Win 10 last chance to upgrade

[AtW]

Just over 24 hours left for free upgrade (on Win 7), anybody is taking it?

[vetran]

have 10 and its pretty good.

[tomtomagain]

Upgraded the whole family fleet of windows machines over the last few months. Not had any problems and I think it's not too bad at all.

Damn site (sight?) better than 8.

[minestrone]

To me the Microsoft eco system is by far the strongest of the lot now.

The idea to make an operating system adapt to the way it is being used at that point in time sunk win 8 but going through the challenge and completely fecking it up first time eventually made a much stronger product than their rivals.

[barrydidit]

Upgraded about a month ago from 7. The abortion of a start menu boils my piss, but less so now i've managed to divest it of all the chav apps (facebook, tw@er, weather and 'news') and stick word and excel in there. Takes time to find my normal things still though. Other than that, pretty seemless and don't notice any difference day to day.

[minestrone]

I was using a unserviced packed win 8 today.

Couldn't remember to power it down.

[Forgotmylogin]

Takes time to find my normal things still though.

How? Hit the Windows key, type the program / document name. If frequently used pin to Start menu and / or taskbar.

I guess if you stick to the Windows 95 style of browsing through the Start menu to find what you want it can take a while.

[VectraMan]

I've had it on my laptop a couple of months; It's okay. No real complaints. Yesterday I fired up the desktop and was looking at the countdown clock and try as hard as I could I just couldn't resist pressing the button...




Then yesterday my Dad phoned (from France) to say his computer was "broken" with the dreaded "Critical Error. We'll try to fix it next time you sign in" that seems to be plaguing some Windows 10 users. I hope he's managed to fix it otherwise it looks like I'll be doing some long distance Windows 10 support.

BTW there's meant to be an "anniversary" update next week with changes to the start menu.

[Hobosapien]

Yeah everyone's upgrading for the freebie just in time for the anniversary upgrade where they'll introduce even more spyware and adverts. No opt-outs available on updates unless you're on Enterprise* version.

I wonder if they'll extend the free period or reduce the anticipated retail prices if they don't get as many through the W10 freebie door as they want.

* That reminds me, need to check what the Action Pack restrictions are these days. £300 annual fee and no more competency tests for the basic W10 Enterprise (10 licences), Visual Studio Pro, and SQL Server Enterprise last time I checked, if I understand the blurb correctly. Will have to see how the VS and SQL versions stack up to the free versions they offer.

[Old Greg]

Upgraded about a month ago from 7. The abortion of a start menu boils my piss, but less so now i've managed to divest it of all the chav apps (facebook, tw@er, weather and 'news') and stick word and excel in there. Takes time to find my normal things still though. Other than that, pretty seemless and don't notice any difference day to day.

Your friend is Classic Shell - Start menu and other Windows enhancements . I just moved from 8.1 to 10 and reinstalled Windows 7 Classic Shell and I'm perfectly happy.