With the free Windows 10 upgrade ending soon, I was wondering what everyone is thinking of it with SONAR Platinum by this time. I have stubbornly been hanging on to my Windows 7 all this time but, thinking maybe I SHOULD go for it. Frightening!!! Right now, everything works for me so well, hate to add a variable . However, time marches on, I know.
Any opinions, experiences, info would be appreciated.

Hello Rod. The upgrade from 7 to 10 has been flawless for me. I was worried about drivers and the usual hiccups that can happen. I remember only too well the troubles I had upgrading from XP to 7 (let alone upgrading from 3.1 to Win95!!!). But, this time around, perfect. Sonar works beautifully in the new environment. 

Just did the upgrade to Windows 10 this weekend, for me the upgrade was like a root canal, painful, and it took all weekend . . . but that's nothing to do with Cakewalk, there were far too many Microsoft hoops to jump through on my system, which has much customization . . . but now that it's done, everything runs exceptionally well with Sonar Platinum on Win 10 Pro. I've read so many stories here on the forum about how smooth the upgrade was, but it just didn't go well for me.

At this point you might as well just wait for the Win10 Anniversary Update coming out next month.
Been running the Insider Preview on my laptop and it's been stable with a lot of new features and workflow improvements.

I'd say go for it. Free is free.

I'd say upgrade right away before the free upgrade period ends. Check out my post that has lots of details of the pros and cons, my concerns, etc. The bottom line is it's one of the best upgrades I've done as far as easy to adapt to. Also you can have a permanent dual boot system with both OS. You'll see how I explain all this in my post. I'm very pleased I did it on both my Win 7 and Win 8 machines.
 
http://forum.cakewalk.com...o-Win-10-m3350657.aspx

It was wise to wait. I upgraded too early and rolled back - no printers seen, 'spiky' text fonts - appalling.  I tried again about five months ago and all was well, so they'd obviously fixed a lot.  (Edge still has spiky fonts so I switched to Google Chrome.)  I'd go for it, after all it's inevitable...  

You can have the best of both worlds Rob. Take a disc image of your win 7 system drive (I use acronis true image) before you update. I updated upon first release, and after 6 weeks found the constant windows updates messing with my studio drivers annoying, so I took a disc image of win 10, then just reloaded my win 7 disc image (takes about 15mins). I am still runnig win 7, but have the free, registered win 10 image for whenever I get bored enough to try again:)

If you upgrade existing system, especially if you want to leave everything to avoid re-installation, it is better to know someone experienced in that. I have upgraded many system and there was no problems I could not solve within 10-20 minutes. But I can imagine "normal" users will write "that was a nightmare, I had to go back" hitting such cases.
 
Other then that, if all your hardware is supported, that is huge step forward from Windows 7. When the hardware is not powerful, the difference can be noticed immediately.

hey Rod, what are using for an audio interface ?
just make sure you have drivers for that.