The AchieVer Posted December 16, 2018 Share Posted December 16, 2018 The time is coming soon when Microsoft will no longer offer support for Windows 7 users. While Windows 7 users may have justifiable reasons to not upgrade to Windows 10, there are equally solid reasons to consider making the move to the current OS. According to NetMarketShare.com, of all the Windows active operation systems Windows 7 is still leading Windows 10 three years after the latter was released. As measured by Internet activity from September 2017 to 2018, over 42% of users still connect online compared to just under 35% for Windows 10 users. You can understand some reluctance of people or companies not wanting to upgrade, but now that Windows 10 has settled in and vastly improved after its many iterations, what is still holding 10-adverse users from making the leap to the latest and greatest? Here are the pros and cons or staying with 7 and pros and cons of going with 10. Do You Really Have Software and Hardware Compatibility Issues? The changes that Windows 10 requires have had many of the Windows 7 holdouts claiming, “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it!”. Windows 7 has accumulated hundreds, if not thousands of third-party apps and proprietary in-house software. In addition, many of the 16-bit apps from previous versions of Windows are still accommodated in Windows 7. Few of any of these apps work in Windows 10 or do so with issues. Maintaining legacy software is the main reason Windows 7 users (and mostly by corporate users) have not upgraded. Likewise, unavailable, updated hardware drivers for legacy peripherals have also kept many users from moving to 10. Source Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeeSmithG Posted December 16, 2018 Share Posted December 16, 2018 I was skeptical about Windows ten (10) until I purchased a solid state drive (s.s.d.). I installed it also installed startisback and have never looked back. It's an excellent operating system, so it's goodbye to Windows seven (7). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The AchieVer Posted December 16, 2018 Author Share Posted December 16, 2018 It’s still work-in-progress, probably will get better with time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steven36 Posted December 16, 2018 Share Posted December 16, 2018 Sounds like the Dooms Day XP Zombie Virus that never came syndrome that Microsoft shills tried to push off on XP users and there still is millions of XP users today so that never went over to well and Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 are stable and still they didn't upgrade . If they not updated to buggy Windows 10 by now, that means they don't plain too anytime soon or they switched back because didn't like it. It's been out since June 2015 and was free the 1st year. Both Windows 10 and Windows 7 lost market share in Nov 2018 people leaving Windows . https://www.computerworld.com/article/3199373/windows-pcs/windows-by-the-numbers-windows-10-fails-to-unseat-windows-7.html But the bottom line is Quote Crossover will have come late to Windows 7 if the forecast becomes reality. The last significant transition from one Windows edition to another - from Windows XP to Windows 7 -reached crossover in August 2012, or 20 months before XP's April 2014 support retirement. This month is just a scant 13 months before Windows 7's scheduled retirement. When Windows 7 reaches the end of its support lifecycle in January 2020, Net Applications' current trend lines show the operating system should be powering almost 40%, while Windows 10 will be running 53%. The first number - the projected user share for Windows 7 at its public support retirement - has never been higher than it is now. By comparison, Windows XP accounted for just 29% of all Windows PCs when it dropped off the support list. Unless migrations from Windows 7 to Windows 10 surge - no, positively balloon in volume - there are going to be a lot of people running the older OS after January 2020 without the safety net of security updates. Windows 7 is going to be a far worse problem than Windows XP was for Microsoft to migrate them off it. 1. Some home users stop doing Windows 7 updates ages ago and dont care . 2. They can read and see all the trouble people have had with Windows 10 since 2015- 2020 3. Many people don't like change and are happy with Windows 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steven36 Posted December 16, 2018 Share Posted December 16, 2018 1 hour ago, The AchieVer said: It’s still work-in-progress, probably will get better with time. Why you post outdated news for? The Op talking about Windows 10 in OCT 2018 I posted the updated news in Dec at the beginning of the month Windows 10 is close to overtaking Windows 7 now , but both lost marketshare in NOV so it didn't. It will be Jan, 1st before we know what happens next. This site has really went down hill it's in a time warp Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The AchieVer Posted December 16, 2018 Author Share Posted December 16, 2018 Your post states that windows 10 is still to outnumber windows 7 , but perhaps, this article states that it’s time to make a switch. However, still if you feel it’s an outdated news , the moderators can merge and or close this post 🙂 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steven36 Posted December 16, 2018 Share Posted December 16, 2018 38 minutes ago, The AchieVer said: Your post states that windows 10 is still to outnumber windows 7 , but perhaps, this article states that it’s time to make a switch. However, still if you feel it’s an outdated news , the moderators can merge and or close this post 🙂 The date on your news is OCT 30th 2018 that's old News , Next year is when it will get interesting Windows 10 didn't take over yet as you can see here they don't post the next results tell Jan 1st 2019 for DEC 2018 Netmarketshare may be false it just depends were you look , statcounter says Windows 10 leads by a mile http://gs.statcounter.com/windows-version-market-share/desktop/worldwide W3Counter: Global Web Stats says Windows 10 is well ahead too https://www.w3counter.com/globalstats.php 2 out of 3 already says windows 10 is ahead of Windows 7. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The AchieVer Posted December 16, 2018 Author Share Posted December 16, 2018 It’s just a piece of information which I thought to share, irrespective of the time it was published. Further, I am neither in favor nor against any OS. I really appreciate your efforts in bringing forth the figures. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steven36 Posted December 16, 2018 Share Posted December 16, 2018 7 minutes ago, The AchieVer said: I really appreciate your efforts in bringing forth the figures. They use to compare all 3 of them back in 2015 but now they just want to write about the one that shows the worst news for Microsoft , its like Google Chrome statcounter said it was leading over iE along time before netmarket said it had passed IE back in like 2014. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The AchieVer Posted December 16, 2018 Author Share Posted December 16, 2018 Yes, this could be another possibility, which seems quite realistic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryrynz Posted December 16, 2018 Share Posted December 16, 2018 1903 should be a great time to upgrade for anyone still on 7, will great year for system upgrades as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vakdan Posted December 16, 2018 Share Posted December 16, 2018 Is it true that MS won't be releasing Windows 11,12 etc. in the future and will just bring minor or major upgrades on Win 10? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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