My experience with using windows 10 so far is very positive. I have been testing a load of stuff on 32 and 64 bit versions of windows 10 with various versions of office installed (both desktop and 365) and I have had no difficulties with it being backwardly compatible with even 16 bit programs written 20 years ago.

I have yet to come across a machine crash and have very little difficulty navigating my way round or making it do the things I want. I have only once so far consulted google and that was to find out whther the new 'print anything to pdf' function could be configured to automatically open the document created if desired. It is easy to navigate and set up things and its search facilities are very good. Edge, the new browser, is clean and appears ok.

So far I am thinking that I may upgrade even before Service Pack 1 comes out :)

I have bought a laptop today for my wife which has windows 8.1 on so I will either stick with that for a while or upgrade to 10.

To be honest I can't really see why people get that bothered about operating systems. I use anything from XP to server 2012 at work and there is not that steep a learning curve for what most people use computers for. For my part that is mostly browsing, emailing, photography and photoshop, web site stuff, running various software (who really cares what the o/s is once the program is open?), a bit of SQL and database stuff, recording and editing/mixing music and stuff with spreadsheets. Personally if it works and runs what I want then I couldn't care whether it is XP, Vista, 7, 8, 10 or even Linux (I use Knoppix occasionally).

Why do people get so excited (positively and negatively) by operating systems?