Are you going to get windows 10 or keep your current os or

paulsalter · 22 Jan 2015

Definitely get 10

Going to keep running it as a VM until release and just testing/looking at the new features, as soon as it available to buy (is that the right word if its free?) I will be upgrading my 8.1

jimbo45 · 22 Jan 2015

Hi there

Actually an interesting and AFAIK not illegal way will be to get an update for a W7 VM and then clone the updated VM. I wonder though if one then did a V2P (Virtual to Physical) conversion to a REAL machine would it activate successfully !!!!

I'll have to try this at the appropriate time.

I'll certainly update my 8.1 machine(s) -- can't see any reason to keep 8.1 if W10 works OK as it seems to be doing now.

Cheers
jimbo

Kari · 22 Jan 2015

whs said:

I think you are just polluting your system. Codec packs are terrible.

lehnerus2000 said:

How do you play anything on Windows without them?

I have not installed a single third party codec pack in years on any of my Windows 7, 8, 8.1 and 10 computers. I have never had an audio or video file which could not be played with VLC Player out of the box without any additional codecs.

ThrashZone · 22 Jan 2015

Vladimir said:

Among other softwares I'm using:

CorelDRAW X7 x64

x7 has also been reported as a security flaw make sure you get the patch if and when it's released,
Corel software vulnerabilities let attackers execute malicious code on - Windows 7 Help Forums

On another note if I did need a special codec.. I would also use vlc media player,
Fortunately wmp plays all my files and I don't even need vlc :)

lehnerus2000 · 22 Jan 2015

Kari said:

lehnerus2000 said:

How do you play anything on Windows without them?

I have not installed a single third party codec pack in years on any of my Windows 7, 8, 8.1 and 10 computers. I have never had an audio or video file which could not be played with VLC Player out of the box without any additional codecs.

I can't recall if I ever had playback problems after I started using W7.

OTOH, VLC updates regularly break other functions/tools in the program itself.
VLC v2.0.8 was the last version that worked 100% for the purposes I use it for.

ThrashZone said:

On another note if I did need a special codec.. I would also use vlc media player,
Fortunately wmp plays all my files and I don't even need vlc :)

I assume that you don't have any media using MKV or FLAC.

Chuck38 · 22 Jan 2015

Windows 10, all the way!

Mooly · 22 Jan 2015

imo there needs to be a poll option for "undecided".

ThrashZone · 22 Jan 2015

Hi,
None that I know of,
I do have 1 breaking bad series via iTunes that won't play but I've seen it a hundred times so there's no priority on it,
Not sure if vlc would play it or not ?
Cheers.

lehnerus2000 · 22 Jan 2015

I just stumbled upon this article:

Vulnerabilities have been discovered in some versions of the popular VLC media player which may allow a cyberattacker to corrupt memory and potentially execute arbitrary code.

ZDNet - Charlie Osborne
VLC vulnerabilities exposed | ZDNet

Additional
The comments on that article seem to indicate that it isn't a VLC issue, but related to some dll (libavcodec_plugin).

Edwin · 22 Jan 2015

Chuck38 said:

Windows 10, all the way!

Roger that! It IS the whole reason we're here!

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