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.Why can't we just blame Microsoft for not supporting it anymore?
BMW still manufactures and supports parts for my E46 model from 2003. Also third parties.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.
I bet there are millions and millions of computers still running 7 at municipal and other level that are wide open for hackers
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.BMW still manufactures parts for my E46 model from 2003. Also third parties.
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.Hell, the number of XP/Server 2003 machines still in operation out there is kinda frightening.
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.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.
Good luck selling me Microsoft products in the future then.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).
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?
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.
If its not quad processor and 8gb of ram, my guess is no.
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.
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.
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.Is it recommended to not do a clean installation of W10? Not in the mood for reinstalling everything.
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).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.
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!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.
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!
You can try what this post suggested.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!
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
If an anime can make a PC, what's your excuse losers!This is amazing lol
I love the way it completely trivialises the building of a PC :D
7 was wonderful but the new and shiny got me into 10 at the first opportunity.
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.
Same lol.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.
Have you moved to Windows 8 or Windows 10 yet? Do note that if you're on Windows 8, its death day is January 10th 2023
For 10, there's this weird amalgamation of win32 and windows store applications not to mention the godawful of telemetry built in the OS plus the quality of monthly updates had been abysmal since 2018 (believe me, i a sysadmin for an enterprise. We've been studying the stability of Win server 2016/2019 and win10's monthly updates for quite some time. It's literally vomit inducing seeing the results)
Why can't we just blame Microsoft for not supporting it anymore?
Windows 10 has a dark mode which you can enable in the settings.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.
Just tried it out on my work computer that has Windows 10. I guess it's time to accept this upgrade. :(Windows 10 has a dark mode which you can enable in the settings.