Windows 10

I'm confuddled enough with using Apple at work and Micrsoft/Windows at home!

Plus the damn eejit that put a new hard drive into my PC loaded Office 2003 on to it, when it went in with Office 2010 grrrrr.

When I asked him why, he said it was to save me money! I pointed out that it was him who had put Office 2010 on it in the first place, so I didn't see why I should have to pay goodness knows what for him to install a new hard drive, transfer all my "stuff" and then downgrade me!

PS My birthday next week, rather hoping that Mr P might get me a tablet, as currently only have desktop pc and no smart phone. Although bearing in mind that for Christmas I got a digital air compressor for the car, I won't be holding my breath...............

You can link it to your other devices if you want to, but I don't see the point of having windows on an android for example.

Is it true it is linked to all your other devices? Someone said it is proving to be a security problem.

Mine has downloaded and installed with minimum of fuss in about an hour and, once I got rid of the superfluous "apps", I am back working much the same as I did before. Everything seems to be working much quicker, I didn't lose anything and it is all very intuitive to use.
I've glanced at "Edge", the replacement for Internet Explorer, but am sticking to Chrome as I have it set up as I like it.
One thing I am going to set up is the "app" that gathers all your photos into one place.

Looking around the Internet AshTree, it seems plenty of people have problems with Apple products and updates. There will always be greater number of Windows users talking about difficulties simply because there are so many millions more of them. We most often only get to hear about the bad experiences anyway, not all the other cases where everything works fine.

I've been keeping up with using the Technical Previews of Windows 10. The later ones of these run pretty well but even after the final release, there will still be updates and fixes issued. This will go on for much longer than a year so if waiting for any or all bugs to be ironed out, it might be necessary to wait forever. Windows 7 is still receiving updates after all.

I will be upgrading as soon as the final release is available but it won't hurt if people want to wait a while. When deciding whether to jump or not, it isn't always possible to go purely by what others say. Some may never say anything good about Microsoft products no matter what. Some might experience problems that you won't.

Expect the Windows 10 download and upgrade to take a long time, it is big! When the Window 8/8.1 upgrades were released, I think some got into difficulties because they thought the download and upgrade process had hung. It just sat there doing apparently nothing for such a long time that the process was given up on and aborted by the user. Doing this is something that could cause problems and an eventual messy upgrade.

When upgrade time arrives, allow plenty of time and just leave it if the process appears to be doing nothing. There will be times when it appears to have stopped at say 3% or 35% but if left for long enough, the upgrade process will proceed. The disk activity light flashing can be a clue that the Windows 10 upgrade is working away in the background.

All the OS updates are free and automatic on my iMac. I don't know why Windows can't do the same. Though, to be honest, the iMac OS updates always seem to be trouble-free, whereas anyone in the 'know' tends to warn people off the Windows updates until they've had time to sort out all the bugs and glitches, so maybe I wouldn't want them to be automatic on my laptop . You'd think that by now they'd be able to produce an OS without all these problems, wouldn't you?

Not if it comes ready loaded onto a new machine, but if you want to buy Windows 8.1 full edition and don't have Windows 8.0 to update from, it will cost you £74.02 from Amazon

Why should we have to pay for it? We don't pay for whatever Windows version we're using now, do we?

It is only free for a year, so charleygirlyou will have to pay if you wait too long. I wonder whether the "improved" update when the wrinkles are ironed out will be free to people who already have it?

I'm looking forward to Windows 10 but have to buy a new computer to run it.Hopefully will bag a bargain in the Sales.Our old computer is on it's last legs, so bought an IPad Air to bridge the gap until 10 came out.I do hope it lives up to the hype too! otherwise we could have just used the iPad.

I contacted my computer man re upgrading and he said not to do it for a year until all of the problems have been ironed out. I upgraded to 8.1 when I bought my new computer in January.

Me too Elegran but DS said he had doubts and he is in IT, hope it comes up to expectations.