With time running out on the free upgrade offer (ends July 29th-ish) I am going to try it.
 
My APro Controllers have Win 10 Drivers
My UM-3G has Win 10 Drivers
My Behringer XENYX UFX 1604 Firewire/USB mixer has Win 10 Drivers.
 
I am cloning my SSD C Drive to my old Hitachi C Drive in case things aren't better after the upgrade.
 
I am hoping my computer likes Win 10 better than Win 7, and that Sonar Plat will be more stable.
 
Results will be posted soon...
 
[Added] If like me you uninstalled the win 10 notification in the task bar (uninstalled KBxxxxxxxx), you can go here to find the path to the Official Windows 10 Upgrade Download:
 
https://www.microsoft.com...ows/windows-10-upgrade

Good luck to you. Its a major move but I think its very much worth it. On my systems Windows 10 is fantastic. these are a custom built desk top a laptop and a tablet. All run better and are very stable. 
 
Sonar Platinum is also very stable. 

OK John.  The download is 3gb.  Will take a while.  I was going to just leave all my USB and Firewire devices plugged in...unless someone thinks that is a bad idea...

It all depends about that. Some drivers are plug & play so they will require no action. Others may need to be installed. The UM3g will find its drivers for example. Take your time and don't rush anything.

I may go back to windows 7 look at what windows took out Aero Glass, I do a lot of scrolling I use to right click in the scroll bar and be able to go to an area in one or two clicks can't do that in windows 10. I've read that windows 10 is more for mobile, notebooks, laptops, and the like. And forget asking MS anything they are not answering anything. Or they send you to the social media where you only find out dated info. Yes you do see a little speed improvement those who claim faster start up I bet switch to SSD you would see that improvement on any OS you use. So, I have 20 plus day to go back to windows 7 still looking for other things I lost since the windows 10 move.

Red4Con1
I may go back to windows 7 look at what windows took out Aero Glass, I do a lot of scrolling I use to right click in the scroll bar and be able to go to an area in one or two clicks can't do that in windows 10. I've read that windows 10 is more for mobile, notebooks, laptops, and the like. And forget asking MS anything they are not answering anything. Or they send you to the social media where you only find out dated info. Yes you do see a little speed improvement those who claim faster start up I bet switch to SSD you would see that improvement on any OS you use. So, I have 20 plus day to go back to windows 7 still looking for other things I lost since the windows 10 move.

I don't know where you got the notion that Windows 10 is not for desk tops. It runs very well indeed on desk tops and better than all the proceeding Windows OSs. A major feat for MS.   I have not switched to an SSD and it is much faster in booting. I don't understand what you are saying about scrolling so I can't comment on that. Over all you seem to make assertions with few if any facts about Windows 10. I would suggest you do some further research before making bogus statements. Further Windows 10 is in constant upgrade mode. Meaning it is being improved much as Sonar is with CW. 
By opting out its much like opting out of the lifetime updates CW is offering. It makes no logical sense to stay in a dead OS. 

as always John, I highly respect your opinion.
In my case..im just not ready to take the jump yet. I probably should. I know I could because all my drivers+devices
are modern and up to date. but I just don't like the way windows is headed.
 
I have to agree with you though about performance. I even noticed a huge improvement from windows 7 to windows 8 with boot up times. its like night and day.
I had a laptop with a disk drive HD running win 7. took almost 2 minutes before it was booted to desktop.
that same laptop I upgraded to 8 on....boot time is now at 30 seconds.
I've also noticed copy/paste - transfer data is faster as well.
 
but ever since Windows came out with that stupid Metro style crap, they lost me.
IMO they were trying to capitalize on what Apple was doing with mobile smart phone.
(their own little WinPad, WinPhone, what ever it is.)
 
I would still be on windows 7 right now if it were not for Windows 8 having better performance.
And im always the guy who will say...
"If you don't keep up with technology, Technology will leave you behind"
 
I've always lived by those words. those words were the main reason I picked up Cakewalk Pro Audio 9 in the late 90's / early 2000. I was running out of tape john.
(I say that of course in a metaphorical type of way but you get what I mean.)
However in reality my distributor MAXELL was literally running out of tape around 2006.
 
I have windows 8.1 on my main DAW
I have windows 8 on my back up DAW (laptop)
and I have windows 10 on my play around device (laptop)
I also have a 8 inch windows Tablet..but who's counting... (mumbling under my breath: Four !!)
 
Its not as much 10 as it is just the way MS is headed. I also agree with you about it being a good desktop. it is built for desktops but its also built to share with other devices, mobile, tablets.
just wish they focused more on the desktop user on this last version 10. it reminds me of 8.1 with gift wrap on it.
 
any who, I hardly if ever complain. so my apologies if I sound negative about windows 10.
I will upgrade in the future, I might not be happy about it, but I can never turn down a better OS, a faster OS just because im ignorant. I could never do that.
 
My machines are built for one thing. Sonar. and if there's a way to get that competitive edge, like deflating footballs
(Brady is innocent by the way) I would do it in a second to make Sonar run better.
that's why I will accept Windows 10.
 

Chuck you have my complete respect.  Everybody has a right to make up their own minds.  What they don't have a right to do is make uniformed statements without challenge. You haven't done that. Lots of people are troubled by MS for reasons that are not trivial. Don't think disagreeing with me is a problem. It isn't. You have your point of view and I respect that.   

I installed Windows 10 last summer and rolled back immediately.  No Roland drivers were out yet...and I hated the new desktop or whatever the hell that confusing palate of misshapen windows on the desktop were.  Honestly...it terrified me.  But I am hoping Win 10 will give me Win8 reliability...so another go at it:
 
98% installed...back later

John
Over all you seem to make assertions with few if any facts about Windows 10. I would suggest you do some further research before making bogus statements.

Here a fact in every upgrade of the OS (mac or win) you see an improvement i.e. win 3 to win 95 to 98 etc. I say win 10 is no different.

John

By opting out its much like opting out of the lifetime updates CW is offering. It makes no logical sense to stay in a dead OS. 

A very unfair comparison what will MS be calling their OS when the 128 bit machines hit the market? CW has promise it will still be called Platinum. (Although we will more likely see 96 bits before 128 bits.) 

Red4Con1
I've read that windows 10 is more for mobile, notebooks, laptops, and the like.

I agree this statement needs clarification.
MS has striped a lot features from win 7 & 8 and made more focus on the mobile, laptops notebooks, and tablets. i.e. when we went from 8 bits to 16 bits we wanted to be able to run our 8 bits programs on our new 16 bits machine yet the manufactures thought rather than make 8 bits run on 16 bits just upgrade the 8 bits program into a 16 bits program ( an ideal that I agree with yet I would have liked to see that 8 bit program merge into 16 bits rather than a whole new 16 bit program.)
Another way to look at it Ford "A product that your grandchildren will be able to use" I say as consumers we would like to see that today yet, we don't, what we do see is a new product every quarter and the previous is now obsolete.