No, not everyone would. Though I admit it would get a subsection of cheap people to upgrade, a lot of people hold out due to ignorance.

I appreciate your honesty. Though I politely prod you to make the change yourself, for the rest of our sakes. =)

Privacy destroying features such as...?

If you want to, you can Google some screenshots of Windows 10 and see how it differs from 7. I can honestly say not too much, though there are changes. The start menu itself is more a hybrid between what you use now on 7 and the Metro tiles from 8. So you have your vertical list and attached to that list you can…

See: vaccines.

^ This. It clearly states on the screen how to reschedule or stop the upgrade. But since people fucking hate reading so damned much, tada, Windows 10. "I don't read anything, I just click the red X." I expect that out of my tech illiterate father - but Patrick? Fer shame.

Back your information up and do a clean install. It's not fun for the whole family, but that should solve your issues unless you have some hardware going bad. UPlay is a pain in the ass to get your games re-downloaded but Steam and Origin play nice if you restore your backups properly.

After 5 years, have you cleaned the fans inside that thing? If you can open it up, I'd recommend doing that. Especially if you have pets, long hair, smoke, etc.

Small business?

What tweaks are you referring to? Windows 10 - sans the modified start menu that everyone wanted back - looks and functions so similar to 7 that at first blush you'd be hard pressed to tell the difference. You boot directly to your desktop. You can pin all your software to your taskbar like 7, create shortcuts on the…

Only a poorly ran hospital has to worry about KittyReaven's scenario. But from what I've read, most hospitals are poorly ran.

You know, if you created backups like you should, you wouldn't fear any work eating malware. :3

What’s a better way to go about doing this? Read through the posts here on Kotaku alone and you’ll find a plethora of people who have no fucking clue what they’re talking about. They fall back on vague concepts as to how 7 is better than 8 or 10, how 8 is better than 10, yada yada, when the changes are literal…

What makes 10 so terrible compared to 8? Though I hope you mean 8.1.

It is better than 7. Literally. It's 7 with improvements. Can you explain, in a non-feely ephemeral way, why 7 is better than 10? Please. I need this enlightenment in my life.

Have you tried writing software that works for both XP and Windows 7-current? That's their agenda behind this. Get all (or as many as possible) onto the updated platform. Windows 10 is, officially, the last version of Windows. From here on out its rolling upgrades, similar to Linux. Update Edge separate of having to…

What printers are failing after upgrading to 10? I’ve found, staunchly, if it worked in 7 it worked in 10, considering 10 is just 7 with some tweaks. It's not an overhaul like XP -> Vista was. In fact, some companies put out shoddy 8/10 drivers for their hardware and the 7 version of the drivers work OOB. Though I…

Forcing people is the only way.

If you're running an enterprise level version of the software it should be in the hands of your IT department. However, you did say hospital and I've heard bad bad, inept, and terribad things about hospital policies surrounding IT.

Because way too many people hold onto the old as long as possible and it really holds us all back. People are still on XP despite it being no longer supported. People are cheap, obstinate, and for the vast majority fearful of change and lacking the resilience to cope with said change. They can barely manage their…