steven36 Posted July 12, 2019 Share Posted July 12, 2019 Users have such fond memories of XP, they seem to be replicating its death This is bald Sooty. This is a bunny MICROSOFT IS sitting on a Windows timebomb, and the fuse is lit. In six months' time, on 14 January 2020, Windows 7 will reach its natural End of Life (EoL), meaning no more security updates and the whole circus of panic that goes with it. It'll have had a damn good innings, nine-and-a-half years in fact, but the tiresome truth is that a lot of customers still aren't confident enough in Windows 10 for an upgrade, or their machine isn't capable of running it, thanks to Microsoft's draconian rules about what chipsets it supports. The free upgrade offer that let Windows 7 and 8.1 users update to Windows 10 for nowt was supposed to stop this exact thing happening, but uptake was finite, and even now, three years on, a whopping 35.38 per cent of users are still running Windows 7 (Windows 8.x is another 5.2 per cent). In fact, totting up all versions of Windows, there are almost as many users not running Windows 10 as running it. More worrying is that figure has hardly shifted from last month - Windows 7 has lost 0.06 per cent market share. Year on year, it's only dropped about six per cent. At that rate, we'd still be faffing about with this issue in the mid-2020s. The bulk will be organisations who haven't yet made the leap with their networks. This could be because of money, the need to run bespoke apps that don't play nicely on Windows 7, and yes, in some cases it could be ignorance. The fact remains, though; that's a lot of machines that aren't on a version of Windows with a future. The last remaining version to be supported beyond January 2020 will be Windows 8.1 (if you're running Windows 8 you can, nay should update to Windows 8.1 for free, from the Microsoft Store, as soon as possible - that's been EoL for ages). Organisations who really can't be ready in time can apply for extended support for up to three years, but its charged per seat, which, in a big organisation could be thousands of machines. Oh yeah, and that price per seat doubles every year. If you're an individual using Windows 7, you've got no options - this date has, after all, been in the calendar for years and Microsoft won't make any money out of your complaining - buy a copy of Windows 10 by 14 January, or you're screwed. The fact that it's only a few years ago that there was all the kerfuffle with Windows XP's EoL, which, lest we forget carried on for years including a spectacular fail during the Wannacry ransomware incident, you'd hope that Microsoft would be better arming its users for what is to come. Alas, however, it seems that if you're not running a network of Windows 7 machine, Microsoft isn't that fussed about telling you what you need to do. That said - it's all fun and games ‘till the nag screens start. And they will. On the plus side, we'll get to say 'we told you so' and we know you know how much we love doing that. Source Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taviruni Posted July 12, 2019 Share Posted July 12, 2019 I'm dual booting 7 and 10 on all my PCs, but prefer to use 7, updated to Dic 2017 (by Simplix) just before all debacle about Meltdown and Spectre (to not loose Processor performance), using FireFox Browser, AV Avast Free and running Malwarebytes Free from time to time. So far not a single malware has been found on any of my PCs, and I'm sure this will not change when 7 will not be supported anymore. About 10, so far 10 updates are a nightmare as I have read (because I don't let updartes run on my 10), I do not pretend to be on a OS so prone to failures every month. I will use 7 until I have a browser and an AV capable to run on it, then just keept it for offline use with my games and dual boot with some Linux for Internet use maybe Ubuntu, I really think paying for an OS with all that update failures, Telemetry and I can't trust is stupid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steven36 Posted July 12, 2019 Author Share Posted July 12, 2019 1 hour ago, Taviruni said: I will use 7 until I have a browser and an AV capable to run on it, then just keept it for offline use with my games and dual boot with some Linux for Internet use maybe Ubuntu, I use Ubuntu and i have Windows 8.1 dual boot after using Linux since 2015 I never hardly boot windows anymore, most games you can play on Linux now just if you cant buy them and used cracked games you may want keep using it on windows. i don't want that closed source mess of games on my Linux system it's a oxymoron . I pirate my off just not software very often unless I'm in windows i update my pirated software. (Just stuff I always used on Windows ) On Linux all my software is free but a few things i buy witch are really just services I pirate movies .TV Shows and Music . I retired from uploading cracked Window's software and games in 2011 so i know all about it lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arsenaloyal Posted July 16, 2019 Share Posted July 16, 2019 I have a triple boot setup of elementary OS, Windows 7 and Windows 10. Windows 7 is still best for a work environment because of Office. Windows 10 is there only because of netflix. Wish linux had MS office integrated completely and then life would be bliss. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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