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Windows 10. Should I.....shouldn't I?

It's there, waiting for me to press the download button. But I'm in a quandary. I detest 8.1, currently on my laptop, but have read stuff about 10 that makes me wary.

Has anyone taken the plunge yet and what do you think?

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Permalink Reply by PAM on August 7, 2015 at 18:14

I hated windows 8 and l am much happier now l have 10.

Permalink Reply by nana on August 9, 2015 at 11:59

worked for a day then "broke" my laptop, Asus specialist advised to take it back to the shop to reinstall windows 8, then wait a few month until all the issues with 10 are sorted, I know only one person for whom it hasn't been a problem.

Permalink Reply by Michael Anderson on August 9, 2015 at 15:59
Yeah, I've heard that some people were finding it a bit buggy, Anyway I took the plunge and installed it and it seems ok, though I haven't had much of a play yet. Does anyone know how you set up the face recognition log in? Not for any particular reason, it just sounds a bit of a laugh.
Permalink Reply by JoeW on August 10, 2015 at 0:52

I upgraded from Windows 7 to 10, its free. The upgrade takes a bit of time but worked fine which was surprising given that I had stupidly left the upgrade installing while the laptop was running on the battery which ran out half way through!

Haven't had any issues so far, all my existing applications still work. Windows 10 makes Edge the default browser though it doesn't uninstall IE - and doesn't automatically import your favourites to Edge either. Didn't take too long to do that myself and probably makes sense not to as you could have different favourites in different browsers.

Windows 10 has a new mail client called Mail, haven't plucked up the courage to start migrating my mail archives from Live Mail yet.

I like the new Start menu navigation - very intuitive (although I'm already familiar with it from using Windows Phone 8).

Generally so far it's not a massive change from Windows 7 buts adds some of the nicer bits from Windows 8. I'm looking forward to playing with Cortana (Microsoft's speech recognition "personal assistant", similar to Apple's Siri I think).

Permalink Reply by Michael Anderson on August 10, 2015 at 9:01
Ah, it's called Cortana! I shouted "Cortano" at my laptop and a small cup of coffee popped up.
Permalink Reply by JoeW on August 10, 2015 at 14:01

>a small cup of coffee popped up...

I'm hoping to get something like this:

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