As we’ve shared, our top priority has been ensuring that everyone has a great upgrade experience, so, we are carefully rolling out Windows 10 in phases, delivering Windows 10 first to our Windows Insiders. While we now have more than 14 million devices running Windows 10, we still have many more upgrades to go before we catch up to each of you that reserved your upgrade. Rest assured we are working 24×7 to continue the upgrade process and are prioritizing the quality of your upgrade experience over anything else. We are grateful for your excitement and enthusiasm and we appreciate your patience over the days and weeks ahead as we carefully roll out Windows 10 in phases to all of you that have reserved.
tangor
5:06 am on Jul 31, 2015 (gmt 0)
Do you think it might be possible that the roll out is to systems MOST LIKELY to upgrade gracefully? After all, the reserve win19 app did a check on your system (if you played along).
Who I feel sorry for is the orphaned Vista folks....
bill
5:16 am on Jul 31, 2015 (gmt 0)
That was the gist of what I read in the roll-up to the launch. They're targeting the best qualified systems first. Makes sense. Then your first wave of adopters are going to rave about how easy the upgrade was.
Oddly enough I have a system at home with an i7 chip, super graphics board, 16GB of RAM that is still awaiting an upgrade. Wonder why it's taking so long...
tangor
7:36 am on Jul 31, 2015 (gmt 0)
A few minutes ago I got the "pull the trigger" for my WORK machine. That will wait a bit. Still investigating the intrusion of web/cloud and MS into my systems before I let that happen!
J_RaD
8:07 pm on Aug 6, 2015 (gmt 0)
hit up a torrent network for an offline installer. once your machine is 100% upgraded extract all the files, run setup, boom.
upgraded 4 machines like that in no time flat.... i think even MS has the win 10 files on an iso somewhere... sure beats waiting for each machine to download 3GB of files.
robzilla
10:20 pm on Aug 6, 2015 (gmt 0)
I'm rather more interested in the number of people who, like me, downgraded back to 7 or 8. It's a feature not many people will be aware of, and you only have a month to do it after the upgrade. I found Windows 10 too sluggish compared to 7, so I was happy to have the option.
IanCP
2:30 am on Aug 7, 2015 (gmt 0)
Well the Laptop with Preview has upgraded itself to Windows 10 Pro - that's it! No noticeable change.
A message on the Win 8.1 Pro Desktop this morning tells me my Win 10 update is ready and waiting, and waiting, and waiting, and waiting... I'll also wait - that's the business machine - I can't afford unexpected changes..
IanCP
2:35 am on Aug 7, 2015 (gmt 0)
i think even MS has the win 10 files on an iso somewhere... sure beats waiting for each machine to download 3GB of files
You don't need an invite to upgrade. I was running Windows 7 in VMware for testing courtesy of MSDN. Being a MSDN licence I wasn't waiting for an invite that may never happen so I Googled "how to upgrade to windows 10 for free".
From the search results I downloaded a Microsoft installer that did the trick. Although on first try I opted to create an installer disk which created a setup disk that later asked for a licence key. So I went back and chose the option to "upgrade this computer" and after downloading about 3 GB finally got to upgrade Windows 7 without a licence key.
The upgrade from Windows 7 to Windows 10 went well. Being a new install of 7 I didn't have any software already installed to worry about. But I don't like the theme much... white on white in app toolbars looks bland.
J_RaD
5:15 pm on Aug 7, 2015 (gmt 0)
But I don't like the theme much... white on white in app toolbars looks bland.
me too, that was the 1st thing i noticed...where is everything..what part do a click or not click... edge is really bad about this.
I found Windows 10 too sluggish compared to 7, so I was happy to have the option.
super speedy for me.. the only sluggish part was on the 1st 4 or 5 start ups, after that it starts up in a flash.
robzilla
6:18 pm on Aug 7, 2015 (gmt 0)
super speedy for me.. the only sluggish part was on the 1st 4 or 5 start ups, after that it starts up in a flash.
Even the calculator would take almost 5 seconds to start. Back on Windows 7 it's pretty much instant. Tried it for a few days, but I also wasn't enjoying having to search for everything via the Start Menu; this would also introduce delays in my workflow.
J_RaD
1:01 pm on Aug 8, 2015 (gmt 0)
yea the searching thing part was a pain.. all apps meh its ok but not so great.
On every install i just kill the un needed default tiles and put in all the tiles to make it more like a win 7 menu.. "this pc" "control panel" etc then all my most used programs so I don't have to wait on it to learn what i use the most... after I did that all was well.
Kinda like every windows version...i spend a day figuring out where they put all the settings and tools, what changed etc and im good.
IanCP
8:38 pm on Aug 8, 2015 (gmt 0)
Kinda like every windows version...i spend a day figuring out where they put all the settings and tools, what changed etc and im good.
Yep!
engine
5:13 pm on Aug 13, 2015 (gmt 0)
I just noticed on one of the machines running Win 7 that the regular windows update had Win 10 in there as an optional install. Make sure, if you don't want it right now, that you don't check the box! With such a major change, it's easily overlooked, imho.
