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With the drubbing I gave Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 in the press — and in my For Dummies books — you might think that I’d come down hard on Windows 10.

Nope.

I’ve been using Windows 10 in various stages for more than five years now, and I still love it. This is from a guy who works in front of a monitor about 16 hours a day, 7 days a week (at least during the book-writing season). I use a mouse or trackpad, and I’m proud of it. Windows 10, to my mind, is a great operating system, and it’s a big improvement over Windows 8. I know, damning with faint praise again.

If you use a keyboard and a mouse with Windows 8 or 8.1, you need Windows 10. It’s that simple.

Switching over to touch computing isn’t quite so clear-cut. I have a couple of touch tablets, and I review dozens more, and for simple demands — mail, web, media playing, TV casting — I still prefer Chrome OS, the driving force behind Chromebooks. It’s simpler, less prone to infuriating screw-ups, less prone to infection, and less demanding for patches.

On the other hand, if you need one of the (many!) Windows 10 apps or Windows desktop apps that don’t run on Chrome OS, and you have a touch-first environment, Windows 10 ain’t a bad choice.

One thing’s for sure. This isn’t recycled old Windows 8 garbage. With Windows 10, Microsoft has taken a bold step in the right direction — one that accommodates both old desktop fogies like me and the more mobile newcomers (like me, too, I guess).

I haven’t felt this good about a Microsoft product since the original release of Windows 7. I just wish Microsoft hadn’t pushed so hard with the Get Windows 10 campaign. It still leaves a bad taste in my mouth after all these years.