So Windows 10. Yes or no??

What's the consensus on this upgrade?

I wouldn't let any Windows product within a hundred feet of any computer that I own... :nonod: :nonod: :nonod:

I'll let the dust settle and give it a few weeks before I try it out.

It's free even if you have a bootleg version of 7 or 8.

I've been running all the Previews so far , And have had the RTM for the last week. No problems so far.
Interface wise its a good mix between the plus points of Windows 7 and Metro, I'd go for it.
Only exception is if you are using Microsoft Media Center, as its been dropped in windows 10

Check your third party Application compatibly first, Doubt there is anything you use that won't work though.
Be prepared for the install to take a while, its a big download upto 4.5GB and give your self a spare couple of hours for the upgrade.

Go for it is my advise

Dave Baird wrote: I wouldn't let any Windows product within a hundred feet of any computer that I own... :nonod: :nonod: :nonod:

Go on then , I'm intrigued , what are you running that's got no Windows components in it
I'm only aware of QNX as a full OS http://www.qnx.com/ which has no windows Code currently, All thought i believe Cortana is moving over to the QNX Car platform in the next release.

I've just bought an old (2007) iMac for some development work I'm doing and have more or less switched to it from a much newer Windows PC. Still access the PC for some things through VNC but OSX is brilliant. Probably related to my Unix background I suspect.

Will probably upgrade the PC to windows 10 after a couple of months.

BTW, do you know why it's called Windows 10?

Apparently, seven, eight, niee :coat:

'Nein', he said in German. :whistle:
:coat:

I've been running the Technical Previews since day one and it's been pretty rock solid bar the odd upgrade issue. Oh and a problem with a 10 year old VPN from Cisco!

My laptop and desktop are now on the release version (as we got it a few days early) and it's so much better than 8.1 was..... it's the final version of Windows too as MS are swapping to the modular approach that Apple use with their upgrades.

They skipped to 10 to show it's not an 'upgrade' from 8 (although you can upgrade) but a new OS completely.

I'm waiting for 10.11 El Capitan...

cairnsys wrote: BTW, do you know why it's called Windows 10?

Apparently, seven, eight, niee :coat:

Apart from my crap typing spoiling the joke :bang:

Seven, ate, nine :woohoo:

I'm sure our tech department at work will be upgrading us soon so I will try it out before loading it at home.

The Toughbook I use for my Blackbox MGF diagnostic program is still on XP. Unfortunately the Blackbox software uses
some outlook9 components so can't be upgraded but it's working fine for me so that one will stay XP. :clap:

Was at the MS Campus a few months ago chatting to a Dev and the version number originally stems from a coding work around to stop legacy programs from detecting it as win 95 or 98, from there it evolved into 10 sounding more like an Major upgrade.

What makes giggle quietly to myself it is still windows vista. and Windows Names don't follow Version numbers correctly.
Every time MS rewrite the Kernel (the bit which makes it all work) they change the major major version.
Windows 2000 was 5.0 , XP used the Win 2000 Kernel and had Version number 5.1 , New Kernel was written for Vista and Version number was v6.0
Windows 7 was v6.1 , Windows 8 v6.2 , Windows 8.1 v6.3 , all the preview Versions of Windows 10 were v6.4.
Meaning Windows 10 is still Basically Vista with the Colours changed and everything moved around again so you still can't find it.
MS have obviously realised giving Windows a numerical name and version number which have no relation to each other is a bit odd. As the RTM of 10 is actually labelled as V10 (actually 10.0.10240).

Off to a computer forum to talk about cars now