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Posted on 10/10/2017 7:39:50 PM PDT by dayglored
Well, too bad, Microsoft. Win7 and Win8 users are still entitled to security fixes for another 2+ years (Win7) and many more with Win8.1.
Microsoft is playing a dangerous game -- more and more people are upgrading from Win7 and Win8 to something other than Windows. It's always better for business to keep an existing customer than to have to scout around and attract more. It's especially difficult to win back a customer who has deserted. You'd think Microsoft would want to keep existing customers happy even if they're not running the latest and greatest release.
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Business as usual for Micro$loth
Still working with W7 Enterprise at work, with no plan to replace it.
Microsoft could charge a modest yearly fee to maintain security on older OS systems and yet still sell enough newer OS system computers for profits. Leftist greedy tasbards.
Its all our fault, for buying all those different OSes and upgrading...what were we thinking? Why didn’t Microsoft tell us....uh, wait what?
Oh, they already do that. If you're a large enough customer (think 1000s of installed machines) you can pay Microsoft to give you patches for everything back to and including WinXP.
That was demonstrated within the past year when Microsoft was able to release an emergency patch for WinXP with zero delay -- they already had developed it for their "paying" customers.
There are tons businesses and individuals who are in "When You Pry It From My Cold Dead Fingers" mode about Win7.
I admit, I'm largely (though not entirely) in that camp too.
Another reason to hate Microsoft
Heh. Earlier in the week, was in the Coeur d’Alene department that handles mobile home titles. Noticed the lock screens on their systems was the old Win XP one.
I’m sticking with windows 7 until they decide to make the UI and explorer and everything else function on newer versions of Windows just like Win7.
Funny how they’ll still support XP users if they’re big enough or government enough.
They’ve already GOT that money, now their only interest is getting you to buy again.
Windows 7 Professional user here...works great on a Dell.
Microsoft sucks. Admittedly, I’m a Mac person, but I had to buy a MS compatible computer to fill out some paperwork for a job, had a MS computer for my job and also got a tablet/computer thru work. All three had Windows 10.
I’d love to meet the designers of these systems and ask them, What the F*ck Were You Thinking? Windows10 sucks a fat hairy one.
If you're not already familiar with it, and you have to deal with Win8/10 systems, check out Classic Shell. Makes the Win8/10 desktop and start menu look and feel a lot like Win7 (or even WinXP if you wish). It has saved my sanity, and quite likely, my job (I'm a SysAdmin).
My wife now does 99% of her “computering” on her Kindle. If she decides she doesn’t need a PC going forward, I think I will start looking at UNIX/LINUX after I retire my Win 7 Pro PC.
I still mourn the loss of my Win 7.
I wonder what a Model-T would look like now under such a program?
someone might want to drop Microsoft an email and reference the NFL and how dangerous it is to piss off customers.
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