{"id":115,"date":"2015-10-21T12:08:41","date_gmt":"2015-10-21T17:08:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.evltech.com\/?p=115"},"modified":"2015-10-21T12:08:41","modified_gmt":"2015-10-21T17:08:41","slug":"should-you-upgrade-to-windows-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.evltech.com\/index.php\/2015\/10\/should-you-upgrade-to-windows-10\/","title":{"rendered":"Should you upgrade to Windows 10?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"_1dwg\">\n<div id=\"js_s\" class=\"_5pbx userContent\" data-ft=\"{&quot;tn&quot;:&quot;K&quot;}\">\n<div id=\"id_5627c65eb64b55f60831546\" class=\"text_exposed_root text_exposed\">\n<p>I&#8217;ve upgraded about 30 computers from both Windows 7 and Windows 8 to Windows 10. I&#8217;ve had two issues one older laptop running windows 7 didn&#8217;t have video drivers for windows 10 or windows 8 for that matter the second issue was someone who I had suggested upgrade and then ran into issues with a specific piece of software that she used. In both cases the roll back feature worked flawlessly. I highly recommend EVERYONE running windows 8 upgrade to Windows 10, if youre using<span class=\"text_exposed_show\"> Windows 7 your computer is probably more than 3-4 years old and you might just want to hang on and save your pennies for a newer one. If your computer is over 5 years old running windows 7 or not I would just say DON&#8217;T you really need to consider new hardware.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"text_exposed_show\">\n<p>Overall the experience with Windows 10 has been excellent and I do recommend it to anyone that wants to give it a try.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/windows.microsoft.com\/en-us\/windows-10\/getstarted-whatsnew-cortana<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"_3x-2\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"u_jsonp_2_1m\">\n<form id=\"u_jsonp_2_11\" class=\"commentable_item collapsed_comments\" action=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ajax\/ufi\/modify.php\" method=\"post\" data-ft=\"{&quot;tn&quot;:&quot;]&quot;}\">\n<div class=\"clearfix _5ybo _2zfm _5yhh\">\n<div id=\"u_jsonp_2_14\" class=\"_3el2 lfloat _ohe\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"_1rzm rfloat _ohf\"><span id=\"u_jsonp_2_13\"><button class=\"_4dyi _4jy0 _4jy3 _4jy1 _51sy selected _42ft\" type=\"submit\" value=\"1\" data-testid=\"boosted_post_button_with_id\" data-reactid=\".2u\" data-hover=\"tooltip\"><span class=\"_4m40\" data-reactid=\".2u.1\">Boost<\/span><\/button><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/form>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve upgraded about 30 computers from both Windows 7 and Windows 8 to Windows 10. 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