so who has down loaded Windows 10 ?
 

My Windows 7 laptop is running fine but I see the Windows 10 " upgrade " icon down on the tool bar just begging me to download. So for those of you that have down loaded and used it for a few weeks is it any good ?

i got it last night and so far it's ok.

I installed it yesterday morning. It was effortless and is working smooth.

I just started trying Edge, it appears to be pretty snappy.

I still have 2 more computers to go.

I have it on 2 laptops, 2 desktops, and a tablet so far.

Will use for a week or two then start slowly rolling out at the office.

I don't see it as that big of a change, but I never really hated on 8 like some people did.

There are few little tiny things that for me are huge annoyances:

Focus isn't always set correctly, for instance, launching the calculator lets me type sometimes, others not until I click on it. This also happens at random when opening new tabs in Edge.

Edge is a modern app, so I'm not able to right click and launch more instances of it like I do with everything else, I have to use tabs then break them off, extra step.

Some of the flat UI that got bigger on the PCs actually got smaller and more finicky to hit on the tablet. The Start menu also was better in 8.1 on the tablet.

I know the charms bar didn't catch on, but I thought it was okay, and the new notification center is pretty cluttered in comparison.

Oh, another thing that very few people will run into. I did one upgrade remotely and had to have someone walk over and click OK a couple times in the upgrade process to make it complete.

The server upgrades fixed that a while back, so I figured I'd chance it.

#9 is in the EULA:

“We will access, disclose and preserve personal data, including your content (such as the content of your emails, other private communications or files in private folders), when we have a good faith belief that doing so is necessary to”.
- Microsoft

Waiting...read a number of reports that it is bug-ridden

If its anything like Windows 8, forget about it.

Apparently has tried and failed 4 times.

I'm going to do my daughters laptop because it has win8. I can use win8 with shell but I never liked it.

My machine has win7 and I'm most definitely going to wait and see before I give it up.

I've been using for a few days. I like that the slide bar on the right for windows 8 is gone in 10. When you click the windows in the lower left you now get your old "start menu" plus you get the live tiles from 8. The only complaints I have are when I installed 10 it removed my virus protection program, it seemed to cause a little trouble with my older version of outlook but that has since been cleared up too and it seems to boot up a little slower than 8. I think it gives more of a 7 look with a good blend of 8 features.

Agree - After using 8 at 2 places I volunteer, I never loaded the copy of Win8 I bought.

Was gonna wait a few month to do 10. I have 4 laptops and 2 desktops, 4 of the 6 have Win7, which I love.

You guys got me curious, so I did Win 10 on the laptop I use the least. So far, I like it. I'm sure it has many features I've yet to explore.

I figured out why the download isn't working. I have a "Windows 8" laptop that was "downgraded" to Win 7 Pro. The key on it is genuine but not unique. I need to find the Windows 8 key that came with my computer to load it.

^

Glad I didn't jump.

"We will access, disclose and preserve personal data, including your content (such as the content of your emails, other private communications or files in private folders), when we have a good faith belief that doing so is necessary to”.
- Microsoft
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I guess the folks at Microsoft are good with ending a sentence with a preposition.
Gov't schooled, no doubt.

I wonder how much MS pays the person that figured the battery Icon needed to be rotated 90 degrees??? ***** Brilliant**********

Already on all of my machines at home and at work and working great.

I do have an older laptop running a specific network adapter that is incompatible with 10, so that one will have to wait.

Except for Windows 95 I have never been an early adopter of a new version on Windows.

I will wait until service pack 1 comes out or that I hear everyone is loving Win10.

One question, I had heard one report that Win 10 was going to the subscription thing and users would have to pay a yearly subscription to use it like Office 365. Is that true or is Windows 10 something we can keep with no subscription?

I bought a new laptop with Win 8.1. That OS just plain sucked. Microsoft considers a "change" an improvement. Like now your car is to be found in the living room. I was glad to upgrade to Win 10. Had to do the mpg codec download, but other than that it is working fine. I would stick with 7, but if you are running 8 I would upgrade to 10.

Years ago, a copy of Office Professional 2000 was given to me. It still works fine on all versions of Windows and I don't have to re-learn every time MS just does a shuffle and calls it "NEW".....

I was able to upgrade. The issue wasn't the key. Still not sure what was wrong. I loaded the "Media loader" and created a USB upgrade drive.

First impression: Cheesy. The same feeling I had moving from Office 2003 to Office 2013. The icons seem flavorless. Spartan.

It does seem to run well, maybe faster. I'm about 1.5 hours into using it.

They killed off Windows Media Center in 10.

Just in case any of you are running PVR's that use it for a back end.

Turns out my Outlook problem is caused by 10. I did some searching and I'm not the only one having sending issues as a result of the "upgrade"

Bug: when trying to open a spreadsheet from a network drive it is reported as corrupt. I can copy to my PC and the sheet opens fine.

WTF? Screw that!

I'm not upgrading yet - I see no reason to at this point. I'm seeing all sorts of interesting tidbits on the "features" in 10 such as this:

Windows 10 silently uses your bandwidth to send updates to others | ZDNet

I am going to wait a while before I upgrade to 10. Think I have until July 2016 before you have to start paying for the upgrade. I am just worried that you will have to pay for everything you already have again and again. I don't like the idea of paying yearly for programs I just purchased outright in the past. Both 7 and 8/8.1 will not allow me to use certain games and programs that I like so I am still using an XP box offline for those. I don't think upgrading to 10 will fix the compatibility issues with those programs.

man, so many freak-out stories.

Thing is, Microsoft is WAY behind the big brother tracking curve. Google/Android, Apple, Facebook... all killing it, and would rather that Microsoft not play in their sandbox of owning people's digital life.

That EULA stuff: As I read it, that only refers to use of MSFT cloud stuff; where they are responsible for holding and giving the user(s) access to cloud based info.

Anyway, I think it funny that Android and Apple fans are dumping on MSFT for doing some of what Android and Apple have been doing for years. ...at least MSFT let's the user select to turn the crap off.

Thanks for the security tip. Had not thought about that. Lots of info out there telling one how to turn it off. Which I did of course. It seems like the kids today have been taught to share EVERYTHING! BIG BROTHER has done well. :)

Verizon is one of the worst with its unkillable cookie on their phones.

Send us your Windows 10 questions | The Download Blog - CNET Download.com

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http://centurylink.win10guide.com/?nid=E_C:Q:T215QWREOWIN10E49237

yep, Looks like I read that right... bold mine

We are running Win7. Last night, MS sent/downloaded a bunch of "updates" while I was online.

When it was done, without "asking permission," it just went into shut down mode and put up a message saying "Don't turn off your computer."

I pulled the cable out of the back of it, and let it finish shutting down and (I assume) installing these "updates," then it booted up, then I ran the cleaner, then plugged it back up, then updated AVG and Malwarebytes.

There was some kind of box at the bottom of the window saying to "click here" to read about the updates MS had installed.

The list showed that it had tried to install Windows 10! And failed.

W... T... H? Anyone else heard of this happening?

I changed the settings to let me know before any updates are installed and will go through the hassle of approving what goes on from here on out.

I had trouble using the regular install. So instead I used this:

Windows 10

You need a 4GB USB drive. Once it is finished creating the install on the USB drive, go to the drive and run setup.exe and it will install Windows 10.

There is a work around for this bug if you encounter it.

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/office/forum/office_2013_release-word/cannot-open-word-files-after-upgrading-windows-10/67f3e4ea-ad68-40d2-a86f-14e3d4b8518b?page=~pagenum~

I've finally semi-figured out Win8. ........enough to know I don"t like the POS. I'll hold off on my "free" download of 10. I don't like much that I'm reading about it....particularly the Big Brother aspect