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Features That Windows 10 Will Deprecate

Posted by samzenpus on from the so-long dept.

jones_supa writes: Microsoft announced that a Windows 10 upgrade will be free for users running Windows 7 and 8.1, but there will be a number of features that will no longer work after that upgrade. The features that will no longer work are listed on the official specifications page on Microsoft's website. Some of the deprecated features include: Media Center, out-of-the-box DVD playback and USB floppy support, desktop gadgets, deferring updates (Home edition), old versions of Windows games, and Windows Live Essentials version of OneDrive.

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  1. No media center? Windows 10 is DEAD to me... by bobbied · · Score: 5, Funny

    Nope, not going to migrate up to 10 from 7 anytime soon if it means media center goes away...

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  2. Really, USB floppy? by bill_mcgonigle · · Score: 4, Funny

    It's rare that I need to read an old floppy, but if I do it's surely going to be on a USB device - I haven't had a 'real' floppy drive in a decade.

    I guess that driver was a such a bear to maintain. Oh, right, nevermind - I've got a linux box where the driver support is better. Oh, hai, 2015.

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    1. Re:Really, USB floppy? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

      FTFA: You can still get the driver from Windows Update. It's just not shipping with the driver on the system image.

      I'm really grateful for Microsoft saving 75KiB of disk space by removing such basic functionality.

  3. Solitaire by tverbeek · · Score: 5, Funny

    I know a whole bunch of people who are going to be upset about Solitaire going away. I work for a retirement community, and the second-most-used application on the computers in the activity center (after "The Internet") is Solitaire. We're going to have to install a substitute on these machines (or their replacements) when we switch to WinX, or we'll never hear the end of the complaints.

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  4. In Soviet Windows by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    CCCP Media plays you!

  5. Re:You Mean...? by Puls4r · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yep. That's how I rate my apps too. I have a gay scale of 1 to 10, scientifically calibrated from 0 (Chuck Norris), to 10 (Richard Simmons). Your post is coming in at a 9. Do you work out to "Sweatin to the Oldies"?

  6. Re:Loud then quit by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    You're right. They're not sleeping in the next room. They're wide awake and screaming in the theater.

  7. Re:Loud then quit by BillTheKatt · · Score: 2, Funny

    Turn it up! Tuuuurn it uppppp! - Grandpa Simpson

  8. Re:You Mean...? by wonkey_monkey · · Score: 5, Funny

    I could not get the windows 8 to play the DVD. I found no program that could do it. Media player certainly couldn't.

    I downloaded VLC.

    And then what happened? I need closure on this anecdote!

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  9. Re:You Mean...? by TechyImmigrant · · Score: 4, Funny

    I could not get the windows 8 to play the DVD. I found no program that could do it. Media player certainly couldn't.

    I downloaded VLC.

    And then what happened? I need closure on this anecdote!

    I posted on Slashdot

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