Another person's Win7->Win10 Experience

[submix8c]

Read it. I'm not going to quote it.

http://www.extremetech.com/computing/215451-windows-10-is-a-better-windows-7-if-you-can-get-the-upgrade-to-work

 

I was interested because of all of the updates to allow/disallow to get the "Upgrade". Seems that this person got an "Insider" account and is (somewhat) pleased now.

 

Me and maybe my Bro upgrade? Maybe I'll dive in just for giggles to get my "free upgrade" logged, but maybe I'd better wait until the "fixed release" mentioned in the link I gave.

 

edit - Guess I should mention I found it via this link.

http://www.extremetech.com/computing/212724-microsoft-kills-patch-notes-will-no-longer-explain-most-windows-10-updates

Seems MS is getting more like the CIA every day.

Got CEIP? Get rid of it or send your experience to MS. Go ahead use that bandwidth!

http://www.infoworld.com/article/2981947/microsoft-windows/the-truth-about-windows-7-and-81-spy-patches-kb-3068708-3022345-3075249-and-3080149.html

Edited October 3, 2015 by submix8c

[TheDcoder]

This is my experience when I changed to windows 10, I got a lot of headache while trying to solve my problem. At last I found that my graphic card was not supported, **** Intel guys what's wrong with you?

 

Other than my graphic card issue everything was working fine, I didn't like the start menu and cortana so I removed them, The GUI Elements were seriously ugly

 

I am glad that I did a fresh install and kept my installation of Win 8.1 in an other partition, I use Win 8.1 now... TD

[NoelC]

Read it. I'm not going to quote it.

http://www.extremetech.com/computing/215451-windows-10-is-a-better-windows-7-if-you-can-get-the-upgrade-to-work

 

The article title:

Windows 10 is a better Windows 7

 

I'm not sure everyone here would agree with that.  Better in what way?  Details matter.

 

And I SURE would not try to upgrade a Win 7 system in place.  That's just silly.  If you MUST have Windows 10 for goodness sakes do whatever it takes to do a full, fresh install on a clean disk.

 

-Noel

[Ridrok]

NoelC, I did (update a years old Win 7 to 10) !

But this Win 7 was not anymore my main OS, I left this Win 7 on HD while I installed 8.1 on SSD 2 years ago.

 

The goal was to keep all applications which are nightmare to reinstall (VS2008+2010+2012+2013 along with MS+QT frameworks as an example). And the update was pretty **** good, I did appreciate the work MS did in this area, it just removed Daemon Tools and updated my years old Win 7 to 10 in about 1 hour without a glitch (but yep, my graphic card is an AMD one, not a nvidia one). Even my old Logitech Z10 speakers with LCD screen was still working.

 

It's only after I found that the interface was unsuitable for any serious work, the new start menu worst start menu ever made, big fonts in task bar that can only be made yet bigger, unusable calculator requiring you have the mouse over it to work.... and 2 days after the flow of data exiting my custom router against my will. Only after that, I selected the "return back to Win 7" option and the downgrade was nearly as perfect as the upgrade, in less than 15 minutes I had Win 7 booting again, had to repair Office 2010 by the way.

 

So from my experience I can tell MS did a very good work on migrating OS, even if it's to upgrade to crapOS 10. But sure they needed to in order to force the upgrade of millions of PC.

 

Ridrok

Edited October 7, 2015 by Ridrok