how many people have upgraded to win10?

how many of you guys have upgraded to win10?

  • YES

    Votes: 78 61.9%

  • No

    Votes: 47 37.3%

  • N/A

    Votes: 1 0.8%
  • Total voters
    126
Haven't upgraded yet. I want to swap my motherboard and CPU for a Skylake setup before getting the free upgrade.
 
I will only upgrade when it is deemed necessary, as I don't care for the look of the interface.
I'll just stick with Windows 7.
 
Yup - but didn't do the actual Upgrade; installed a retail copy from my DreamSpark account.
 
Not yet, I see no need and would prefer to wait till the OS has had time to mature.
 
Yes on 5 pc my htpc is rejecting working so it's time to rebuild it... so it will have 10 soon.

i should see how well it runs on my rpi
 
I just upgraded my laptop tonight. Was pretty painless, finished in about an hour.

Loving the new Task View, with the additional desktops. And everything runs great so far.
 
I'm not surrendering my beautiful Aero Glass desktop in Win7 for that dystopian looking pile of privacy-less and forced updates that calls itself Win10.

Win8.x was a downgrade. Win10 still is.
 
My Windows 10 Pro USB stick came in the mail today.

That's the first authentic copy of Windows I own since Windows 98.
 
Zepher said:
I will only upgrade when it is deemed necessary, as I don't care for the look of the interface.
I'll just stick with Windows 7.
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Same here, the interface looks awful IMO (at least it's more usable than W8)
Also have to wait to see if the privacy concerns are real or not.
 
I haven't yet. I'm running X58 chipset and none of the drivers have been updated (they're all old). I don't know if it is worth it for the 1366 platform. So I think I'll wait to see what the risks and benefits are for it.
 
No plans to, I run Linux as my every day OS and have win7 for my gaming machine. As long as my games work in 7 I have no reason to upgrade.

I might throw it in a VM some time just to play with it though.
 
I have it running on 3 desktops including my own, and 1 laptop. Runs very well even on older hardware. Although I have to be honest, the Windows Store is a joke, nothing compared to Google or Apple.
 
I'm perfectly happy on Windows 7. It runs everything of mine without any issues and is very fast on my rigs. I have no reason to update to Win10. Notice I said update and not upgrade :p I would have maybe considered it but I'm seeing compatibility issues left and right. And with all the monitoring nonsense, forget it.
 
am content to wait it out...waiting for the first DX12 games...waiting for 'features' like forced driver updates to be tweaked without the use of 3rd party tools etc...and waiting for the OS to mature a bit...maybe Threshold 2 will be the time I make the jump
 
I actually thought Windows 95 was a pretty cool looking desktop, add plus pack and it was the bomb!! I miss those days of hearing Win95 boot up with a 5 1/4 floppy disc, it was something really special!! I might have to go dig out my old Packard Bell 486/66 just to relive some of that!!:p
 
I wouldn't call Win 10 an upgrade really, more a sidegrade. Sacrificed one rig to Win 10 for testing and gaming. Laptops and other rigs all staying Win 7, and Linux.

McDork said:
I haven't yet. I'm running X58 chipset and none of the drivers have been updated (they're all old). I don't know if it is worth it for the 1366 platform. So I think I'll wait to see what the risks and benefits are for it.
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The one rig I sacrificed to Win 10 was x58 with an MSI motherboard, not going to get driver updates but runs fine on the same drivers.
 
I did upgrade my laptop twice but there are no video drivers for it so I had to put it back to 7.
Reverting back to Windows 7 is really fast, less than 4 minutes.
 
polonyc2 said:
am content to wait it out...waiting for the first DX12 games...waiting for 'features' like forced driver updates to be tweaked without the use of 3rd party tools etc...and waiting for the OS to mature a bit...maybe Threshold 2 will be the time I make the jump
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I'm with you. Not "upgrading" until the first game I must play is using DirectX 12, AND I have control over driver updates.
 
I'll probably sit it out and wait for MS in desperation to produce a successor to its last desktop OS, Windows 7, for productivity/business/corporate users. Win 7 is still supported for almost 4.5 more years, and borrowing updates from WS2008 R2 SP1 or Win 7EC could extend that for another 1.5-3 years beyond January 2020. I'll probably use a different OS by the time Windows 7 becomes less supported by software, and I'll just use Win7 in a VM for compatibility.
 
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I'll probably sit it out and wait for MS in desperation to produce a successor to its last desktop OS, Windows 7, for productivity/business/corporate users. Win 7 is still supported for almost 4.5 more years, and borrowing updates from WS2008 R2 SP1 or Win 7EC could extend that for another 1.5-3 years beyond January 2020. I'll probably use a different OS by the time Windows 7 becomes less supported by software, and I'll just use Win7 in a VM for compatibility.
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There doesn't seem to be any need for Microsoft to hit the panic button anytime soon. Beyond a bunch or rumors and unproven statements about privacy concerns reality seems to be indicating a nice reception for Windows 10 in both the consumer and business worlds. When Bank of America's CTO said a couple weeks ago they already had Windows 10 pilots in the bank and were planning a beta rollout towards the end of this year with general roll outs beginning in 2016, I'm thinking if they can deploy 10 without credit card or account numbers being transmitted across the cosmos then it's shouldn't be a problem for other large scale IT environments.

On the consumer side, Windows 10 hit a daily market share number yesterday of 7.25% and is about a week away over overtaking OS X and soon after XP. 100 million actual Windows 10 PCs in the field should happen around Labor Day which I'm guessing will be the next time Microsoft mentions Windows 10's market share.

Still a way to go and no doubt the privacy stuff will continue to be an issue. But so much has been said about it now, up to the point of people's hard drives being uploaded, that at some point it becomes more crazy than factual and the issue gets tuned out in a consumer IT world that's been happily leveraging personal data for stuff for quite some time without Doomsday so far.
 
Ah, the straw man poster returns! Who the hell said anything about security as an issue? Do you not understand the difference between privacy and security? That explains a lot. :rolleyes:

BoA is enthusiastic about upgrading, and many other companies may not be as willing or able to do all the work required:
IW article source of BofA upgrade info said:
Of course, enterprise adoption will prove much more complex than a simple download. Windows 10 will have to interface with inventory and security systems, said Reilly. The bank has to create a build for its specific environment.

If this type of build is ready by November, he said, it will be tested among development teams so as to address key concerns and bug fixes. From there, the plan is to enter a phased adoption so employees may opt for earlier upgrades before the OS is fully deployed throughout the enterprise.
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Limited tests are not a problem, but wide deployment requires much more work than that preliminary work.

Who cares what a poor metric of "daily market share number" is? Is that world-wide sales for all consumer PCs? Of course not, because the latter is widely known as a useful market share statistic. You would only mention the former when you want to mislead with something that sounds like good news. Consumer sales are a small portion of all PC sales, so yeah, that would be much more impressive to mention than even a 2% corporate adoption rate. lol

Quit your MSFT pumping. It's just clownish at this point.
 
pxc said:
Ah, the straw man poster returns! Who the hell said anything about security as an issue? Do you not understand the difference between privacy and security? That explains a lot. :rolleyes:
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privacy - the state or condition of being free from being observed or disturbed by other people:

security - the state of being free from danger or threat:

Most people's concern about privacy stems from the fear that their personal information will be used against them, i.e. a threat to their security. In any case a system that leaks sensitive data would typically be considered insecure.

pxc said:
BoA is enthusiastic about upgrading, and many other companies may not be as willing or able to do all the work required:
Limited tests are not a problem, but wide deployment requires much more work than that preliminary work.
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Of course. But few places have the security (and at a bank security and privacy go hand in hand) needs or global scale of clients and applications of a Bank of America.

pxc said:
Quit your MSFT pumping. It's just clownish at this point.
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That's hilarious! It's not any kind of "Microsoft pumping" to make the point that 10 seems to be gaining market share quickly, it's a statement of facts again that have been used by Microsoft bashers when they make that case. I get that a lot of people don't like 10 and want it to fail like 8.x. That doesn't seem to be happening on the consumer side. And as 7 starts to age and 10 matures and privacy issues fade, which they should barring something bad happening and that's always a possibly, 10 should see enterprise adoption grow.

10 simply doesn't have the issues that 8.x did and 7 is getting old. That's just how this has always worked with Windows adoption in the enterprise.
 
heatlesssun said:
Still a way to go and no doubt the privacy stuff will continue to be an issue. But so much has been said about it now, up to the point of people's hard drives being uploaded, that at some point it becomes more crazy than factual and the issue gets tuned out in a consumer IT world that's been happily leveraging personal data for stuff for quite some time without Doomsday so far.
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I don't see Microsoft denying it so it must be true. If it wasn't true they would have publicly stated so by now. Maybe they can get their buds over at ZDnet to put out another propaganda article for them.
 
rezerekted said:
I don't see Microsoft denying it so it must be true. If it wasn't true they would have publicly stated so by now. Maybe they can get their buds over at ZDnet to put out another propaganda article for them.
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I guess if the CEO of Kickass Torrents were like an identifiable person or something I'd see your point.
 
There have been numerous articles all over the web and not just the Torrent site and yet Microsoft still says nothing.
 
There's been numerous articles with few provable facts on the subject. And honestly, who is naïve enough to believe that the people with the most problems over these issues would believe anything Microsoft says. For now I don't think this issue is really registering for most folks anywhere to the degree those who are pushing it might think. I would have to assume that there's a number of reputable security and privacy researchers looking into this thoroughly and it would be best that Microsoft respond to true professionals and not every hack out there that thinks Microsoft is uploading everyone's hard drive or gives two shits about pirated content when nothing in the over two decades of Windows being the dominate desktop OS indicates that Microsoft has done anything like that. Considering that if such actions were ever discovered that would probably be the end of a multi-hundred billion company.

Not saying there aren't issues but it's probably best to let the crazy die down a bit and let the pros do their jobs instead of responding to every hack out there and potentially making the PR situation worse.
 
OK, you are right, I will wait for the pros to chime in before I decide to install it or not.
 
heatlesssun said:
There's been numerous articles with few provable facts on the subject. And honestly, who is naïve enough to believe that the people with the most problems over these issues would believe anything Microsoft says. For now I don't think this issue is really registering for most folks anywhere to the degree those who are pushing it might think. I would have to assume that there's a number of reputable security and privacy researchers looking into this thoroughly and it would be best that Microsoft respond to true professionals and not every hack out there that thinks Microsoft is uploading everyone's hard drive or gives two shits about pirated content when nothing in the over two decades of Windows being the dominate desktop OS indicates that Microsoft has done anything like that. Considering that if such actions were ever discovered that would probably be the end of a multi-hundred billion company.

Not saying there aren't issues but it's probably best to let the crazy die down a bit and let the pros do their jobs instead of responding to every hack out there and potentially making the PR situation worse.
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Probably one of the best posts I've seen on this subject yet.
 
Tried the Windows 10 upgrade on another system a second time. Reverted back to Win 7.
 
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Who cares what a poor metric of "daily market share number" is? Is that world-wide sales for all consumer PCs? Of course not, because the latter is widely known as a useful market share statistic. You would only mention the former when you want to mislead with something that sounds like good news. Consumer sales are a small portion of all PC sales, so yeah, that would be much more impressive to mention than even a 2% corporate adoption rate. lol

Quit your MSFT pumping. It's just clownish at this point.
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Don't waste your breath on the resident Baghdad Bob of MS. The shills and shareholders really believe that millions of unsuspecting end-users being tricked into installing Windows 10 means kumbaya that everyone's welcoming it with open arms. Anecdotes about BofA. Gimme a fuckin break.

Just like these brain surgeons swore to everyone the start menu was never coming back and to "just deal with it" in Windows 8, they're downplaying the privacy issues as not an issue and "just deal with it" .. except the noise of discontent over it is getting louder by the day as more shady shit is discovered.

I believe Windows 10 will be a decent OS eventually once they've been forced to dial the spying back, but right now MS is just testing to see how much they can get away with in terms of exploiting their customers relative to PR outfall.
 
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rezerekted said:
I don't see Microsoft denying it so it must be true. If it wasn't true they would have publicly stated so by now. Maybe they can get their buds over at ZDnet to put out another propaganda article for them.
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Because why would MS start denying tinfoil hat conspiracy theories ?

The legalese those minor torrent sites are refering to is there for OneDrive functionality. Because, how in the hell could OneDrive work, without accessing files on your hard drive, in the folders you selected to sync ?
 
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