WIN 10 Warning

[Iggy]

A couple off CCC members who installed the free WIN 10 upgrades that took several hours on their old computers have suffered severe problems afterwards when trying to use Photoshop. Their only solution was to uninstall WIN 10. Our IT department advised against installing WIN 10, which thankfully I abided by.
Iggy

[Paul Heester]

As I work in IT Im often guided by "If it aint broke dont fix it" which has served me well

[Iggy]

Thanks Paul. Has anyone who has "upgraded" with WIN 10 to an old computer NOT had any problems?
Iggy

[walterconquy]

What's WIN 10
Wally

[Mike Farley]

I started a Windows 10 thread when it was first announced and advised caution when upgrading. It seems that it might still be worthwhile waiting until a bit nearer the July 29 deadline.

Sometimes the problem is not with the operating system, but applications which do not conform to Microsoft's standards. Neither does it help that Microsoft launched the OS without the usual candidate release stage to allow manufacturers to test their products beforehand. The last beta which came out two months or so before launch still had quite a few bugs. Does anyone know which version of Photoshop the members are using? I would have thought that the latest iterations of Adobe's applications would be OK by now, but there might be issues with older software. If that is the case, the only option could be an upgrade as the software is unsupported unless the fault lies with Microsoft.

There are so many combinations of hardware and software that it is impossible to test every configuration, so inevitably even a formal release of an operating system should be considered as a beta. Apple, which unike Microsoft has control of both hardware and operating system still manages to get it wrong. The first version of the El Capitan OSX upgrade managed to break Outlook, although I believe that has now been corrected. Given the ubiquity of Microsoft Office, I still wonder how that happened. Personally, I have stuck with the version of Yosemite which came with my MacBook although it should be safe by now to upgrade.

The other thing to note is that in the Home Premium version of Windows 10 Microsoft has removed the facility to choose when OS updates are applied as it wants home users to act as guinea pigs and test changes before they are issued to corporate customers. It is possible to get around this by specifying that the Internet link is metered. Google is your friend if you want to know more.

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[Mike Farley]

What's WIN 10
Wally

Something which as a Mac owner you do not have to be concerned about. As I noted above, Apple is more than capable of creating its own gotchas for its users.