Zone Alarm! Haven't heard that name in awhile.. I used to use that and can remember it being a good experience.
10 can be made to look and act enough like what I'm used to it should satisfy the curmudgeon in me.
You know what, I really like(d) Windows 7. It just worked. I was used to it...
I like 10 better, already. I mean... visually, anyway. I even use my Start Menu now and I even use it daily. I can track my Internet usage wayyy better. It seems fast but it's hard to tell due to I've never ran anything else on this PC and it's way faster than my last one.
Everything I liked about my Windows 7 interface is available in my Windows 10 interface, except, I had Aero withdrawal pangs in the beginning. The better than Windows 7 theme I ended up with got me over that.
I just hope the updates end up being manageable. I've got data limits (they throttle). The next update that is already looming over me to download (as I wait for the end of my ISP's billing month), I read, is 2-4 gigs. Quite a bit larger than we're used to with Windows 7.
Otherwise, it seems like a worthy update, so far. Like 3.0, 3.1, 3.11, 95, Vista, and Windows 7 were. Would I have done it if not forced into it? Probably not. Am I glad I did it? Humm. Well, I'd rather have the $130, but, it had to be done eventually I guess, so, I'm glad the move has been a positive one, so far. It was a Rocky Start with 7 gigs of downloads and my Bluetooth blinking in and out and my speakers continually reverting to stereo from surround sound and my BIOS no longer turning the PC on in the morning due to a Windows Setting change that it decided to make for itself, but, ever since that really crummy start things seem to be good and Windows seems to have stopped doing things in the background 'for me'. The crummy stuff happened on day 2 of Windows 10. The install, and Day 1, were smooth as silk (with huge downloads..). I dunno what happened on Day 2 but I just kept turning off everything I could find that allowed Windows to do things 'for me' in the background and haven't had a problem, since. I even got better/newer sound drivers from Windows 10 than from the latest offering of my motherboard manufacturer. That's pretty good for Windows!