I appreciate the comments, Neil - I really do.
But here's my reasoning for not going to W10 on my main workstation - not only will I lose an awful lot of very expensive software (again - this also happened when my DAW stopped handling 32-bit), but that was then & it cost me in excess of £20,000 by the time I had set up a new DAW and totted up the cost of the tools that were unavailable in 64-bit because of thieves (they call themselves 'hackers', but they are thieves pure and simple) uploading cracked versions of their tools and literally forcing them into bankruptcy. The list is quite staggering.
I also found that a lot of things would not install to W7.
Add to this my DAW (the CPU alone cost me £1500) cannot be configured for W10 at all according to the system builders.
Moving right along, I have an NLE setup running W10 and I loathe this OS so much it is simply not funny. £4,000 purchase price with W10 Professional, and after less than a week there was a forced update to the OS that I literally could not put off - for some reason this is all no longer allowed, and indeed accorduing to Microsoft the versions of W10 that do allow updates to be refused is also 'EOL' - and when the PC restarted it had been turned into an expensive Boat Anchor. One lengthy call to the builders got me a support tech who literally told me this is far from being uncommon and I had to re-install the whole OS from scratch, mobo drivers, applications - the whole 9 yards. I seriously object to being forced into updates I do not want to install.
As for W7 being EOL, again this is not strictly true - I have bought 'extended EOL system support' from Microsoft, who have made this available because of the large number of corporate setups still running W7 (my local Hospital is still running on Windows 2000!!!) and with no intention of 'upgrading' when the 64-bit OS they are running is already perfectly good enough - when we went from XP to W7 (I avoided both Windows Yuppie Flu and the dreadful Vista altogether) I understood because of the whole 64-bit thing (I still run an old XP system for DVD-Audio authoring, as the Sonic/MEI software was designed to run on W2000 and it was pure luck it also ran on XP - but post XP because MS changed the way XML files are handled an awful lot of authoring companies who went to Windows ME and Vista literally upgraded themselves out of the game completely.
As for the way W10 works, I find it cumbersome and irritating - it's like living with your parents with the constant nagging, forced updates 'for my safety' and the MS App adverts I cannot as yet find a way to disable.
Anyway - in closing for now, I can again connect to the servers so all is again well for me - it turned out I needed to run an MS utility called 'Easy Fix' because Adobe changed the TLS requirements and I was unaware of this.
But I am not going to put my DAW/Blu-ray authoring system to W10 - this will cause me to lose far, far too much very expensive software I use on a daily basis that has no W10 equivalent for the same reason posted earlier - out of business companies because of hackers & thieves
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