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Is it worth me the upgrade from 7 to 10 in the first place?
I want to gather here pros and cons. Sorry, I searched the forum for a similar thread, but couldn't find it. My only interest is in comparing Home versions here. I see no benefit for myself in Pro - for BitLocker I'd use a free (as in free software) alternative -, though Enterprise would be cool, for the LiveUSB, but that's unfortunately out of reach for many.
Possible pros:
- Maybe(?) improved battery life on laptops? Though, I am near AC more than 90% of the time.
- Maybe 10 detects and supports a wide variety of hardware, adds Windows drivers which just work, so I don't have to hunt on the PC manufacturer's site for drivers? I don't know, friend told me, I wan not able to cross check it with a web search.
Big con for me:
- The privacy issue (which I care about) I might still be optimistic if either Microsoft comes to its senses before 2020 - the date when 7 support ends, as 10 market share is still pretty low -, or we will have one single, easy to apply set of rules for Windows 10 privacy trusted by the broad Internet community as a whole (now as I searched the web there are many opinions, and it's a big hassle to apply every setting)
Anyways, looking into the future, we will use more and more embedded devices such as tablets and smartphones, as Steve Jobs famously put it, PC's will be like tractors, they will still be around, but not many will use them (interview from the time the original iPad came out). So, 7 could be very well my last Windows PC OS (Mac and Linux are other things, and even if you turned off something, Microsoft will turn it on after a while, just because).