Windows 10 - Who's been procrastinating?

byIanHarvey

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10 years ago

I was a procrastinator, running Windows 8.1, looking at Windows 10 since it first appeared last July with a view to installing it some day soon.

The reason for waiting was so that I could see what other people thought of it and for all of those expected early bugs to get removed. Well, it seems that there are a lot of people who don't want it because Microsoft seem to be foisting it upon Windows 7 and 8/8.1 users, so who can blame them after they have seen the nag window so many times?

Still, you only have until the end of July, i.e. just a few weeks, to make your decision before you have to pay for the upgrade. I would have upgraded by first of all backing up my user files (you do back yours up regularly, don't you?) and then running the update.

That didn't happen. One day I was doing my stuff in the WA Bootcamp course a couple of months back and all of a sudden it started to update with absolutely no prompting from me! There was no get-out: once it had started you had to go with it, so I did.

After about one-and-a-half hours it was done. On the final reboot my two screen setup looked just the same in Windows 10 as it did in 8.1, but clicking on the Start button (welcome back Start button!) showed the differences straight away.

Having said all this, I have quite gotten to like Windows 10 and the learning curve from previous Windows versions is minimal. If you are still dithering, you may as well give it a go. If you don't like it, you do get a few weeks where you can 'revert' back to your previous version, so no problem. Go for it!