cqbrodie wrote:
Are there any worthwhile points/advantages to switch from Windows 7 to
Windows 10?
I realize that MS will not support Windows 7 beyond some close date,
but what else is there to W10 that is worthwhile?
If you're starting from a new machine, Win 10 is probably OK, although
you have to decide how comfortable you are with Microsoft's "Windows as
a Service" approach, including the telemetry (and tuning it) and the
forced upgrades coming from Microsoft.
Win 10 may be "the most secure version of Windows ever", but Microsoft
has been pulling that one out with every release of Windows since at
least XP. It's true (and I would consider a release to be fatally
flawed, if it wasn't), but it's not that big of a deal.
Personally, I don't see anything sufficiently compelling to be worth the
costs (time and effort) of an upgrade. To me, Win 7 does more to meet
Microsoft's needs than my needs.
To me, the biggest potential negative to an upgrade (beyond the
telemetry and forced upgrades) is compatibility issues of drivers and
older software. If you're running the most current releases of
application software, most of the time, you should be fine. With
drivers, there's some hardware vendors that aren't bothering to do win
10 versions of their drivers, and if you have a an installation that's
more than about 3 years old, then there are chances that you could have
conflicts. I know that when Win 10 was released a year ago, HP published
a list of machines that they would support (and had tested on Win 10
upgrades), but anything on that list (even if otherwise supported by HP)
would not be supported for Win 10 upgrades.
The place where you're most likely to have problems would be networking,
video display and possibly printers. For older devices, be prepared that
you may need to replace them, and if you have a laptop, that may mean
going to external devices that connect through USB.
BTW, your subject line reads "3.40" (which caught my eye, and I've
corrected in this response).
As far as I'm aware SM 2.40 works fine with Windows 10. I haven't done a
lot with Win 10, other than testing on virtual machines (including one
that I upgraded from Win 7). I haven't had any problem with Seamonkey,
but I don't have any live data, and my profiles are pretty much default,
without much tweaking of preferences, or use of extensions.
My view is that if you *want* Win 10, go for it. However, if you decide
that you can live without things like Cortana or Windows Ink, wait until
you decide you're ready for a new machine. Remember Win 10 support will
continue until sometime in 2020.
Smith
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