Microsoft Will Now Pester Windows 7 Users To Upgrade To Windows 10 With Pop-ups (betanews.com)

Mark Wilson writes: Anyone who is still using Windows 7 doesn't have much longer until the operating system is no longer supported by Microsoft. Come January 14, 2020 only those enterprise customers who are willing to pay for Extended Security Updates will receive any kind of support. Microsoft has already done a lot to encourage Windows 7 diehards to make the move to Windows 10, and now it is stepping things up a gear. Throughout 2019, the company will show pop-up notifications in Windows 7 about making the switch to the latest version of Windows.

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There is a quite easy way to kill win7

[Z80a]

Release another good windows.
Worked wonders with windows XP.

Re:There is a quite easy way to kill win7

[Anonymous Coward]

Or allow Professional users to disable telemetry and turn off automatic updates instead of keeping it to inaccessible Enterprise licenses. Some of us need the stability of planned rollouts but aren't large enough to get Enterprise licensing yet and the telemetry is a no-go for many professionals.

Re:There is a quite easy way to kill win7

[ctilsie242]

I just wish MS would release Windows 10 LTSB/LTSC as a standalone OS. No telemetry, no Candy Crush. Just does its job.

Re:There is a quite easy way to kill win7

[Z80a]

I don't consider an OS that comes bundled with malware as a good OS.

Re:There is a quite easy way to kill win7

[Anonymous Brave Guy]

There's still a significant amount of useful Windows-only software out there. The lock-in effect is growing weaker as other platforms develop competitors and particularly as online services displace desktop software for a lot of users, but it's still there.

Re:The company will, but I won't

[Anonymous Coward]

They try, but I'm letting the "You May Be A Victim" message stay as a badge of honor.

I am the victim; I have a Windows box after all. I'm not about to pay the mugger to rape me too.

Fuck You Microsoft.

[UnknownSoldier]

Microsoft doesn't respect your time, space, or money. Fuck 'em.

The community needs to send a letter to MS:

Dear Microsoft,

Here is a fucking clue-stick:

1. It is NOT your fucking machine regardless of how much of your software we run on it.

2. Instead of nagging people to upgrade to your latest spyware how about you produce a better replacement with the option to disable all your Telemetry shit? Oh, wait, that would involve work. /sarcasm

Re:Too bad MacOS isn't broken beyond repair

[hairyfeet]

So he still has to pay MSFT for a copy of Windows 10, deal with the hassle of VMs, then why on earth would he want to run Linux if he has already having to pay and use Windows daily since Linux won't run the software he requires to be productive?

This whole notion is as silly as telling someone who requires a truck for work they should get a subcompact and when they point out the compact won't actually do the job they need a vehicle for telling them to get a subcompact AND a truck, deal with the extra insurance and maintenance, simply because you like compacts. Wouldn't a better idea be to push Linux devs to stop being so hostile to companies that actually have to get paid for the software because their software simply wouldn't work under the Linux Blessed Trinity of selling hardware, support, or eBegging?

But Good Lord we can't have that, what compromise and cooperation instead of pushing the narrative? In 2019? That just won't do, instead Linux users should act like paying MSFT for a copy of Windows, dealing with the BS and hassle of VMs is a perfectly sane and rational idea that 99.995% of the population won't reject out of hand as being totally whack-a-doodle...and people wonder why MSFT can release an OS as buggy and nasty as Windows 10 and Linux never gains any share.