Good Morning, 99%'ers! For the last three months, it seems as though I have been on the road a lot and have not been keeping up with all the news and developments in the outside world, especially on the international front. With all my traveling, I have been eating out far too often and not exercising enough. I used to run but quit about ten years ago due to chronic foot problems. Now my exercise of choice is walking, but I had not been as consistent during this traveling time. So recently I decided to buckle down and get back on the walking program which has been haphazard these last three months.

I noticed that today is the beginning rollout of the mandatory Windows 10 upgrades to all PC's using the Windows 7 or Windows 8 operating system. Although Microsoft has stated that the rollout will be done in phases, no one is really sure how and when this will be completed.

There are roughly 1.6 billion Windows machines worldwide; 850 million of those check into the Windows Update mechanism every month. An unknown number of Win7/Win8 users -- let's guess 500 million -- aren't under a volume license, and thus qualify for a free upgrade. There are 5 million registered Windows Insiders, although it isn't clear how many have actually installed the Windows 10 Technical Preview, much less kept it updated. And we have an unknown number of Win7 SP1 and Win 8.1 Update users who have signed on for the upgrade, thanks to Microsoft's advertising in the system tray and the GWX program.

A group of Windows Insiders have been testing the new Windows 10 program and have experienced a number of bugs associated with it that have caused their programs to crash. As recently as this Monday, Microsoft was patching bugs in the system. As another report called it

Microsoft plays whack-a-mole with Windows 10 bugs – with just TWO days left on the clock

A number of nagging bugs have cropped up in the last few days that have some Windows 10 testers scratching their heads at just how an OS this raw can be considered production-ready.

In one case, testers who tried to uninstall programs using the Control Panel – the customary Windows 8.1 method – instead of the newer Settings->System->Apps & features method, Windows Explorer would crash and immediately restart.

Another reported Explorer crash is triggered whenever you try to enable or disable an active network connection.

The first rollout of Windows 10 will be to the Windows Insiders so hopefully any other major bugs will be worked out before they get down to the average technical dummies like me. Which reminds me, there is a certain irony that yours truly who is one of the most technically unsavvy users here wrote about this topic. Perhaps we might even have a Windows Insider among us who can tell us what to expect from the new Windows 10 and why there is such a rush to get it out the door and installed on our computers.

Update: This article and video appeared at Yahoo. com which explains a lot about Windows 10. My husband and I have both been using Windows 7, so we did not have to deal with Windows 8 which caused a lot of user complaints. Perhaps this is the reason why there was such a rush to get Windows 10 out.

Also today, July 29 marks the first nationwide organizing event for the supporters of Bernie Sanders. And yes, I do see you, Al.

As per usual, this is an Open Thread so feel free to post on any topic of your own choosing.