I had a Windows 7 Pro that worked great from 2009 until 2017. Microsoft upgraded my machine to Windows 10 without my authorization. I was able to get back, but my Windows 7 never worked right after that.
This is why I left Microsoft and jumped onto an Apple platform.
I refuse to update. I have turned updates off.
I have this on my win7 machine:
https://www.grc.com/never10.htm
I don’t understand peoples complaints. Windows 10 is awesome.
Or maybe they’ll just install a competing operating system?
IBM is still on Windows 7
You can set it up so there’s never any automatic updates.
Do the processors still operate on the older drivers or is it just a “scary” message?
The point is if you produce a product and sell it to the public, you should be forced to stand behind it.
If GM tried this they’d be facing lawsuits out the wazoo.
Their position that you are buying a “license” and not product is warped legal fiction at its most disgusting.
What is a Sarmistha Acharya ? I have an 8 year old Dell Laptop that has gone through Vista, W7, W8 and now W10. Only issue is with some game graphics, everything else works fine. Luddites relax.
“..I had a Windows 7 Pro that worked great from 2009 until 2017. Microsoft upgraded my machine to Windows 10 without my authorization. I was able to get back, but my Windows 7 never worked right after that....”
Yep. Been there and had that happen as well....on our business machine.
Switched over to Linux Mint Cinnamon 18 and running Libre Office instead.
Haven’t looked back since. For the personal computer, we run an Apple machine with the latest OS. Also run Libre Office on it. It’s a little different, but works fine once we realized the differences. We no longer have any MSFT-based machines....or MSFT stock. We said “goodbye” after the unauthorized update.
So is this an Intel problem, or a Microsoft problem?
(As long as it still runs DOS 3.0, I'm good with it)
Why would you use Windows 7 on a new generation processor?
Sounds like Fake News to me. The company I worked for IT dept would resist any OS upgrades. We’re talking hundreds or thousands of PCs.
Nothing is supported forever, no new updates, so what. Live with it or change.
As for Apple I had an iPhone 3gs Apple stopped upgrading ios.
This is why I’m getting a computer with Windows 10 Home Edition installed from scratch. Fortunately, most Windows apps do run with Windows 10, and the upcoming Creators Update coming out in April will allow all users to delay any updates to Windows for up to 35 days (though I think Microsoft should post updates to Windows 10 every Tuesday on essentially a weekly schedule similar to the current monthly updates to Windows 7 and 8.1).
Lack of updates != forced update. My 7s at home and 8.1 at work will stay, and if they can’t get upgrades that just means less rebooting. People panic too much.
It showed up on my computer maybe a year ago like a virus and was awful until I found a way around it. I use google chrome and it works fine.
How to prevent M$ involuntarily updating you to Win10, Part 1:
http://bit.ly/2kq73BP
How to prevent M$ involuntarily updating you to Win10, Part 2:
http://bit.ly/2mUNJxj
Rather than letting all their PCs access M$ individually to get their updates (which would be a big burden on the network), administrators of large organizations run a Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) server, which downloads all the patches and updates just the once and caches them locally. After which all the PCs take their updates from the WSUS server.
Well, there’s an application called “WSUS Offline” which, unlike M$’s WSUS server, #1, is free, and #2, doesn’t have to be run on a server OS.
It will run on any Windows OS (so long as it’s network-aware). And it downloads patches for whatever versions of Windows you tell it to, irrespective of which version the Windows WSUS Offine application is running on. You can run WSUS Offline on Windows NT and have it download ALL of the updates (and cache them locally) for Vista, Win7, Win8, Win8.1, and Win10 (but it won’t do XP because M$ has stood down the XP update servers).
You even can run WSUS Offline on a Windows PC that M$ is denying those same updates to, then use WSUS Offline to install them over M$’s objections.
Get more information and your own copy of WSUS Offline here:
http://www.wsusoffline.net/