My Win 7 laptop downloaded the free upgrade to Win 10 a couple of months
ago but I haven't installed it. Figured I give it a while
to see what problems (if any) surfaced.

Every once in a while I get a popup reminder that I haven't installed
Win 10 yet. The latest included a wide ranging positive response by
CNN and other reviewers.

Has anyone here upgraded from Win 7 or Win 8 and, if so, what do you think?

I'm getting lots of pop up reminders that my year old HP notebook with Windows 8 is eligible for the Win 10 upgrade.
My tech person ( no 2 son) says I can put it off until the spring......should be plenty of time to get reviews. He said something about Microsoft trading free installs for a better capability to track our movements. Hopefully info on whether this is true will pop up over the next few months.

On 11/28/2015 7:05 PM, True North wrote:

I'm getting lots of pop up reminders that my year old HP notebook with Windows 8 is eligible for the Win 10 upgrade.
My tech person ( no 2 son) says I can put it off until the spring......should be plenty of time to get reviews. He said something about Microsoft trading free installs for a better capability to track our movements. Hopefully info on whether this is true will pop up over the next few months.



I read a recent article about that. Apparently Windows 10 is far more
invasive in terms of what type of data it can automatically
retrieve from your computer (aka "spying") but I've also read that the
privacy levels are selectable and what Google captures from your
computer is worse.

Jury still out.

True North Wrote in message:
I'm getting lots of pop up reminders that my year old HP notebook with Windows 8 is eligible for the Win 10 upgrade.
My tech person ( no 2 son) says I can put it off until the spring......should be plenty of time to get reviews. He said something about Microsoft trading free installs for a better capability to track our movements. Hopefully info on whether this is true will pop up over the next few months.


Posting from my new fire. Testing to make sure it cites properly.
How's it doing, Donnie?
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On Sun, 29 Nov 2015 18:30:17 -0500 (EST), Justan Olfart wrote:

True North Wrote in message:
I'm getting lots of pop up reminders that my year old HP notebook with Windows 8 is eligible for the Win 10 upgrade.
My tech person ( no 2 son) says I can put it off until the spring......should be plenty of time to get reviews. He said something about Microsoft trading free installs for a better capability to track our movements. Hopefully info on whether this is true will pop up over the next few months.


Posting from my new fire. Testing to make sure it cites properly.
How's it doing, Donnie?

Which Fire did you get? I've been thinking about it, but I've got my wife's old iPad
and a Kindle. I think I've got all the bases covered.
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Posting from my new fire. Testing to make sure it cites properly.
How's it doing, Donnie?

Which Fire did you get? I've been thinking about it, but I've got my wife's old iPad
and a Kindle. I think I've got all the bases covered.
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On Sat, 28 Nov 2015 18:03:28 -0500, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote:

Has anyone here upgraded from Win 7 or Win 8 and, if so, what do you think?

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I will be the last man standing on Win 7 until I hear hundreds of
enthusiastic reviews and find some compelling reason to convert. I'm
very negative on the way Microsoft is trying to push this upgrade on
to people, and I deeply resent their changes to the desktop interface.

On 11/28/2015 7:11 PM, wrote:
On Sat, 28 Nov 2015 18:03:28 -0500, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote:

Has anyone here upgraded from Win 7 or Win 8 and, if so, what do you think?

===

I will be the last man standing on Win 7 until I hear hundreds of
enthusiastic reviews and find some compelling reason to convert. I'm
very negative on the way Microsoft is trying to push this upgrade on
to people, and I deeply resent their changes to the desktop interface.



I am pretty much in agreement with you but I also recognize that
eventually the change will *have* to be made.

Microsoft is really pushing this upgrade, even to Win 7 users (like us)
who have no complaints or issues. I wonder why.

I agree about the desktop interface. I dislike Win 8 and it's revisions
primarily due to this. I am not a tablet user nor much of a
smart phone user, so the "swiping" of stuff on a computer screen annoys
me. Much more of a point and "click" type.

In article ,
says...

On 11/28/2015 7:11 PM, wrote:
On Sat, 28 Nov 2015 18:03:28 -0500, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote:

Has anyone here upgraded from Win 7 or Win 8 and, if so, what do you think?

===

I will be the last man standing on Win 7 until I hear hundreds of
enthusiastic reviews and find some compelling reason to convert. I'm
very negative on the way Microsoft is trying to push this upgrade on
to people, and I deeply resent their changes to the desktop interface.



I am pretty much in agreement with you but I also recognize that
eventually the change will *have* to be made.

Microsoft is really pushing this upgrade, even to Win 7 users (like us)
who have no complaints or issues. I wonder why.

I agree about the desktop interface. I dislike Win 8 and it's revisions
primarily due to this. I am not a tablet user nor much of a
smart phone user, so the "swiping" of stuff on a computer screen annoys
me. Much more of a point and "click" type.

My Win10 desktop looks like Win7 which looked like XP.
Except for colorized app title bars, which I haven't
bothered to change.
There's some work involved. I'm happy with Win10, though
if you want "privacy" - whatever that means - you have to
disable certain switches.
If you like Win7, stay with it. Stability is about equal.

On 11/28/2015 8:14 PM, Boating All Out wrote:
In article ,
says...

On 11/28/2015 7:11 PM, wrote:
On Sat, 28 Nov 2015 18:03:28 -0500, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote:

Has anyone here upgraded from Win 7 or Win 8 and, if so, what do you think?

===

I will be the last man standing on Win 7 until I hear hundreds of
enthusiastic reviews and find some compelling reason to convert. I'm
very negative on the way Microsoft is trying to push this upgrade on
to people, and I deeply resent their changes to the desktop interface.



I am pretty much in agreement with you but I also recognize that
eventually the change will *have* to be made.

Microsoft is really pushing this upgrade, even to Win 7 users (like us)
who have no complaints or issues. I wonder why.

I agree about the desktop interface. I dislike Win 8 and it's revisions
primarily due to this. I am not a tablet user nor much of a
smart phone user, so the "swiping" of stuff on a computer screen annoys
me. Much more of a point and "click" type.

My Win10 desktop looks like Win7 which looked like XP.
Except for colorized app title bars, which I haven't
bothered to change.
There's some work involved. I'm happy with Win10, though
if you want "privacy" - whatever that means - you have to
disable certain switches.
If you like Win7, stay with it. Stability is about equal.



Thanks. Good input and advice.