-=> On 01-15-16  16:52,  Holger Granholm <=-   
    -=> spoke to Dale Shipp about Re: Win7 to Win 10 ?? <=-   
      
    DS> I have two computers that have windows 7 on them (one home , one   
    DS> pro). Is there any real reason I should take the offer to upgrade   
    DS> them to windows 10?   
      
    HG> Yes, it's free, and second: from what I have read and heard, Win 8 has   
    HG> not been a success.   
      
   I definitely did not like the Win 8 that came on my wife's new computer,   
   and it only took about a week for me to decide to upgrade it to Win 10.   
   My quandry is that even though Win 10 is free at the moment for both of   
   my Win 7 computers (until July 2016 IIRC), I don't see how the change   
   would improve things -- and am worried about what might get hurt.  I   
   have a lot of legacy software and hardware that I've managed to get   
   working on my Win7 computer, but I'm not sure what would happen to them   
   if I changed.   
      
   Software -- a large number of 16 bit DOS applications, Argus, Maximus,   
   fairly old versions of MS Word and other MS Office programs, Eudora, and   
   the list goes on.  Some of these worked fine when I changed from Win Xp.   
   Others I have to sort of bend over backwards, including installing Win   
   XP in a virtual machine for my Bluewave.   
       
    DS> I'd like to hear some pros & cons for making the change or just   
    DS> leaving things as they are.   
      
   So far no one has given me any cons -- but I am still worried.   
      
    HG> I'm a newbie to Windows 10, and have not yet got to grips with it,   
    HG> but once I'll get the Classic Shell installed, I think I'll get   
    HG> accustomed to it.   
      
   What do you mean by Classic Shell?   
      
   Thanks for your response -- and for the other responses I've gotten in   
   the past couple of days here.   
      
                                  Dale Shipp   
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