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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.
Because I turned off updates years ago.
Maybe not in America, but pretty sure this will be considered illegal in the E.U.
"His name was James Damore."
Release another good windows.
Worked wonders with windows XP.
Has Windows Media Center, with CableCard support, been added back to Win10? No? Then eff off.
China still has 10% market share for Windows XP. There will still be substantial Windows 7 usage in the 2030s. Businesses wih critical workloads that can’t be rebooted all he time for “updates” means that 7 isn’t going anywhere.
Microsoft doesn't respect your time, space, or money. Fuck 'em.
The community needs to send a letter to MS:
... the thing is a drm ridden piece of spying garbage. The fucking "service agreement" gives them absolute authority to invade your computer. A giant wtf. Anyone with any clue of the great evil of windows 10 wouldn't touch it with a 10 foot pole.
To think it only took the stupid and ignorant masses getting internet to allow corporations to steal software and force drm on the planet and the entire world bent over and forked over their money. A Fucking dystopia brought to by the average citizien moron who can't make rational purchasing decisions.
May I ask which ones? I ask because that was what I thought until the end of 2017, when out of sheer frustration with the idea of having to move to Windows 10 in the foreseeable future I just gave Linux a try. The plan was to resort to Wine and/or a Windows 7 VM for those Windows applications I really cannot do without yet. I wasn't too optimistic, I saw a less-than-fifty-percent chance for it working out well. But it did. A few weeks later, all machines in the household (the other inhabitant had been very sympathetic to the plan, too) had been converted to Linux as the only or primary OS, and we have never looked back. There's just one thing I've been asking myself once or twice – why did I wait that long?
Depending on the software packages, you can go with Linux, and use something like KVM, Virtualbox, or VMWare Workstation to run a VM of Windows 10 for the applications which require that.
>Sadly, this is no longer the case and now I will have to upgrade to Win10 kicking and screaming
Why? I'm staying on Windows 7 until I have no choice.
What's dragging you to 10? Are you *sure* you have no choice?
We have software that doesn't work on Windows 10, works great in Windows 7, and as I just discovered works on ReactOS. Anyone else in this situation may want to take a look at https://www.reactos.org/
I do not belong to the church of the lowercase 'i'
Many of my complaints about Windows 10 are absent in the enterprise branch and long-term servicing branch of Windows 10. The problem is that the cost of obtaining legal copies of those branches for personal use is ridiculously high. So I continue to use Windows 7 Ultimate, even if it means sticking with my aging PC and having to resort to tricks to keep the updates coming (remember the point-of-sales trick for XP?).
If people could install Windows 10 and have it look and act somewhat similar to Windows 7 without having to resort to exotic editions, registry hacks, or third-party tools, I think a lot of people would finally jump ship, even if they had to pay extra for those features. I sure would.
I say this as someone who just this week had to roll their own installation DVD in order to install Windows 7 on a new NVMe SSD. So I am set for a while longer.
you leased it.
we don't want you having it anymore.
you agreed to this when we first met and we can change those rules as we see fit.
don't make us brick you.
Harrison's Postulate - "For every action there is an equal and opposite criticism"
Not the OP, but one of the major grievances I have with Wine is trying to use is Genetica 4.0, which does not work in Wine. Genetica is no longer being actively developed, as far as I know, so I expect there will be no plans to ever port it to Linux either.
I played around a little with Substance Designer, which does work on Linux, but I found it was nowhere near as intuitive to use as Genetica, which had dozens upon dozens of different wizards for designing different material types. With Substance designer, I have to do almost everything from scratch so despite being what seems like it may very well be a technically superior product, it is simply not as useful.
File under 'M' for 'Manic ranting'
Oliver's law of assumed responsibility: If you're seen fixing it, you will be blamed for breaking it.
My understanding: Microsoft is an EXTREMELY poorly-managed company. I think much more attention should be given to that.
Microsoft trash talks Windows 10 LTSC -- again (Dec. 5, 2018)
Microsoft scrambles to limit PR damage over abusive AI bot Tay. (Nov. 30, 2017)
Guess what country sued Microsoft over abusive user data collection! -- Brazil (Apr. 28, 2018) Bad adjective: "beloved" Windows 10.
Apparently the present worsening management began with Ballmer-osis: Microsoft Is Filled With Abusive Managers And Overworked Employees, Says Tell-All Book (May 23, 2012)
But Microsoft was always abusive, apparently: 'Crush Them': An Oral History of the Lawsuit That Upended Silicon Valley. (May 18, 2018)
Bill Gates still runs Microsoft: Two years ago, during a Jan. 17, 2017 discussion with Charlie Rose, Bill Gates said he spends "15 percent" of his time managing Microsoft. I interpreted that to mean that Gates is still extremely involved and very influential. Did Gates want the mess that is Windows 10?
From the transcript at that Charlie Rose web page:
08:42
"Bill Gates: I'm there about 15 percent of the time. And I get to work just on the R and D part, brainstorming with people, thinking, OK, how are we going to take this artificial intelligence and make it understand, help you use your time better. It's a very exciting time in software. There's five companies that are, you know, in a really strong position. Microsoft is leading in some really cool stuff so --"
It seems obvious that Bill Gates still has a huge amount of overall influence on the management of Microsoft, even if he mostly focuses on other subjects.
Lately, Windows users are not allowed to know what Windows updates actually do. In the past, for example, users were pushed to Windows 10, without giving their permission. So, now Windows 7 customers will be paying for updates that may be abusive.
Some of the many stories about Windows 10 indicate deliberate abuse of customers:
Windows 10 is possibly the worst spyware ever made. "Buried in the service agreement is permission to poke through everything on your PC." (Aug. 4, 2015)
Microsoft's Intolerable Windows 10 Aggression (May 27, 2016)
Microsoft is infesting Windows 10 with annoying ads (March 17, 2017)
Microsoft, stop sabotaging Windows 10. (March 21, 2017)
Some of us remember the jaw-dropping arrogance and hubris Micros~1 demonstrated with their Get Windows 10 (GWX) initiative:
So I guess my question to Micros~1 is: What in your brain-worm-infested minds do you imagine has induced us to change our opinions on this matter? You are every bit as incompetent and every bit as untrustworthy as you were five years ago, ten years ago, 20 years ago...
Windows exists in my house solely to play games. If you feel you can't handle that duty any longer without completely fscking over my machine, then I guess I'll have to learn to live with just NetHack.
TL;DR: The Answer Is No.
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