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It's Windows 7 death day
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I never really understood the hatred some people had towards windows 8
classic shell is a thing and can make the ui look the same as windows 7 did
classic shell is a thing and can make the ui look the same as windows 7 did
This is like being mad that Ford doesn't still produce parts for 10 year old car models. At some point, it's just no longer feasible for a company to support their older products, and 10 years is a perfectly good run for an operating system.
I work for a local MSP IT company and lemme tell you, people are freaking tf out. A lot of our clients waited until the last minute to upgrade and now they believe that their computers are just going to shut off unless they are on 10. It's not fun.
BMW still manufactures and supports parts for my E46 model from 2003. Also third parties.
My company's sales team did a full court press last year getting people spooked into contracting copious amounts of OS upgrades.
It's basically been the majority of my hours billed over the last 3-4 months.
Hell, the number of XP/Server 2003 machines still in operation out there is kinda frightening.
It was silly of me, I shouldn't have used a $20,000 product to compare to an $80 one. The profit margins are very different.
Especially since BMW can SELL you the new parts, but Microsoft can't sell people the security updates (well, they could, but no one would buy them outside of businesses.... which they effectively do since microsoft supports their server software for longer).
I havent used 7 in years but 10 can be a shit show at times in comparison. The amount of times an update has basically fucked my computer and made it need a system restore is insane. This is across 3 different systems so I know it's not just one computer being fucky
This is why I always laugh when people say that Y2K was a hoax... In 1999, companies and the military were still using PCs from the 70-80's just like you can still find a lot today using XP and Vista. Bet plenty of companies right now are scrambling from lack of foresight.
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Windows 7 is much less intrusive than Windows 10, though. Win 10 is much more aggressive with its updates, takes more time to install them at its own schedule and I feel it also deals worse with hibernation mode than Win 7.
Can I customize my Windows 10 to have themes and stuff? Like a black theme to make it easier on my eyes like Windows 7? If not I'll live on the edge.
Good luck selling me Microsoft products in the future then.
A better analogy would be if any service ceases to exist and you can't play/watch games/media anymore.
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Do you store any important information on your laptop? Do you use it for banking, bill payments, online shopping, or taxes? Is it connected constantly online?
If you said yes to any or all of these questions, your going to need to do something. Windows 8, 10, or some form of linux if you want to keep your peace of mind. Undoubtedly performance is going to be worse, but that's just the name of the game.
I hadn't planned on doing this at all, and indeed I made another thread today about anyone on an EoL windows system who doesn't want to go to windows 10 to give Linux Mint a try.
Guess it's a good thing you like the OS then.
My company's file server was on 2003 till last year. Owners had to be begged to fund the upgrade.
It's about time. After debloating Windows 10, I don't have many issues with it and it's been pretty reliable for me even on 1909.
If its not quad processor and 8gb of ram, my guess is no.
W10 also perform worse on HDD iirc. Which any 2011 laptop most likely have.
Somehow my boss's computer was still on 7 despite every other computer in the building being on 10 for years. When IT found out in October they said it would be safer to junk it than update so until it's time for a upgrade my boss has to bring their laptop to work.
Yes to everything hahaha also ERA, YouTube, netflix and office 365.
But I don't know if my laptop can run W10 without any performance issues, I guess I need to buy an ssd
It has a i5 so I don't know if is dual core or quad and from what I remember it has 6gb of ram and I was planning to buy a SSD this month for that laptop.
You might be able to manage it. I've had mix results in the upgrade process, generally it won't make a system completely inoperable and if there is too much wonkiness you can do a clean install later.
Honestly, an SSD alone would likely be enough of an upgrade to make windows 10 work alright. It may even overall make the system feel faster even if technically the system is being bottlenecked more by the OS (that's just how huge of an upgrade SSDs are versus traditional hard drives).
99% of my experience of Windows 7 was on an iMac. Was pretty good too, I kinda preferred it to Snow Leopard/Lion back in the day, although the "feel" of OS X was superior. Nowadays I use Windows 10 on my custom desktop PC and it's been ace, no problems with it really, I wouldn't go back to 7.
Windows 10 ran fine on a desktop from 2008 that had a i3 dual core, 4 GB ram and an SSD added in. Just get the SSD and you'll be fine!
Thank you my laptop still works fine and I refuse to let it die!!!
Now I need to find a way to upgrade cheaply to w10 :p!
You can try what this post suggested.
For those who have not upgraded from win 7 and wants to, you can still try this method to get a free upgrade. It worked for me just in Dec.
Can you still get a Windows 10 upgrade for free?
Microsoft's much-hyped free upgrade offer for Windows 10 ended years ago, but it took more than seven years before the company finally updated its activation servers. Here's what upgraders can expect now.www.zdnet.com
Would be surprised if it didn't work, Microsoft has been actively trying to get people onto 10 from previous windows for the last 2 years. It's in their best interest to get people off of EoL products.
I still somehow have a mostly untouched Windows 7 party pack MS sent out to people. It included a copy of Windows 7 so that is gone, but the rest is untouched. It was supposed to be for people willing to host Windows 7 launch parties. Haha
I was hesitent to move towards Windows 10 for so long but finally did so after building a new PC. I kinda had no choice since Ryzen doesn't officially support 8.1.
However, I'd say that the transition was fine. I'm not a fan of the additional metro stuff and how tacked on it feels. I don't like the limited cuztomization you have. But other than that it still works with all my old software that I need (even things from like 2002) and is a lot more plug and play friendly than Windows 7, from what I've experienced so far.
People should take their security as seriously as they can. I've been at my brother to upgrade from 7 for so long now, even going as far as buying him a new SSD and a 10 key to do a fresh install so he doesn't lose his files on his current drive. And having an anti-virus isn't any excuse when your operating system is filled with holes.
However, I'd say that the transition was fine. I'm not a fan of the additional metro stuff and how tacked on it feels. I don't like the limited cuztomization you have. But other than that it still works with all my old software that I need (even things from like 2002) and is a lot more plug and play friendly than Windows 7, from what I've experienced so far.
People should take their security as seriously as they can. I've been at my brother to upgrade from 7 for so long now, even going as far as buying him a new SSD and a 10 key to do a fresh install so he doesn't lose his files on his current drive. And having an anti-virus isn't any excuse when your operating system is filled with holes.
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Should be fine but the way Windows 10 works it really needs an SSD for it to perform well. Do that and you should be fine.
Should be fine but the way Windows 10 works it really needs an SSD for it to perform well. Do that and you should be fine.
Almost all our computers at work still run Windows 7. Though based on how old and underpowered they are, I don't see them upgrading anything anytime soon.
Same lol.
We've already even had a ransomware attack a few years back, but the bosses refuse to upgrade.
I can't even get my manager to spend like $20 on a ram upgrade. Probably half our computers still have 2gb of ram, and using them is a painful experience. Especially when you need to open a browser. We had a computer where the power supply when bad, and when I was there by myself I took the ram out and put it in our main front computer so at least it would have 4gb.
Upgraded my personal PC last summer. While between the two I still prefer the Windows 7 OS, I am used to Windows 10 now.
If you're on Windows 8 your death day is the day you upgraded.
Yeah it sounds to me like they straight up no longer have a PC testing division, and while there are issues I have with W10 aside from the quality of updates (mainly the way that important PC settings are no longer all kept in a single place under a single interface) it's certainly the biggest one because some of these updates have been unusable garbage.
Of course if they weren't planning to end support for W7 I would suspect that OS would go a similar route as well due to that lack of testing infrastructure.
Windows 10 has a dark mode which you can enable in the settings.
Just tried it out on my work computer that has Windows 10. I guess it's time to accept this upgrade. :(