[upchuck]

Three things, primarily, are stopping me from upgrading from Win 7 to Win 10:

1. MSFT's over-intrusive telemetry.

2. I no longer have any say about what updates are applied to my machine.

3. MSFT's increasingly snooty attitude:

   • "Bend over here it comes whether you're ready or not."

   • "We'll decide which processors will support our software."

I'm using Win 7 with all updates turned off, good firewall and AV software installed. Make daily and weekly backups. Clone the system drive once a week. Careful where I go on the 'Net. Delete, without opening, suspicious emails I'm not expecting.

No problems.

[KEVLAR]

I’ve done the same,

New i7 system, Win 7 x64, updates disabled.

It is this sort of thing that turns us geeks against MS.