I hear echoes of the same spiel given to Win 98...
You know, the only real difference tween 98 and 15 is the hardware is faster.
That quote '...combines the familiar things you love...' what they on about 'love' you gotta be some kinda weirdo if you love aspects of operating systems, in fact I wouldn't mind betting there's loads of people who have to use Windows every day for work and probably hate it.
Annuver fing too, Microsoft don't give things away lightly and by offering Win 10 to some current Windows users they're not really targeting Win 8 & 8.1 users but trying to eliminate all Win 7 OS's from machines as Win 7 will be the very last version of Windows to give the user a significant degree of freedom.
Win 8 onwards, MS become control freaks, their prime objective to keep you heading towards their 'apps' store.
Still, I am going to try it, I'm just hoping all those lovely software writers out there come up with ways round some of the shadier aspects of Win 10.
But those MS sales people, they truly make me nauseous... they're telling me I'm going to be more productive with Win 10. They've been saying that since DOS 5 and I'm really no more productive now than I was in '96.
Pah
Ok, Mr Grumpy has had his rant