It’s Here! It’s Here! It’s Here !

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I’m still not breathing at 100%, but so far, so good.

WHAT is here?

I have been as anxious as a kid on Christmas morning, waiting patiently for it to arrive.

The song going through my head:   “I’m so Excited!  I just can’t hide it–I’m about to lose control, and I  think I like it!”

Yep, Windows10, the fabled new “best Windows ever!” version.

I’m cautiously optimistic.  So far I like Windows10 a lot, and they keep sending me little notes saying things like:  “How do you like it  so far?”   “Would you recommend 10 to your friends?”   “Do you like our adorable commercial featuring the adorable toddlers from all over the world who will ‘grow up with Windows10’ ?”

They needn’t think that I’m going to fall for that sweet-talk.   I’m going to wait until I have a chance to look it over.  They know how much I HATED Windows 8.1.   Everyone I know knows how much I detested it.   I don’t speak for everyone else in the world, but I don’t care if they “like” or “don’t mind” 8.1   But that’s just me.

Windows95, Windows98, Vista, XP, I liked Windows7…in fact 7 is the version was on my laptop (which I am writing this article on as we speak.  It was infinitely superior to Windows8, which came with my new “mainframe” computer (as I like to call it) last year…being the ONLY choice available on the very day I bought the PC.  It came equipped with Windows8, then immediately (like the next day) 8.1 hit cyberspace in an effort to compensate for the shortcomings of 8.

Oh–woe!   My experiences with photos came to a screeching halt…and my eBay and other images suffered.  I discovered by searching online that Windows8.1 had a “known issue” with Photo Gallery, and I had a heck of a time with trying to get the my pictures from my camera onto my published work.

Let me hasten to say that I am not a newbie computer person…I had my first computer in 1983, practically the dawn of everyday-people-with-computers.  I was the first kid on my block to have one.   It was a Kaypro2 (that’s a Roman numeral Two () II but it appears as two “Ls” and I certainly don’t want anyone to think it was called a Kayproll.  Good grief.

For those who are interested, my WordPress blog post entitled Rise of the Machines, published this spring, details my adventures in setting up and teaching myself to operate the computer. https://mumbletymuse.com/2015/01/26/rise-of-the-machine/

So I’m giving Windows10 the old college try.     It’s fast,  looks good, and seems to have banished the evil gremlins  to Computer-Hell.

6 thoughts on “It’s Here! It’s Here! It’s Here !”

    1. so far so good…there are some issues that I have, but otherwise I like Windows 10 a lot. I use Internet Explorer, though, because a lot of the basic points are no longer available with Edge. Like copy/paste…it has been there since Day One of Computer Use, and now its gone. A little thing, but something we have always had. There is also the choice of browsers, which is good.

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      1. I stuck with Firefox. I didn’t even try edge. I’m also using Start 8 rather than tiles. Mine downloaded that way and I left it the same as it was before, at least so far.

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      2. I used Firefox before, because IE was soooo slow on this connection. What is Start 8 re tiles? I haven’t spent a lot of time playing around with Win10, I was just so happy to get rid of 8.1.

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      3. Start 8 is something that made the Windows 8 act more like Windows 7 instead of having the touch tiles on the screen when you first turn on the computer. I don’t have the tech vocabulary to be able to describe it accurately.

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