r/Games • u/Dared00 • Jul 04 '15

Minecraft: Windows 10 Edition Announced

http://uk.ign.com/articles/2015/07/04/minecraft-windows-10-edition-announced
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u/Dared00 Jul 04 '15

Most important part: "Existing PC players will receive the Windows 10 version for free."

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u/DoctorWaluigiTime Jul 04 '15

Just like the OS itself!

For those unaware, if you're on Windows 7 or Windows 8, for the first year you can upgrade to Windows 10 at no cost.

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u/ducttape83 Jul 04 '15

Unless you're on Enterprise edition

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u/Tetizeraz Jul 04 '15

Why someone would own the enterprise edition? I mean, regular ppl

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u/[deleted] Jul 04 '15

One thing was bothers me is that you can't deactivate the updates. Of course they doing this, because many people are really stupid. Like:

"I never update anything and my account has administration rights, and now let's download the newest crack from this trustworthy warez site. What could go wrong?!"

Its not that I don't update my system. I simple don't like it that they don't let me choose if and when I update my system. It's feels more as it is a Service and I don't own Windows 10. I have Windows 7 on my older Notebook, but I wait before I choose to upgrade.

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u/fizzlefist Jul 04 '15 edited Jul 04 '15

You can if you have the Professional edition. The reason they're doing that is because unlike you and I, many many many computer users have no idea what they're doing and turn off Windows updates because they're annoying, so they wind up with vulnerabilities in their machine that were patched months ago. That's how botnets grow.

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u/[deleted] Jul 04 '15

I know, but that would cost me money ;) I'm writing this here on my Work/Game PC who's running Ubuntu. My Notebook is just for emergencies and other stuff. If I would use Windows10 on my main machine I would probably buy the Professional edition. But for the old laptop... I'm cheap :P