Subj : Re: Win7 to Win 10 ??
To   : Holger Granholm
From : Dale Shipp
Date : Sun Jan 17 2016 02:43:00

 -=> On 01-15-16  16:52,  Holger Granholm <=-
 -=> spoke to Dale Shipp about Re: Win7 to Win 10 ?? <=-

 DS> I have two computers that have windows 7 on them (one home , one
 DS> pro). Is there any real reason I should take the offer to upgrade
 DS> them to windows 10?

 HG> Yes, it's free, and second: from what I have read and heard, Win 8 has
 HG> not been a success.

I definitely did not like the Win 8 that came on my wife's new computer,
and it only took about a week for me to decide to upgrade it to Win 10.
My quandry is that even though Win 10 is free at the moment for both of
my Win 7 computers (until July 2016 IIRC), I don't see how the change
would improve things -- and am worried about what might get hurt.  I
have a lot of legacy software and hardware that I've managed to get
working on my Win7 computer, but I'm not sure what would happen to them
if I changed.

Software -- a large number of 16 bit DOS applications, Argus, Maximus,
fairly old versions of MS Word and other MS Office programs, Eudora, and
the list goes on.  Some of these worked fine when I changed from Win Xp.
Others I have to sort of bend over backwards, including installing Win
XP in a virtual machine for my Bluewave.
 
 DS> I'd like to hear some pros & cons for making the change or just
 DS> leaving things as they are.

So far no one has given me any cons -- but I am still worried.

 HG> I'm a newbie to Windows 10, and have not yet got to grips with it,
 HG> but once I'll get the Classic Shell installed, I think I'll get
 HG> accustomed to it.

What do you mean by Classic Shell?

Thanks for your response -- and for the other responses I've gotten in
the past couple of days here.

                               Dale Shipp
                  fido_261_1466 (at) verizon (dot) net
                              (1:261/1466)


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