Has anyone upgraded to Windows 10?

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g8terh8ter_eric said:
Right now I have several medical clinics running Lenovo Twists and x230s, both having Windows 7 Pro x64, and none will benefit from upgrading to Windows 10. Also, unless your software people support it, then upgrading won't help either.
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Sounds like you're talking apples and oranges though. I could be wrong, but from the little I've read in this thread I"m guessing you provide machines and admin on location to customers with third party software, and Aavoxx is talking in house development. In your case stability would be more important, but depending on the type of development, new innovations can make huge differences.
 
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jjay2518 said:
Sounds like you're talking apples and oranges though. I could be wrong, but from the little I've read in this thread I"m guessing you provide machines and admin on location to customers with third party software, and Aavoxx is talking in house development. In your case stability would be more important, but depending on the type of development, new innovations can make huge differences.
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It's very possible we are talking about two different things, but according to Aavoxx, he's deploying Windows 10 as soon as it becomes certified. Windows 10 isn't going to be ready for a production environment at release, or probably a year from now, at least IMO. When you can't get Windows 7 Pro x64 anymore, that's when I will deploy 10, and not before. Also, until there is sufficient evidence that 10 will play nice with AD, especially pre-Server 2012, then putting it in anything with a domain just won't be something I will be trying.
 
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The upgrade logo just appeared on my Win7 machine. Went ahead and signed up since this install is coming up on 5 years old. If 10 doesn't work out, I'll reinstall 7.
 
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Just upgraded from 8.1 and an hour and I'm really liking it so far.

Anyone else upgraded yet?
 
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We upgraded a Lenovo laptop we sold to a customer yesterday. Everything seemed to go great. However, the search box is broken, which is something that has happened to about half of the people who have upgraded, but for the average user its not a big deal. It also broke some of the apps that were pre-installed by Lenovo, but that doesn't necessarily matter to me, because we uninstall all that preloaded crap anyway. It's very stable, and a lot better looking that 8.1. Ninite doesn't work, if you use that service to install/update software, due to security settings with Edge, but there is a work around if you choose to do so.

All in all, I would much rather put someone on 10 than 8 or 8.1, just because Windows 8 sucks so bad.
 
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Upgraded to 10 over a 5 year old install of 7. I will probably do a clean install this weekend. I kind of like the start menu.
 
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I like it. I had to get some kinks worked out with the Asus smart touchpad so that it could utilize multiple touches like swiping with 2 fingers to scroll. Once I got that done, it's not different enough to make me mad. And I missed the start menu.
 
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Since my laptop has a touchscreen, I never hated 8. But I like what I've seen so far from 10
 
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g8terh8ter_eric said:
We upgraded a Lenovo laptop we sold to a customer yesterday. Everything seemed to go great. However, the search box is broken, which is something that has happened to about half of the people who have upgraded, but for the average user its not a big deal. It also broke some of the apps that were pre-installed by Lenovo, but that doesn't necessarily matter to me, because we uninstall all that preloaded crap anyway. It's very stable, and a lot better looking that 8.1. Ninite doesn't work, if you use that service to install/update software, due to security settings with Edge, but there is a work around if you choose to do so.

All in all, I would much rather put someone on 10 than 8 or 8.1, just because Windows 8 sucks so bad.
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I thought you weren't upgrading people for six months or some such?
 
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I installed it twice tonight. The first time I installed the Enterprise edition with the LTSB. That should be interesting, as it comes without Edge and Cortana disabled.

The second time I installed the Pro version. I haven't played with it since several tech preview editions back, and I really like where they went with the Start Menu. I thought I would hate it, but they came through.

I heard of a few people running into BSODs after the first round of updates were installed, but that seems to be mostly hardware related.

I figured out how to save my org a metric ass ton of money on new hardware deployments using the PackageManagement feature, which has some great PowerShell integration. That's probably only interesting to me, though.
 
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Ill probably get a new laptop soon, so ill get to have it in the near future. Excited about it tbh, but I still like windows 7 on my current vaio. It's just aging now and getting slow
 
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Aavoxx said:
I thought you weren't upgrading people for six months or some such?
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There's a big difference in doing it for someone on the home side, versus doing it in a production environment, which is what I was arguing from the get go. I also said there was zero reason to upgrade from 7 to 10, and I still stand behind that. Don't twist my words.
 
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By the way, those that have installed it, make sure to disable Wifi Sense. Probably the worst feature they could have ever come up with, from a security standpoint, in the history of Microsoft.
 
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Does 10 eat up more of the processor than 8, or about the same? (I'm sure it isn't less)
 
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g8terh8ter_eric said:
We upgraded a Lenovo laptop we sold to a customer yesterday.Everything seemed to go great. However, the search box is broken, which is something that has happened to about half of the people who have upgraded, but for the average user its not a big deal. It also broke some of the apps that were pre-installed by Lenovo, but that doesn't necessarily matter to me, because we uninstall all that preloaded crap anyway. It's very stable, and a lot better looking that 8.1. Ninite doesn't work, if you use that service to install/update software, due to security settings with Edge, but there is a work around if you choose to do so.

All in all, I would much rather put someone on 10 than 8 or 8.1, just because Windows 8 sucks so bad.
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Note you said customer.

I wish Lenovo could get their **** together. They have some exciting hardware...if they could stop deploying it with malware.
 
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Aavoxx said:
Note you said customer.

I wish Lenovo could get their **** together. They have some exciting hardware...if they could stop deploying it with malware.
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If all manufactures would stop shipping out machines with crappy software installed, it would save me a lot of time in configuration. Also turning off UEFI and Secure Boot would be awesome too!
 
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g8terh8ter_eric said:
It will be better, in my testing. Also, do you have a SSD installed? That helps too.
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No, not in my laptop.

Not my area of expertise, sorry for the dumb questions, but will I need to back up all my files and reinstall all applications after updating to 10?
 
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g8terh8ter_eric said:
By the way, those that have installed it, make sure to disable Wifi Sense. Probably the worst feature they could have ever come up with, from a security standpoint, in the history of Microsoft.
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what is the wifi sense and what's the problem with it?
 
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kiddiedoc said:
No, not in my laptop.

Not my area of expertise, sorry for the dumb questions, but will I need to back up all my files and reinstall all applications after updating to 10?
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One of the best things to do before doing an in place upgrade, is to make a full image of your system before hand, just in case something goes wrong. You can use the backup and restore feature in Windows 7 to create a full image/backup of your current setup before starting the upgrade.

You shouldn't have to reinstall anything, as long as its compatible with 10. All your files, programs, and settings should carry over. That doesn't mean things won't break, but that's why you need to create an image first.
 
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