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> Upgrading from Vista is hard because Microsoft doesn't support Vista going to 10. You'd have to get a Windows 7 upgrade DVD and then update it to the point it gives you an option to upgrade to Windows 10.

This is scary at so many levels. I'd have no problem doing this with home machines but doing that to stable Vista machines used to develop product every day is just unthinkable.

Also, remember that part of the goal is to also migrate to new hardware. New drives, memory, motherboard, etc.

I want the OS to provide services to my apps. The model should be that of providing services to clients. The services stay the same as the OS deals with version and hardware transitions.

There's no justifiable reason to have to reinstall the vast majority of apps today. Simple examples are apps such as Notepad++ or Java based stuff like JetBrains. You should be able to move all of that over instantly with licensing managed in some sensible way.

My vision of that future is that I carry my apps and data in a small 1 TB solid state memory drive with a suitable high speed interface and any machine fast enough and with the right hardware should provide OS services to run my apps. Maybe the vision is "OS as an appliance". I should be able to come to your office and run my apps on any of your qualifying machines inside of a second. When it comes to my own machines, the apps could reside on internal storage yet be easily movable to new hardware as needed.

The OS holding me hostage to my hardware simply makes no sense at this stage. These are solvable problems.



Yeah this was always a problem with Windows. I remember converting Windows 95 machines to machines that ran Windows 2000 Pro in one of my past jobs.

I programmed in Visual BASIC and used API calls and many of them changed.

I wrote ASP based web apps and the newer IE version broke compatibility with some of our OCX controls we licensed.

Microsoft Dotnet changed things, Visual BASIC changed with some mods from Java/C++ like on error goto was replaced with try and catch etc.

Windows 10 is supposed to be the last version of Windows, but never say never they might make a 10.1 or something.

You can add that in as a suggestion to Microsoft: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/preview-updates-f...




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