I took the plunge over Christmas on my main PC.

Before I updated win7 to Win10 I did some house cleaning and fully backed up the PC. Downloaded and ran the update. Was very surprised almost everything worked first time. Just had to rename some of the network interfaces for Virtual box clients and all was well.

Also did the kids laptop.

So far, I have not had any problems. I was really glad I did the windows insider stuff mid 2015, so the new layout / apps names was not completely strange.

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Yes, snipping tool is there

Great! Thanks.

It's sounding more user friendly to me now!

It is not difficult to use if you use other versions of Windows, the start menu is not the best, to pin stuff on it like you do on Windows 7 you have the awful tiles, but you can get a third party start menu to make it more like Windows 7.

I know that ads showing the screen with the tiles was what immediately put me off it. If the desktop can look more like W7, then that's OK.

The settings are split apart, you have got the control panel and you have got settings, that is a bit of a pain.

The look of Windows 10 is not that nice, very flat and dull and also some things that are not finished, like the context menus.

My view and a lot of other people is that Windows 10 is still in beta and the wider public is being used as a test bed, also watch the spying in there, if you do want to have MS spying on you then turn everything off, like getting to know you and cortana. Best is to use third party software to do it.

I suppose appearance is something to get used to, but I don't like how there's always things that need to be ironed out and corrected after people start complaining about things that are clunky or unsafe.
Cortana on a phone was another thing I didn't like seeing in the TV ads. Would certainly dispense with that.

Windows 109 is better than Windows 7 in that it is faster, runs smoother, have better memory management, but I do not think it have much advantage over 8.1 for joe public anyway

Advantages or not, seems we don't get a choice ..after all, we're only the customer Still, I can sort of see that keeping 2 O/s's updated would be hard for MS!

There are no ads on the start screen. That's part of the misinformation spread about 10.

If you wish you can have suggestions of apps feom the app store that you might be interested in, based on what you have downloaded already, which can be a useful feature. You can turn this off if you don't like it.

Still, I can sort of see that keeping 2 O/s's updated would be hard for MS!

MS have at most points been keeping 3 or 4 OS's up to date. At present they support/update Win 7, Win 8.1 and Win 10. Those 3 will be supported until 2020. If MS kept to their normal cycle (which they say they aren't) then another Windows OS would be released before Win 7 is retired in which case they would be updating 4 OS's at the same time.

TrishH didn't say the Start screen had ads. She said "ads showing the screen with the tiles".

A very different thing.

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"ads showing the screen with the tiles".

That phrase doesn't really make sense, but I took it to mean the screen that shows live tiles. In other words, the Start Screen. This is the only place (as far as I know) that the FUD-meisters have (wrongly) stated that ads are displayed.

What screen do you think she is talking about?

I am assuming it is advertisements in the media that show screen shots.

Ah - I see what you mean. I haven't seen such advertisements from Microsoft, but I can see that they would be a little misleading as they couldn't demonstrate the dynamic aspect of live tiles - which is pretty much the whole point of them.

But you hardly ever have to see that Start Screen if you don't want to. I never much used the Start Menu in 7 as I had all the programs I normally used pinned to the taskbar or in folders on the desktop; I work much the same way with 10.

Reading the paragraph rather than isolating half of it helps clarify what she meant. Sentences in paragraph are generally associated. That's what paragraphs do.

Though I read it as Ian does anyway.

Thanks for your helpful input.

Anything useful to say about the actual question?