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When Windows 10 support runs out, you have 5 options but only 2 are worth considering
ZDnet ^ | April 22, 2024 | Ed Bott

Posted on 05/19/2024 11:57:09 AM PDT by fireman15

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To: Reno89519

I use Linux all the time and I’m no techie. For surfing, it works fine.


61 posted on 05/19/2024 1:40:29 PM PDT by BipolarBob (Why aren't eleven and twelve pronounced like one teen and two teen?)
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To: C210N
Still using winDoze 7 as well. Works fine

I am still using a 40-year-old King KX-170B radio in our airplane and probably will continue to until it finally dies. But is it even worth sending it into the repair shop if it starts acting flakey?

Who really cares as long it continues to send and receive? For that matter who really wants to talk on the radio? It is a distraction. But there have been a few advances made in computer technology in the same time period. You will probably be more than a little surprised when your old computer gives up the ghost and you are finally forced to upgrade.

62 posted on 05/19/2024 1:44:00 PM PDT by fireman15 (Irritating people are the grit from which we fashion our pearl. I provide the grit. You're Welcome.)
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To: fireman15
HP PC Windows 7 offline work......

2017 IMAC 3.4Ghz Quad core 1TB Mem and16GB DRAM, still works great on Mac Ventura.

Got away from Microsoft decade ago and happily staying that way.

63 posted on 05/19/2024 1:50:28 PM PDT by Mat_Helm
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To: PAR35
Frankly, if MS let me downgrade to XP on the two machines, I'd be willing to give that a try.

You can run Windows XP in a virtual machine quite easily to run old software. I have a licensed version of Windows XP installed in a virtual machine. And I have old computers that still have Windows XP... because I never throw any computer hardware out. I have what is basically a museum.

But using Windows XP is a bit of a frustrating experience because you, like me have probably gotten used to some of the niceties that later versions of Windows provide.

64 posted on 05/19/2024 1:59:12 PM PDT by fireman15 (Irritating people are the grit from which we fashion our pearl. I provide the grit. You're Welcome.)
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To: fireman15; TexasGator

Thanks, did not know that!


65 posted on 05/19/2024 1:59:53 PM PDT by microgood
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To: doorgunner69

Bill gates is the worst guy on earth. I’d never give him a dime. He’s for global abortion, climate change and other garbage. You keep supporting him.


66 posted on 05/19/2024 2:05:44 PM PDT by napscoordinator (DeSantis is a beast! Florida is the freest state in the country! )
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To: Paladin2
Are you >75?

Not yet. I guess I should have said set in my ways. I use Office pretty heavily and know most of the issues with the Windows OS, and although I know you can run Windows apps on Linux, I am sure that whole process takes some learning.

I worked in the Microsoft .NET world for most of my career and since I am retired, I am not as enthusiastic about solving issues as I was when working.
67 posted on 05/19/2024 2:07:27 PM PDT by microgood
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To: fireman15

How will this affect my VIC-20?


68 posted on 05/19/2024 2:15:04 PM PDT by Highest Authority (DemonRats are pure EVIL)
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To: fireman15

My W10 laptops are ancient but If I ever do force a W11 update onto an inadequate computer will that leave any hidden security vulnerabilities that as a non-expert wouldn’t be aware of as the years passed?

Would I be OK to accept it as a 100% W11 computer with no hidden weaknesses?


69 posted on 05/19/2024 2:21:21 PM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: PAR35

“Win11 is just an effort to force new hardware....”

Not being into gaming and having a $1000+ video card, [or being a bitcoin “miner”] I’m very unclear on what new hardware and s/w is going to do for me.


70 posted on 05/19/2024 2:28:38 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: fireman15

My dad has an OEM version of Windows 7.


71 posted on 05/19/2024 2:29:39 PM PDT by SkyDancer (~A Bizjet Is Nothing But An Executive Mailing Tube ~)
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To: RasterMaster

Thanks.

I was always pulling for BeOS.


72 posted on 05/19/2024 2:34:38 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: napscoordinator

Go coordinate a nap FOR SOMEONE.

I have not bought a MS product in over ten years when I got this Win 7 box.
Unlike you Apple fanbois that buy every new toy they come out with.


73 posted on 05/19/2024 2:34:48 PM PDT by doorgunner69 (When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty)
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To: Angelino97

XP?


74 posted on 05/19/2024 2:35:51 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: coloradan

Does your house include maintenance and security upgrades forever?


75 posted on 05/19/2024 2:36:49 PM PDT by tarator
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To: Angelino97

Do you mean XP?


76 posted on 05/19/2024 2:43:47 PM PDT by George from New England (escaped CT back in 2006)
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To: fireman15
My main workstation is 12+ years old, hence no TPM module. I find that since retiring there isn't really very much I do outside of gaming that requires Microsoft anyway, and have been pleasantly surprised at how much of it I can accomplish with an Android tablet. Gates or Google, pick your poison.

I converted an old NUC to Linux and have been using it that way ever since, despite the Win10 license I could boot into. That one is probably going to dump the latter and be redeployed as a music box. The lappy is ready for retirement anyway as literally all of its functions are being performed better by the tablet. Not only is Microsoft abandoning my market demographic, but my market demographic may be abandoning Microsoft just as fast. There's nothing amicable about this divorce, but when one partner says it's over, it's over.

77 posted on 05/19/2024 2:47:58 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: fireman15

“Customers are encouraged to migrate to the latest version of the product or service. Paid programs may be available for applicable products.“

Yeah well people who make various extremely useful hardware and software don’t migrate to the latest version.


78 posted on 05/19/2024 3:10:07 PM PDT by TalBlack (I We have a Christian duty and a patriotic duty. God help us.)
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To: kiryandil

I suspect that Microsoft is making a bigger and bigger chunk of money off of their Azure and related Cloud services. That means money from business, and lots of it. Business is not going to move from laptop/desktop PCs to pads and phones any time soon.


79 posted on 05/19/2024 3:11:39 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana
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To: ansel12
> I don’t get that one, to me the task bar is the same, you just have to choose the settings you want for it.

In Win10, you could do two good things that were left out when MS redesigned the Win11 taskbar to support ads.

Are you able to do those two taskbar changes in Win11? if so, please divulge your steps to do so.

Disclosure: There are suggestions on the internet to a) re-scale the screen and then b) re-scale the text font size. Again, this does not accomplish the same thing, and it screws up other things as collateral damage.

80 posted on 05/19/2024 3:17:13 PM PDT by dayglored (Strange Women Lying In Ponds Distributing Swords! Arthur Pendragon in 2024)
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