Windows 10.

[JohnP]

All I'm getting is 'Upgrade to Windows 10 failed'. This started at about 10pm last night and I've had the same several more times since then on both desktop and laptop.

[Phil]

Can't get to my comp for an hour or 2, I'll report back as soon as.

[JohnP]

Perhaps the servers are overwhelmed.

[Phil]

I reckon that's a strong possibility 

[geodar]

I saw on msn that it wasn't released until Wednesday midnight even though they are all talking about it on the radio.

i'll try next week and give it a bit of time to calm down.

geoff

[JHFoto]

I think it's best to wait until the bugs are ironed out

Thats what I am doing.............

[JohnP]

I've got three bootable hard drives installed in my desktop and I intend keeping Windows 7 on two of them for the time being.

[Phil]

I'm afraid I'm one of those that simply can't wait... I want it NOW!

W10 will be installed as soon as

[FUJI]

I await this Windows 10 update with great anticipation.......my PC s still run on XP Pro.....but my NOKIA 1020 Windows 8 Smartphone/Camera should upgrade automatically once I'm notified.

 

FUJI

Edited July 29, 2015 by FUJI

[JohnP]

Unless I've misunderstood things anyone with W7 & W8.1 will have W10 installed automatically unless you change setting for Windows updates.

[JohnP]

It's like waiting for Christmas... nothing yet!

[Paul80]

My system is also showing countless failed installation attemps, even left the PC on all day in the hope that it would come down whilst I was out at work but alas no.

Now trying to download the ISO file direct from Microsoft but its painfully slow, only downloading 15% in an hour.

I await it with baited breath 

[JohnP]

My system is also showing countless failed installation attemps, even left the PC on all day in the hope that it would come down whilst I was out at work but alas no.

Now trying to download the ISO file direct from Microsoft but its painfully slow, only downloading 15% in an hour.

I await it with baited breath 

I don't want to have to do a clean install so I'll just have to be patient.... hope I live long enough!

[JohnP]

It might be better to wait a few months.

http://www.computerworld.com/article/2953307/microsoft-windows/windows-10-is-for-suckers.html

[Phil]

It might be better to wait a few months.

http://www.computerworld.com/article/2953307/microsoft-windows/windows-10-is-for-suckers.html

Afraid it won't stop me, as soon as I get the notification it'll be installed. Scour the internet long enough and you'll find dozens of reasons why you shouldn't upgrade.

[JohnP]

Afraid it won't stop me, as soon as I get the notification it'll be installed. Scour the internet long enough and you'll find dozens of reasons why you shouldn't upgrade.

As I said earlier I will have it on one hard drive and leave W7 on the other two.

I'm scared to look but the Windows icon has just appeared in the system tray and it's been there quite some time... it's at 42% and only going up extremely slowly... Oh my gawd!!!

[JohnP]

I don't believe it... download got to 100% after over one hour and when I restarted the computer I got the blue screen with the message not to power off as update was being installed. When I eventually was able to restart computer I'm still on Windows 7, I check update history and update failed again... I give up for this evening... pi**ed off with it.

Edited July 29, 2015 by JohnP

[Denis]

I removed the Win7 update that had my free Win 10 download pegged for today.

I dont think I will bother with 10 until a couple of years down the road,I cant risk stuffing this machine up if a few things will not work.

[JohnP]

I'm trying this, I could be late getting to bed.

http://venturebeat.com/2015/07/28/how-to-force-windows-to-start-downloading-the-windows-10-update-files/

Edited July 29, 2015 by JohnP

[JohnP]

I'm trying this, I could be late getting to bed.

http://venturebeat.com/2015/07/28/how-to-force-windows-to-start-downloading-the-windows-10-update-files/

This worked for me... I'm now using Windows 10.  I started at 11pm and by midnight the download had only reached 9%, so I left it and went to bed. I got up at about 2am and download had reached about 40% so I went back to bed. I got up again at 5am, and it was at 71%. I finally got up at 7am and download had finished. It then took until 7.40am to finish installing and configuring things. I've not tried anything yet apart from checking emails and coming on here, I've noticed that the colours on my monitor need adjusting so that's it so far. Breakfast now and play after.

[Clicker]

Phew, I'm exhausted John..... And I'm just reading  about  windows 10 !!! 

I'll wait to see your progress with it before I do anything....... I'm the tortoise in this race 

[JohnP]

Have you noticed any applications/peripherals that don't work/have been deleted, John? 

I haven't had time to explore much yet, I'm not one who takes to change easily and I'm glad I still have Windows 7 on two other hard drives I can boot up on. There are loads of apps and stuff on Windows 10 that I'll never use ( I hate bloatware) and I need to find out how to delete. I need time to find my way around before deciding whether to continue with it or use Windows 7 which I'm happy with.

Edited July 30, 2015 by JohnP

[ChrisLumix]

As a Mac user for 20 years, I actually am quite impressed with what I've seen of Windows 10 (WindOS X?) in reviews. What I'm less impressed with is the thing they say is the "strength" of it: that it's the same OS on all your devices be it a desktop/laptop, tablet or phone. I can't understand what you'd use the full OS for on a phone? You can't use Photoshop effectively, or a large spreadsheet or WP document, or edit video - basically you'd want to just browse websites and email, watch the occasional movie if you're nowhere near a decent size screen, or upload images to FB Instagram or Twitter. Having the full OS on your phone is (1) taking up valuable space and (2) providing lots of 'stuff' you'd never want to use on the tiny screen of a phone.

Tablets? A different situation. I think Apple missed a trick with iPads : there should be a version with OS X on, that can compress itself and switch to iOS when needed. 

[JohnP]

Am I the only one here using Windows 10... surely not!

[Phil]

Bed at 9 last night, then up at 4 for work so not had chance to install it yet.