Windows 10 upgrade offer ends End of July - Have you,will you take it?

[DaLittle B]

I read a few lifehacker articles that said that Microsoft was auto-scheduling updates of windows 10,or had that annoying pop up reminding you you are eligible to upgrade. A buddy's father,that I helped him out with his computer over several months,emailed to tell me his windows 8 machine got auto-installed to windows 10.It's the 1st time I knew of someone it happened to.

Did you upgrade to windows 10?

How do you like it?

Are you planning to take advantage of the free upgrade? (if you've not already done it)

[DaLittle B]

After suffering through trying to get my render farm P.C. to work with Mint Linux,because I'm too cheap to fork out a bunch of money for the operating system on a P.C. I built out of my old parts for a render farm. I bought a sketchy copy of windows 7 off Ebay,used my install disk I bought the Day windows 7 came out,the used the sketchy serial number.

I upgraded the render farm to Windows 10,I'm not a fan of it,I find it to be real nuisance. I admit I only turn the render farm when I want extra horsepower to render stuff out faster.I don't use it as my daily desktop. I turn the P.C on once a week or so update the anitvirus,antispyware,run it,update the browser,and any other software.

I'm very on the fence about upgrading my main system.

[Spider-Dan]

Here is a very simple set of questions I ask myself when considering an OS upgrade:

1) Are you currently able to run all the programs you would like to run?
2) Would you like to change the answer to #1?

If the answer to #2 is "no," then do not perform an OS upgrade.

[Dave Gray]

I have upgrade to Win10 on my home system.  It's largely the same thing as 7, from my limited experience.  My wife has a touchscreen laptop and Win10 allows our daughter to use it without assistance because it is also app driven.

At work, I'm still on 7, but some of my staff have upgraded to 10.  It's a slow roll-out and we haven't had problems except that it forgets some settings on the transfer and I have to re-map drives or something like that.

All in all, as OS changes go, I find this to be relatively minor in terms of actual usability.  It's more likely to offer features that help developers but the end user doesn't really see too much.

[fyo]

Here is a very simple set of questions I ask myself when considering an OS upgrade:

1) Are you currently able to run all the programs you would like to run?
2) Would you like to change the answer to #1?

If the answer to #2 is "no," then do not perform an OS upgrade.

You are forgetting one:

3) Will the answer to #2 change in the foreseeable future forcing you to fork over money for an upgrade that is currently free?

[Spider-Dan]

Presuming that you meant "will the answer to #1 change in the foreseeable future," I'd have to say the odds of that are... remote.  Outside of cutting-edge PC gaming, the overwhelming majority of programs today will still run on 15-year-old Windows XP.  It is much more likely that Windows 7 will outlast the computer you are currently running it on.

[pondwater]

If I'm not mistaken you can upgrade to 10 while it is still free and downgrade back to 7. That leaves you an option of moving to 10 if needed and not having to shell out any money. I guess you could also dual boot 10 and 7, which might also be a good option. I think once your system id is registered with MS servers you can reinstall 10 on that machine at anytime in the future.

[Spider-Dan]

After a Win10 upgrade, you have 30 days to revert back to Win7.

[Dave Gray]

I mean...couldn't you reinstall with Win 7 if you really had to?

[fyo]

I mean...couldn't you reinstall with Win 7 if you really had to?

The word is that previous keys will NOT be invalidated, meaning your Win7 should work just fine, although there are some claims to the contrary (I've yet to find any *confirmed* cases and all claims seem to refer to the 30-day roll-back period, but that's just a timer that deletes a folder on you local system).

Depending on the type of key (Retail, Upgrade, OEM slp, OEM non-slp) it isn't even technically possible for MS to do so without affecting other systems.

[masterfins]

I have not upgraded to Win 10 yet, but was considering it.  I thought someone on this site previously said it took up less space and improved performance a little bit.  I had been waiting to hear if there were any horror stories about upgrading, but I haven't heard of any.  I run older versions of some programs so I am always fearful of losing access to them.  I have an old computer at work that I keep around just to run two programs (they run on XP).  I think I'm going to upgrade one of my personal laptops to see how it goes.  My other laptop is much older and runs vista, so that can't be upgraded to 10; I was looking to upgrade that one but it doesn't seem there is anything out there for free for that one.

[Dave Gray]

I have not upgraded to Win 10 yet, but was considering it.  I thought someone on this site previously said it took up less space and improved performance a little bit. 

This may have been me.  The benchmarks I saw were to this effect.

[Cathal]

Win10 is great. I'm by no means a power user, but I feel like it has better performance. I have no complaints whatsoever. I didn't really have any problems with Win7 either, but a free upgrade to the newest OS was difficult to pass up.

[Tenshot13]

I like 10.  It's a new skin of classic windows or Windows 8 or both.

[DaLittle B]

Long story short- For me upgrading my computer to where It really needs to be $$$$$ >>>>>>>>>>>>>>versus my talent in 3d modeling.

This plays big into my willingness to upgrade,For me the going from XP to Windows 7 had more to do with more memory,and going to 64 bit.

Windows10 - I'm ok with the start menu,tiles,etc...It reminds me of a free google play store app,and wanting access to the storage card,media files,browsing history,call history,contact list,etc,etc....Everything has it's own permissions,and because of all these I've turned them off,and don't use any of the bells and whistles.

Added to the fact it automatically updates windows updates,and constantly reinstall all the crapware I uninstall. I get it I'm the oddball when I run windows update I click the more info,and want to know all the crap they are adding to my system.

 Yes, my tinfoil hat is on,with this,most companies don't give you something for nothing,unless they are getting something.

I use the spybot search and destroy plug in to stop all the tracking crap on the windows 10 machine.