I have to say my vote is go for it. I guess that's not much help if it doesn't go well for someone else but it certainly has for me. I upgraded from 8.1 on two machines, desktop and laptop, both old machines, both upgrades went smoothly and upgrades have been painless, both run a variety of old and unsupported hardware with no trouble at all, both run better and more stable than they have on any version of Windows so far. And Sonar runs smoother than ever on both as well. So from here the view is rosy, though I understand that may not be the case for everybody.