Does anybody know what "free for now..." means?  Will the Windows 10 subscription model eventually require a monthly/yearly payment to keep the subscription active?  Is getting the "free" version now just a one-year free head start on a regular payment model later?  Or if you opt-in to Windows 10 now will your Windows 10 future be permanently "free" also?  Or will there be a cost to purchase the Windows 10 license and then all future upgrades will be covered by the one-time cost of the license? 
 

There's a reason they're giving it away "free." After the disaster of Windows 8, it's what they have to do, to get people to leave their perfectly functioning Windows Seven. But it's not free. Forced updating (no it can't be disabled, only delayed if you have W10 Pro);  Cortana (aka Big Sister), games that come with ads which can only be removed for a fee; but the worst is their new "Privacy Policy," which basically means that anything you put on One Drive is their property. This is a power grab of major proportions. Thank God for Linux. When Reaper gets their notation editor, Microsoft's last hold on me will be gone. Reaper runs in Linux.

bitSync

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stickman393
The killer features for me were:

• uncontrollable Windows update

Just curious... do you have Windows 7 Home or Windows 7 Pro?
 
If you have Pro, those updates are not uncontrollable. That's only for the Home users.

I think @stickman393 may have been referring to the baked-in Windows 10 automatic updating, which apparently requires some user intervention to disable, such as killing a running service process or editing the registry or unplugging the LAN cable...  ...not sure which.

What I'm getting at is that Pro allows more control over upgrades, etc. than does Home.

bitSync
Does anybody know what "free for now..." means?  Will the Windows 10 subscription model eventually require a monthly/yearly payment to keep the subscription active?  Is getting the "free" version now just a one-year free head start on a regular payment model later?  Or if you opt-in to Windows 10 now will your Windows 10 future be permanently "free" also?  Or will there be a cost to purchase the Windows 10 license and then all future upgrades will be covered by the one-time cost of the license? 

Here's my guess (which is all anyone can make at this point):
If things go well and billions get on board, MS will switch to subscriptions.
If things don't go well and they lose OS market share, they'll keep throwing more and more free stuff at us until they get their market share back. Then they'll go to a subscription model.
 
But it's just a guess. :)

I assume the OP hasn't seen our article covering the advantages of Windows 10
 
Bottom line is that it performs better than Win 8 and the cumulative improvements are generations ahead of Win 7.
Whether you upgrade or not is up to you. If you don't need improved performance and can't spare the (small) investment of time to do the upgrade and check and software compatibility etc, then wait it out. 
 
I've been running it from day one on all my machines and have had only minimal problems. A trackpad scroll issue which Lenovo since fixed with a driver update. I've even enabled suspend on my desktop and it works ok. All prior OS's had issues with suspend/resume not working well.
 
PS: Its super easy to try if you have some extra disk space. Just install it and see if it works. If it doesn't there is a fast rollback from within Windows 10 itself.

daveny5
One reason to not upgrade is that your devices may not work under Windows10. Unless the manufacturer has released an updated device driver, it won't work. I've been burned by that once before. Any M-Audio fans left out there after the Windows 7 fiasco?

This caught me out with my Line 6 UX2, and they still haven't updated the drivers to be compatible with Windows 10.
 
Unless you set the device to run at 16/48, some users have been unable to get any audio in or out, and Pod Farm crashes on opening.

 Sheesh, how short is the 'silent edit' function set to when you can't even whip in quickly and corect a spelling mistake  

Can you use Windows 10 with the original Sonar Platinum (I have never installed any of the upgrades since I got it some time ago because it was working great on Windows 7.
 
 

Regarding the privacy issues of Win 10, check this out:
http://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10

michael diemer
There's a reason they're giving it away "free." After the disaster of Windows 8, it's what they have to do, to get people to leave their perfectly functioning Windows Seven. But it's not free. Forced updating (no it can't be disabled, only delayed if you have W10 Pro);  Cortana (aka Big Sister), games that come with ads which can only be removed for a fee; but the worst is their new "Privacy Policy," which basically means that anything you put on One Drive is their property. This is a power grab of major proportions. Thank God for Linux. When Reaper gets their notation editor, Microsoft's last hold on me will be gone. Reaper runs in Linux.

Where did you find this info (that I put in bold in your response)? I searched the privacy policy for onedrive and I couldn't find this anywhere... At least not in the privacy policy here in Europe (Belgium). Maybe it is different for other countries?