According to Microsoft they have invested heavily in making the process of moving from Windows 7 directly to Windows 10 as easy as possible. This is in clear recognition of those who have moved from XP to 7 in the last few years, and more so for medium to large enterprise businesses who require significant investment and incentive in any upgrade programme.
To this end, moving from Windows 7 SP1 to Windows 10 will be an in-place upgrade path. This means it will, more or less, retain all your user settings and customisations which currently exist within your Windows 7 profile. Things like your wallpaper, taskbar configuration, application customisations etc. etc. will all be retained once you complete an in-place upgrade to Windows 10.
That isn’t the only thing Microsoft have focussed on, they are trying hard to ensure that anyone who moves from 7 to 10 will not have to RTFM or search for You Tube videos on how to launch familiar programs or shutdown (what I really hate about Windows 8 – shutting down! Painful!). Familiarisation is key so expect the final release of Windows 10 to look and feel like much like Windows 7, with improvements and optimisations such as Live Tiles, multi-monitor application snap, any device application functionality and improved UI.
There is recognition that there are still a heck of a lot of people still using the traditional keyboard and mouse combination, that not everyone has touchscreen monitors and that many people use multiple devices and not just tablets. The traditional PC, despite declinging sales, is still going to be with us for a while longer and more so in the corporate world where change comes in much later than within the consumer channel.