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Windows 10, up or down...

Posted: Wed Jul 29, 2015 6:36 am
by RickRund
I have reserved my copy. Just wondering the consensus here as to it's viability. I know Microsoft says it's safe and I saw that on the net. So it must be true...

Re: Windows 10, up or down...

Posted: Sun Aug 16, 2015 8:57 pm
by bobcat92
My wife is the technology director at my son's elementary school and knows of several of her peers around the state that loaded 10 on their laptops. One lasted several days before it crashed and the other made it a week before it got a blue screen of death. In my house hold we wait several years before up grading operating systems or until we get a new computer.

Re: Windows 10, up or down...

Posted: Sun Aug 16, 2015 9:24 pm
by RickRund
bobcat92 wrote:My wife is the technology director at my son's elementary school and knows of several of her peers around the state that loaded 10 on their laptops. One lasted several days before it crashed and the other made it a week before it got a blue screen of death. In my house hold we wait several years before up grading operating systems or until we get a new computer.
Thanks...I think 10 lasted less than a week. To many reasons /issues... It does say to do a custom install but I was not real comfortable so I just let 10 go on it's own... I will wait a bit...

Re: Windows 10, up or down...

Posted: Tue Aug 18, 2015 12:25 pm
by SaxCat
University of California IT has directed all employees to not install 10 on any school devices yet. A few early adopters got stuck in the auto-update/reboot loop and lost a lot of time and some machines had to be reformatted with the result of at least one professor losing a lot of un-backed up data.

So, until UC says go, I'm going to hold off.

Re: Windows 10, up or down...

Posted: Tue Aug 18, 2015 12:44 pm
by Darth Yoda
I'm good with it on two machines so far. This is the first time Onecloud and Office 365 has really worked well for me as a total cloud based effort. Clean easy interface. No trouble with the upgrade except it took for freakin ever. I also had to go back and clear some space off the hard drive of an older laptop that filled up with the upgrade (it keeps the old OS 100% archived in case you want to restore). That older laptop has never run better. Thumbs up from me.

Re: Windows 10, up or down...

Posted: Sat Aug 22, 2015 10:45 am
by AlphaGriz1
My Sony Vaio crashes 4 or 5 times a day with Windows 10 and Sony says compatible drivers will be out in October.

Other than that its the same old Windows product, crash, reboot repeat.


I do have a surface tab and its been flawless so far.

Re: Windows 10, up or down...

Posted: Sat Aug 22, 2015 11:30 am
by Rich K
Looking forward to testing Windows 10 for my users (less than 40) but won't be moving to it for at least a year. We just got everybody, but one (a Windows 2000 box, don't ask) moved to windows 7 and we've been stable.