windows 10 free upgrade...3 days left!

mr. ed wrote:
Zero issues with W10 here as well.

MANY do "have issues".

SOME, don't have "issues".

If you BUY a PC WITH Win10, you have a GOOD chance that it will be relatively "stable".

If you have an OLDER PC and you upgrade in place, you have an increased chance of "issues".

If you have an older PC that you do a complete from scratch install it may also be fairly stable but yet it could flake out eventually.

One of my concerns is what happens down the road when MS AND Intel decide that they no longer wish to "Support" your Processor, memory, system board BIOS, Graphics card, Key board, Mouse and so on..

They HAVE the "power" to brick your PC during one of the semi annual "Creators Updates" and you may find yourself with a totally useless door stop..

If you are OK with that then go ahead and tune out..

I personally don't "upgrade" for the sake of "upgrading" to get a shiny new gadget and I certainly do not like someone else invading my PC and putting unwanted and unneeded bloatware into it.

Nor do like the idea of someone invading my PC, and RIPPING out any software (Legal free or paid for, doesn't matter), features or custom settings that I may have created.

Nor do I like the fact that a PC that I may depend on just might be a total doorstop one day when I attempt to boot it up..

Read the MS EULA, they CAN do that and by installing W10 YOU AGREED TO THAT.

Zero issues with W10 here as well.

Wait, you said "Windows 10", then "upgrade." That's a contradiction.

GordonThree wrote:
The free upgrade applies to people that have basically signed an online affidavit stating they used an assistive screen reader in the past with Windows 7, 8 or 8.1...

The general free for everyone upgrade ended some time ago.

Correct, However ANY "assistive technology" DOES apply.

So, if you have used the screen "magnifier" that does apply.

Text to speech, that applies.

Use HIGH CONTRAST screen settings, that applies.

Anyone that uses external assistive technology driven by the PC would most likely apply..

And so on.

If you haven't used any of the assistive technology then it really does not apply as you pointed out, but that most likely will not deter some folks anyway..

I was just pointing out an easier way that is less buggy than the first link if you really want to make your PC less stable..

The free upgrade applies to people that have basically signed an online affidavit stating they used an assistive screen reader in the past with Windows 7, 8 or 8.1...

The general free for everyone upgrade ended some time ago.

bob213 wrote:
You still have 3 days to get the free upgrade that was discontinued in July. Check out this site to see how.
Kim Komando

OK, what can I say, that website has tons of popups and other unwanted junk :M

Not to mention the "upgrade" route using the MS Upgrade assistant is loaded with typical MS badly written installer which contains many errors which glitch out or can't find it's own files (that you WILL have to manually find in your current OS, then copy to the Upgrade folder) taking hrs to download then in the end fail miserably..

Instead of going through hrs and hrs of frustration it is better to simply download the Win10 ISO using the MS Media creation tool..

Now you will have a FULL copy of all the installation files without all the mess of stupid upgrade assistant which couldn't find its way out of a paper sack with both ends open..

WINDOWS 10 MEDIA CREATION TOOL

Well that explains a lot about Windows 10, thanks to hbillsmith and T18skyguy.
I also certainly agree with T18skyguy's added comment about the so called "feature enhancements". They're not necessarily "enhancements" for everyone.

If you install the windows 10 creators edition, they do give you 10 days to roll it back if you don't want it. After 10 days it's permanent. If you roll it back, you can opt to just receive the security patches, and not what they call "feature enhancements"( I think that's the term they use ). I looked over all the new features, and I really didn't see anything I'd want. It's purpose for me would just be to bog down the unit.

Windows 10 development now permanently uses a developer program called "Insider Preview" where slightly more than 1 million of us I.T. folks agreed to accept developer "in-progress" rollouts of Win10 as it is being developed. We provide ongoing comments and in many cases allow our daily use PCs to automatically log and report back issues to the individual developer teams. Currently I am running the fast track release scheduled for late fall 2018. I get entire system refresh updates as often as once a week. Never in the history of Microsoft or any software company has there been this much varied pre testing. By the way, theses incremental builds have been extremely stable except for the sometimes new hardware driver tests.

Windows 10 is the operating system we wish we had 10 years ago.

"Win 10 is easy to use and stable as can be". :R

That is definitely a matter of personal use and opinion.