Win7 --> "Free upgrades to Win10???

[Muse]

Only a few days ago was I able to get past a hurdle installing Windows Updates on one of my Windows 7 machines (T60 running Windows 7 Home Premium 32bit). I still have a T61 running Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit that I haven't gotten to successfullly jump that hurdle. My backup of the T61 Windows Ultimate 64bit having fizzled due to an external HD failure, I may have to install Windows 7 fresh on that T61.

Anyway, now that this T60 running Win7 Home Premium 32bit has managed to Update it's occasionally showing a small bright blue window that a lot of you have no doubt seen saying:

Introducing windows 10 Your FREE upgrade is waiting...

Now different people at the Anandtech Operating Systems Forum [ http://forums.anandtech.com/forumdisplay.php?f=11 ] appear to have much different ideas on this. Many obviously think it's great, go ahead and move to Windows 10 free while you can (one year from the introduction of Windows 10). Others regard the way Microsoft has purveyed this upgrade, rather intrusively pushed it with Windows Updates, amounts to a virus... or quasi virus.

My perspective at the moment is that 3 of my machines are Thinkpads (the two mentioned above running Win7, and I have another T60 running XP), and I wonder if doing this free upgrade to Windows 10 would be an on-balance smart/wise/functional course of action. I am pretty sure that to "upgrade" the machine running XP I'd first have to install Windows 7 on that machine, and before the one year window closes.

I run some software that I don't want to abandon, at least not anytime soon, such as Microsoft Visual Foxpro (version 9), and Microsoft FoxPro 2.6 (which seems to run OK only on my XP machines, runs weird on the Win7 32bit machine). I also run some other "legacy" software including Pagemaker 6.5. Maybe those would transition, I don't know.

Anyway, I'm wondering what people are doing. I don't see any mention of Windows 10 in the subjects of posts displayed on the T6x forums subjects page. Should I just stick with Windows 7 (or even XP in the case of one of my T60s), or maybe eventually Windows 8.x? Going that route (i.e. sticking with Windows 7) I would maybe have to follow some of the procedures described at the Anandtech forums (linked above) for disabling the nags to upgrade to Windows 10.

[ajkula66]

I'd suggest visiting the W10 forums both here and on NBR and deciding for yourself...

[Muse]

I'd suggest visiting the W10 forums both here and on NBR and deciding for yourself...

Thanks, I didn't know there was a W10 forum here, I'll check it out. Now, what is NBR?

[Neil]

NBR = http://forum.notebookreview.com/