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| Thread ID: 138792 | 2015-01-24 04:33:00 | Windows 11 Latest Tech Preview | wainuitech (129) | PC World Chat |
| Post ID | Timestamp | Content | User | ||
| 1392875 | 2015-05-01 00:06:00 | This may help www.askvg.com | Lawrence (2987) | ||
| 1392876 | 2015-05-01 00:06:00 | It's the normal activation period you will get with software you may buy from a shop, its fully operational free trial software that lasts longer. If you ever look at videos on youtube sometimes you can see they are actually using the free software for testing / demonstration purposes. :) fixed that for you, i dunno who you thought you were disagreeing with. |
Mirddes (10) | ||
| 1392877 | 2015-05-01 00:48:00 | This may help www.askvg.com no difference. Makes me wonder whether Win10 thinks the PC graphics are not capable of Aero - which would be odd as I've just gone through a big upgrade. | Tony (4941) | ||
| 1392878 | 2015-05-01 00:51:00 | Interesting: I discovered my workgroup name had been changed back to the default. After I changed it I had to re-enable the automatic login (why?) When I saw the "normal" login screen it had my account picture, but the direct login (just says "Welcome") shows the silhouette. Also although I can't access my PC with Windows Home Server via file explorer, I can through media connect. |
Tony (4941) | ||
| 1392879 | 2015-05-01 01:34:00 | fixed that for you, i dunno who you thought you were disagreeing with. I was disagreeing with you. You originally stated: there should always be a free testing version of windows. paid support for everything else. free testing version should be the everything version, capable of doing anything. it would be the go to OS for nerds and pirates alike, right now its not (linux and pirated windows are) & thank you microsoft for activation period I advised that there IS free testing OS's as in bold in YOUR statement. Its not the normal 30 day activation period software, but fully operational testing software that you claim doesn't exist. ;) Its not pirated, not Linux, its Windows, ranging from windows operating systems, to full server and many other types of software all completely free to anyone for testing purposes. Just because you may not know about it, which going by the original comment you don't, doesn't mean it doesn't exist. |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1392880 | 2015-05-01 01:50:00 | I use the testing OS's / software often, especially when mucking about or trying something out, that way you don't have to worry about the popup or phone messages saying you have activated this to many times, or cant activate as its been activated in the past etc. :) | wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1392881 | 2015-05-01 02:07:00 | I just installed the latest build on another machine - much older and slower, and it went fine - the install was faster than I expected. The most unexpected thing is on that machine I can see and access the entire network, whereas on the main machine I can't see my WHS PC. I just did an experiment, and I can ping the WHS IP address and get a response, but I can't ping the name. As I write this, the main machine also can't see the PC with the newly installed Win10 build on it, but the old machine can see the new one. I don't even know where to start to look for differences on configuration that might explain that. This posted from the Edge browser. |
Tony (4941) | ||
| 1392882 | 2015-05-01 09:46:00 | I was disagreeing with you. You originally stated: & I advised that there IS free testing OS's as in bold in YOUR statement. Its not the normal 30 day activation period software, but fully operational testing software that you claim doesn't exist. ;) Its not pirated, not Linux, its Windows, ranging from windows operating systems, to full server and many other types of software all completely free to anyone for testing purposes. Just because you may not know about it, which going by the original comment you don't, doesn't mean it doesn't exist. 90 evaluation versions? www.microsoft.com they are stable releases. not testing versions in a traditional software development sense as you have with the techpreviews. are you talking about something else? |
Mirddes (10) | ||
| 1392883 | 2015-05-02 06:27:00 | 90 evaluation versions? . microsoft . com/en-us/evalcenter/evaluate-windows-8-1-enterprise" target="_blank">www . microsoft . com they are stable releases . not testing versions in a traditional software development sense as you have with the techpreviews . are you talking about something else? They are fully working Evaluation versions, which has functions that the normal OEM / Home edition doesn't have as well . To quote Microsoft: the Windows 8 . 1 Enterprise 90-day evaluation is a fully functional copy of Windows 8 . 1 Enterprise until it expires 90 days after the installation on the reference computer . While the original install lasts 90 days you can actually get 270 days usage out of it, (roughly 9 Months) . So basically if you are testing something, if you dont have it finished within 9 months, simply reload it and away you go again . Question would be asked whats taking 9 months to test :p So as per the question there should always be a free testing version of windows . paid support for everything else . free testing version should be the everything version, capable of doing anything . So there you go, Free testing /Evaluation software, all 100% legal, but with no support . If you wanted support, as per your statement then a person needs to pay for it . :) |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1392884 | 2015-05-02 06:45:00 | So as per the question So there you go, Free testing /Evaluation software, all 100% legal, but with no support. If you wanted support, as per your statement then a person needs to pay for it. :) All very interesting, but has become somewhat OT as far as WIN 10 preview is concerned n'est ce pas? |
Tony (4941) | ||
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