Posts by smf

>The OEM paid money to Microsoft for Windows and that cost is added to the cost of the machine.

> Even if crapware pays the OEM and subtracts cost from the machine that does not make

> Windows 'free' in any sense.

It's free in the sense of free beer.

Producing beer costs money, if you get it without paying for it (i.e. free) then somebody is subsidising it.

Free TV stations (if you have them in your country) are also subsidised by adverts.

I don't think you understand what free (in the sense it was used) means.

It sounds like you might need to try a different BIOS, or boot loader.

The only computers I couldn't get windows 10 on were p4m or earlier.

Re: Linux system upgrade may not be much better

So? It's a good excuse to make sure everything is backed up, you know how to reinstall it and ditch the software and files you don't need.

Re: Microsoft support will get buried tonight...

I did two computers on the 28th, both went through perfectly.

Neither of them were using the hard drives that the computers normally run with. After doing the trial run, I backed up the first hard drive to vhdx and am now wiping the disk to do a fresh install.

Which will make 7 machines upgraded, some of which haven't had oem driver or bios updates in years.

Google and perfectupdater (trial) is good enough to get anything working well.

Or you could pretend that Linux has a good out of the box experience and use that.