I am not a believer. however, if you only use it for your music rig, but do your browsing on W7, W8, or better yet, Linux, IMO you're a lot better off. Unless you do a lot of configuring, Microsoft is going to be mining your computer for data to sell to advertisers (and God knows who else). some may consider this paranoia, but anyway that's just my 3 cents (inflation). Personally, I am on W7 on my music rig, and I do my browsing on Ubuntu on another computer. 

michael diemer
I am not a believer. however, if you only use it for your music rig, but do your browsing on W7, W8, or better yet, Linux, IMO you're a lot better off. Unless you do a lot of configuring, Microsoft is going to be mining your computer for data to sell to advertisers (and God knows who else). some may consider this paranoia, but anyway that's just my 3 cents (inflation). Personally, I am on W7 on my music rig, and I do my browsing on Ubuntu on another computer. 

I have to strongly disagree with that for one simple reason: the Edge browser! Windows 10 is really far superior to 7 or 8 for browsing because of it: built-in Flash plugin (YAY!!!!!), much smoother response than Firefox, Chrome or IE. It doesn't support plugins yet (coming this Summer), and has some other limitations so I keep Firefox installed as well, but for instance the Dutch Public TV video player is very unpleasant on most browsers (laggy etc) but on Edge it's a delight.
 
 
I just did a fresh install of Windows 10 PRO on my main machine and I have to say it outperforms Win 8.1 on the exact same hardware noticeably. Sonar Platinum runs beautifully, and my beloved MOTU PCI is flawless on it, with proper sleep/standby and wakeup. Even all my legacy 32bit VSTs from more than 10 years ago still work perfectly, even on this 64 bit modern OS. Suck on that Apple!

Nice username. 

The upgrade from 8.1 went flawlessly for me. XLN software and Independence Pro needed reauthorization.

I think 10 is the best Windows ever.

Yes, Windows 10 has been great and is the future of Windows. I wouldn't hesitate. Best of luck to you!

I did an inplace upgrade and had all sorts of problems.  I found the easy fix was to create a new user with an admin account. 
 
I'm not sure there is an improvement from 7 -10 in the latency dept.  There's still a lot of features I need to remove from W10.

BMOG
I have platinum working well on Windows 7 Professional, I do have a random audio dropout at times but that is about it. Windows 10 free upgrade is it to my advantage to upgrade?

Make an image of 7 install W10 and make sure it is authorized, make an image of 10 then you can load the image after the free period is over.

I'm in the yes camp as W10 has been great here for the most part, certainly as solid as any previous Windows for me and smoother and slicker in many ways. I did in-place upgrades on three machines and had no major issues on any of them (some fiddling with drivers as they're older machines, but that's to be expected). I'm not too fussed about the phoning home as I figure that's an unfortunate feature of modern digital life and anyone who thinks they can get around it entirely is either a lot smarter and more focused on it than I'm ever likely to be, or more likely, fooling themselves. 
 
But the best advice if you're worried is probably just above - err on the side of caution, make image backups so you have a clean option to go back if it turns out you hate it or the upgrade trashes your system, and see for yourself if it's for you or not. Chances seem pretty good, based on the results so far, that it will be... 

There are free utilies in the ’net to fith out the win10 authorisation code from the registry (like ProduKey). So the way to do a clean installation of Win10 goes like this:
 
1. Download the Win10 installation DVD ISO file and burn it to a disk (or, alternatively, to a USB memory stick or whatever).
2. Update your Win7/8 with the installation disk/memory.
3. Use the ProduKey or similar utility to get the authorisation code.
4. With this code, do a clean installation of the OS. Remember to check the settings during the installation. Then install your other software. (The ones you really use, not the ones you have installed but no longer use 8-) )
 
I have a habit to do a clean installation about once an year to keep the system running smoothly (during the 98/XP days it was more like every six months). I reserve a couple of days to get everything right in no hurry, althoug the Win10 clean installation took only a day.

 
 

LJB
Just know this: Win 10 IS great, but I just had to replace one of my PCs motherboards (still the same HDD), and now I have to pay to re-register Windows. That feels a bit like Bait n Switch IMO.

I myself can relate to this... I bought the windows upgrade from 7 to 8 back 2 years ago or so.
I took advantage of the limited 10.00 USD upgrade for windows 7 users.
 
when my old Hard Drive failed, I decided to go SSD. when I installed the new internal SSD,
I used the same windows 8 disk that I downloaded from Microsoft (full windows 8 version)
it wouldn't register.
seems the upgrade I bought was just that, an upgrade, not a clean install.
I was very disappointed. though it was more the hassle.
I had to re install windows 7 all over again, then go through the upgrade all over again.
probably my own fault for not making a system image.
 
its just something to think about when going with the upgrades from Microsoft.