So, as you probably know, today's the day.

Beginning today, the free upgrade to Windows 10 will be made available to Windows 7/8.1 users.

However!

According to sources I've been checking, not everyone is going to get the upgrade today. Windows is rolling out this upgrade in waves, and starting slow, building and scaling up the rollout as they confirm successful installs and viability of the first public release of Windows 10.

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This morning, I received the notification.

I can haz upgrade. The files are on my computer. One click and I'm on Windows 10.

I'm not upgrading yet.

After I backed up my essential, critical files to prepare in case I did decide to upgrade today, I did some quick research online. Specifically, I'm paying attention to what Forbes has to say about the whole thing, and their tech coverage on the Windows 10 rollout is EXTENSIVE.

The bottom line?

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So at around 2am Central time (an hour ago as I post this), I received a new e-mail from Microsoft.

It reads as follows:

This essentially confirms what all the tech news websites have been saying: while the launch date of Windows 10 was July 29, it could be mid to late August before every Windows user has received the upgrade.

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OK, I don't know if this has happened to anybody else, but today I got screwed over by fucking Microsoft. As some of you may know, Microsoft has released the windows 10 update, and me, I signed up for the upgrade, but kept it in the background for when I was ready to install it, which probably was going to be two years from now. However, for the past three days, I have had a yellow exclamation shield which tells me I have an update ready to install, but every time I shut down the computer, no

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Finally we see something close to Aero from Windows 7 again!

In this case, it's the earliest form of Acrylic, which is Microsoft's new design language that they've been trying to push onto Win10 starting with this update. While it's nice to see a decent level of translucency return outside of the taskbar, action center, and Start Menu, most things that aren't made directly by Microsoft still clearly lack the translucency on their title bars like on Windows 7.

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And for once, Comcast is actually working fine!

Too bad I have a horrible cold and don't have the energy to do anything other than watch Youtube the entire time.

At least I'm finally watching videos in my Watch Later list!

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If windows 10 does not support the games I play now on Windows 7, I swear, i'm moving to Linux.

Me:

I've had it with you, Windows! I never want to see your operating system again! I'm leaving you and going to Ubuntu!

Windows:

But what If I offered you a new and improved version of myself?

Me:

I don't know... Maybe I- No! You can't trick me anymore!

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Well that's just great. My PC got a update and boom, all my stories damaged or deleted in Word. Anyone also got similar problems? And anyone, please help?

All I wanted to do was get Windows 10 version 1803 to install. I ended up spending an hour hunting down "afamgt.sys" because Windows Update didn't like the fact that it existed.

Turns out it was on my desktop that entire time in a driverpack I downloaded to transfer to a Windows XP machine.

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. . . to Windows 10!

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YOU KNOW WHAT I LOVE!!?!?!!?

I LOVE THE FACT THAT WORD SAVES DEFAULT ZOOM IN THE DOCUMENT METADATA INSTEAD OF REGULAR OPTIONS SO THAT WHEN IDIOTS LIKE ME GETS A NEW COMPUTER AND FINDS THAT SOMEHOW SAID NEW COMPUTER SUDDENLY FINDS 100% ZOOM TO FIT DOUBLE PAGE SPREAD EVEN THOUGH IT DIDN'T BEFORE AND IT'S HORRIBLE AND I DON'T LIKE IT SO NOW I HAVE TO SAVE EACH 52 WORD FILES IN 120% ZOOM IN ORDER TO BE HAPPY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I LOVE WORD!

WORD IS GREAT!!!

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Windows has begun converting PCs to Windows 10 without users permission.

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As of today, I am officially retiring Dellion.

Dellion has been my trusty laptop of ten years, and a most valued companion.

It has not been an easy decision, but after careful consideration and deliberation, it has been considered best not to upgrade Dellion from Windows 7 to Windows 10.

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That's about as accurate a title as I've ever done. Apparently a software glitch caused Win10 to dissolve itself just enough to warrant a total format of the laptop. None of the repair options worked, and the whole C drive got wiped during a failed repair process. Now, I back-up a lot of things, but I don't do it every single day or every time I have something new to back up - I will now! - so you can see where this is going.

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Let us welcome it gladly with courage and cheer!

Let us take to the streets with no doubt in our hearts!

With a jubilant shout -
They will come one and all!

They will come when we call!

You know it's time to make some hardware upgrades when your internet bank won't allow you to login anymore.

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So, you know that computer I have set up for archiving 5.25" floppy disks? That's my testbench system that I use whenever I need to set up a quick PC for something.

Specs:

• VIA C7 @ 1 GHz (Equivalent to a Pentium 4)
• PCI-PCIe(x1) converter supporting a Geforce GT 610 (main GPU)
• 1 gig of RAM
• 64 gig SD card in an SD-to-IDE adapter as an SSD-lookalike
• Integrated VIA audio

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