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What are you most anticipating?

The new Spartan Browser 50 23.92%
 
Virtual Reality debut 18 8.61%
 
PC Gaming with Xbox 55 26.32%
 
New Flasgship Phone 4 1.91%
 
New Surface Hardware 3 1.44%
 
START MENU 35 16.75%
 
Unknown new additions 14 6.70%
 
Cortana 9 4.31%
 
Other 15 7.18%
 
Total:203
Burek on 21 January 2015

I'm here just for the games. I ousted all Windows products from my home years ago.



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daredevil.shark on 21 January 2015

They seem to have designed this OS thinking tablets not desktops. -_-



Imaginedvl on 21 January 2015
CDiablo said:
It says free upgrade for a year. Does that mean free upgrade if you cash in within the first year of W10 being released or does that mean you get a 1 year trial and have to buy it once it is up?

I hope it is the second. Like Office 365 where you can just subscribe to it and have a bunch of licence you can use and upgrade to the new version automatically when it comes out. If they can do that like Office 365, it would be awesome (with a nice pricing of course ).

With Office 365 I have 5 licences of Office (latest version) for PC/Mac + 5 versions for Tablets for me and 4 family members. I can install them, uninstall them whenever I want for 99$ a year.



captain carot on 21 January 2015

Will be interesting to see if my Lumia 925 still gets an update. Really like Windows on the phone.



Euphoria14 on 21 January 2015
Imaginedvl said:
CDiablo said:
It says free upgrade for a year. Does that mean free upgrade if you cash in within the first year of W10 being released or does that mean you get a 1 year trial and have to buy it once it is up?

I hope it is the second. Like Office 365 where you can just subscribe to it and have a bunch of licence you can use and upgrade to the new version automatically when it comes out. If they can do that like Office 365, it would be awesome (with a nice pricing of course ).

With Office 365 I have 5 licences of Office (latest version) for PC/Mac + 5 versions for Tablets for me and 4 family members. I can install them, uninstall them whenever I want for 99$ a year.

Oh god please no. I don't want to buy somethine like a Surface Pro and be tied to a $99/sub just to use it.



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Euphoria14 on 21 January 2015

Wow, that Yoda impression was terrible, lol.



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Kirin_gaming on 21 January 2015
shikamaru317 said:

Kirin_gaming said:

 

True, but for the next few years Xbox One should be able to play PC games on medium-low settings, and MS culd implement a PC streaming service for playing the more demanding games later in the generation, the games run on high end PC's at a MS center and are streamed to your Xbox One, hopefully in the next few years game streaming latency will drop considerably.

That sounds like the best option to keep up with later games, but sounds like a lot investment from MS, and even if they did it ,think about the bandwidth needed to stream that kind of games!

I doubt the average user will have that kind of connection.A more conservative approach would be getting an optimized driver from AMD, one specifically made for the GPU in the XB1, also game developers could optimize games for the hardware build inside the console.Unfortunately I doubt any of them would happen.

Anyways we still have to see if the feature is added, so it might be wise to reserve this conversation for later. 



TiagoCosta on 21 January 2015
Ka-pi96 said:
Free Windows 10 to Windows 7 users?

nice, I use win7 on my old laptop.. hopefully it can handle it.



CladInShadows on 21 January 2015
Euphoria14 said:
Imaginedvl said:
CDiablo said:
It says free upgrade for a year. Does that mean free upgrade if you cash in within the first year of W10 being released or does that mean you get a 1 year trial and have to buy it once it is up?

I hope it is the second. Like Office 365 where you can just subscribe to it and have a bunch of licence you can use and upgrade to the new version automatically when it comes out. If they can do that like Office 365, it would be awesome (with a nice pricing of course ).

With Office 365 I have 5 licences of Office (latest version) for PC/Mac + 5 versions for Tablets for me and 4 family members. I can install them, uninstall them whenever I want for 99$ a year.

Oh god please no. I don't want to buy somethine like a Surface Pro and be tied to a $99/sub just to use it.

Yeah.  One time upgrade only please.



Imaginedvl on 21 January 2015
Euphoria14 said:
Imaginedvl said:
CDiablo said:
It says free upgrade for a year. Does that mean free upgrade if you cash in within the first year of W10 being released or does that mean you get a 1 year trial and have to buy it once it is up?

I hope it is the second. Like Office 365 where you can just subscribe to it and have a bunch of licence you can use and upgrade to the new version automatically when it comes out. If they can do that like Office 365, it would be awesome (with a nice pricing of course ).

With Office 365 I have 5 licences of Office (latest version) for PC/Mac + 5 versions for Tablets for me and 4 family members. I can install them, uninstall them whenever I want for 99$ a year.

Oh god please no. I don't want to buy somethine like a Surface Pro and be tied to a $99/sub just to use it.

Well lol yah you are right after thinkinh about it a subscription model the way I decribed it would not work...
I just would love to have a way to do: MS take my WhatEverAmountPerYear$ and then I do not care about my Windows licences/upgrades on all of my devices. Not sure how they can do that on the practical way tho