And how many still have a copy of it around, maybe on an old hardware machine, or in a VM (virtual machine), for those times when only Windows 7 will do?
And how many still have a copy of it around, maybe on an old hardware machine, or in a VM (virtual machine), for those times when only Windows 7 will do?
Updates are where the money is, which is why smartphones stop doing updates after 5-7 years, they force/compel you to buy a new phone.
"... it's clear that at least 100 million PCs are still running Windows 7, and that number could be significantly higher..."Gee, ya think?
“So how many of us FReepers are still on Windows 7 as their primary computer / workstation “
Me. Windows 7 on three laptops and one desktop. All have MS Office 2003 installed on them. When we’ve relocated, my Office 2003 program disks have been in my carry-on bag; can’t risk losing it.
I have a laptop with XP and am getting a blue screen when I turn it on. Am not sure if it’s repairable or not but will check it out. I like the XP sound recorder.
Hubby has Windows 10 on his machines and has constant problems.
I still have one machine at work running Windows XP because I have a database I occasionally need to access and the software I need to run to do that will only work up through XP. My other computer at work is Windows 7.
At home I did end up upgrading just because I can’t play many good games on Windows 7.
I have one PC still on Win 7 and one laptop on Win10.
The laptop would still be on Win8, if I had known about doing the rollback from Win 10 within the 1st 30 days after the update to Win 10. If I could roll it back now I would. I have found zero benefit to using Win 10 over Win 7. I think that has been true of many Microsoft updates to both its software and its OS updates. The only disadvantage that earlier versions of things have ever presented was how they were forced into “not supported” situations with respect to compatibility issues with software written specifically to be in sink with a newer OS. Their inherent functionality was never an issue and what was “new” was seldom seen as “better”, simply newer and often less ease of use (more complex) compared to an earlier version.
For instance, when did I give up Win98? When I could no longer get the newest versions of the antivirus application compatible with it.
I’m one of them. Bought a new laptop 3 yrs ago and insisted on W7. Love it.
I have one PC still on Win 7 and one laptop on Win10.
The laptop would still be on Win8, if I had known about doing the rollback from Win 10 within the 1st 30 days after the update to Win 10. If I could roll it back now I would. I have found zero benefit to using Win 10 over Win 7. I think that has been true of many Microsoft updates to both its software and its OS updates. The only disadvantage that earlier versions of things have ever presented was how they were forced into “not supported” situations with respect to compatibility issues with software written specifically to be in sink with a newer OS. Their inherent functionality was never an issue and what was “new” was seldom seen as “better”, simply newer and often less ease of use (more complex) compared to an earlier version.
For instance, when did I give up WinXP? When I could no longer get the newest versions of the antivirus application compatible with it.
My wife has one old laptop with WIN7 on it.
She rarely uses it, and I’m just plain too lazy to upgrade it since it’s not used much.
Everything else here is running on a Mac with LibreOffice and Thunderbird mail. The Macs are all old ones too.
No more Microsoft here if we can help it.
With constant suggestions to upgrade my Windows 7 to Windows 10, I finally did so. Bad mistake! It wiped out many of the programs I use and my computer now thinks I am in either Denmark or Norway.
and never had a virus or malware.
I installed Windows 8 on a custom PC that I had built and successfully updated the OS to the current Windows 10 right up until the most recent official update from Microsoft. It won’t install and the computer was not bootable.
The fix was to get it booted by other means, set the Windows 10 version back a couple of updates and turn off automatic updating. Good for a few more years - maybe.
I have 5 running 7.
Moved the xp machine virtual.
Much of the decline in Windows use is due to moving to Chromebooks.
I have some essential (to me) software that doesn’t like Win 10 and for which there’s no good alternative. I have a small stable of Win 7 machines, all air gapped. For the internet I use Linux.
Win7 laptop and desktop here.
Win10 on a tablet — it is the most frustrating OS I have ever tried to use. I just use the tablet for online radio now. I revert back to the Win7’s to do anything productive.
Linux Mint Cinnamon 8.3 laptop — I am liking Linux more and more.
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Adobe Flash is supposed to end today. It will be interesting to see how some websites/browsers adjust.
I still use Windows 7 on my desktop pc as it just works.
I have Windows 10 on a few laptops but hardly use them.
Windows 10 is adware and spyware and cannot be easily configured the way I want things to look. I like the Start menu of 10 but little else. It is earlier versions of Windows that someone picked up and dropped then tried to rearrange back together again. Confusing interface and again you are spied on.
It’s not upgrading. It’s a new operating system, and one that does dumb things and breaks things that worked well in 7.
First of all, Microsoft, fix what you have. One update to 7 broke the downloader/windows updater, so it could not download/update a fix for itself, and so one of my 7 pc’s remains at an update level from about 3 years ago.