first, if you like either windows 10, or JAWS, or both, I beg, don't bother reading further. last year, I started my windows experience for the first ever time. I happened to start with an old HP, with windows 10, and NVDA. honestly, that thing was so bad, I almost gave up on windows. short story, I ended up blaming my hardware, or NVDA. last december, I got this 8.1 samsung, which I'm on right now. at least 3 times faster, no freezes, no sluggishness in task manager, nothing. so I thought it must have been either my hardware, or windows 10. even JAWS is faster on this thing. about june or so, I got another laptop, since this is through my school. it's an i5 processor, with windows 10 (no crack). you'd think it would work beautifully. well... windows 10 is still as bad as it was last year. opening task manager lags out the thing entirely. in short, putting my windows 10 with better specs than my 8.1, and having a game of which is the fastest, the i3 with 8.1 wins all the way. booting is faster, after logging in it's seconds, whereas it's minutes on my 10. and, please don't suggest to do a clean install, I've done that already. windows 10 is simply fucked. the story is slightly better with JAWS, opening task manager doesn't freeze JAWS as bad, but JAWS is simply not ready for windows 10. the amount of graphic you hear over actual text is down right entertaining. so for me, for as long as I can, I will not use windows 10 as primary. 8.1 all the way, and NVDA all the way. so let's speak about JAWS. look at it's release notes, and look at NVDA'S what's new. from this we understand that: 1) JAWS is catching up with NVDA, at least with JAWS 18 and 2018. 2) paying for JAWS isn't justified at all. if not for windows 10, something like JAWS 15 would do the job just fine. so what am I paying for? do I pay for edge support, that's been there since NVDA 2016.4? simply put, unless you're willing to pay, or unless you're willing to change screen readers, don't upgrade from windows 8 or 7, and your current JAWS will do fine. since I can't get anything besides windows 10 nowadays, and this thing is falling apart, I will have to put up with fuckdows 10, but I can do it for the same price as millions of others, in the name of NVDA. if not for windows 10, I would perhaps consider buying JAWS, and don't bother upgrading. but this way... I'd rather get one of these new android based note takers. least they get upgrades for free. the amount of lag you get in the desktop app of skype, and the amount of crashes, plus hopelessness of JAWS in games is simply a waste of my productivity times. I'm not the most advanced user out there, but I want it to simply work. PS. the start menu of windows 10 doesn't properly work, either, but NVDA handles it slightly better. even if it doesn't, for that price tag, you have the rights to expect it to work. and with NVDA, you get upgrades daily, in the name of snapshots. we'll speak again when, if ever, JAWS has something similar. until then...