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Functions will be removed from Win 7 when upgrade to Win 10.

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Gain and Losses when Upgrade to Windows 10

Be cautious with the word “upgrade”, not every feature from Windows 7/8.1 will be carried over to Windows 10. You will loss some features by upgrading, but most of those are legacy features in return the new features from Windows 10 are there for you to further explore.

Functions will be removed from Windows 7 when upgrade to Windows 10 are:

Windows Media Center, it has announced for sometimes now that this feature will be removed and not available in Windows 10. If you rely on this day-to-day the best suggestions is to hold off the upgrade. It shouldn’t be a surprise to you as Microsoft is pushing live streams on the other product line, Xbox One, are receiving regularly updates on media features and functions.

DVD playback, will not be supported out of the back. That shouldn’t be a deal breaker as there are plenty of third-party software out there allows you to do so, most notably VLC player.

Desktop gadgets will no longer available. It’s understandable as a duplicated feature in Windows 10 for it’s new Notification center. You can consider this as a result of an upgrade, duplicated features will be removed and in turn new features will shine.

Preinstalled default Windows games, in Windows 7 and many previous versions there are default games pre-installed that are comes with Windows out of the box like Solitaire, Minesweeper and Hearts. Those games will be removed when you upgrade to Windows 10. But new versions of those games are available in Windows 10, so consider this as an upgrade to your existing default games.

The gains of Windows 10 are a list of new features that we are actually very excited about. Over the course of coming months we will be dive in into more details of those features and share any tips and tricks that come along the way.
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Desktop Gadgets... though they where dead anyway.

No DVD Playback... thats a little odd, not sure why unless ms does not want to pay the .05 cents per copy of win 10 for the DVD decdoer

The Games... not sure... most of the win7 systems do not have them pre-installed but as long as they offer them should be fine

WMC -- Writing was on the wall anyway, as they did nothing with it in Win8/8.1
 
The lack of DVD playback is very odd. That will catch out some grandpa's that upgrade their Windows 7 computer.
 
I already decided to keep W7 with WMC on my HTPC... this reinforces that decision, and to keep W7 on my desktop PC, too.
 
Gadgets and DVD playback did indeed die in Win8. Thought it was a bit weird how starting in Vista they included DVD playback, then turned around in 8 to remove it. OK then. Loss of gadgets does not bother me as I really only use it for my Garfield comic strip just for the fun of it 😛

I don't really use WMC but I could see how it could be a negative to some people.

I've never messed with Win10. Probably should. I'm happy with Win7 however and don't feel like changing the OS and breaking stuff. I've had this install since Win7 came out and it is like that old shirt - comfortable, worn perfectly, etc 😀
 
SparkyJJO said:
Gadgets and DVD playback did indeed die in Win8. Thought it was a bit weird how starting in Vista they included DVD playback, then turned around in 8 to remove it. OK then. Loss of gadgets does not bother me as I really only use it for my Garfield comic strip just for the fun of it 😛

I don't really use WMC but I could see how it could be a negative to some people.

I've never messed with Win10. Probably should. I'm happy with Win7 however and don't feel like changing the OS and breaking stuff. I've had this install since Win7 came out and it is like that old shirt - comfortable, worn perfectly, etc 😀
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I use WMC a lot for my Leadtek dtv dongle,however my Leadtek software works so not worried,DVD playback wise you just have too many options both paid and free versions out there,gadgets well from 8 that went the way of the dodo.

Games again plenty of free ones out there and some included in Win10 so nothing there is really anything major.


End of the day pretty common for Microsoft to remove/add and change things with each new OS so really nothing surprising.

Regardless looking forward to release build of Win10.
 
WMC - I need to get around to seeing how this will impact our usage of our Xbox 360 (extender)
DVD playback - Stopped caring about DVD's years ago. Can't stand watching low res movies nowadays.
Gadgets - Don't care.
Windows games - Don't care.
 
DVD playback was removed in Windows 8. Only the purchase/installation of WMC allowed DVD playback (other than 3rd party programs like VNC). Since it's been essentially gone for almost 3 years, I'm a little confused as to why people are insisting that it's Windows 10 that's getting rid of it.
 
Don't care about any of these features... my next build will not even have an optical drive... except for the 'gadgets' function.. I think microsoft should have completely integrated the desktop with metro and allowed one to put metro icons and apps on the desktop screen with regular icons.. but I'm not losing any sleep over it. Some third party widgets on the desktop would be a neat feature.
 
SparkyJJO said:
I still have one because I have the bay for it (so why remove it) plus I do occasionally watch a blu ray.
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i think the only reason i have a ps3 still is just to watch blu ray movies.

the only thing i miss on the list is the gadgets...but i got over it a long time ago. i used to just keep weather and a clock up anyway.
 
xSauronx said:
i think the only reason i have a ps3 still is just to watch blu ray movies.

the only thing i miss on the list is the gadgets...but i got over it a long time ago. i used to just keep weather and a clock up anyway.
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A blu ray drive for the computer is a heck of a lot cheaper 😛 Well, helped that it was just given to me for free lol. My PC is already hooked up to my TV.

Puffnstuff said:
I use 8gadgetpack to restore my gadgets in win 8.1 and when I upgrade I'll use it again.
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Yep, plenty of 3rd party gadget programs out there if you really want them. Not exactly a deal breaker to not have them built in IMO.
 
uallas5 said:
DVD playback was removed in Windows 8. Only the purchase/installation of WMC allowed DVD playback (other than 3rd party programs like VNC). Since it's been essentially gone for almost 3 years, I'm a little confused as to why people are insisting that it's Windows 10 that's getting rid of it.
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Seems like they are just misconstruing the information being presented. One must remember that both Windows 7 and Windows 8 users are affected by this upgrade. Noting the differences when upgrading from 7 to 10 and from 8 to 10 is necessary. This particular article specifically says that Windows 7 users will lose DVD playback when upgrading to Windows 10.
 
Dahak said:
To Quote the website


Desktop Gadgets... though they where dead anyway.

No DVD Playback... thats a little odd, not sure why unless ms does not want to pay the .05 cents per copy of win 10 for the DVD decdoer

The Games... not sure... most of the win7 systems do not have them pre-installed but as long as they offer them should be fine

WMC -- Writing was on the wall anyway, as they did nothing with it in Win8/8.1
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None of those things bother me in the slightest. Though I might miss Spider Solitaire if there isn't a new version!* (Can't one just copy the old executables across, incidentally?)

I'm more concerned about what approach MS is going to take to making money out of OSs from now on. I mean, if they aren't going to be doing big new releases every few years, presumably they have other methods in mind for generating revenue?

I didn't pay attention because I skipped win8 but weren't there a few troubling things in there, like adverts that were almost part of the OS itself?

Win10 sounds more enticing to me than 8 did, but I'm still a mite nervous about where things are going.

* I'm determined to get my 'win' percentage on difficult above 1%
 
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SparkyJJO said:
A blu ray drive for the computer is a heck of a lot cheaper 😛 Well, helped that it was just given to me for free lol. My PC is already hooked up to my TV.
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its not cheaper than the playstation i have already 🙂 if i thought it was worth the trouble id sell it and get a blu ray player. they arent that much.

but i so do not want to bother. and i do not want to bother using my pc as a tv.

anyway, id say 95% of the time we use the roku on the tv anyway.
 
There is a Win7 games for Win8 floating around out there (I have a copy of it) that installs all the Win7 card games and such. Wouldn't surprise me if those worked in Win10 as the installer includes all the DLL dependencies.
 
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