Posted on 11/03/2015 2:09:18 PM PST by dayglored
(Oh, and BTW... Windows 10 will be injected into your box by Redmond's mad doctors...)
Microsoft will stop all sales of Windows 7 Pro to PC makers on Halloween 2016.
Satya Nadella’s firm has quietly let slip that October 31, 2016, will be the final day for PC makers to buy copies of the operating system for pre-install.
Microsoft updated its product support lifecycle page, here, in October with the change noticed on Friday. The firm stopped supplying Windows 7 Home Basic, Home Premium and Ultimate to PC makers on Saturday October 31.
Before naming the 2016 date for Windows 7 Pro, Microsoft had promised to give OEMs a one-year period of notice before termination.
Windows 8.1 will also cease to be available to PC makers on October 31 2016 – but that’s less likely to bother people, given the operating system’s tardy sales.
The same could not be said of Windows 7 Pro, which has seen a healthy upswing in business as firms swerved Windows 8 when moving off Windows XP. Windows 7 runs on just over half of all PCs – 55.7 per cent, according to Netmarket.
The question will be what degree of push-back Microsoft receives from PC makers already struggling to move boxes in the face of tablets and sluggish corporate upgrades.
Many business will have already done their PC refresh by having moved to Windows 7, off Windows XP and be unlikely to move again for another few years. Corporations The Register has spoken to have expressed more interest in Windows 10 than its predecessor but those upgrades are a good two years out.
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Businesses are just gonna LOVE this.... Hell, a lot of them just got ONTO Win7 in the last year or two....
Let’s face the fact that Windows 7, as well as 8 and 8.1, are just less functional that Win 10. Just turn off all the spyware in Win 10 after installing it.
1. No, a lot of folks, myself included, find Win7 MORE functional than Win10 by a fair stretch.
2. No, you must not have seen this yet:
Microsoft Admits Windows 10 Automatic Spying Cannot Be StoppedOr did you just forget your "/sarc" tag?
(http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3355985/posts)
I’m just waiting for few Games I play to work on Linux
It is the when they’ll stop future support that counts.
Just read an article posted earlier today on FR that you can’t turn the spyware off.
I’m not going to change from 7 to 10 unless and until I have absolutely no other choice. Some of us just get tired of having upgrades shoved upon us when there is absolutely nothing wrong with what we have. In the meantime, color me confused.
Mainstream support for Windows 7 has already stopped. No more feature additions or updates.
Extended support for Windows 7 ends Jan 14, 2020.
At that time, Security Updates will stop, and that's the point where using bare Win7 will become seriously perilous, and you will be strongly advised to take other precautions. Or switch to Windows 10...
These are retail sales. Microsoft will do whatever it needs to do to keep huge enterprise customers with hundreds of thousands of licenses. They still support Win XP for them.
Linux is will still be available, on into the future. Anyone who just wants to browse the web and look at email should consider it. There are many fine distributions with various desktops and GUIs, or you can do without a GUI and just type in commands.
Thanks, my previous comment was ‘poorly phrased’.
[[Just turn off all the spyware in Win 10 after installing it.]]
Impossible to do so- Your windows 10 phones home on you and there’s nothing that can be done about it because of automatic updates which can’t be turned off
Windows 8.1 is actually better than Windows 7. I’m not upgrading to 10.
Business will still use VL/Enterprise editions. Those systems aren’t OEM-Built, but deployed from an .iso or .wim. That shouldn’t be a problem. Moreover, big organizations create their own golden wim’s and send them to the OEM to deploy on the hardware they purchase, which will still continue.
Small businesses can still use retail .iso/wim, and FREE MDT to deploy.
Honestly, I never keep the OEM’s OS. Wipe and Load. Too often the OEM images are crapped up with offers, trials, and vendor junk. I prefer to get that off the device and field a more pristine system to the end user.
Eventually, Windows 7 will lose support. That will be in 2020. I used to remember telling people many years ago about Win XP lifecycle ending in 2014, and people bitched then, too. But you and I know that the technology changes, and the threats do too, and this is a war requiring new weapons periodically.
For those that are satisfied, with W7, why should they care if W7 is less functional? W7 meets and exceeds my expectations. I’m happy with it?
This would be like me knowing our new Subaru is more functional than our neighbors 5 year old Ford, and poking at him all the time because he does not upgrade. IT’S NONE OF MY BUSINESS!
By what measure?
Newer doesn't always mean 'better'. Especially in the age of computing.
I personally found Windows XP to be, far and away, much more than I needed in an operating system. Then Windows 7 came along (after the failures of Win ME, Vista, and Win 2000) which has been even more stable and user friendly to me than XP was.
The common sentiment among ordinary users has been that, Windows 7 is practically all one needs in an operating system, and darn near a digital nirvana, in that regard.
Show me where the public was clamoring for a new MS operating system. You can't, because they haven't been. The entire push toward these 'upgraded' systems has been from the manufacturer, and no where else. Naturally, that's because they don't eat if they don't sell new operating systems.
And now, Redmond has come up with the ultimate solution to pushing out new (and unwanted) software, which is to change the basic relationship between themselves and their customers. No longer will you own the operating system you purchase - you will now rent your OS from the Mothership.
It's all about the almighty buck, and nothing more. You think Windows 10 is "better"? By what measure, I ask again.
Strange question. Why are you asking us about how you yourself feel?
It’s a rhetorical question asked in order to make the analogy of the car.
To put it is more straight forward terms, for someone to whine why people are not switching to W10 from W7 or XP is just really none of their business. This is something a lib would do, such as the FR libs. This frequently shows up in Windows threads.
What makes this particularly more irritating is the master libs (Microsoft) trying to force W10 down our throats, whether we want it or not.
Trust me, if only we non-geeks coule, we surely would!
I am a long time user of Windows, but this 8.1/10 CF is the total opposite of "intuitive."
After three months, I still haven't figured out the random dynamically changing file structure.
And I am not aware of any source of an explanation.
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