What Microsoft Operating System do you like best today? Plan to upgrade to Win 10?

Obviously, if you have Windows 7, Windows 8, or Windows 8.1 you can get a free upgrade to Windows 10 anytime you like in the next 50 weeks or so.

But, if you like, you don't have to upgrade at all. You'll have Windows support for Windows 7 until year 2020, by which time your computer will be obsolete anyway.

Based on what you know about all these Windows operating systems right now, in mid-August 2015, which do you like best, and, do you plan to upgrade? If so, when?

 

I've got Win 10 running on a test-bed system that had Win 7 on it.

Windows 10 is OK, and for those who were absolutely despondent over Windows 8 and the loss of the "Start" button, there's joy to be found in Win10. A nice, big, fat "Start" button with access to nearly everything already built into it but the Treaty of Versailles.... And, it's where they dumped the "charms" from Windows 8, which everybody hated (you don't have to use them).

I've read some very engaging comparisons between Windows 8.1 (my personal favorite) and Windows 10. They're equally fast and equally navigable. Windows 10 has a thing called the "DX12 Application Program Interface (API)", and it will be a hooptie big deal for gamers, eventually. So far, DX12 is the only reason that I have for upgrading to Windows 10, but nothing I'm involved with uses DX12 today. Bottom line -- I'll wait until at least the end of this year to upgrade my big gaming rig to Windows 10.

Plus, I have read some negative information about Windows 10 and the way it gathers, and then blathers some of your personal computer information all over the place. While using Windows 10, be VERY careful what you share about YOUR personal network information.

 

Let me link this for more information before voting in the poll.
http://www.politicalforum.com/computers-tech/419864-windows-10-a.html
I am also trying to decide whether to upgrade or not.

 

I don't plan on upgrading any time soon.
There's probably all kinds of backdoors and forced advertising on Windows10.
Can anyone refute that?

 

Well, I'm running Windows 8.1 right now, and I love it, but I started the upgrade process to Windows 10.

The only reason I'm doing it is that I heard somewhere that Windows 10 saves your previous OS for a few days (Maybe 30? I'm not sure). But then it deletes it later to save disk space.

So, during the trial period, if I don't like it I'm going to look up the instructions to switch back.

 

If that is true, I am googling it now. Windows 10 is okay but I feel like it went ahead and did all the things I said for it not to do when I was doing my custom install.

 

I just did it. It was easy peasey. Back to 8.1. Of course, the first thing it did was ask me if I want to install Windows 10 LOL

 

I have 4 computers running Windows 7 and one LINUX Debian. The day Windows 7 is outdated (or not supported anymore) i will switch to LINUX completely.

 

I still don't understand the advantages, so let me ask this. What are the disadvantages of NOT upgrading?

 

There isn't a disadvantage to staying put. Programs will still run and you will probably get support from software and hardware developers for years.

I think at this point Windows 10 is just a new toy to play with. It's for people who want to jump in and play with a new operating system.

Maybe 5-10 years from now it'll be a serious decision. Whenever Microsoft decides to end the support life of Windows 7 and 8.1.

I looked it up and it's standard support until 2015 for Windows 7
and 2018 for Windows 8.1. From: Windows lifecycle fact sheet

But I have heard people say we don't have to worry until the End of extended support, that's 2020 for Windows 7 and 2023 for Windows 8.1.

The only other thing is whether you get the "free" upgrade this year.

 

Okay, so I poked around Windows 10 for a few days and then decided to go back to Windows 8.1.

Videos didn't play for me, and I found a few bugs. I left feedback for several apps, and then that was it for me as far as what I'd use it for.

Plus I just really like Windows 8.1. I was one of the people who liked it.

I think this free upgrade period for Windows 10 is just to have a test audience to iron out the bugs.

 

Videos, that is weird, I even burned a cd yesterday of several edited videos, from several formats, even used Winff to convert some. Even though I have set the old Windows media player as default the Movies & TV app is dying to play them.

The only bugs I have seen are mostly involving the Metro apps, or what they did to get them to work. One pretty much abandoned at 8 app, with a whiteboard, rendered useless with regard to the new resizing which is far more robust than 8.1; under 8 it was fine, on 8.1 almost useless, on 10 totally useless. Mail and calendar…, where to start, just look at their site; on my main user working fine though.

Two weird ones involving the old Internet Explorer, one where a notification setting {MICROSOFT.EXPLORER.NOTlFlCATlON.(B2E2D052-B051-D751-3E74-F8D4290BDIBC)} set to “on” automatically would not allow the action center (new notifications) to open, and on one computer Internet Explorer did not show up in accessories so my wife couldn’t import her favorites easily (why she kept using that browser…women). You can dump the favorites in an Edge folder and regedit to remove the way it sorts them, but stupid way to do it, the stupid thing can’t import favorites from an htm file saved with another browser, and it couldn’t find Firefox...

Oh, and if you notice, windows 10 doesn’t appear to know what stacked or side to side really means, and that too I suspect has to do with the change to accommodate metro app resizing.

Still, I think Windows 10 has the greatest promise of all of them. Windows 10 pro runs on an eeePC, which came with windows 7 starter, with one gig ram. I guess dealing with dos and batch files to set environments for everything and 3.x on an 8086 with a 10 mg hard drive makes these bugs trivial to me.

You are probably right, free gets everybody and his brother to test it on every possible machine and configuration.

 

LOL still running my three computers with XP protected by a internet facing sandbox and a white listing process guard program.

Wish that REACTOS project would be further advance.

Win 10 indeed good luck guys

 

Yea, good luck with that.

ReactOS has only been in development since 1998 after all. Originally intending to replicate the Win95 experience, in 1997 they expanded to to incorporate Windows NT 4.0 services.

And after over 20 years of development and tens of thousands of dollars raised, it took almost a decade to release the first test which had only basic GUI services. And in the almost 15 years since then most of it's features operate under a WINE emulation shell.

This to me is yet another classic example of vaporware. In essence it is a decades long project that is trying to do little more than you can already do with WINE.

 

best way to protect yourself from the internet... don't use winblows, if you did get win10, not only do you need massive protections from the internet, you need massive protections from m$ itself... goodluck with winblows