SpokenTruth said:
But if the product is actually better and free...
Do you have basic Win 8 or Win 8.1? Upgrading to 10 requires 8.1. Upgrading from 8 to 8.1 is already free now. I advise everyone using 8 to upgrade to 8.1 even if they have no intention of upgrading all the way to 10. |
"Better" is a wide concept, for most people "better" is 100% compatibility with their current HW and SW without having to replace anything that is still working well. Obviously if one buys a new PC, "better" is very often the latest version of Windows, but even in this case MS product versions x.0 record suggests to avoid adopting them immediately, although MS has quite bettered with time, it evolved from Win 2000, awful at launch and become very good only with SP4 to XP, that depending on user's HW and SW was best with SP2 or 3, to Win 7, already very good, almost excellent with SP1, but immediately before and after Win 7 MS stumbled again, the first time very badly with Vista, that without the preinstalled copies would have been one of its worst flops together with Dos 4, Bob and Win ME, and the second with Win 8 that was far better than Vista but it didn't meet users' tastes until 8.1 (MS mistake again, as it wrongly assumed that a GUI tailored for touch screens could be optimal for non-touch desktops and notebooks too).
