I let the upgrade do its thing a few days ago and after a VERY long time it was done. It was a pretty cool, seamless upgrade and it appears to be 100% functional. In the couple of days running it I have yet to find a piece of legacy software that doesn't work. Also after dumping the Win7 backup files I have quite a bit more free space on my 250 gig drive than I did before the upgrade.
On the down side, MS clearly thinks that mimicking the phone / mobile paradigm with mobile related software or "bloatware" on a desktop PC is somehow important enough to clutter up the machine with. Add to that you cannot remove most of it or even the links in the start menu.
Having to hunt for simple pleasures and have them on the task bar like a volume control and having 1/4 of the task bar taken up with the "cortana" box on a PC without a mic (I bet most PC's still don't have a mic) is just plain silly.
As I said, so far it's 100% functional, kudos to MS, but the UI is straight out of GUI programming 101. It's like they tried to copy OS/2
Some ridicule folks that say it's ugly, OK it's fair to accept a plain vanilla UI, but to ridicule those who expected a bit more from a very mature company like MS is unfair.
As a species we ARE taken with appearances. Just about everything we buy has something aesthetically pleasing about it that compels us to buy and use it, and a UI is no different. Ask a Linux or Mac user if appearances are important see what you get. OK, their market share isn't huge, but betting your future on a 2d fuggly GUI without the ability to spruce it up is IMO a less than perfect tack for the future.
The bottom line is it stays, I ordered a spare drive to clone this one to, but just in case, I kept my Win 7 drive in a lock box in the event something comes up that seriously ruffles my feathers.
On the down side, MS clearly thinks that mimicking the phone / mobile paradigm with mobile related software or "bloatware" on a desktop PC is somehow important enough to clutter up the machine with. Add to that you cannot remove most of it or even the links in the start menu.
Having to hunt for simple pleasures and have them on the task bar like a volume control and having 1/4 of the task bar taken up with the "cortana" box on a PC without a mic (I bet most PC's still don't have a mic) is just plain silly.
As I said, so far it's 100% functional, kudos to MS, but the UI is straight out of GUI programming 101. It's like they tried to copy OS/2
Some ridicule folks that say it's ugly, OK it's fair to accept a plain vanilla UI, but to ridicule those who expected a bit more from a very mature company like MS is unfair.
As a species we ARE taken with appearances. Just about everything we buy has something aesthetically pleasing about it that compels us to buy and use it, and a UI is no different. Ask a Linux or Mac user if appearances are important see what you get. OK, their market share isn't huge, but betting your future on a 2d fuggly GUI without the ability to spruce it up is IMO a less than perfect tack for the future.
The bottom line is it stays, I ordered a spare drive to clone this one to, but just in case, I kept my Win 7 drive in a lock box in the event something comes up that seriously ruffles my feathers.