is this going to be forcefed like last time?
Posted on 06/18/2021 10:04:12 AM PDT by dayglored
Windows 7 users might finally decide to upgrade soon. Windows Latest today reported that a leaked build of Windows 11 suggests Microsoft plans to offer a free upgrade to the next significant update to the operating system when it debuts.
A caveat: This is based on a configuration package in a leaked build of an operating system that hasn't officially been announced yet. Microsoft's plans could have changed, or it may have planned for the upgrade to be paid all along.
Windows Latest said its claim was "based on the configuration keys found within Pkeyconfig (product key configuration package) in the leaked build of Windows 11." Those keys suggest Windows 7, 8, and 8.1 users will be able to upgrade at no cost.
That upgrade path would make sense. Microsoft offers a free update to Windows 10, too, and that promotion is still valid even though it was supposed to end in 2016. Anyone with a valid key for Windows 7, 8, or 8.1 can take advantage of that offer.
Microsoft continues to sell licenses for Windows 10, of course, but the free upgrade from a prior version of Windows reinforces the platform's status as an operating-system-as-a-service on top of which the company's real money-makers are built.
Charging for Windows 11 when Windows 10 was a free update would come as a surprise. So would requiring systems running Windows 7, 8, or 8.1 to install a free upgrade to Windows 10 before installing a free upgrade to Windows 11.
Windows 7 users have been on borrowed time—Microsoft officially dropped support for the operating system in January 2020. Windows 8.1 will follow suit in January 2023, and Microsoft plans to stop supporting Windows 10 in October 2025.
We should know more about how Windows users, from those relying on a version released over a decade ago to those running the most recent update, will be able to upgrade to Windows 11 after Microsoft's announcement on June 24.
Bill Gates says so.....................or else..............
A Microsoft spokesman called Windows 10 the 'last version of Windows' in a statement, but it's been suggested that this was merely an awkward way of referring to it as the LATEST version.
Guess I will go Mac before forced to 11.
Joe Biden is probably still using DOS.
Funny,
Apple figured out YEARS ago, they made far more money giving away their OS rather than charging for upgrades...
MS Still hasn’t figured it out.
DOS??
Please, he’s running a glitchy copy of CP/M
Windows 11?
I’m waiting on version 42.
That’s going to be the be-all-and-end-all, so I’m led to believe.
This concept defies all logic. Why would anyone do this?
It’s not hart to get a free Windows 7 key that works.
Windows 7 preceded the more complicated process they use now.
I have done it, but I just used a key I found on the Internet. Just keep trying until you find one that works.
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=windows+7+pro+keygen&ia=web
is this going to be forcefed like last time?
Just last week, I told my MD-101 students that because of Windows-as-a-service and semi-annual channel updates, there will never be a Windows 11.
Alrighty then...
Satya lied to me.
I have a great laptop with Windows 7. Great machine!
Then they kept wanting me to upgrade to Windows 10. So after a while I did.
Big mistake.
It wiped out some great programs in W7 and replaced them with nothing, and my machine now thinks I am in Denmark and not the US.
Will I get a free upgrade for my VISTA?
Windows 7 is also a security nightmare...
This is really funny. We still have a laptop running 7, which was the last OS Microsoft made that worked fairly well. Had to change platforms years ago with a MacBook Pro. I’d never go back.
Yep, it's all about "Me". LOL
Of all the godforsaken broken releases of Windows, "WinME" takes the cake hands down. Vista and 8 were bad ideas, but they weren't broken. WinME was INTENTIONALLY BROKEN, to force people off the DOS-Windows and onto NT-Windows.
Microsoft is in business to make money. They don't care -- hell, they're still supporting WinXP -- IF you have a lot of licensed machines and pay them enough money (and it's a LOT).
They'll be quietly supporting 7 for large business customers for years to come.
I remember it a little differently. Along with the "Billion installs by 2017", came the statement that Windows 10 was going to be updated regularly but there would never be another "major-number" release. In fact there were statements to the effect that they'd eventually drop the "10" and it would just be "Windows", and they would transition to a subscription model, based on cloud downloads.
Of course, those statements, like all Marketing statements, were subject to change, and change they did.
LSD in the Redmond water supply? Bad batch of smack?
Fevered 6:30AM revelations after an all-night cocaine binge in the Marketing office?
Hell if I know.
See my reply #58 above. Bait and switch, perhaps. Or simple indecisive thrash.
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