Microsoft becoming more aggressive in pushing Windows 10+end of Windows 8 patches

[TechGeek]

Re: Microsoft becoming more aggressive in pushing Windows 10+end of Windows 8 patches

post to let you delete your dup. post

[goontron]

Re: Microsoft becoming more aggressive in pushing Windows 10+end of Windows 8 patches

dup post
(stupid 4g, grumble grumble)

[goontron]

Re: Microsoft becoming more aggressive in pushing Windows 10+end of Windows 8 patches

ewww...

Who wants opensuse 42.1 DVDs?

if they try cutting w7 support before 2020, all hell would break loose...sadly though, these days I'm very close to the point of not trusting MS anymore....seems a lot of 'patches' these days intentionally break things...

It's already EOL mainstream right? Why wouldn't they kill it? They just killed H8, they push adverts to it and collect data from it, yet they killed it. H8 was a cash cow. They can't push adverts to Se7en but they can collect data, so why not take it out? It's more expensive maintain afterall. I have a gut (wrenching) feeling that 7 is going to be killed off by Q4. Maybe Q2 2017 at the latest.

[TechGeek]

Re: Microsoft becoming more aggressive in pushing Windows 10+end of Windows 8 patches

After Windows 7 support ends, any computers with Windows 7 ONLY will have their hard drives formatted and a copy of Linux installed.

[Topcat]

Re: Microsoft becoming more aggressive in pushing Windows 10+end of Windows 8 patches

Would you end up converting the server over to Linux?

The BCN server has been linux since 2009.

[TechGeek]

Re: Microsoft becoming more aggressive in pushing Windows 10+end of Windows 8 patches

FAIL. Windows 10 is just an epic FLOP.

[japlytic]

Re: Microsoft becoming more aggressive in pushing Windows 10+end of Windows 8 patches

Now Microsoft has pushed the free Windows 10 upgrade too far:
http://www.myce.com/news/microsoft-c...consent-78844/

[ratdude747]

Re: Microsoft becoming more aggressive in pushing Windows 10+end of Windows 8 patches

Who wants DVD's of Ubuntu 16.04 LTS when it launches?

ewww...

Agreed. I got Debian on the server and arch on my laptops (used to run it on workstations but gnome wasn't as advantageous on twin screens). I'm set.

[kaboom]

Re: Microsoft becoming more aggressive in pushing Windows 10+end of Windows 8 patches

Who wants DVD's of Ubuntu 16.04 LTS when it launches?

ewww...

[RJARRRPCGP]

Re: Microsoft becoming more aggressive in pushing Windows 10+end of Windows 8 patches

sadly though, these days I'm very close to the point of not trusting MS anymore....

Would you end up converting the server over to Linux?

[TechGeek]

Re: Microsoft becoming more aggressive in pushing Windows 10+end of Windows 8 patches

Who wants DVD's of Ubuntu 16.04 LTS when it launches?

[Topcat]

Re: Microsoft becoming more aggressive in pushing Windows 10+end of Windows 8 patches

if they try cutting w7 support before 2020, all hell would break loose...sadly though, these days I'm very close to the point of not trusting MS anymore....seems a lot of 'patches' these days intentionally break things...

[stj]

Re: Microsoft becoming more aggressive in pushing Windows 10+end of Windows 8 patches

it will reduce support costs by reducing users!

[japlytic]

http://www.myce.com/news/again-micro...dows-10-78345/
http://www.myce.com/news/microsoft-s...as-well-78365/

How aggressive can Microsoft get in pushing Windows 10?
I believe that this is a way to reduce their support costs.

http://www.myce.com/news/microsoft-w...omorrow-78343/

Even though Windows 8 might be considered to still have mainstream support at the time of posting, this could turn out to be a bad decision since Windows 8 was released in 2012.