Get Windows 10

Would have been better to alert the CDC.

Cheers. - Frank

I've had that icon on my computer for a while now. I still have Windows 7, and would consider upgrading to 10 at some point only if it's as user-friendly as 7 (or if I have no choice at some point...).

I'm pretty sure I would have hated 8 based on everything I've heard about it. Hopefully 10 is an actual improvement and not just a new version for the sake of having a new version...

Btw, what's a "trail" version?

I do little understand about windowos 10. I am regular user of windows 7. Thanks for the recommendation.

In case someone wants to get rid of that icon:

1. Click the up arrow to the left of your task bar icons to "Show hidden icons"
2. Click "Customize"
3. Look for "GWX Get Windows 10"
4. Change Drop Down to "Only Show Notifications" or "Hide icon and notifications"
5. Boom. Gone.

Or remove the nagware altogether:
http://winsupersite.com/windows-10/h...ng-your-system

Windows 10 isn’t anywhere near finished, yet it’s already head-and-shoulders better than Windows 8.1, at least for traditional PC users. The fact that it banishes full-screen apps and the Metro Start screen to the aether, focusing instead on the tried-and-true desktop, should be reason enough to make PC purists smile.

My issue is current updating system are not good enough. It make the OS Grow bigger and bigger. and many junk left on the system.
Microsoft need to prepare good updating system. as this will be important.
I hope Windows 10 System are smart enough and did not make the OS Grow too big

Windows 10 is not released yet, it will launch on July 29.

Here is an article I came across which gives some insights to Win 10 and advice

Microsoft has begun its major push for Windows 10 on billions of PCs. If you're running Windows 7 or 8.1, there's a good chance you've had alerts for the new OS — on your system.

The mighty Microsoft marketing system is taking an entirely new approach to introducing the next Windows. Here are the facts, not the hype.

By now, most Windows users know that Microsoft has instituted a reservation system for downloading Windows 10, once it formally starts shipping this July 29. Getting Windows users to reserve a place at the Win10 launch table is a novel concept — as was the Technical Preview program that's been in place for the past few months. Although there are some good aspects to the reservation system, it also has problems and is simply unnecessary.

As you probably know by now, Windows 10 will be a free upgrade for all qualified Windows systems — i.e., mostly personal and "genuine" Win7 and Win8.1 machines — for a full year after its July 29 release. That's not exactly a short window for deciding whether you want the free upgrade. (Reportedly, if you miss that one-year window, you'll have to pay for the OS. And if you haven't updated from Win8 to 8.1, a necessary requirement for Win10, you're way overdue to do so.)

Contrary to some rumors, there will not be any sort of subscription fee after you upgrade. Microsoft will send free updates for the life of the OS.

Possibly the one useful aspect of the Win10 reservation system is that it runs a check of your system to see whether it's ready for the new OS. The "Get Windows 10" application that suddenly appeared on many Windows systems earlier this month includes a "Check my PC" option. As long as you've kept up on patches in Windows Update, updating to Win10 should be relatively uncomplicated for most current PCs.

There are numerous other, more minor changes (detailed in the Win10 Specifications page). For example, during the upgrade process, your anti-malware app will — in theory — be uninstalled and later reinstalled with the latest version. (It's unknown what AV apps this will work for.) The "Check my PC" function will also test whether third-party apps are compatible with Win10.

Upgrading to Win10 will remove a couple of Windows features you might rely on. For example, as noted in Microsoft's Win10 FAQ, Windows Media Center will disappear. In its place, we'll get a DVD-playback app so we can continue watching DVD-based movies on our notebooks. Also gone are Windows 7 gadgets, ostensibly replaced by the small universal-app tiles in Win10's new start menu. In truth, the loss of gadgets is a non-issue; as noted in an MS post, these applets are not secure and haven't been for some time.

Possibly the most important challenge for many Windows users will be the coming changes to Windows Update. The specifics are still somewhat vague, but on the Win10 specifications page, Microsoft states:

"Windows 10 Home users will have updates from Windows Update automatically available."

Windows 10 Pro and Windows 10 Enterprise users will be able to delay updates, using what Microsoft calls a "Current branch" or a "Long-term servicing branch." For the consumer versions of Win10, users will be able to delay update installs only by choosing when to reboot their systems — generally for a few days at most. There will be no option to hide updates, as we currently can in all versions of Win7 and Win8.

Again, the specifics are still to come. But as I understand it, any delay installing updates will apply only to nonsecurity fixes that we now see as "optional." Moreover, security patches may be automatically deployed at any time, not just on Patch Tuesday.

As someone who has watched the evolution of Windows patching over the years, I can well remember where we started — patches appearing any day of the week. (We also had to know exactly which patch needed to be installed before another patch.) Patch Tuesday was initiated to bring some predictability to updating, but the Internet and cloud services are effectively driving us back to continuous patching — at least for security updates.

Though it's clear we need faster and better updating, there's also concern that Microsoft is still sending out problematic patches. We can only hope that Microsoft rises to the occasion and fixes its patch-quality problems. Even at that, if the ability to defer updates is limited, enterprises will be slow to deploy Windows 10.
Reserving a Win10 download seems pointless

As has been noted in several Windows Secrets stories, there's no compelling reason to reserve a Windows 10 download. In fact, there are many good reasons not to. Yes, we can assume that Win10 will be stable and most of our key applications will work just as they do now on Win7 and Win8.1. But we should give third-party application vendors some time to tweak their applications. That's especially true of anti-malware apps. For instance, a Webroot thread notes that the app needs to be uninstalled and reinstalled with each Win10 build — and that will still be the case with the shipping version of Win10.

Moreover, the reservation system is not as simple as you might expect. To prepare Win7/8 systems for Win10, Microsoft has already released several related updates, some of them with vague descriptions. KB 3035583, for example, adds "capabilities for Windows Update notifications when new updates are available to the user." KB 2952664 for Win7 SP1 makes "improvements to the current operating system in order to ease the upgrade experience to the latest version of Windows." And KB 2976978 for Windows 8.1 determines "whether compatibility issues may be encountered when the latest Windows operating system is installed."

Other Win10-related updates for Win7 and Win 8 include KB 3050265 (Win7), KB 3050267 (Win8.1), and KB 3068708.

If you have no plans to upgrade to Windows 10 soon, none of those updates is needed; they can all be hidden. And if you decide to upgrade to Win10, say, six months from now, there will undoubtedly be new Win7/8 updates to help with that process.

Moreover, the reservation system isn't playing well with some computers, as noted in an MS Answers thread. The thread includes various fixes — including Registry hacks. But the best solution appears to be a set of batch files accessed via a Dropbox link. Again, see the aforementioned thread for the details.

There are also reports of issues with the Win10 compatibility-checking tool. It has erroneously warned some users that their systems would not support Win10. If you've overclocked your computer, the compatibility test won't run properly. If you've disabled Internet Explorer, you'll need to re-enable it for the Windows 10 upgrade. Also, if you're running an Intel Core i7 processor, the compatibility system reports that the CPU is not supported.

On my Lenovo X1 Carbon laptop, purchased just this past December, the compatibility checker indicated that I'll have problems with my Bluetooth driver (see Figure 1). That's sufficient cause to make me delay upgrading the Win8.1 machine — at least until new Bluetooth drivers are built and released.
Win10 compatility report

Figure 1. The Windows 10 compatibility report for a newer Lenovo laptop

If you had problems with the reservation system and took the time to fix it, you'll see the offer to reserve the Win10 download in the notification area on the desktop and in Windows Update, as shown in Figure 2.
Win10 notification

Figure 2. The Windows 10 download-reservation offer in Windows Update

If you find Microsoft's marketing ploy annoying, making the "Get Windows 10" icon/app disappear is relatively easy. In Windows Update, locate and uninstall KB 3035583. Locate it in the Windows Update list of patches to be installed and hide it.

Simply canceling a reservation is also relatively easy. Right-click on the "Get Windows 10" icon and then click the "Get Windows 10" link. Next, click the menu bar on the upper-left side and select View Confirmation; you can then cancel the reservation (see Figue 3).
Cancel Win10 reservation

Figure 3. The Get Windows 10 app lets you create — or cancel — your Win10 reservation.

(Note: If you make a reservation, Win10 will not suddenly appear on your system on or soon after July 29. Microsoft states that you'll have to give permission in order for the upgrade to proceed.)
Who should get in line for the Win10 upgrade?

Again, the prudent answer is not to get in line at all. Wait a couple of months before considering the upgrade. I suspect that Win7 users will be happy to wait — that OS is familiar and solid. (Some Win7 users will probably wait for Windows 15.) Anyone who has struggled with Win8.1 will be tempted by the free upgrade; for many, the Win10 experience will be an improvement and possibly less disruptive from a patching perspective. I find the Win10 menu system much easier to use than Win8.1's native menu. And if you still want a classic Win7-type menu, you can always add Stardock's Start10 (site).

The first wave of Windows 10 users will probably be those who have participated in the Win10 Preview program. And I assume many of those installations are running on test systems. (It's foolish to test beta software on a production machine.)

Setting up the shipping version of Win10 on a test system is a good way to confirm that your applications are compatible. For example, I've tested QuickBooks 2013, 2014, and 2015, and all three worked just fine. (Generally speaking, anything that had no issues with 8.1 should have no problems with Windows 10.)

Obviously, reserving a copy of Win10 is entirely up to you. But there's no compelling reason to join Microsoft's marketing effort. However, if you do jump on the next Windows, I have one final word of advice: Make a full system-image backup before starting the upgrade process. It will probably be your only fallback solution.

Windows 10?

Hey, I'd rather puke up a pony.

So do you guys like Windows 10? As for me, it is a very nice OS. I used the preview version of it which had some weird issues with software compatibility for me. I tried to install Skype from the official website but did not succeed. So I had to download here the latest Skype version for Windows 10. I installed it offline and now it works fine. Has anyone here had such problems too?

I want my toaster to send me a text message when my toast is done burning.

My computer is Windows 8.
I thought Windows 10 will be published on July 29, 2015 and start a download.

I've been using Windows 10 (preview builds) for months. It's actually quite nice. The start menu is back and it's reasonably stable.

I'm gonna wait 6 months until the have the bugs worked out and have their first major version update.

win 10 already on its way! I'm still basking in the Euphoria of WIN 7 professional

i had a look

it said free for the first year

who needs it

if i did want it, it is freely available on torrents

but im sure it would have to try very hard to be worse than 8.1

this afternoon, when i play the computer, it bounce a page (Windows 10)which wishes me to renovate my computer system, i click it, but there is no any reflection, i wonder whether it is needed for to renovate it, i do not think so, and i think that sigh up is very boring.

hm no idea to do this or not I mean install win 10

Well I will check reviews of windows 10 and then i will install it.

This website has many informative articles about Windows 10:
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Just I installed Windows 10 and is a great.

i didn't seen any notification about get windows 10. i want to upgrade my window to 10 so what can i do now?

Depending on your location you might have to wait a week or more to be able to download your copy, but there is a workaround that allows you to skip the download queue and install it today. You can read more about it here How to force Windows 10 installation and skip the download queue | /ynef.net

I was waiting for a "notification" but you are only notified after you click the flag in your task bar. Yesterday nothing but today it said download successful and I could install it when I was ready.

Install, download and reboot took 57 minutes on my 4 year old computer with lots of stuff on it.

So far everything working flawlessly.

I am using windows 7 and i am very satisfied with it. If i can change it for a Windows 10 free of charge in the future i think i will, but i would not pay for it

A couple of questions for those who have already made the upgrade.

First, Have you tried networking between that and windows 7 systems. I have always had trouble networking computers between windows versions.

Second, Any idea how big it is?

Third, if you have a virus or something else in say 18 months, how do you wipe and reinstall windows 10? You have no software and you are out of the free upgrade period. I don't want to need to buy something that I already owned.

Thanks for any help anybody might have.

How can I get it easily? Is there any easy way to get it.

i think the appearance of window 10 is fantastic but after i installed, i turned into blue screen :v

but you have to pay to play solitaire and buy a dvd player programme to be a part of the microsoft family or is that mafia

It almost installed itself into my computer last month. It said "Installing upgrades" when I booted so I waited. After almost an hour and a half of waiting, I had enough so I turned the AVR off and rebooted. Voila, when I checked the upgrades history it said there that there was a failed upgrade to Windows 10.

I don't like how they are forcing us to upgrade. I'll probably hang on to my Win 7 for as long as I can.

I have only had positive results while using windows 10 compared to windows 8 so i recommend it

I might try that,I haven't actually tested Windows 10 but I am intending to.