[dayglored]

<> What about Win7, with which I am very happy?

I'm in your situation. I have quite a few Win7 machines (one laptop, one desktop, three VMs), and they all perform pretty much flawlessly.

I played with a Win8.1 desktop for about 10 minutes and nearly puked. It's fine for mobiles, I suppose, but it sucks swamp water on a regular computer.

I have been playing with the Win10 "Technical Preview" for a couple weeks, and I will say it's a damn sight better than Win8.1. But it's no great improvement overall, and it's still harder to work with than it has to be.

And IMO it can't hold a candle to Win7. As of now, I'm sticking with Win7 until 2020 when they stop the security updates.

[Peter W. Kessler]

Thank you!

I guess I’ll try to hang on to my equipment (desktop - laptop) for another five years.

I though XP was just fine, frankly.

I bought my Mom & Dad a computer quite a while back. It was a $300.00 loss leader. I found out why: It runs Vista. Oh well, Mom plays solitaire and sends / receives emails; that’s all. Vista works for those, but I wouldn’t want to try using something complicated!

I’ll take a look at Win10 at some point, and try to figure out the difference.

Thanks again!