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I’m still (happily) on Windows 7 (with updates turned off for over two years). I’ve saved some old downloads and one was a firewall program from ZoneAlarm back when it was primarily selling firewall software. Nice simple effective program.

So I have the old program on my Win7 machine and it runs great. One time it asked me to upgrade and, when I did, it wanted to compete with my antivirus and antimalware programs, creating more trouble than it was worth so I uninstalled it and reinstalled the old simple software. That’s why I recognized the name CheckPoint.

Like some other products I’ve enjoyed, this probably got sold to a company that didn’t understand what they had and set about ruining it like yankees that buy up cajun food businesses only to kill them by yankeefying the product (been there, seen that).

One giant misnomer in business is that when a product says they’ve improved it, watch out. Sometimes it’s better but, just as often, it’s not which is why I won’t use Windows 10.

With my “Winblows” experience (I started messing with it at 3.0), after about a week, I would uninstall.. reinstall DOS 6.whatever (last I had was 6.22)...
Was a monthly routine, install latest Windows.. then go back to DOS..

XP.. I gave up DOS.

ME.. (I was wishing DOS was still around :P) .. went back to XP

(Around 2000, switched to RedHat).. then back to XP.

Win2000 came around (great for multi-chip, not for gaming)... went back to XP (Linux was a PITA)..

Bounced between Linux and XP..

VISTA came out —> back to XP...

Win7 came out... loved it.

FORCED upgrade.... (re-installed Win7 from backup)...

Switched to Linux Mint (with back-up Win7 for games).. learned to dual-boot.

Been dual-boot since. (Mint deserted KDE.. experimented with several DEs.. liked NONE of themm..settled with Kubuntu).

Now, have to settle with WinBlows 10 and Kubuntu... :p
Have been keeping Kubuntu updated, but haven’t yet got to learn it yet (WINE, etc.).. but will be working on that.

I do miss Win7 though.