Did anyone get a Windows 10 invite?

[JoeZhang]

go to your apps - and you will see the "get office" app, right-click, uninstall. What I don't get about that is why the installer isn't clever enough to detect if you are already an office365 customer and have it installed.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

go to your apps - and you will see the "get office" app, right-click, uninstall. What I don't get about that is why the installer isn't clever enough to detect if you are already an office365 customer and have it installed.

I turned off the notifications. Uninstalling it didn't work as it reinstalled itself.

 

[Kor]

I have a Windows 8 laptop that I purchased from Best Buy last year at a discount because it was a display unit, and the Windows 10 invite still has *not* appeared.

Kor

 

[Marc]

I have a Windows 8 laptop that I purchased from Best Buy last year at a discount because it was a display unit, and the Windows 10 invite still has *not* appeared.

Kor

Forget the invite - you can download directly from Microsoft.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-ca/software-download/windows10

Personal experience has been the media creation has blown chunks - choose to save the media to a ISO image then create your own bootable USB key or burn to a DVD.

You might even be able to mount the image (double click on it and you'll see it show up as new drive) and run the setup that way.

 

[137th Gebirg]

I have a Windows 8 laptop that I purchased from Best Buy last year at a discount because it was a display unit, and the Windows 10 invite still has *not* appeared.

Kor

I would actually consider that a blessing. I had to bend over backwards to eradicate it from my Windows 7 icon tray. What a spammy pain in the ass that thing was!

 

[Kor]

^ Well... being unable to go back to Windows 7, I would prefer a convenient upgrade to 10 instead of staying on 8. Windows 8 gets on my nerves.

And Marc, thanks for that info!

Kor

 

[Random_Spock]

I have a Windows 8 laptop that I purchased from Best Buy last year at a discount because it was a display unit, and the Windows 10 invite still has *not* appeared.

Kor

Forget the invite - you can download directly from Microsoft.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-ca/software-download/windows10

Personal experience has been the media creation has blown chunks - choose to save the media to a ISO image then create your own bootable USB key or burn to a DVD.

You might even be able to mount the image (double click on it and you'll see it show up as new drive) and run the setup that way.

Damn that's crazy. So in layman's terms you have to jump through hoops just to burn a cd now?

 

[Bob The Skutter]

^ Well... being unable to go back to Windows 7, I would prefer a convenient upgrade to 10 instead of staying on 8. Windows 8 gets on my nerves.

And Marc, thanks for that info!

Kor

You could always boot to desktop and install a third party desktop and it's Windows 7 but better.

 

[Amaris]

I have a Windows 8 laptop that I purchased from Best Buy last year at a discount because it was a display unit, and the Windows 10 invite still has *not* appeared.

Kor

Forget the invite - you can download directly from Microsoft.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-ca/software-download/windows10

Personal experience has been the media creation has blown chunks - choose to save the media to a ISO image then create your own bootable USB key or burn to a DVD.

You might even be able to mount the image (double click on it and you'll see it show up as new drive) and run the setup that way.

Damn that's crazy. So in layman's terms you have to jump through hoops just to burn a cd now?

No, burning a CD is easy; It's just like Windows 7 or 8. What he means is that it's better to create a CD/DVD than it is to use the download option on the media creation tool because it's deeply flawed.

 

[{ Emilia }]

What's flawed about it?

I didn't burn it, I just downloaded and installed it. And I did that on 4 computers without any issues.

 

[Random_Spock]

Forget the invite - you can download directly from Microsoft.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-ca/software-download/windows10

Personal experience has been the media creation has blown chunks - choose to save the media to a ISO image then create your own bootable USB key or burn to a DVD.

You might even be able to mount the image (double click on it and you'll see it show up as new drive) and run the setup that way.

Damn that's crazy. So in layman's terms you have to jump through hoops just to burn a cd now?

No, burning a CD is easy; It's just like Windows 7 or 8. What he means is that it's better to create a CD/DVD than it is to use the download option on the media creation tool because it's deeply flawed.

Oh I see. Thanks for clearing that up.

 

[Haggis and tatties]

What's flawed about it?

I didn't burn it, I just downloaded and installed it. And I did that on 4 computers without any issues.

Burning it to DVD or sticking it onto a USB stick just means you can do a clean install without having to install the previous OS first to upgrade it from, which in my own personal view is always better to get max performance from your hardware and OS.

But that is just my pesonal preference when installing any OS.

 

[Amaris]

What's flawed about it?

I didn't burn it, I just downloaded and installed it. And I did that on 4 computers without any issues.

If you want to do a clean install, you have to burn to media, you can't do it with the direct upgrade.

There were also a number of reports where the software would get halfway installed, crash, and then roll back, causing the user to have to retry the install.

It was a common problem here.

Damn that's crazy. So in layman's terms you have to jump through hoops just to burn a cd now?

No, burning a CD is easy; It's just like Windows 7 or 8. What he means is that it's better to create a CD/DVD than it is to use the download option on the media creation tool because it's deeply flawed.

Oh I see. Thanks for clearing that up.

You're welcome!

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

Uninstalled the "Get Office" app and it's back. It's like a bloody virus haha

 

[{ Emilia }]

So... everybody got Office 2016 now?

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

So... everybody got Office 2016 now?

NO...Why would I pay MS for their shitty program when I can download a free program that is actually better? Mostly

 

[DonIago]

I got Office 2013 (or 2010, can't remember) for free through work, and I doubt Office 2016 has anything to offer that would make it worth spending money for me.

 

[137th Gebirg]

So... everybody got Office 2016 now?

NO...Why would I pay MS for their shitty program when I can download a free program that is actually better? Mostly

Is that OpenOffice or something else? I'm curious...

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

So... everybody got Office 2016 now?

NO...Why would I pay MS for their shitty program when I can download a free program that is actually better? Mostly

Is that OpenOffice or something else? I'm curious...

It is actually but now it's called LibreOffice and it does everything I need.

 

[137th Gebirg]

Very cool. I'll have to check that out - thanks very much!