TaintedSquirrel
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It ends when they pry it from my cold, dead hands.
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Windows 7 Support Ends in One Year
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I'm so feed up with MS, that I built a retro gaming rig with XP. Used the tweak to get the updates. Got all my 20+ games working with no CD patches etc, and I don't need to be on the internet. For windows 7 rig that I game on, I have updates turned off, and go here to get my security updates only: https://www.askwoody.com/forums/top...-of-group-b-monthly-updates-for-win7-and-8-1/
The security updates are typically only 2 or 3 per month.
The security updates are typically only 2 or 3 per month.
Any business that has been paying attention to the failures and foibles of Windows 10 ain't about to downgrade to it from 7. This is just a ploy to get more money out of businesses so they will subscribe to the Windows 7 extended service plan. redmond ain't no dummy :wink:
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Yes, they will do exactly that, and these aren't scare tactics, as they've had the Windows 7 EOL date on their website for years now.
This has happened with every OS they have ever released in the last 25 years, and it just happened this decade with Windows XP in 2014 and Windows Vista in 2017.
I'm right there with you, and after that date, Windows 7 pretty much will need to stay offline, sadly.
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The only reason for any business to go with the extended service plan (which can be millions of $$$) would be due to the extreme cost of upgrading due to software compatibility (or lack there of) or the cost of lost downtime during such an upgrade, which may very well not be viable without further losses.
These are extreme cases, though, but this did happen back in 2014 when Windows XP went EOL, and many businesses and government agencies world-wide continued to use it without extended support, lack of patches and security be damned.
Business is business, and while everyone is acting shocked, what surprises me is that few individuals here really understand that they do not "own" their copy of Windows.
Microsoft licenses their OSes for consumer and business use, and while everyone might own their license for it, they do not own the OS.
Many here bash GNU/Linux and/or BSD like they are a joke, but at least users running those OSes actually do truly own them and can do whatever the hell they want with them, which includes making their own patches.
With Windows, though, it's game over, and that is business.
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Well, they haven't BEEN fixing it, so what's going to change?
We don't see that. We don't see that at all. In fact, almost NEVER.
IN fact, what was the last microsoft product that actually lived up to the hype? DOS 5? Win 95 was actually just a shell on top of DOS 7. Win2000 still had the problem with windows rot. So basically everything they've made since 1991 has been faulty.
Did they ever fix the SCSI bug? How about windows rot? Nope. So, not actually so great.
It became end of life so microsoft could sell more of it's newer operating systems and take more of our money, and because they stopped including OS discs with new computers so people couldn't just wipe the thing clean and reinstall their software, because then they would know that they didn't actually NEED a new computer. They needed a fresh operating system without all the crap that had accumulated in the old one. The nonsense about saving money by not including those discs was just that. Nonsense. The cost to include installation OS discs is negligible if you want to sell a good product. MS has never wanted to sell a great product. They want you to BELIEVE that it's a great product. But if you look at their corporate behavior, you just have to keep making up excuses for them as to why they don't do the right thing. Doing the right thing is pretty obvious; so it's also pretty obvious when someone refuses to do it, out of greed. Come on now; why did microsoft continue the predatory marketing practices? If you have a better product, people will buy it. When you sell a turd, you have to do all sorts of things to push it on the consumers. Which is exactly what they're doing with windows 10. If it was so great, it would sell itself, people would be running out to get a copy.
We don't see that. We don't see that at all. In fact, almost NEVER.
IN fact, what was the last microsoft product that actually lived up to the hype? DOS 5? Win 95 was actually just a shell on top of DOS 7. Win2000 still had the problem with windows rot. So basically everything they've made since 1991 has been faulty.
More BS. Patch it when something's wrong. But all those 'current features' are usually all crappy useless bells and whistles that distract from the fact that they still didn't fix the OS.
If that's the choice, or having to deal with Microsoft's idea that Win 10 and all it's nonsense is going to be required, I'll stick with Win 7 for now. And plan on moving to Linux when the time comes. I'm sick and tired of corporations telling me that they know what's best for me, and that what they think is best for me is to give them more money for another product when they won't fix the problems from the last one.
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If I was your IT and the laptop owned by the company, you would wake up with Windows or ArchLinux on your Apple hardware with no sign of MacOS because it's a pain to manage.
And yes, I use ArchLinux on production, it just works.