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I'm sure by now you all have your Win 7 and 8.1 machines upgraded to Windows 10. :eyemo:


I've been running the 10 preview at home for months and it patched itself to the official 10 launch build overnight. I upgraded my SP3 from 8.1 to 10 this morning. I normally hate OS upgrade installs and usually do fresh installs, but the 10 upgrade install is pretty painless.

Seems to be running just fine. :shrug:

Now if they would just hurry up and finish the phone version...
 
Road Head

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Justin said:
I'm sure by now you all have your Win 7 and 8.1 machines upgraded to Windows 10. :eyemo:


I've been running the 10 preview at home for months and it patched itself to the official 10 launch build overnight. I upgraded my SP3 from 8.1 to 10 this morning. I normally hate OS upgrade installs and usually do fresh installs, but the 10 upgrade install is pretty painless.

Seems to be running just fine. :shrug:

Now if they would just hurry up and finish the phone version...
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Wifey's Dell has 8.1. I want to upgrade, but dont want to mess anything up, or otherwise lose any data. How risky is the upgrade?
 
miwico

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Justin said:
I'm sure by now you all have your Win 7 and 8.1 machines upgraded to Windows 10. :eyemo:


I've been running the 10 preview at home for months and it patched itself to the official 10 launch build overnight. I upgraded my SP3 from 8.1 to 10 this morning. I normally hate OS upgrade installs and usually do fresh installs, but the 10 upgrade install is pretty painless.

Seems to be running just fine. :shrug:

Now if they would just hurry up and finish the phone version...
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I've been using 10 for some time now. I really like it.
 
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Road Head said:
Wifey's Dell has 8.1. I want to upgrade, but dont want to mess anything up, or otherwise lose any data. How risky is the upgrade?
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Any upgrade is always somewhat risky, but this one seems fairly low-risk.

Since it's a machine that's important to you, you might wait a few days to make sure that no show-stopper bugs are found. Also, you can make a full system image backup before doing the upgrade that would be the easiest way to back out of the deal if it goes south. At a minimum you should back up important files just in case, but you're already doing that regularly, right? :D
 
abqtj

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I only have one Windows machine and it's my work lappy running Windows 7.
 
BirdOPrey5

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Going to hold off for a while, make sure it works for everyone. I see no compelling reason to upgrade sooner than later, within the first year.
 
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Justin said:
Any upgrade is always somewhat risky, but this one seems fairly low-risk.

Since it's a machine that's important to you, you might wait a few days to make sure that no show-stopper bugs are found. Also, you can make a full system image backup before doing the upgrade that would be the easiest way to back out of the deal if it goes south. At a minimum you should back up important files just in case, but you're already doing that regularly, right? :D
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Everything business related/important is on google drive, and the only thing else we have that we care about are our photos, which we do back up to an external hard drive.
 
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Was reading earlier that Microsoft has reserved approx 40 Tbps of global internet bandwidth amongst various ISP's and CDN's to accommodate the Windows 10 rollout. That's pretty impressive.
 
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miwico said:
I've been using the evaluation for some time now. What are your concerns?
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My concern is I don't want to screw up a machine that has been running as is. I don't see anything new in Windows 10 I care about. In short there is all risk and zero reward.
 
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BirdOPrey5 said:
My concern is I don't want to screw up a machine that has been running as is. I don't see anything new in Windows 10 I care about. In short there is all risk and zero reward.
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I've never had an issue with an upgrade in Windows, have you?
 
neevo

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miwico said:
I've never had an issue with an upgrade in Windows, have you?
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When I worked in a PC manuf tech support line we were inundated with upgrade failures. Mostly down to unsupported (ie OLD) hardware but enough to make me hold off upgrading.


I will wait until the inevitable patched have been released before switching to it for my main machine
 
neevo

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http://krebsonsecurity.com/2015/07/windows-10-shares-your-wi-fi-with-contacts/

Windows 10 Shares Your Wi-Fi With Contacts

Starting today, Microsoft is offering most Windows 7 and Windows 8 users a free upgrade to the software giant’s latest operating system — Windows 10. But there’s a very important security caveat that users should know about before transitioning to the new OS: Unless you opt out, Windows 10 will by default share your Wi-Fi network password with any contacts you may have listed in Outlook and Skype — and, with an opt-in, your Facebook friends!
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BirdOPrey5

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miwico said:
I've never had an issue with an upgrade in Windows, have you?
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The last time I upgraded between major versions (for personal use) was from Windows 3.1 to Windows 95. I've upgraded for other people, sure, but personally I think I've always just bought a new computer or installed from scratch.

And yes, I have had issues upgrading versions in the past. Hell I've had problems with critical updates that had left my computer in bad shape.
 
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