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Originally Posted by dkperez
1. Is it FER REAL, ABSOLUTELY FREE - NOW AND FOREVER?
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Yes.
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2. WILL IT BE FASTER? NOT faster texting or time wasting, but ON THE SAME BOX WITH THE SAME HARDWARE, will Windows 10 run Adobe Lightroom, Photoshop, or other actual productivity TOOLS measurably FASTER?
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It'll boot faster. It won't magically make your programs run faster.
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4. Will it be MORE productive? Not "productive" for my 12-year-old grandson who wants to tweet and facebook and use the crap in 8.1, but productive for someone who actually has WORK to do and needs their tools to be accessible, functional, and fast. For example, it took WAY too long to get rid of as much of the 8.1 drivel as possible so it was useful, and WAY too many 3rd party tools to replace the built-in interface. Am I going to have spend ANOTHER week to make 10 useful?
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Depends how you define "productive". It looks very like Windows 7. If you find that to be a productive environment, you should find Windows 10 to be equally so.
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I have no problem going from 7 or 8.1 to 10, but I DO NOT want to spend hours a day for the next month chasing problems on my wife's laptop so she can skype with her sisters...
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You're very unlikely to have any problems upgrading a Windows 8 machine, but a Windows 7 one is going to need new drivers, so it may be as well to check if the drivers you depend on are available for Windows 10. Eg, I use a Dell Multifunction device which does not have Windows 8 drivers available for it (Windows 10 uses the same drivers as Windows 8), so it would stop working if I were to upgrade to Windows 10.
Hope that's of some help to you.