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Jafo said:
I wouldn't be surprised that devotees to FSX will either die out too or be stuck in the stone-age with their [then] ancient Win 7 OS machines for 'play' and their wiz-bang 10 plus extra revision 12a for 'doing stuff'....;)
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It's either WINE on Linux or Dovetail's stuff then.

Has anyone checked out the ages of all of us on this site?

The dinosaurs are alive and well and living amongst us right here at 'SOH' ...;)
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TBH, I do feel like an early mammal among flightsimmers more often than not.

Anyway, is Windows 10 going to be an End-Cretaceous extinction event?

Coming right up, after this rerun of Jurassic Park! [Cut to flightsimmung convention]



- Edit: G'damn, stuck on Wikipedia's articles about Earth's geological history.
 
MS could have a couple of reasons to offer Windows 10 for free:

1) to persuade people to become legitimate users;
2) it only wants to support one version of Windows, saving them millions in heving to supporting older operating systems;
3) to tie their users to other MS-products (cloud-based or not)

One thing should be blatantly obvious: they're not doing this out of charity.
 
There may be a reason some users haven't got this thingy on the taskbar: their cranky old grids don't support all the features WX needs to run. The GWX folder is there on my system, but mine doesn't VT-x or VT-D or GBH or summat so WinX is out for me, apparently. So this rig will stick with creaky, arthritic, cranky old W7 ( it's so last year...) and let the fashionistas go their own way. (chuckle, chuckle) :costumed-smiley-034
 
One of the perks of working in IT: I'll get the iso's at work! Beauty of this is that I'll be able to do a clean install! :)

Johan
 
Dumonceau said:
One of the perks of working in IT: I'll get the iso's at work! Beauty of this is that I'll be able to do a clean install! :)

Johan
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I'm in full agreement as every year or so I wipe out the main drive and do a clean install on C: drive, sort of spring cleaning and been doing so since the days of DOS, it's a good days work but well worth it. For the Win X beta I downloaded the ISO on my main system (Win 7 pro 64, don't have the icon showing) then burned to DVD and installed on my laptop running (Win 7 home ed. 64 which didn't have the icon). I'll do the same again on the 29th. :untroubled:

I hope my copy of Silent Hunter III will work on Win X because it didn't when I went to Win 7. :eagerness:
 
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