I tried 10 for about 3 days and found it to be crap.
IF ...
If it had a classic theme, it might be usable. As is, the scroll bars and window borders were too narrow to be useful. The windows overlapped and the ‘themes’ made it difficult to distinquish which contents belonged to which overlap.
If it had not dumped Media Center. I have hardware and software that REQUIRE Media Center.
If it had not dumped IE. I have software that REQUIRE Internet Explorer.
From 98 to XP and from XP to 7 I lost the use of some hardware and software. The same would have been true going from 7 to 10. Some of the software programs are utility programs that have no comparable 10 equivalents.
I recently heard one Win10 ‘pusher’ admit that 10 was designed for touchscreens, not regular laptop/desktop computing. That is where Microsoft screwed the pooch — many of use prefer to use laptops/desktops for ‘real’ computing and not cutsie boxes and backgrounds.
Yep. Crap.
I was nodding my head agreeing with you while reading that because I’ve used software that required ie and media player. All that I know of though has been updated not to or there are others making software that does the same thing with any software.
But Jesus, why still use media center?
Then I got to the last paragraph where you made it clear you never really used 10. Any noob can make it boot to the regular desktop and the new start menu is so superior It’s not even funny. I’ve never been able to run with a clean desktop for long on previous versions of windows but 10 makes it easy.