'Get Windows 10' notifications and upgrade pressure is going to get a lot worse. Image credit: Gordon Kelly
Posted on 01/02/2016 11:59:32 PM PST by Swordmaker
Windows 7 runs on 55% of all the computers on the planet, but according to news this week that is actually a bad and potentially dangerous thing. Says who? Actually Microsoft. . .
Speaking to Windows Weekly, Microsoft Marketing chief Chris Capossela explained that users who choose Windows 7 do so "at your own risk, at your own peril" and he revealed Microsoft has concerns about its future software and hardware compatibility, security and more.
"We do worry when people are running an operating system that's 10 years old that the next printer they buy isn't going to work well, or they buy a new game, they buy Fallout 4, a very popular game, and it doesn't work on a bunch of older machines," Capossela stated. "And so, as we are pushing our ISV [Independent Software Vendor] and hardware partners to build great new stuff that takes advantage of Windows 10 that obviously makes the old stuff really bad and not to mention viruses and security problems."
He also stressed it is "so incredibly important to try to end the fragmentation of the Windows install base" and to get users to a "safer place."
There's only one problem with Capossela's statements: they are complete rubbish.
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Microsoft does’nt give a crap about backward cpatibility
bkmk
And to think they stole the original fr Seattle Computing
any way.
Because Linux does not have the applications windows has.
Yes....I am NOT leaving my Windows 7 no matter how many times the damned TAKE WINDOWS 10 NOW pops up.
Go to this thread.
See #23 for comprehensive answer, with extra details at #34, #46 and #47.
they use to... tho they haven’t not since the indians took over the company
Same here
Yep. Happiness is strapping on upgraded T-45 Power Armor with a Win7 system equipped with an Intel six-core processor, 32GB RAM, and nVidia SLI on a 27-in monitor. I also put a spiffy paint job on the power armor.
Forget upgrading to Windows 10, send me some more power cells.
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