Like it or lump it, Microsoft is making damn sure you’re going to be running Windows 10 in the next 12 months
I like Windows 10, but I prefer Windows 7. Is that a sin?
Microsoft thinks so.
Microsoft Chief Marketing Officer Chris Capossela recently said that if you choose to keep using Windows 7, you do so “at your own risk, at your own peril.”
Why? Because “We 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.”
Really? All that? And here I thought Microsoft was going to support even the consumer version of Windows 7 until 2020.
Is Windows 7 going to rot out underneath us? I don’t think so.
Besides, if security is really a concern, what the heck are you doing running Windows of any generation? Windows security isn’t as crappy as it used to be, but it’s still junk. If you want security, use my favorite desktop, Linux Mint or even Apple’s OS X El Capitan. Windows? Forget about it.
It’s not just Microsoft’s marketing trying to scare you off Windows 7 and onto Windows 10. Microsoft has been shoving Windows 10’s bits down our throats for months now. As far as I’m concerned, Microsoft’s Get Windows 10 (GWX) app — which is on every patched Windows 7 and 8.1 PC around — ranks somewhere between adware and malware for annoyance value.
Listen, Microsoft, when I do work on a PC, I want to be working. Not saying, “No, I don’t want to waste my day on installing and tuning Windows 10.” Is that too much to ask?
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SOURCE: Computer World
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols has been writing about technology and the business of technology since CP/M-80 was the cutting-edge PC operating system, 300bps was a fast Internet connection, WordStar was the state-of-the-art word processor, and we liked it!
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