Windows 10

Windows 10

Microsoft is pushing their Windows 10, but you should not get it right away. There is no reason to reserve your copy as you can get it for "free" for a year. Reserved copies will be pushed out on July 30 whether you want it or not. If you did reserve your copy you can cancel your reservation fairly easily. The winsupersite.com has clear step by step instructions:

http://winsupersite.com/windows-10/successfully-cancelling-your-windows-10-upgrade-reservation

We don't know how many issues will occur after updating your Windows 7/8 operating system at this time. We are recommending our clients to wait until after the first daredevils have reported their results and Microsoft has made adjustments. We also recommend waiting for the 1st service pack to be released which will most likely fix the major issues. Once we are ready to upgrade we will review the proper upgrade steps at that time. It will include checking your system, devices and software for compatibility and backing up thoroughly, hopefully with a complete system image in the event something breaks.

You may have seen this irritating advertisement in your system tray.

Learn to live with it for now. If you hide it, they'll bring it back with the next update. Since we are essentially renting the operating system from them, they seem to feel they can do whatever they want. So, they have installed a program called GWX.EXE (for Get Windows X) which runs all the time on our machine to control advertising and push Windows 10 on us. This was part of the necessary security updates a couple months ago.