New Technologies 2015: 19 reasons to go (or not) for free to Windows 10

Thursday, July 28, 2016

19 reasons to go (or not) for free to Windows 10 – Numerama

In 24 hours, Windows 10 will become chargeable. If you still hesitate to make the update, you will find all the reasons that you could tilt to one side or the other.

You know, the free upgrade program to Windows 10 finishes in 24 hours? You really lucky. Because Microsoft has not skimped on how to warn you. No really. Really. Still. It was not anything. And despite all this, Redmond has given up its initial objectives of installation, even if Windows 10 is pretty well common, accounting for 300 million of updates.

In short, the end of the update program Free is scheduled for July 30 and if we had relied heavily on a Microsoft marketing strategy that would have kept free even after the deadline, it does not seem to be the case.

do you make update your computer and switch to Windows 10? Hard to say. We arguments to. And arguments against. We leave you only judges.

Windows 10

The good reasons to install Windows 10

in outline, it is a great operating system, which has not lost any argument over Windows 7. It is almost the only alternative for gamers.
loads faster, for the same configuration, Windows 7.
Microsoft added virtual desktop management and advanced management particularly powerful windows.
update your system operation is a good idea level security: while Windows 7 is still maintained for now, but the day he will not, you may have to pay his successor
Besides,. one of the reasons to upgrade now is that it’s free
Windows 7 is dated aesthetically
No bad faith.. in minutes you can turn off all the frills and other social features that might disturb you.
LiveTile interface has almost completely disappeared and we did not complain.
in most case, the installation works extremely well just by pressing the update button. You restart your system and nothing has changed, everything changed.
There will be cross-platform Xbox / Windows 10. The idea of blowing up gamers playing on a pad fast fps us glad.

Xbox -Windows-10

good reasons not to install Windows 10

Microsoft still has accumulated two defects of computers, hard to digest in 2016: being heavy and intrusive with its users. We can not forgive them this relentless communication.
Windows 10 in its basic configuration, like everything about you.
In fact, we must admit that we has disabled all functions related to Cortana and the supposed intelligence, not because they were sending pictures of us at Microsoft, but because they are perfectly useless.
in fact, for these features are relevant, you need a Windows smartphone 10. And that is out of the question.
The notification system is very painful, too.
so, the whole concept of continuity that works so well on Mac is wobbly. Like the promise to have a true Windows on Windows 10 smartphone: in practice, it oar and no software can not install it, only apps
applications. let’s talk about it. Or do we forget them permanently?
Sometimes the installation will crash your PC … or one of its components. If you run the update on a Friday night, so you may spoil your weekend.
You remember Edge? We.

To be perfectly transparent, writing Numerama is eclectic and uses all operating systems everyday. For productivity and multimedia macOS wins hands down. Ubuntu is its equivalent in our libristes convinced. We play exclusively on Windows 10 (difficult to do otherwise without taking the head). And we recommend growing Chromebooks, both for students and for those who do not have the habit of computing.