• Time to upgrade to Win10?

    Posted on June 16, 2016 at 12:57 CDT by • Comment in the Forums

    This just in from reader R:

    Hi Woody –
     
    The Win 10 cutoff date is fast approaching and I don’t know what to do with my Win 7 system. I have read all the news and messages in the Newsletter and in AskWoody but the more I read, the more I am still trying to decide.
     
    I have no problem with my Win 7 and have made copies of all my other programs and data and I would like you opinion about changing over to Win 10.
     
    I have your Win 10 Book for Dummies, that’s me, so if I change to Win 10 that book will undoubtedly be a great help.
     
    Your advice will be greatly appreciated.

    I say hold off. There’s no huge rush – the free upgrade is good until July 29. At least.

    We’ll know a lot more about Win10 when the Anniversary Update is ready, and it’s likely to be done (in practice, if not in name) very soon.

    In the end, it’s likely going to boil down to a question of personal preference. In particular:

    • If you move to Win10, you’re going to be more-or-less forced to take all of the changes that Microsoft pushes out. People have had a hard time swallowing the “Get Windows 10” updates. Win10 will be much more strict.
    • With Win10, Microsoft will be collecting a LOT more information about you. That doesn’t bother me, but it does bother some people, and for good reason. I wish Microsoft adopted something like Apple’s “Differential Privacy” but the technology’s not yet set in concrete, and it isn’t clear if Apple will end up being less of a snoop than Microsoft.
    • We’ve only started to see how much advertising Microsoft will cram into Win10. There are no promises from MS as yet – only questions, and lots of hooks into the operating system.

    To me, those are the big points, for now. Edge still isn’t firing on all cylinders. Cortana’s interesting and potentially useful, but a big data gatherer (as are OK Google and Siri). There are some significant security improvements, but that’s pretty much par for the course with a Windows upgrade. I find Windows Hello face recognition a distraction. OneDrive still doesn’t have all the features it should have. The built-in Win10 apps are, to a first approximation, pathetic. And on and on.

    Keep your powder dry. Let’s see what happens.

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