Taking that decision....... 7 to 10

[Sheridan]

FYI windows 7 is working perfectly and reliably on a daily basis

 

Jus' sayin'! Don't shoot the messenger!

 

Ha, I love going into one of our 'old' W7 suites and seeing everything working nicely - untouched since they were imaged 3 years ago!

 

And then going into the W10 suites to bash them into life.....

[PotNoodleTech]

But you're missing out on the Windows Store, so more fool you! Muahaha! Ha! Huh. Oh.

 

I couldn't figure out why you guys and gals were upgrading to windows 10!! Now I know! That's me told!!! I am so devastated, I think I shall rock back and fore against a wall and sob myself to sleep tonight. :-)

[atcoates]

The only other driving force is the increased security in Windows 10.

[mavhc]

And Win7 EOL in 25 months.

 

At least they only moved the Sign Out button once, not every release.

[caffrey]

Could say 19 months as ideally should be looking at a Summer rollout in 2019

[gshaw]

The only other driving force is the increased security in Windows 10.

That's why I'd decided on 1709 as the build to deploy around. EMET as it was in Win7 always seemed a good idea but looked a bit fiddly to deploy but having it rolled into Win10 as Exploit Guard makes it much easier.

[AlanD]

All my schools are RM schools ...

 

RM here too...and Windows 7-10 (64bit) has been plain sailing...think early adopters had some issues which RM then addressed - and I guess that is partly why we think RM is (sometimes anyhow) is worth paying for. Some older machines - especially those with 2GB (we are largely 4GB or more) - are noticeably slower - and it seems to be mainly down to antivirus software (and Microsoft telemetry - which we have now disabled) taking significant percentages of CPU cycles.

 

Can't imagine many home users left with Win7 so it increasingly looks dated...although functionally fine...(but then I thought there was nothing much wrong with Windows XP either...)

[the_quick]

I would say home user move so quickly because it was free to do so. We will wait till the W10 is well established and have less issues on networks. Might be Summer 2019 for wide roll out.

[FN-GM]

I would say home user move so quickly because it was free to do so. We will wait till the W10 is well established and have less issues on networks. Might be Summer 2019 for wide roll out.

 

The problem with stances like this is older version of Windows won't run on modern hardware. The i7 processors is an example.

 

Thanks

[CraigM]

I has to wait for Windows 10 to become available from our local education department first, due to how our licensing works. Once I got it (v1511), I played around with it on my PC for a while, tested software out etc. In the end, I first ended up deploying v1607 because it let you modify the taskbar - this was a big deal for me. Of course, v1607 had it's own share of issues, like not updating from WSUS for the 1st few months, before they finally fixed that.

 

I ran 1607 in my 2 computer labs, as well as on a few staff who could handle themselves. Ran well enough, but showed me just how much you really should have SSD's in the PC's. I didn't roll out 1703 widely, I just felt it didn't bring enough changes to justify it. Now with this end of year break, I've been rolling out 1709 to the labs and a few other PC's. 1709 has quirks with pulling updates from WSUS for the first 6 odd hours, after which is settles down nicely enough from what I can see. I will be pushing 1709 out more and more through the course of next year. I will probably only roll out the next version (1804?) in 2019, gives MS time to squash bugs and improve stability.

 

I will say that every new version of Windows 10 feels like good forward progress, though many of the features returning or improved upon should have been there in the first place. Still, the difference between 1709 and the original 1507 version is rather dramatic, in many ways all for the better. Using Windows 7 now in any venue feels off, just gotten so used to 10 by now.

[AlanD]

...I certainly think that SSD makes a very noticeable difference...more so than with Win 7.

[SHimmer45]

id say that is because 10 is going alot more stuff in the background compared to 7 would be my initial impression.

[AlanD]

id say that is because 10 is going alot more stuff in the background compared to 7 would be my initial impression.

 

Yes...most of it you rather it was not doing...like constant telemetry back to Microsoft and..."pushing" stuff to you - and updating apps in the background rather than when you might choose ....