You vill use vat ve tell you to use! Ja!
Bump for reference.
For all my bitching about M$, this is really not something that I can blame them for. They stopped all sales of Win7 (including legal licenses for OEM PC’s) last October.
They have already stopped mainstream support for Win7 and will no longer publish even security patches as of January 2020.
As for complaints about end of support date...frankly, they’re not making any revenue for Win7 any longer and I can fully understand wanting to keep costs for support to a reasonable level. Even Linux distros have end of support dates established.
Bottom line is that if they aren’t supporting a piece of software, why bother with certifications for that software. (”Gee, M$ are ogres because they no longer will certify me on Windows 3.0”)
This doesn’t mean that I am suddenly an apologist for the crap that M$ releases, like the spyware they are forcing on the public (a/k/a Win10 with it’s “telemetry”), but this is not something to complain about.
No matter how many times you paper it over it’s fundamental flaws remain.
MSFT knows their goal of “Windows as a Service,” (charging for updates and maybe even usage) will never be successful as long as there is a significant percentage of the population not using Win 10.
MSFT’s begging and pleading has just begun. I’m seeing more and more folks writing about dumping MSFT altogether for Apple or Linux.
I really like Windows 7... I don’t ‘get’ the problem with it...