Considering moving to Windows 10 from Windows 7 - better for ED?

[Iain L]

USB 3.x, SSD trim/boot, new hardware types in general are all situations where 10 handles things better than 7. Overall, I think it's a win. But yes, that's despite several problems that can occur under the 10 paradigm of doing that much more under the covers to keep things tidy without requiring interaction.

If the setup you have works, then it works, but your next build should be 10-based one.

 

[babelfisch]

You should. IT Staff are a conservative bunch who typically avoid risky situations because they literally have lots of money (and potentially their jobs) riding on every decision they make. When eye brows go up in an IT office, there's usually a damned good reason why.

You misunderstood... When I said "I don't care what professionals are doing" I meant they know what they are doing, I don't need to worry about them. It's the users that I am afraid of. A self updating OS is the best thing that could happen for everyone, less DDOS, less spam, less problems.

At some point, if you have Win 10, you are going to have issues or some sort of conflict on your system. It is a good OS, but saddled with lots of unnecessary garbage to monetize your personal info. As long as people keep buying the OS, it will get worse as MS has no incentive to improve things. Future iterations will get more invasive and problematic. If you're good with that, then game on. Just accept that a lot of us professionally paid IT people don't think Win10 is worth while. We banned Win 8 from our campus and do not have a single installed copy beyond a test VM. Win 10 is not impressing us either so far for many more reasons.

Actually in my experience it's the other way around, I am a professionally paid IT guy myself and everyone I work with uses Windows 10 + a few other systems.

 

[z33r0x]

I also still use an iPhone 4S with iOS 7.1, and my TV is only 1080P, not 4K. So yeah, apparently I'm old-school. If it ain't broke don't upgrade.

Very wise words, and good for you man, if you upgrade your iPhone, it will become very slow and start to freeze and . Becomes a very unstable phone if you update. Everything to make sure you buy a new one

 

[Iain L]

Doesn't seem to be anything terribly wrong with my 4S running the last version of iOS that worked on it. Certainly it has the advantage of still running a lot more software than is available under 7.x.

And I'll agree with babelfisch - Professional IT people are welcome to run Win7 because they can do all the fiddling around to keep it secure, optimized and so on. It's those who don't know what they're doing that benefit most from having Win10 run around in the background doing all that stuff automatically for them.