Over the weekend I used a Windows 10 machine. Arrgggh.
The only good change I saw was renaming Windows Explorer to File Explorer.

Luckily had my Windows 7 laptop with which to do my work.

Good article for those contemplating an upgrade.

I'm using a Windows 10 machine (which was upgraded from Windows 7) right now and it works fine. I haven't done much on it but browse the web (with Firefox and Chrome) but frankly I don't see much of a difference between 7. Well, I couldn't find Notepad without typing into a search bar.

My objection has never been the operating system but rather the way that Microsoft foisted the upgrade on users

I don't frequent this form enough, I wish I would have read this thread sooner.

mike_kaiser, if you can find your sendto folder in your users directory (mine's in users/**your name**/), you can put a shortcut to notebook in there (or any other shortcut you want). Then a right-click on any file will have notebook listed & can be "sent" to it. Convenient for me.

Of course, if you know where notebook is, you can also just put a shortcut to it on your desktop.

With windows 10 you just click Cortana microphone and ask her to 'Open Notepad'

I haven't quite gotten comfortable talking to my computer yet. Actually, I'm not sure the one I was using actually had a microphone...

Why couldn't Microsoft keep everything in the same place with the same names?? Having a new OS is fine, why keep changing everything? There is no point to changing names.

I have some Apple products, some are old. Everything stays the same. I can use a IPhone4 and the latest iPhone. Everything stays exactly the same. The changes do not affect your ability to find things, make changes or settings.

Same with IPads. They work exactly the same as the phones. I do not have an Apple computer, but I'm assuming it stays the same.

I think Microsoft is obnoxious changing everything around. Many of us older folks had a tough time just learning to use a computer years ago. Yet with each upgrade, Microsoft seems to feel the necessity to force a person to spend so much time trying to relearn everything all over again. Stupid!

Jane

I bought a new gaming pc right before win 10. It came with a free 10 upgrade. I upgraded. It seemed ok but now a lot of little stupid aggravations happen - like why does my calculator keep disappearing?

I do think once you get used to it the interface is fine.

The in-laws upgraded from, I think, 7. Beware.

I have always felt that if you are familiar with smart phones, etc. then the transition from W7 to W8/10 will be smooth. I have never had a smart phone and prefer not to have one. I like that my internet connection is at home and plan on keeping it that way.

I find it very disturbing that MS is forcing this W10 upgrade on people. This is America! Shouldn't we have the freedom to make our own choices, and I do not like the idea of upgrading on an older system. I have seen first hand the problems that have arisen from upgrades. If it is not incompatible drivers, its something else. If I want a W10 I will go out and buy a new computer that has W10 factory installed with a warranty. I can not afford to lose my W7. I have several versions of OS's for a really good reason and need them as is.

My son had an experience with his W8.1 that helped me to form my negative opinion concerning this free upgrade. Just before he shipped out for overseas he bought a W8.1 netbook for his wife since he took his W7 with, so they could Skype back and forth. She is familiar with her smart phone but not with Windows in general. During this time that my son was deployed is when the upgrade came out. My daughter in law had no idea what to do with this message that kept telling her to upgrade. Since she didn't know the difference between and update and an upgrade so when she asked my son if she should allow the update he said yes, so allowed the upgrade at the end of July (or was that August? I forget now.) Either way, the upgrade that he thought was an update went very badly and once complete the netbook would not boot into Windows and since he was in such a hurry to ship out he did not take the time to create the recovery media. To make an already long story short, I tried everything I could think of to fix this and ended up having to send it back to ASUS not even a week after the warranty ran out and have them reload the hard drive which cost him $210 USD's. He had paid almost $300 for it on base before he left so he ended up paying over $500 for this netbook. Very costly MS upgrade failure as far as I am concerned. I wish there were a way to make MS pay for the damage caused by this failed upgrade, but you know that would never happen and I have helped others online with the very same upgrade failure.

Kind of makes me feel like my son and everybody else whose upgrade failed in this manner were used as lab rats. Out of curiosity, I would give anything to know the percentage of how many of these upgrades failed, for what reason the upgrades failed, how severe the failures were and how much the victim had to pay out of their pockets to fix the damage done.