[dayglored]

Hoo boy. Want to buy a new faster computer? Sure hope y'all like Windows 10, because it won't run anything else, eh?

[dayglored]

Windows 10 and Skylake processors - made for each other, and nothing else? ... PING!

You can find all the Windows Ping list threads with FR search: just search on keyword "windowspinglist".

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

UPGRADE TO WINDOWS 10. DO IT. NOW

[Paladin2]

Who's personal computer is it anyways?

[Dr. Sivana]

You can run VMWare (or some other VM environment) and tell Windows 7 the PC is running a current generation Intel i7.

[Lx]

I’ve been running Windows 10 on a PC XT and while it runs slow and in CGA, the hardware was cheap!

[patq]

Hopefully this will draft down both Microsoft and Intel. Intel has not been in great shape anyway with the move to mobile platforms. Before I put Windows 10 monitoring on my computer I’d switch to Linux or Mac OS. But these days you can get away with all mobile if needed.

[dayglored]

Oh, and before anyone gets upset at a thread that casts a shadow on Windows 10, please note that I elected NOT to post a thread on this article in BetaNews. I mean, really, "Unable to spark interest in Windows 10 Mobile, Microsoft infects iOS and Android like a cancer"? I thought Steve Ballmer was the only one who was allowed to call an operating system "a cancer".

The irony is heavy with this one.

[null and void]

If We The People won’t buy a machine that won’t run anything but Win10, somebody will provide new ones that will.

Or we’ll switch to an alternative OS...

[DaxtonBrown]

I’m reading this on my new spiffy Fedora Linux install that runs like a charm. I’m finally off the Microsoft plantation.

[TruthInThoughtWordAndDeed]

I will keep what I have, thank you.

[catfish1957]

Vanderbilt, Rockefeller, Melon, Carnagie, Melon</i>,

All minor league sleaze bags versus the present crop of Gates, Bezos, Zuckerburg, etc.

[r_barton]

PC sales dropped in 2015. People have said for years the PC is dead. This may be the thing that really puts the nail in the coffin.

[TexasGator]

“Hoo boy. Want to buy a new faster computer? Sure hope y’all like Windows 10, because it won’t run anything else, eh? “

Article: “ Microsoft says it will be maintaining a list of approved Skylake systems that are guaranteed to have Windows 7 and 8.1 support through July 17, 2017.”

[Organic Panic]

I alrady feel the pain. My engineering and cnc software does not support 10 yet. Now that new machines will not run anything but I am going to have to upgrade to the tune of nearly 6000 bucks. The software companies know this and have started to raise the cost of upgrades.

[The Cajun]

Didn't take them long at all to start tightening the vise, not long at all. :^(

[Nuc 1.1]

Interesting, they will push people right out of Windows. What an arrogant group. Who needs a PC.

[sten]

considering the majority of servers run linux... what chip will they use?

[Oceander]

I guess it’s going to be my old systems and linux for a while to go.

[minnesota_bound]

On saturday I put Windows 10 on a 11 year old Toshiba Satellite A105-S4074 laptop. Erased XP and installed the 32bit version of Windows 10 and used my 32bit cd I had from a purchase of Windows 7 that came with both 64bit and 32bit cd’s for the license. The Intel chip did not support 64bits.

Starts up in about 30 seconds and shutsdown immediately. I am giving it away to a relative. They can worry about the spying. I will look for 3rd party tools that will block microsoft from spying. I do not trust the Yes/No buttons under Privacy as Microsoft still collects the information and has already “accidentally” turned back on the settings you turned off when they did an update. Why would Microsoft have these settings if they were not selling YOU?

I will install 10 on my pc’s then activate then remove 10 so I qualify for the free version if I decide to go ahead with using 10 once I am satisfied I can block Microsoft’s spying.

Toshiba laptop specs. I have a 500gb 7200rpm hard drive and 4gbs of ram.
http://www.pcworld.com/product/1327645/toshiba-satellite-a105-s4074-notebook.html

[r_barton]

Okay, ask yourself, what is the reason for ending support of Windows 7 and making new CPU’s only support Windows 10?. Money is the only reason I can think of.

Now, how is Windows 7 different from Windows 10 when it comes to making money for Microsoft?
If they end support, what does it matter if people continue to use Windows 7 instead of Windows 10? Once again, what difference between Windows 7 and Windows 10 that makes money for Microsoft?

The Microsoft Store. Windows 7 doesn’t have it. Windows 10 does. Every copy of Windows that has the Microsoft Store potentially makes money for Microsoft. Windows 7, without the Microsoft Store, doesn’t. If Microsoft can force all of those Windows 7 users into Windows 10, many will buy stuff from the Microsoft Store in Windows 10.

Microsoft may have offered a piece of the store sales action to Intel, Dell, HP, etc. if they push Windows 10.

So, follow the money, right to the Microsoft Store. That must be the answer as to why Microsoft is pushing, even forcing, and giving away Windows 10 to users that don’t want it. Up-selling from the Microsoft Store.

The Apple Store and Google Store make a lot of money for those companies. Microsoft wants to do the same, but its Windows phone is a flop and loses Microsoft money on each one sold. All they have left to offer their Microsoft Store through is Windows 10. That’s got to be the reason for all the high pressure tactics to upgrade.