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No bashing from me, lol. But in the interest of full disclosure, I am a holdout. Windows 7 on my desktop, and 8.1 on two laptops. I've always thought it is prudent to sit tight through the initial rollout of a new product or service, and wait for the improved and less glitchy versions that (hopefully) follow.

If the Windows Update process is faster with W10, that by itself would be a huge improvement (for me at least). On my W7 computer, I am currently at 13 hours and counting, trying to get 14 updates to download. The current progress is... 0 KB total, 0% complete. Yikes!

> If the Windows Update process is faster with W10, that by itself would be a huge improvement (for me at least). On my W7 computer, I am currently at 13 hours and counting, trying to get 14 updates to download. The current progress is... 0 KB total, 0% complete. Yikes!

My Win7 updates are similarly slow. It has to do with the fact that Win7 now has hundreds of necessary updates, and Microsoft refuses to roll them up as a Service Pack (it would have been SP2). So the update process has to do bazillions of cross-checks between all these individual updates including those you've already installed, for compatibility. Mine often take over a full day, sitting at 0%, and then finally it goes pretty quick once it gets sorted out.

Win 10 updates are faster, if for no other reason than there aren't as many Win10 patches YET. And they may have improved the compatibility check algorithms.

But IMO, the main reason for Win7 updates being so painful is that Microsoft wants those of us who want to keep our Win7 to suffer as much as possible, in an effort to force us into Win10. Color me annoyed about that.

If the Windows Update process is faster with W10, that by itself would be a huge improvement (for me at least). On my W7 computer, I am currently at 13 hours and counting, trying to get 14 updates to download. The current progress is... 0 KB total, 0% complete. Yikes!

You can go to Microsoft Update Catalog and download what you want DIRECTLY and install. This is an alternative to the backed up update servers you encountered