Well, I did the windows 10 on my smaller laptop because I did not want to "compromise" my new fancy smancy dancy 17" HP.

I can't imagine how it would run on the 17" HP.... which has the AMD A10 Elite Quad-core.

Yeah i'm chicken, but the windows fella's do say not to load it into a much needed machine because it might cause a problem and they won't be responsible for it... come to think of it... no software company is responsible for any of their software, and yet we click "OK".......sigh.....

The little "Get Windows 10" icon on my taskbar is calling me..... it will be a free version for me, and if I download it now I will be on a "priority list" according to the new posts from the windows team.

I downloaded my World of Warcraft game onto the little win10 laptop last night, of course blizzard told me that my system was not up to the task of running the game in "optimal mode", but I loaded it up anyway.
It runs no worse than it used to, kinda jumpy at times, even at the lower settings, but it is still playable, which tells me that if I download win10 on the big HP it will run also.

Thing is, I don't remember if all my programs transferred, I'll have to write down what I have loaded and see....well...maybe.... the deadline is getting nearer.... oh the pressure!!

When I buy a new laptop or pc I always get the "recovery" or "install" discs or I don't buy them.
Had a guy at the local Best Buy tell me they don't give the discs with new stuff anymore and I would have to download a "recovery" disc set.
I told him have a nice day (was a $1400 laptop), as I was walking away a manager says "wait a minute sir, I will see if we have a copy in the back". Turns out they take the disc's and keep them, so they can "fix" your computer when it breaks, since you download the "recovery disc" when you boot up for the first time, you really don't need the original windows discs.
I find this kind of sneaky and underhanded, so I don't buy from them any longer.
Oh, and the Walmart ones actually come with driver discs, and recovery ones (if you buy the higher priced ones).
I just have to copy all my games and stuff to a flash drive so I can put everything back into place on a fresh install of win10.

well I have a virgin install of 8.1, so far no offer of 'free' 10 lol
Any dual booted linux with 8.1 yet?

One thing that strikes me is that after 4 years of churning up new approach after new approach that MS is now plugging in 3rd party software bits and pieces when they can find one that works "better" than their stuff (or else perform roughly on the level of the industry leader, which depends on which bit your are talking about).

It shows they are determined to do better AND that they still have money in their pockets to do so.   A critical mind would say "desperate to do better" but that is OK since they are in a desperate situation, having lost over a third of the company's personnel in the last 3 years and being under the self-imposed deadline gun now with stockholders holding their feet in the fire to ship on time.

They are generating some buzz and generating some hope that now that they actually created a better OS than their old products -- easy enough to do I would think.

Good enough to lure business to change over from Win 7 ??? -- that is the real question.    Win 10 won't be a success unless this happens.

Business isn't doing anything until the pricing is known --- then they will weigh cost vs benefits.

Went to do my daily "how's this thing running today" on my little laptop and started the update for win 10 pro insider preview build 10642.
After about the third update and restart (15 min) something strange happened, when the reboot finished, I had a 4" large circle on my screen with a big ol' 0% and the words "Updating to Windows 10" and " We are updating, your computer will restart several times so, just sit back and relax"
Well after about 45 minutes of "sitting and relaxing", I now have Windows 10 Pro (there are no insider words or build numbers anywhere on my screen and my "about this computer" says Windows 10 Pro, so I guess it is official and I have my first full update to the new windows 10.
I don't know what's so "Pro" about it though, it doesn't have Cortana yet, and windows office is a "get office" option. I have a "notebook".... hmmmm, guess all pro's need that.
It also has a few other things, i'll attempt to get a screen shot to show what it looks like.

try pushing the camera button  

Old_rider,  Talos Principal is on sale 66% off on steam today.   I know your wife likes the wandering around puzzle games and this is a good 'un.

Well while flippin' through the net this morning I ran across another win10 install story... I read the first one about 3 days ago and thought "hey, i'd like to follow how this guy does, since he uses way more stuff than I do".
But alas I forgot to "fav" the link, but guess what, he has done a follow-up called "day 2"... and links his day one story in it....
This guy is pretty "savvy" on software, so i'll link his stories as I see them...

http://reviews.gizmodo.com/windows-10-day-two-1720099952