He looks fine with it <| sep |> If you look at the big picture , it ' s not just Microsoft . More and more software companies are looking at selling their product as a service although they ' re not quite a utility like water , electric , cable , sewer or trash pickup . They want a recurring income . Companies like Adobe have already done this I can ' t upgrade my version of Adobe without paying a subscription fee . Unity wants people to pay subscription fees . I ' m afraid a day will come when everything will be pay for play and you won ' t be able to own anything ever . Windows 10 is definitely better than 8 . 1 . Windows 8 , in my opinion , was a mistake in thinking they could sell a tablet OS to home or corporate users as a desktop OS . The ' artistic ' crap they called uppercase menus and icons devoid of any color for their development tools was one of the worst user experiences I ' ve ever had and one would think they would have had progressed in User Interface design after this many years in business . Hopefully they fixed all that happy horseshit and things are on a better track now . As I said , I did a clean Windows 10 install and haven ' t yet had any issues . My previous computer was upgraded to Windows 10 as well as my work computer and we ran into windows update problems that required me to go to the Windows Update Catalog site , download updates by hand and install them .