Is the upgrade to windows 10 worth it? Have stupid questions

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Earlier today I got the thing on my task bar to upgrade to windows 10. I'm on windows 7 at the moment and I believe it's a free upgrade to 7, 8, and 8.1 but only for a year and after that you have to pay?

But I'm just so used to 7. I do prefer the task bar on vista but the upgrade from vista to 7 wasn't so much because they were basically the same except the task bar. And XP to vista wasn't so much different either. But windows 10 just looks completely different.

So I guess what I'm asking is: is there any reason to upgrade to windows 10 from windows 7? There any advantages? Or is it fine just leaving it how it is?

Also, can an idiot do it? I don't want to f**k up my computer in the process and I've heard that people come across a lot of errors when doing it. Will you lose any documents? There any problems with compatibility for windows 10, since it's new? And if I decide to wait for more than a year then does that mean that I won't be able to do it for free?

I'm sorry if these are stupid questions. I'm scared of doing anything to my computer in case I f**k it up. Will windows 10 f**k it up?

It's free to upgrade within the first year, for those eligible, you get to keep your free copy forever.
If you forget to upgrade or decide to upgrade after the year mark, then you have pay.

Windows 10 is snappier than Windows 7.
Windows 10 has a smaller footprint, thus frees up space on your hard drive
Windows 10 has DirectX 12, which is good for graphical applications
Windows 10 is more efficient
Windows 10 has a better interface
Windows 10 has more features
Windows 10 is not shiny
Windows 10 has virtual desktops

The only real downside is start menu is capped currently at 500 items.

If you follow the clearly written steps on the screen, you won't have any trouble upgrading.
It's really easy, I did it at launch.

Any risks of doing it?

And what is a virtual desktop? And what other features are there?

Sorry, just trying to weigh up in my mind if it's something I may do at some point.

Can you go back to 7 or would that be stupid?

Thanks for the video - but I am concerned about what people are saying in the comment section. I'll give it some time until they come up with fixes for the problems people are having.

But the first and third link and stuck on one slide so I can't see what they say in the articles.

Cortana does seem interesting... but is there any way to type requests to her? I have to do the same to Siri on my phone, just can't seem to talk to those type of programs. Strange fear.

The different slides or whatever where you can have dual screens in one screen does look very cool. It's like an advanced Alt Tab type thing.

But does software still work? Like is there any problems with some programs not working yet because they haven't updated it? Or am I making them up?

Do it ONLY if you don't have ANY software you care about that MIGHT be negatively impacted by the upgrade.

I'd not touch it with a 10-foot pole on my existing hardware and software.

it is unlikely to mess up existing installed software beyond what a reinstall of said program can fix.
if you have software that is likely to be affected, then you will know how to fix it.

i would recommend that you make a back-up of your documents (copy the entire "my documents" to a flashdrive), which is recommended to regularly do anyway; but the process is painless, win10 is 'dumbed down' from 7.

I have two questions before I'm going to upgrade my Windows 8.1 operation system on nmy laptiop.

1.) Should I sign out of OneDrive before I start the upgrading?
2.)Does Windows 10 got back the DVD supporting or do ve still install an app for it?

As a general rule, with OS upgrades I like to wait a few months for things to get settled.

And of course, backup everything beforehand.

Will Office 2007 applications run on Windows 10?