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Microsoft's Unapologetic Response to the Windows 10 Upgrade Push

MWEB GameZone writes: "Microsoft’s Chief Marketing Officer and former speech writer for Bill Gates, Chris Capossela, went into detail about Microsoft pushiness regarding Windows 10 upgrades.

Here is a look at Mr. Capossela's unapologetic response."

HanCilliers3391d ago

Except it's not their choice which OP people should use.

Sillicur3391d ago

Yeh. Although I understand the whole idea of having everyone on one OS, if I would rather like to be on Windows 7 it is my choice.

Currently using Win 10 + Office 2016 and it is rather nice. But choice matters, a lot.

Yi-Long3390d ago

I want my current PC to stick with Windows 7. I even disabled Updates because I don't want the Update forced upon me, which puts me on a security risk, which shouldn't be necessary.

I'm OK with getting Windows 10 on a new PC, but that should be MY choice.

R6ex3391d ago

I'm sticking to Win 7 until EOL (2020?).

Until DX12 games show significant improvements will I upgrade to Win 10.

m2stech3390d ago

Theres a new API coming soon called Vulkan, it is said it has great performance leap and makes developments easier for devs so hopefully no more DX exclusivity.

freshslicepizza3391d ago

there are some bugs still but everything is working fine now, last thing was updating my sound card. yes everyone should have a choice but some fear change. not sure why the big deal to upgrade if its free.

Why o why3391d ago

True. . I kinda prefer 10 over 8 especially the ui. Choice is good though.

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cyclindk3390d ago

I'm going back to Windows 7 soon.

UltraNova3390d ago

Good for you but you might want to share some details on why...

cyclindk3390d ago

Everything, performance-wise, being faster/snappier in every way.

UltraNova3390d ago

I'm avoiding W10 like the plague if I'm honest but I will have to 'upgrade' by July since I dont wont to pay MS for Windows.

From what I've read so far it seems W10 is on par with windows 7 or better in most performance scenarios.

How come you experience the exact opposite? Could your PC/laptop specs be the reason why?

cyclindk3388d ago

Both my and my girlfriend's laptops have suffered. I have an i7 with 16 GB of RAM, seems faster than when it was running Windows 8, but hasn't come anywhere near as close as ANY computer I have run Windows 7 on.

Performance, not to mention general familiarity with "where things are" make 7 the choice for me. 10 improved over 8, but both are downgrades from 7 in many important areas for me, in my opinion. I would be much happier/cope-better with 10 if not for the "unnecessary" changes (nothing doing with performance).

DragoonsScaleLegends3389d ago

I noticed speed improvements over 7 in Windows 8 but in 10 it's too buggy to notice the improvements. It's especially buggy with the audio driver and mail app. Occasionally I'll even run into weird bugs with file explorer that I would not expect to ever experience in a consumer Windows build.

gamesR4fun3390d ago

All we can hope is this drives more people to open source and we see even more games on linux!

pompombrum3390d ago

The closer they try and pull me towards Windows 10, the further they push me away.. It's pretty cool that they are offering it for free to Windows 7 users however their pushy tactics to try and force users to install it has completely put me off giving it a chance. I'll be getting a new PC this year and will probably try it then but at the moment, Windows 7 works perfectly fine and if it isn't broken, why fix it?

annoyedgamer3390d ago

Windows 10 is lame. It feels like a reskinned Win 8 that looks like Windows 98 high contrast theme. Why are all the new releases so ugly?!

contra1573390d ago

Windows 10 is half complete and will be done as they go . Mircosoft said that.

Insomnia_843390d ago

Like when they released the Xbox One? Wtf is wrong with Microsoft? No wonder so many people hate it.

UltraNova3390d ago

That's why I'll probably look into upgrading to W10 in June 30th 2016 and if I like what I read about the state of the OS I'll upgrade.

DragoonsScaleLegends3389d ago

Current State: Bugs, I see bugs everywhere...

DragoonsScaleLegends3389d ago

I can definitely tell it's not finished yet...

contra1573385d ago

Microsoft has been shitting on customers forever.

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