Microsoft has backtracked on previous announcements today, telling pirates that they will not be getting a free upgrade to Windows 10.
Earlier this year, Windows boss Terry Myerson said everyone with Windows 7 and 8.1 would get a free upgrade to Windows 10, including those without genuine copies. The statement made a lot of waves, but it seems it was for naught.
Myerson explained:
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Originally posted by ddp: Jemborg, you have to 3rd it as Mr-Movies already 2nd it.
Actually Dexter, and others, for Win7, DAZ won't work in UEFI in
I know that already, that's what i'm saying if they force people to Use UEFI as the mandatory to upgrade, DAZ Loaders is SOL
They might try and force people to use UEFI but that would alienate a ton of machines and how is granny going to understand that she needs to buy a new machine to participate in a free upgrade that is offered to her? I know that is kinda far fetched but you understand. It would be the same as the old crap with Vista where you had to use a system compatibility checker to see if you could even install it due to OS bloat. A lot of people stayed on XP due to this and the other 10 million blue screens/ errors/ crashes that were going on at the time. I guess the UEFI would only stop the current DAZ Loader from working or make it breakable later on. edited by ddp due to possible piracy.
UEFI has been standard since 08, besides if grams can install an operating system, I'm pretty sure she can flip a simple setting in bios.
I for one do not use UEFI, I've already seen what hackers did to a server using Intel's EFI.
Low Level I/O's like the bios should always be loaded outside an operating systems control, its just to risky.
