Windows 10 Free Upgrade: Will You be Upgrading?

[Bluejaye]

I upgraded a rarely used Windows 7 PC to see how it looked and performed.

Really not happy with it. The flat colour scheme is annoying, the lack of privacy is a major concern for me, the lack of control over updates is a disaster waiting to happen and after installation, McAfee has started on occasion to take up 90% of the available PC memory. The McAfee problem has come straight from Windows 8, my brother had the problem on his Windows 8 PC a while back.

Many more niggles and annoying things, but those are my main ones.

 

[knowone]

I upgraded a rarely used Windows 7 PC to see how it looked and performed.

Really not happy with it. The flat colour scheme is annoying, the lack of privacy is a major concern for me, the lack of control over updates is a disaster waiting to happen and after installation, McAfee has started on occasion to take up 90% of the available PC memory. The McAfee problem has come straight from Windows 8, my brother had the problem on his Windows 8 PC a while back.

Many more niggles and annoying things, but those are my main ones.

This got me thinking. I wonder if you can set up McAfree (or other anti-virus program) to not allow Microsoft updates without your okay?

 

[FreeOnes_Adam]

I've decided against it. Too much data mining for my tastes. Still working on learning more about Linux.

I really hope people make more of a stand on privacy. Its really frightening how bad it's gotten.

 

[acenionX]

I build a new pc for cheap rendering and upgraded to windows 10 and majority of my programs wont work. so i went back to windows 7. Windows 10 was perfect and i liked it, just got to wait for the programs to catch up.

 

[Luxman]

I've been trying it on a spare pc, I upgraded windows 7 to windows 10.
Aside from the privacy issues, windows 10 crashes at least once a day, and it won't let me install an antivirus program.
After googling the problem, which a lot of people also have, it seems that you have to uninstall antivirus programs from your previous version of windows before upgrading to windows 10, then re-install it.
The only solution to the many software issues was to do a clean install of windows 10, so when you're doing the upgrade you choose the "Keep nothing" option.
Make sure to backup all your data before doing the upgrade to windows 10.
I re-installed windows 10 on the same spare PC and it seems to work now.
I'll use it on my spare PC, but i'll probably wait until June or July of next year to upgrade my main PC, before the July 29 deadline...if there are no more issues.

You can also do a complete system backup in case you want to restore your previous version of windows.
I use the free and excellent backup software, Aomei Backupper Standard.
Works better than all other backup software I've tried.
(If you create a boot CD or USB, use the WinPE version.

http://www.majorgeeks.com/files/details/aomei_backupper_standard.html

 

[mikexmoran]

I upgraded. I'm not an IT guy, but I think it is a big improvement from Win8.
It would have been better had they never released Win8 and they held off for Win10. I know it was a device decision, but Win8 was miserable.

Even Win10 still has stuff you need to guess and figure out. It shouldn't be that difficult, but it is.

I'm noticing a general trend. In the '90's and early 00's everything was customer service. The mantra was "Delight the customer". Now, the marketing is the same, but in action what it really is would be a push to save money. Software, support, sales - none of them are as easy to use as they were 10-15 years ago. It is difficult to get hold of anyone to help. Companies try to get people to hang up if they call for support. Its economics and the more "free" stuff, the more headaches.

Just bitchin'.

Quality Assurance should make things more economical.

 

[FreeOnes_Adam]

I'm noticing a general trend. In the '90's and early 00's everything was customer service. The mantra was "Delight the customer". Now, the marketing is the same, but in action what it really is would be a push to save money. Software, support, sales - none of them are as easy to use as they were 10-15 years ago. It is difficult to get hold of anyone to help. Companies try to get people to hang up if they call for support. Its economics and the more "free" stuff, the more headaches.

Just bitchin'.

Quality Assurance should make things more economical.

I hear you. Everything seems to be "free" and its all shit. No one is developing free software to be nice. There's always a catch

 

[CrimsonBolt]

Nope, my computer is almost done anyway.

 

[acenionX]

from what i seen I loved it. i just have an insane amount of 3d graphic and developing programs that dont work with windows 10. so I'm waiting for about 6 months.