[Coco] OT: Upgrade to WIndows 10?

[Steve Ostrom]

Art, I took the plunge one week ago.  The upgrade was flawless.  I'm using 
an HP desktop p2-1317c, which is relatively new, but a low end PC running 
Win 8.1.  The upgrade took 2.5 hours total.  The first scheduled reboot took 
place an hour after starting the process.  The next few scheduled reboots 
took 1.5 hours more, so you need to be patient, and just watch the process. 
Lots of downloading, but no user interaction needed.

I was concerned by what I had been reading when MS first started to push the 
upgrade, so waited until now.  What was interesting to me is that my home 
screen under Win 10 really looks almost identical to what was running under 
8.1.  All my applications are in their same locations on my desktop screen, 
as well as the same desktop picture.  I did need to pin Internet Explorer 
back to the task bar.  It had disappeared and a new MS browser had appeared 
(Edge?)  I run Norton Security, and right after the final reboot, Norton 
told me that that new browser was not protected as well as IE or Chrome, so 
I have not used it yet.

All my applications still work as before, including my Canon printer 
drivers.  Pretty flawless.  I'd go for it.  Let me know your experiences, 
and the time it took from start to finish.

--- Steve ---


-----Original Message----- 
From: Arthur Flexser
Sent: Saturday, November 21, 2015 2:23 AM
To: CoCo
Subject: [Coco] OT: Upgrade to WIndows 10?

I realize this is really, really seriously off-topic, and that there is
ample information/reviews elsewhere.  But, I'm curious to have the
impressions of CoCo people, whose opinions I greatly value, on whether I
should take Microsoft up on the free upgrade they occasionally urge me to
take advantage of.  I currently have Windows 8.1 and am pretty happy with
it.  I use Classic Shell, so I don't have to experience the
Metro/Modern/whatever they are calling it now interface except when I
choose to.  (There are a couple of apps I use, so I am glad to have them so
long as they don't get in my way.)  I have a pretty fast desktop, a Dell
XPS 8500 with plenty of hard drive space and 8 GB of memory, so I don't
think the hardware will be a problem.

So, any impressions from people here who are Windows 10 users?

Art

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