Posted on 10/03/2016 4:54:44 PM PDT by catnipman
If you want a new PC running Windows 7 or Windows 8.1, you'll have fewer options beginning on Nov. 1. Here's what the end-of-sales deadline means.
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Thanks for the heads up! Wife needs a new laptop.
I just hate to use my phone unless I am in the doctor’s waiting room or something like that.
Then I’ll read FR, which is the only website I ever visit on my phone.
I figure once I am away from my pc, that’s it, I want to be in the real world, and I don’t want to bring the internet with me.
When I am out doing stuff, it just blows my mind how many people have their faces in their phones.
I see people riding skateboards and bikes while looking at their phones, and I think how is this even possible!?
And I keep seeing commercials for VR stuff where you basically have a device that holds your phone right in front of your face while you do pretend stuff...
I play video games on my PC. I have played video games since Space Invaders came out at the movie theater by my house when I was a kid. But that VR stuff makes me crazy. Seems like we are taking this too far.
I want to tell people just live your real life. That other stuff is a waste of time.
Course now I’ma jump back to my video game, so yes I am a hypocrite!
I am looking at pulling the trigger soon on a ruggedized Latitude with 7 Pro (I can because I have a business account with Dell). It’s not cheap, but it’s certified Class 1 Division 2 (chemical plant and refinery clients).
Driver support is a legit objection IMO.
Seriously? What a load of unadulterated, biased, BS. As a long time computer industry professional with advanced degrees in engineering & computer science, I find this statement to be ridiculous. Granted I prefer Linux as a desktop & server OS, but this is just anti-MS nonsense.
Looks like the daily luddite thread is in full force.
I work for a Fortune 100 company. Our corporate IT organization is already upgrading Win7 desktops to Win10 on demand, and will starting rolling out Win10 desktops as standard corporate issue starting in January. Moreover, HTC Windows Phones (WP8) replaced our corporate Blackberrys about 2 years ago, and WP10 phones will be rolling out soon as well.
I’m familiar with machine builders that have W7Pro on PCs used on their machines, that are not at all wanting (or needing) to move to W10. W10 is not qualified or proven out in service for some of the critical controls apps they use. Controls people (with scores of legacy apps running well in years-old machinery all over the world) and IT people clash often over Windows changes.
Related question - are Wincleaner One Click plug in USBs good for ALL Windows 7 PCs or only certain OS versions?
The main problem at corporations is that their applications don’t work on the new OS. When I was working, we had to test 26,000 corporate applications to move from XP to 7. Many of them didn’t work on 7. A lot of our vendor software needed reconfiguring and modifications.
The purpose of Microsoft Windows versions is to push hardware into obsolescence, so you’ll buy a new PC/laptop from makers that install Microsoft software.
Carnegie is looking up with evny, if only he could make steel with four-five year osolescence?
I installed the free upgrade to Win 10 on several machines after trying it (10) on one. I left my “primary” machine on Win 7 Pro. “10” is ok for the most part, tho’ I prefer 7 Pro, perhaps mainly due to long familiarity, and certain functions that were removed for 10. I also miss the easier / more compact tree / folder lookup of any installed program, from the Start button / menu, on 7, as I usually have a lot of programs installed... I also had to do quite a bit more “messing around” to get 10 to be as “efficient” for me, as 7 or especially 7 Pro.
OTOH, getting away from 8 (one desktop machine that I’d never upgraded to 8.1) and 8.1 (a netbook that came with it) and going to 10 was a major improvement, at least for my usages.
I’ve had no major problems with the “forced” Win 10 updates, but, I dread the possibility, and always have one machine off or offline (plus there’s the 7 Pro machine) so that if MS makes a major snafu, I have something to fall back on. That sort of makes the “free” upgrade somewhat more costly!
I suspect I am only 1 of 4 people in the US who has actually read the Windows 10 licensing agreement.
IMHO, It’s obvious MS themselves hasn’t read it comprehensively.
We had 7. We hated this, but mainly hated the coercion. It’s the principle of the thing - they just re-worked the notice so that if you ‘x-d’ out of it, as you’d always done before, it went to download.
That was sneaky.
(And, as someone with aesthetic principles as well, the graphics are super ugly.)
We went to Linux. Very happy. YMMV.
-JT
This is bovine scatology. Internally Windows 10 is so far superior to any OS they’ve made it’s not even funny. Anyone worth their salt knows this.
The data mining thing is b.s. too. You can turn it off easily.
A five year old can figure out how to shut that off.
That can be shut off and gives you the options to do so upon installation.
I went to an engineering college in the late 1990’s, had to use UNIX workstations solely for some classes from the command line/prompt. Brutal, It was brutal, I was not was not computer science. You had to do everything off a command line.
Linux is not that, Today. Though, as you learn to run it off that command line it is quite something,
Those of us that knew VMS hated UNIX.
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