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Windows 10

Several hundred million people say yes.
The people on this thread no.
Make of that as you wish.
 
zooterkin said:
You're obviously reading a different thread from everyone else.
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The same thread where people are unable to multitask right index finger and brain?
I'm pretty sure that Microsoft didn't secretly engineer that one.

Or is it the "it looks different, what do I do?"

Perhaps it's the "the Start Menu is slightly different, HELP" ?

I've read every single post in this thread. As I did in the Windows8 thread.
It's just same old same old.

Simple answer. Don't like it?, don't use it.
 
Gawdzilla Sama said:
Haven't tried it, and am soliciting input from a peer group*. If you have no desire to give input, ****.



*used loosely, I'm more Luddite than Tesla.
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Re-read the entire thread. ;)
I've made it clear from the onset that W10 is pretty damned good.
The best Windows to date.
Unfortunately the "Bill is stealing my credit card crew" are using their personal paranoias to sully this thread.

W10 is, without a doubt, quite brilliant.
I've been using it on seven devices since May of this year.
The fact that people can't slightly adapt really isn't the fault of me or MS.

I have done multiple virgin installs from it, (there's a joke there somewhere), and have not one problem whatsoever.

To answer your question more succinctly:
If you are are paranoid, no.
The update process is quick and simp,e.
I'd always recommend a format then full install but if you are worried and need the option to roll back to your previous unsupported OS, go for it.
 
Not sure this is Windows 10-specific, but it's starting to do my head in.

Essentially, whenever I've downloaded a zip and I go to unzip it, the 'last changed'-date of each file within will be changed to the time when I unzipped it. This makes the 'last changed'-date bit completely useless for comparing if I've got a more recent file or not.

It's supposed to be fixed by selecting the zip file, hitting properties and ticking 'Unblock this file', before unzipping it. However, that does absolutely nothing either.
 
Gawdzilla Sama said:
Bottom line, please. Is the consensus that migration is "worth it"?
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I say go for it. You're going to have to fight Microsoft every step of the way if you want to hang onto your old OS and life is just too short.

However, I'd advise either buying a new machine with Windows 10 pre-installed or wiping your old machine and doing a clean install. Most of the problems I've heard about were caused by the upgrade not playing nice with pre-existing software. Best to just start over, transfer all your data and browser favorites, and install new, up-to-date copies of any software you use.

And pay attention to the settings so that you don't give Microsoft more data than you're comfortable with. But that's standard operating procedure with just about everything these days.
 
I've updated... probably 30 machines now from 7 or 8.1 to 10. Maybe 3 or 4 have had issues post-upgrade. One of the issues was caused by the customer going in and deleting anything that didn't look familiar, so I discount that. The Cortana/Start Menu bug seems to be fixed by rebooting a few times then manually running Windows Updates.

The only genuinely serious issue I've run into thus far is on a couple of machines, after running 10 for a few days, all of a sudden no Modern apps work, and any built-in windows functions that depend on the Modern XML-based display system just fail to start. Biggest symptom of this is when trying to open the Settings app or any subset of it, it produces an error message that no application is associated with the chosen action. The only reliable solution I've come across thus far is a clean reinstall. I've had to resort to that twice now.

I did have one customer who wanted a restore to Win7 just because he was more comfortable with it, so there's always that option.

All in all, I'd say its a pretty decent upgrade. I've had it running on various personal and work machines now for a couple months and nothing has gone wrong that I'd call significant. I do ignore the start menu now completely, it's just so much easier to click into the Cortana search box and type the name of whatever I want to open.

Performance is pretty good, too, the network stacks seem outstanding. LAN file transfers are pushing right up to the speeds of the drives, well over 100MB/s. Networked devices like printers and NAS servers are dead simple, too, pretty much autoconfiguring without user intervention.

I did stumble across an interesting feature when combining W10 with the new MS RDP client for iOS. It pretty much enables the full Windows touch interface experience, multitouch gestures and MS onscreen keyboards included. Thumbs up on that.

I can't really say I have any serious misgivings about upgrading from either 7 or 8.1. I say go for it.
 
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