Windows 10

[Yorkie]

Yes, the basis of the thread is whether or not to upgrade to W10 at this stage. There was a clip on the 'Click' programme on BBC TV this morning showing the 'facial recognition' facility by which simply sitting in front of the PC monitor caused it to recognise the authorised user and the PC booted up instantly.  From what little I could glean from the clip, disregarding the facial recognition, the fast boot up would be a real boon.

I'm not personally interested in other operating systems - I think that's for enthusiasts who enjoy tinkering with software (loosely equivalent to wanting to know what goes on under a car bonnet). I just want my PC to come on when I press the button and to stay on till I switch it off, and in that regard, I've always been very satisfied with Windows as an OS right from the outset, but I skipped Vista and W8. (Went from '98 to XP to W7). W7 has never skipped a beat, neither did previous MS OSs. I think the much vaunted ability of W10 to work across other platforms is more about the survival of MS, who have rather been asleep at the wheel when it comes to the rapid expansion of tablets and smartphones, along with the steady decline of PCs, but that's an irrelevance to the likes of me.

I use Explorer but use Mozilla Thunderbird for e-mails.

I'm sure there will be lots of enthusiastic 'early adopters' of W10 who will soon be gracing us with their homespun wisdom.

No doubt some forum users will be giving it a spin before too long, and will keep us posted!