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Posted on 03/13/2019 8:00:46 PM PDT by dayglored
Hail of notifications incoming... just be thankful 8 passed you by
Updated Windows 7 holdouts have been warned to expect a notification suggesting that perhaps an upgrade might be in order.
Matt Barlow, corporate veep for Windows, has promised Windows 7 users are to receive a "courtesy reminder" that support is running out for the venerable OS as 14 January 2020 looms large.
Barlow also noted that Office 2010 ends its support run shortly thereafter, but for now the focus is on Windows 7.
The helpful notifications will doubtless send a shiver of déjà vu down the spines of users who found themselves on the receiving end of Microsoft's increasingly shrill exhortations to switch to Windows 10 for free during the operating system's first year.
The "free upgrade" notification back in the day was a bit confusing, and some users reported Windows 10 sidling up to their systems without permission.
Microsoft quietly killed the nagware – after all, 350 million or so devices running Windows 10 after the first year was mission accomplished. That billion couldn't be far away, right?
While the official freebie upgrade offer is long gone, Microsoft has clearly learned lessons from the nagware experience. This time around the notifications will only appear a "handful" of times, and users will have an option to "do not notify me again".
Barlow also insists the notification is for "information only" and clicking "learn more" will send the user off into a world full of shiny new hardware and software.
We checked with Microsoft to find out what "handful" actually meant. Some people have pretty big hands (although the claws of this Vulture have been described as "Trumpian" after remarking on the size of the iPhone XR). We also asked whether enterprises would be able to able head the things off before weary PFYs start fielding the inevitable support calls. ®
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Windows 7 allows me to play some old vintage games that will not play on Windows 8 or 10. So no.
Good luck ‘notifying’ me, Microshaft. My W7 boxes are pretty secure from malware from you or anyone else.
Say what? Does this mean windows 95 is also outdated? When did this happen? No wonder I was receiving virus warnings.
I have a software that blocks update to windows and scans for win 10 intrusions. So...NO!
“Office 365” SUCKS HARD!!!!!!!
If the crappy “Word” version in it was this bad in the beginning, we’d all be using WordPerfect right now.
Once Windows 7 support ends, I’ll be upgrading to a Linux machine.
Reference for later
DANG!
Updated at 15:38 UTC to add:
A Microsoft spokesperson got in touch to let us know that "Consumers can expect to begin to receive notifications from Microsoft on Windows 7 EOS in April."
The key word there is "consumers". Enterprises shouldn't be troubled by the messages, as the spokesperson confirmed: "Notifications will be for non-commercial users only."
And, of course, you can turn the things off.
So expect those first phone calls from confused relatives to start from next month.
So what program is that?
I’ve still got a Windows XP PC that I keep just for the heck of it.
There are several businesses around town hiring people to upgrade all their pc’s to Win10 - not because they love Win10 but because the support will run out on Win7.
I came home one night to see my pc automatically upgrading to Win10 unrequested. I was not alone. Thousands were hit in one night and many of us hit back. I now have a program that refuses the upgrade and turned off my upgrade notifications. I also bought an unused copy of Win7 from Microsoft before they stopped issuing them. If my pc crashes to the point I have to re-install the OS, I already have a backup copy ready to go.
If you must upgrade, get the Enterprise LTSB edition.
It will NEVER upgrade Windows 10 to a new release. Just install it and forget it.
Windows 10 makes every work day less enjoyable.
WIndows 10 is a continuous release Windows.
Unless you move to the stable release branch.
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