Looks like the loons at MS aren’t about giving the customers what they want.
Oh well, this laptop was good to me while it lasted. [gives it a pat]
ping
Dont they still support vista?
Actually security patches will continue to 2020
End of life six years after its introduction? That’s quick.
As if I (a single user) give a damn. First thing I did when I booted up my new PC with Win 7 was turn OFF automatic updates. I’ve had it, oh I don’t know, at least 4 years. Not done one patch or update.
You know what they call the first 5 million purchasers of a new Windows version? Beta testers.
This cannot be true. Windows 7 is the most popular OS out there right now.
Microsoft is getting desperate for more income. So, throw all their older customers under the bus, for extorted sales.
If that’s true, it’s Linux time.
Hope Win 9 is out by then, because 8.1 sux. One of the problems they fail to mention, aside from its horrible interface, is that it is a huge memory hog because it has “overflows” built into it. So 8 MB of RAM is the least you can do with, and even then you will grind to a halt and all your programs will go dark every now and then. So you have to shut down and clear everything.
Seriously horrible design. Win 7 was very good and stable, much more so than XP, but none of the 8 family is worth a dime.
I am attempting to be all Linux for everything, even my engineering stuff, by the end of 2014.
Windows 8 is complete and total crap. I could not have designed a worse interface if I tried.
Win 7 is on all my brand new engineering computers and works fine.
My shop equipment is running on XP.
MS has nothing but contempt for industrial customers. I miss the old days of UNIX based software but you can’t find it.
Planned obsolescence.
MS never seems to be able to get anything right. Flashy screens, buggy software.
Microsoft runs their company the way that obama runs the country.
I would questions this report strongly. Is there a Microsoft announcement on this that can be linked?
They’ve always provided desktop OS support for two versions back since forever. Thus, XP was still supported after Vista and Win7 came out. When Win8 came out, XP support was dropped, as it was then 3 versions old. It would be a huge change of approach to drop support for the previous release.
I prefer Win7 to XP, but I will NEVER move to Win 8.
I just went to Windows 7. Thanks for nothing Gates.
Threads like these make me feel like a computer genius, I used XP until they stopped supporting it, now I have 8.1, it took me a couple of days to Google the tweaks I wanted, such as booting straight to desktop and such, and now everything is hunky dory, I set it on automatic updates, and enjoy the computer.
Looks like a Mac will be my next purchase. Can MS designed desktops be purged of it and use an open source OS like LINUX?