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Why Are You Using Windows 10?

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win10_logon_logoI was going to do a poll on this topic but I thought any answers might be too limiting. So I thought I would give this a shot.
I’m genuinely curious as to why folks have jumped to Win10.
I brought back comments as a way to get feedback but I’ve gotten very little. Please leave a reply.

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  1. a. gray says

    I do not own any touch-screen devices nor WIN8 machines (strictly WIN7 & Linux for computers).

    I have been part of the preview for WIN10 on a formerly WIN7 machine and have found myself………….. underwhelmed.

    That is to say, without being a touch-screen user (for which WIN10 is clearly designed) and having no sense of a WIN8 ecosystem as the normative, my sense of it all is ‘meh’.

    WIN7 works; I’ve got iOS (iOS9) for my iPad mini and iPhone 6S Plus (portable devices) and just can’t see ANY reason to ‘upgrade’ desktop devices from WIN7.

    Throw in the whole “Spy-vs-Spy” aspect of the WIN10 thing (‘Don’t touch that keyboard; we’ll control all your upgrades for the next 60 years”), it just has no compelling reason for me (the user). Now for MS………….. that’s a horse of a different color.

    I fully expect I’ll ride WIN7 for as long as I can and use Linux for now and in to the future.

  2. Duncan says

    I’m using Windows 10 simply because I’m a computer geek who enjoys testing out new OSs. I have it running on both my desktop and my laptop. I’m not that committed to keeping it at this point because my overall impression is “meh.” I had Windows 7 on my laptop and may decide to revert to it at some point as I prefer it to Windows 10. My desktop was previously running 8.1. I will most likely keep Windows 10 on it because I find 10 to be much better than 8.1. Finally, I have a Windows 10 VM that I routinely break and restore just for the sake of trying stuff out.

  3. Doug says

    I worked with Windows 10 up to and including build 10130. Seems a large majority of the default settings needed to be changed and control panel and settings were a pick and find out affair. The last Windows 10 update I did do left me with windows.old folder which for me is an upgrade to a different operating system. I just wasn’t comfortable using it. We are staying with 8.1 on the laptops and 7 on the desktops. I am hopeful that by sometime next spring it will be out of what I consider to be BETA. Certainly none of the joy I had using 7 BETA and 7 RC. Thanks for the https Eric.

  4. Steve says

    Windows 7 was ok, but I grew to like Windows 8.1 once I got used to it and Microsoft made it not so bad. (It took a lot of work to make 8.1 not so bad, and I’m not willing to wait that long for Microsoft to get it together with Windows 10.) Even though I’m now on Windows 10, I’m just not impressed at all. I could go back to Windows 8.1, but if I’m going to switch OS’s again, I will ditch Microsoft and go with linux. I have android on my phone and have a chrome book for something portable and they’re fine for my needs. A Microsoft OS is no longer a must have. For me, unless Microsoft can get it together pretty quick with Windows 10, I’ve had enough.

      • yan says

        My main pc is also my small lab. I’m a junior sysadmin working in a 100% hyper-v company (more cost-effective), and I work with a lot of VHD/VHDx and PowerShell. So I can boot-up a 2012 R2 VM easily and with no problems at home. I also have a second computer with w7/Virtualbox with some Linux VM’s (hyper-v doesnt work well with Linux in my experience).

  6. Paul Foreman says

    I use windows 8.1 at work (and am the only one in 3000+ employees) due to a unique software issue for me – and my agency will NOT move from version 7 until forced to do so. Heck, we would still be using XP if it was supported. As for 10 – I upgraded at home from 7 to the new 10 OS and was not impressed. The edge browser had nothing special and I just didn’t like the way it worked as well as the process of ‘fighting’ with windows 10 to get what I wanted done and how I wanted it to work for me was a lot of trouble. My wife (a former Apple network admin) who is no dummy also didn’t “like” windows 10 and saw no good reason for it. We moved back to Windows 7.

    There are a lot of good reviews on 10 and some forensic computer people I have talked with like it and feel it is a bit more stable, faster and more flexible but then again these guys use every system under the sun and are always looking for ways to leverage them to specific ends. For me, windows 10 is just another unnecessary step made by the software folks (Microsoft) to keep “developing” and not necessarily building working tools for actual use in business and industry.

  7. Jerry says

    I liked 8.1 after I put in a third party start menu and doing some tweaks that I learned right here! I obtained 10 because it was free, overall I like it I find it fast. I am awaiting the Tweakhound Win 10- guide to make it better..
    Thanks for all your work

  8. PegLeg says

    1: The people @ Cakewalk seemed to like it for DAW-use & I use Sonar so ….
    2: Every new reincarnation of Vista (V4.* = Win 10 😉 ) has been better than the previous IMO.
    3: Most tests I´ve read claims that it´s somewhat lighter resourcewise than Win 8.1.

    The only things I don´t like are the possible privacythreats and that they swapped the startscreen for the new menu, I liked the startscreen more since you could put just the programs you used on there.
    I never understood why people complained about it – most people I know use a smartphone with a startscreen anyway & never complain about it.
    Is there a way to get the W8.1 startscreen back?

    Like Jerry I hope that you put together a tweakguide for Win 10.

    Thanks for all your work, your guide for Vista (along with some minor tweaks from Sonar-forum) turned my previous netbook from not being able to record at all to being able to record all the 16 simultaneous tracks my soundcard threw at it.

  9. Arne says

    I’m just a tester of Win10 and have been since day 1 – that doesn’t mean that I love the O/S. After having the disasters of non-spinning disks (lost 2 of them before fixing them with Linux commands) and the usual beta testers’ nightmares of various non-working bits, reluctantly I use Win10 to see if there are significant improvements from build to build. I have 4 disks in the same hardware setup and have Win 8.1 on two SSDs, Win10 on one and Win 7 on the last. The two Win8s are fast to boot and stable (as of this moment in time), much faster than Win10 by comparison and don’t have AMD driver problems. Additionally, a Win7 32bit upgrade went belly-up 4 times which has put me off relying on MS to give me a smooth ride to upgrade any of the disks, instead using the ISO files at some time in the future when the builds are more stable.
    Generally I’m not impressed by the use of Win10. Despite the introduction of new bits like Cortana, it doesn’t give me the incentive to change to a “better” O/S as of yet. That may change, of course, in time.

  10. Sam Marychurch says

    I have been on the windows path since the very start.
    I own heaps of tech, but my main use is a laptop and I occasionally use an old pc with xp on it just for a few old games.

    The windows 10 just seems all the features from each os that worked, put into one package. i think its really great they have made a refined OS version of what in my opinion should have been windows 8.
    i have a few problems that have never really been fixed is backwards compatibility. linux is great answer to this however i do not run everything on linux and people around me have never used linux.
    if windows 10 improved with this, its the best release they have. but until Microsoft.. yeah.

  11. Don Harrison says

    It’s the next new thing, and it sounds like it may be what we will be using for the next stint. I love trying new things. I loved trying Dos 6 when everyone seemed to be saying that 5 was stable and why would you want to change it. I love the fact that microsoft supported Xp for soooo long, unlike any OS before it. But I think it has been so long that people have become afraid of change. I remember tons of trouble and scepticism when xp came out and it took along time to iron out the bugs and get people used to the changes that we all take for granted and love to use now. I used 7 for many years, it’s a great OS. But I feel that 10 is what Microsoft has set it’s course on and I’m just as willing to go there as I was with Dos 6. I must say though that I have skipped the experimental OS’s. Windows 1-3, I came in on Windows 3.11. Windows ME, Vista, Windows 8…. Windows 10 is fun for explorers like me. That is why I come to this awesome resource Eric. I love to tweak and learn how to make my computer and it’s OS Perform better.

  12. mulletback says

    I am running the fast ring insider build of win10. Still looking for a compelling reason (besides free) to upgrade any of my win7 machines. My two dvr boxes will stay on win7 32bit, perhaps forever, because of unresolvable driver and codec issues. My workstations require more stability than win10 has exhibited so far. So it goes…