I’m waiting a while longer.
Last year, around this time, got a Windows 8 machine for my wife. A week later, took it back to Best Buy, stuffed back in the box.
“Anything wrong with it?”
“It has Windows 8 on it.”
I hate, hate hate! Windows 8, but I’ll wait a while longer. I’ve been burned by Windows in the past by jumping on too soon.
Not me. Really like W7. I guess I will be like one of those Japanese soldiers who were fighting WW2 on remote islands in 1989 wearing a towel and gripping my rifle with first, XP, and now W7.
I, for one, am staying with 8.1 for probably another few months at minimum. I will let the marching morons test out the bells, whistles, virii, trojans and spyware BEFORE I jump. The only thing that I really see an advantage to, as a non-corporate user, is the new browser. My mantra is now, as always, Version 1.0.0 is not for me!
I’m running Windows 8 on most of my machine. A couple of machines running 8 are difficult to work with.
The issue isn’t Windows 10 is so good, I’m sure it’s buggy and loaded with spyware to the gills, the problem is Windows 8 is so bad.
For people running Windows 7, there isn’t really an incentive to change.
I got 10 almost the day it came out. I’ve had no problems so far.
But because of Windows 8, I will never buy another Windows machine. I was forced to upgrade my old slow XP machine to 7 because they stopped providing security updates. 7 is a bloated resource hog. They’ll have to go through a few usable iterations before I’ll trust them again. By that time I’ll be too immersed in the Mac universe to switch back.
I’m still running Win 8 with Classic Shell. I have the Windows 10 ISO but I’m happy with my setup.
Yes, it’s precisely because Windows 8 was so bad that I’ve switched to 10.
They made Windows8 so bad for reason- to get customers to rush into 10: a “service”, not a “program”.
At least that’s the only reason for making something so bad I can see.
I have a convertible laptop/tablet and upgraded the day 10 came out, because (a) 10 seemed to be designed for just that kind of machine, and (b) I had no real security or privacy concerns on that particular machine. It’s been great.
Gee..it’s almost as if Microsoft made Win8 suck on purpose.
Hate Windows 8, sticking with my Windows 7
I’m waiting for Win 10’s Service Pack 1, which will hopefully remove all its built-in spyware because people have complained so much.
Windows 10 is a good upgrade from Win 8.1, in particular for those who run 8.1 on a non-touch technology device.
Windows 8.1 was always meant to work best a touch technology device although I work with other IT professionals who run it on a regular desktop with no real issues.
For the average user Win 7 is best and Win 10 will also work well. Installing Win 8 or 10 on an older device is not recommended, stick with Win 7.
I still have Windows XP Professional. I’m still getting updates. I thought MS had discontinued those. I assume that’s the source of the updates I’m receiving.
Does 10 lose its internet connection (requiring a reboot) every time the computer sleeps like 8 does?
I have Windows 7 on one computer and XP on the other. Both serve me well.
How about all the problems people have had with the update/install? How many people have since used the uninstall / revert back?
How about the fact that Win10 allows microsoft to scan, copy, look at your files whenever they want?
And the joke of windows 10? It basically still is Windows 8. I installed it, and uninstalled it already. It has the 100% Drive use error like Win8 does and the aforementioned issues. And whoop-te-doo you have a start menu button that opens up Win8 app page, but in small form.