Windows 10 is coming

I have 4 domains hosted with Fastmail - when I mean hosted, they are DNS'd at Fastmail - they handle everything, and I can set up all kinds of DNS records or redirects as required. You can even host your own basic website or create a photo gallery using the free file storage facility (more about that in a minute...) My domains have no website associated so I just point them somewhere else while leaving the mail records with Fastmail.

Fastmail also have pretty decent file storage as well - you get 5gb for the enhanced account, but I use Dropbox for file storage (Fastmail directly links into Dropbox for saving or sending attachments via the Dropbox API),as Fastmail have yet to create apps for accessing or uploading files - besides the usual FTP, WebDav which is fine if you have a PC, but problematic if its a mobile device.

I don't use any online office suite as such, never seen the need. Currently using Libre Office 5 as my MS Office 2010 got trashed, apparently too many resintalls according to MS. I love doing reformats every six months.

In a strange way, its kind of liberating for all my email, contacts and calendar data to be with Fastmail, as it means I'm no longer tied to Google, Microsoft or Apple's ecosystem, and as long as CardDAV, IMAP and CalDAV is available, its no problem syncing everything. I have an iPhone and 2 android devices all syncing nicely.

You can set Fastmail to host the DNS for your domain, and set mail records to point to Google, as well as the re-directs for Googk Docs, Calendar, etc. Thats the beauty of Fastmail, it does a lot more than just email.

Fastmail have a 60 day trial account if you want to test drive everything first.

I like it a lot, on the machines that I have upgraded so far I have ditched Chrome and once I upgrade all of them I will ditch Chrome for good.

I liked Chrome in the early days but it has turned into a battery killer

Edge is nice and quick on my W10 Lenovo TP, howver, I'm starting to see some horrible little gremlins, like some submit information buttons on websites doing nothing. Also getting fillable forms on some websites (i.e. username and password fields) showing a great big flashing black cursor. It may be graphics related, but FF doesn't do this. Lack of add-ons for Edge also put me off at times, maybe I'm been spoilt with FF and the plethora of add-ons.

Agreed about Chrome, too much memory hogging going on.

I really should do a proper re-install soon, upgrades are fraught with problems.

It is not perfect yet but I think it is still officially beta software, which is why they include IE 11 for backwards compatibility.

As for add-on's I prefer to not have any but I think it has been stated that the Edge add-on model will eventually follow Chrome and be compatible with Chrome.

The problem with Chrome is that each tab is a full process and many of them continue executing in the background, Edge also has multiple processes but they seem to stay pretty quiet in the background.

Ok, did a full reinstall, painless enough, however, during the process, I was asked twice for the windows serial key, but you can skip this. After installation was complete, it asked again for the serial number, luckily I had kept a record of this when it was extracted using Magical Jellybean software, otherwise I would have been in trouble - but then again if I had waited, it probably would have auto-activated?

You should have a valid product key for windows either on the bottom of the laptop or under the battery in the battery compartment, if it was Windows 7 I think you can use that?

My TP was a refurb so it had a different product key different from the windows 7 label, which is probably why it got confused at the validation stage. Prior to reformat I extracted the W10 key as I said, and all is well.

I've heard that W10 upgrade version seems to generate two completely different serial numbers, so just for confirmation, I used both Jellybean and BelarcAdvisor to make sure the correct details matches up.

Yes Jim, as long as it is not Enterprise edition, all other editions including Ultimate are upgradable.

Just make sure you have some available disk space.

It is still resource intensive mate, they auto updated me a wee while back, I don't find it that much better, but then again I tend to have about 40 tabs open at any one time.

And memory is not really an issue for me as I have 16GB of RAM on two of my laptops.

It seems Wifi issues are happening a lot with W10, not just me, but from other people. Nearly always the culprit is the wireless card power settings. I've been told some people go back to W7 as they've had multiple problems with 10.