Tag: windows 10
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Windows 10 Something Went Wrong Edition
Microsoft just announced a new laptop Surface device, it’s $1000 and comes with an intentionally broken version of their Windows 10 operating system. Matt Weinberger: The one thing to know is that the Surface Laptop is the poster child for Windows 10 S, a new version of the operating system that Microsoft says is more…
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Windows 10 Game Mode Doesn’t Sound Very Effective
Rock Paper Shotgun’s Alec Meer interviewed Microsoft’s Kevin Gammill about the upcoming Game Mode in Windows 10: Kevin Gammill: With the Creator’s Update and Game Mode right now, we’re primarily focused on biasing the game versus the rest of the operating system, from a GPU and CPU perspective. So for some of the other system…
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Windows 10 Anniversary Update Out With Bash
Windows 10 has been out for a year as a free upgrade from Windows 7, 8, and 8.1. Excepting some hacky workarounds the upgrade is no-longer available for free to users. Brett Howse has an article with the major changes that are available today in the Windows 10 anniversary update. The biggest feature for me…
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Even Thurrott Is Frustrated With The Windows 10 Upgrade Scheme
Paul Thurrott: Last week, Microsoft silently changed Get Windows 10 yet again. And this time, it has gone beyond the social engineering scheme that has been fooling people into inadvertently upgrading to Windows 10 for months. This time, it actually changed the behavior of the window that appears so that if you click the “Close”…
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Upgrading to Windows 10 Today
If you want to skip the waiting line to force the Windows 10 upgrade from 7 or 8 today, follow this link and click the buttons. I did this successfully on both a laptop that runs Windows 7, and one that runs Windows 8.