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To: fireman15

Stay with Windows 7 and you won’t have problems.


8 posted on 12/12/2018 12:41:56 PM PST by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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To: SkyDancer
Stay with Windows 7 and you won’t have problems.

Wouldn't that be nice! But both of our new laptops have 8th generation Intel processors which are basically incompatible with Windows 7 except in virtual machines... which I do have.

This is because of an intentional effort on Microsoft's part to stymie the development of necessary drivers.

https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/windows-7-wont-work-intels-current-next-gen-cpus/

12 posted on 12/12/2018 12:55:56 PM PST by fireman15
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To: SkyDancer
Stay with Windows 7 and you won’t have problems.

Up until the point Microsoft stops providing security patches for Windows 7 on 1/14/2020.

14 posted on 12/12/2018 1:01:37 PM PST by CatOwner
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To: SkyDancer

I plan to keep my W7 laptop until it dies.

The new W10 boxes seem have all kinds of random problems. Mostly little but annoying.


21 posted on 12/12/2018 2:21:31 PM PST by wally_bert (We're low on dimes in fun city.)
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