you loop the cursor away from the corner. Very annoying
>- When running apps such as Remote Desktop in full screen on one monitor, it's more difficult to bring up the main local Windows taskbar to switch apps. For apps like that the option to extend the taskbar across multiple monitors is a non-starter
>- Reduction in privacy. In other threads I've already expanded on this. Microsoft considers Win10 just a content delivery platform. By default privacy settings are abysmal, in complete violation of Bill Gates' own famous memo. Considering Win10 is a paid product it's deplorable that MS does this; it's more understandable if you're using a free product like Google's ("if you're not paying for the product, you are the product")
>- Incompatibility with some older hardware, even though the upgrade process claims compatibility. Expensive waste of time
>- MS is starting to refuse to load unsigned drivers, so if you have devices that depend on them you'll be SOL
>- MS is making noises that some new hardware will *only* be supported by Win10 e.g. Intel SkyLake processors. So, if you want to use Windows on that newer hardware it will have to be Win10
>- MS is making it clear that they have, and will exert, control over your computer e.g. http://winaero.com/blog/fix-windows-10-installs-apps-like-candy-crush-soda-saga-automatically/ . Workarounds such as these "fixes" are slowly but surely being disabled by MS - basically a frog-boiling scenario
Craig Berntson
MCSD, Microsoft .Net MVP, Grape City Community Influencer
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