In my neighborhood (55+ community of 450 houses) there are 5 of us that
have formed a little team called the computer helpers that assist our
residents with computer related problems. Our advice to our residents
was to delay updating until we have tested it ourselves and give them
the go-ahead. Two of the team volunteered to be the guinea pigs. One
was immediately beset with personal problems that have prevented him
from doing anything. The other found that Win 10 would not install on
his Win 7 machine. He suspects it's a video device driver problem but
hasn't had the time (or inclination) to shake it out. He was also
recently gifted a brand new laptop that had Win 10 factory installed and
that's working fine.
Win 10 had some interesting new security functions but they require new
hardware. Apart from that I haven't seen any reason I would risk
compatibility with what I already have for very little new function or
improved performance. Without the new shiny it ain't broke so don't fix it.
November was supposed to see a major set of fixes to Win 10 but it's
rumored the release has been delayed for unknown reasons. As a former
system test manager I can speculate on all sorts of things but am happy
that someone stopped the train if it wasn't ready to stay on the tracks.
Y'all can do what you want but I've still got 9 or 10 months to make the
decision. I'm happy to wait as long as I can to get the most stable
version I can... If I don't become an Apple fan boy before that comes
about. Could be... I'm not happy with Microsoft at the moment.
Chuck Norcutt
On 11/24/2015 4:13 PM, Jez Cunningham wrote:
So, I got my repaired laptop back (took just over a week) with a new
keyboard and even a new battery, all under the 3-yr guarantee.
Of course the HDD is all back to a basic (= almost empty!) OS installation
(Win8) but an updated version of the bios was installed.
So I've spent a few days reinstating all my stuff but of course I'm getting
the Win10 reminders again - this time I'm wondering if I might go for it?
Most of the new replacement) laptops I started to look at were coming with
Win10.
It seems the best way is to install in a new partition so that you can go
back if you need/want to.
But my interest is whether anyone else here has bitten the bullet and gone
over to Win10? (Mac fanboys needn't reply :-)
How are you finding it?
thanks
jez
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