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To: Boomer
I stopped at Win7. Is there really anything that good in 10 that warrants the upgrade?

After January 14, 2020 you might get motivation when the security updates stop. Until then, enjoy!
Windows 10 isn't bad, but it is no Windows 7 either.

14 posted on 06/05/2017 8:44:16 PM PDT by FreedomOfExpression
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To: FreedomOfExpression; Boomer
>> I stopped at Win7. Is there really anything that good in 10 that warrants the upgrade?

> After January 14, 2020 you might get motivation when the security updates stop. Until then, enjoy! Windows 10 isn't bad, but it is no Windows 7 either.

Good advice. Here's another perspective on it, though.

After 1/14/2020, all but one of my Windows 7 instances will be VMs (virtual machines), backed up automatically as simple file images, and if anything happens to one of them, all that's needed is a simple file copy to restore to any prior state.

The one copy that remains "on the metal" is my Win7 laptop, which is imaged regularly and can be restored from bare metal in about an hour.

I would never install Win10 on metal. VMs only.

21 posted on 06/05/2017 9:12:41 PM PDT by dayglored ("Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.")
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To: FreedomOfExpression

Thanks. I like Win7 so much that when the Linux distro, Zorin, came out and worked so well and operates very close to Win7 that I had to make the switch but I can still boot into Win7 if something comes up. So far it hasn’t been an issue and I can access all my files in Windows and even run Windows programs through the “Mint” emulator.

Pretty sure there was less of a learning curve going to Zorin than going to Win10 but since I never did; I can’t say for sure.

In a previous life I was a MS certified tech. It seems like MS did its best to make things far more complicated than they needed to be therefor keeping a need for further and advanced Windows education.


22 posted on 06/05/2017 9:16:12 PM PDT by Boomer (Progressive: The leftist mental illness has "progressed" to criminally insane.)
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