Out of curiosity, how many of you are using Windows 10 on your PCs and on your phones? Are the latters still alive and kicking?

What are your general opinions on the two of them?

The OS has slowed down my PC a little but still doing ok. It's a year and a couple months old now. I love the OS just had to disable Windows updates and Cortana otherwise PC goes bunkers. And my phone is still somewhat kicking only it's a matter of time until it decides again it hates everything and turns itself off and won't be able to be turned back on until the battery drains and I have to recharge it. Reason why I got a 2nd phone. The OS is great and the best imho just sad my perfect phone became so .... unstable. Cannot wait for December's full version release though!

Noooooo, PCs are eeeevil. Come to the Mac siiiiide! waves arms around all creepy-like

I'm a gamer, and therefore I "upgraded" from Windows 8 for DirectX 12. It's not really much different in terms of speed, though I did notice boot times are terrible compared to earlier iterations of Windows. Though Windows has never been good about it. I really hate Windows and anything Microsoft, I just deal with it so I can play games at high resolution and better than Xbox One/Playstation 4 graphics.

Macintoshes are worse in a number of ways. Not only are they simplified to the point it's impossible to do productive work on them (I've tried them, I know) they've made it so that they're a "status symbol" like the iPhone. Macs command a higher price despite not having the hardware to back up their premium price tag. It'd be different if their $2000 iMac had a decent GPU, but it has a crappy mobile Radeon. I'm a huge fan of AMD, but mobility on a desktop makes little to no sense. If you want a desktop GPU, though, you have to step "up" to a Mac Pro, which is even more ridiculously priced. So, no, I'll deal with Windows (which sucks too) on my desktop (has a Core i5, 16 Gbs of RAM, 1 TB hard drive, and an R9 290x video card with 4GBs of GDDR5) and Linux Mint (which I really like) on my laptop.

As for Windows Phone, I hated it, I'll continue to hate it, and never will use it again. I've sworn off all but BlackBerry 10 OS, and that's what I'll continue to use. Windows Phone has no differentiating features anymore, after "Threads" became nothing more than an SMS messaging spot, and the "hubs" that they had, were gutted to the point they were useless to me. BlackBerry 10's BlackBerry Hub still has Facebook Chat integrated into itself (as links to chats on the app) and you can also get e-mails, calls, SMS/MMS, BBM, etc. Finally, BlackBerry Blend is amazing. You can text, e-mail, BBM, etc. from a computer on the same Wi-Fi connection.

i heard that Windows 10 Home edition will be guinea pigs for other edition of windows 10. they will force update everything into your PC whether you like it or not. is this true? i would like to know.

i almost update mine until i read about the force update thing. it is a major deal-breaker since my internet is limited and very expensive.

If you set up your device to automatically download Windows updates, then yes, the installation files will be downloading as well as far as I know. So you could choose when to upgrade.

i have windows 7 home premium on my desktop, and a blu win hd with windows 8.1. i'm really hoping the win 10 upgrade will be released soon for my phone, the os looks really sleek and pretty and it reminds me of all the things that made me want a windows phone over an iphone in the first place, lol

i've been considering the upgrade to win 10 on my desktop, but it's totally unfeasible on my 56kbps connection plus win 7 has a really attractive ui. in spite of that tho, i'll probably still make the switch when i manage to get a better connection, if just for the cross-device gaming ability with xbox one players. that would be so lovely tbh, a lot of my friends are xbox gamers and i'm a pc gamer so it'd be super ideal. i'm not totally sure how that'd work and what games would be chosen as cross-device games, but i suppose that's something to be found out about later

quiet laughter in distance People still using Windows 7 or 8 are in for a rude surprise because there's the chance of restarting and winding up with W10 installed.

Windows 10 since it came out on a laptop, no problem whatsoever except that it kills the scrolling for my trackpad but I can fix that.

they can do that? i know for a fact right now they can and will force anything into your pc on windows 10 whether you like it or not, because that what it says on the term and condition (for home edition). but for windows 7, it is still up to user choices what they want to update. i better check this out before microsoft cause me unpayable amount of internet bill.

Speculation has it, yes, that it can be a forced upgrade in some cases. I'm not saying it's going around on normal users.

But why would you want to hinder yourself by having a computer with less than Win8 on?

I decided to push it through Windows 10 when my computer kept advising me to upragde to Win 10 every damn minute. Like calm down son, it will happen but u need 2 chill.

So I own Win10 for like a week now? (or so) and I like it. Finally gotten rid of the useless front page and the widgets at my right. I'm quite pleased with it. Of course, I removed Cortana and tried my best to remove the shit that spies on me.

i want windows 10 too. unfortunately my pocket says no. you see, i live in third world country where internet is so expensive and have very small limit per month. if i can't decide when i can do my regular update, windows will auto update whenever i'm online, even at home. i usually update mine over free wifi in shop. so even windows 10 is free right now, it gonna cost me a lot of money and inconvenience in the future. i so envy people from USA.

Oh, I thought the free upgrade was worldwide. x_x;

the upgrade is free. but the internet is not free. yours maybe cheap and unlimited. but mine is expensive and capped. anything beyond the cap cost a kidney :P

The little window keeps popping up on my laptop being all, 'hey... Windows 10... hey... I'm still here...'

I haven't downloaded it yet, but I'll get around to it one of these days. I've heard mixed reviews regarding 10, so we'll see. I'm sure it'll force the upgrade on me eventually.

I have Windows 10 on my laptop, upgraded from Windows 7. For the most part I like it, but it definitely does boot up slower for me. Had to reinstall it because it was unbearable initially, but it's better now and I've not found any other issues with it personally.

- may I ask how you went about reinstalling out of curiosity? Did you clean install or reinstall W7 then upgrade?

I basically just did a system restore to when I had Windows 7 and then reinstalled 10 from there, there's probably a better way to do it but it worked for me haha

This is something I still need to do but at uni I was on Windows 10 at some lab and it looks okay to me, especially on a good enough computer. As far as I've heard it's nothing like W8 / W8.1 which was a mess, they only kind of kept the UI, but it's like W7 only maybe better? I need to install if only I get the time for it.

The reason Win 7 is upgrading to Win 10 automatically is from a virus/malware perspective, it's a lot more secure and has a lot less vulnerabilities. Therefore it's easier for Microsoft to support for regular consumers because it's not going to be as much of a hackable mess. Sure there are other (fair) points of argument. Also for those having issues with slow boot up, there is some weird stupid option to make your computer boot faster that you have to manually click. Which is a really, really terrible design decision imo but. ¯(ツ)/¯ it's MicroSoft, what can ya do.

I did the update to windows 10 when it was offered for free. Only had it for 2 days and went back to windows 7. I had too many problems just playing dvd's and even finding my music. After I went back to windows 7, I discovered all my music playlists had disappeared. But even after going back to my previous version, I was still getting the "your update is ready to install" notification every time I turned on my computer.

For those of you who don't want that little annoying notification, go to your windows update setting and choose "Check for updates but let me choose whether to download and install them". Then go to Windows Update->Installed update, remove KB3035583. Then hide the update again in windows updates to prevent it from auto installing again since this is marked “important”.