I’m 82 and stuck in my ways. I have Windows 10. Do I have to change at some point. I need advice.
“I have Windows 10. Do I have to change at some point.”
So many here are experts; I am not at all. BUT I don’t think you have to but it depends on how you use it. My two cents:
I have a Win 7 laptop and a Win 7 desktop with MS Office 2003.
I have a Win 10 laptop and a Win 10 desktop with MS Office 2003. Got them refurbished and cheap just to test 10 because it seemed that there was a big jump between 7 and 10. I do not like it. The Edge thing is like a demon possessing it. Have done many things suggested online to prevent it from having links open in Edge. (Changing my default browser to something else doesn’t work.)
Explorer file manager is “too much”; much more user friendly in 7.
Hubby has two Win 11 laptops with MS Office 365. One is for day-to-day use and other is dedicated to astronomy and connects to his behemoth telescope, and cameras. I have tried to be comfortable with 11, but hate it.
For my day-to-day stuff, I prefer Win 7.
Basically, everything I do, or he does, can be done in 7 or 10. I never would move up to 11 because it’s actually moving down when it comes to productivity and speed.
Technically no. You can keep running it forever. BUT, other software you run on there will stop updating (Chrome stopped updating on older versions of 10 like 2 years ago), and eventually that makes problems (websites coded to use new features that are only in browsers that won’t install on your OS). So at some point, depending on where you go on the internet or software you use, you might have to. But until then ride it out. Changing computers sucks.