Windows 10 updates?

[Claudio L.]

(07-31-2015 02:40 AM)Dave Britten Wrote:  I've upgraded three machines so far. The two Asus systems had an issue with updating the touchpad drivers (which are awful to begin with)

Same issue here with Synaptics touchpad. Spent a couple of hours looking for a way to disable automatic updates to keep the 2013 driver version that was working on that machine.

(07-31-2015 02:40 AM)Dave Britten Wrote:  So in a nutshell, I like it so far. But if you do upgrade, make sure you dig through ALL the privacy settings and turn off all the stuff that has no business being on by default.

Done. No MS Account, no Cortana, no sharing of any kind.

After a few hours digging through the settings to set it up properly it works just as well as Windows 7, so I gained... nothing. Looks different, that's all, unless you unleash the new features that will compromise your privacy, which I'm not planning to do.
The fact I had to tinker with the drivers reminded me of a Linux installation. It had been a while since I had to mess with drivers on a Windows machine. I guess it's a more even playing field now for OS's.

I only update my machines between big projects, never in the middle just in case something goes wrong. Telling your clients you missed a deadline because "my computer had a bad update" is not very professional. I personally don't like the automatic updates, so I'm going to wait on my 2 production machines. I think the complaints about drivers will force MS to bring back the choice of updates, at least for power users.

Regarding programs...
VirtualBox didn't start anymore (no error message, just did nothing). But I was overdue to install VBox 5.0 anyway, and installing the new version made it work fine.
All my development tools kept working well, and I noticed no other problems.