What will you do when Windows 7 ends?

What is this all about ? Windows 7 will never end

So, if something came out that was of course better then 10 and nearly as good 7, you wouldn`t upgrade in 4 years ?

4 years is a long time, MS will have to come out with something nice by then, I hope :)

7 Rocks

To be honest, I actually find windows 7 to be a bit tired now, After all, I've been using it off and on since 2008, and I also moved to Windows 8 then 8.1 in between updating my last system to Windows 10 about November 2015, but that doesn't mean that there is anything wrong with any of the previous operating systems, Even XP was just about usable at the end (as long as you removed the horrible Disney GUI).

AddRAM said:

What is this all about ? Windows 7 will never end

Exactly - as long as you stay on the same machine, nothing will happen. And the fact that there will be no new updates is good news. At least we will not get any new bugs either.

Emmar said:

When you say you think laptops are on their way out, do you think tablets will replace them? I don't like laptops, I would have to set it on my desk, use it there and still not be comfortable with Acer's keyboard. I have two ipads and I certainly don't like doing computer things on them. I am all thumbs. I buy and download ibooks via my desktop. I can't use a mac because it won't play my games and I have 22 games that I am not going to give up. Apple's site is very hard for me to use, I always need help, but their techs are patient and very nice. I love using Ipads to read books.

Tablets are a long ways from replacing laptops, if ever. Tablets have their uses—quite a few, in fact—and, for those uses, they work well. They are more portable, lighter, take up less room, and generally have better battery life.

However, it's hard to beat a real keyboard if you have a lot of inputting to do (such as writing the Great American Novel). Even as small as the screens on laptops are, they are still bigger than most tablets; it's much easier to work when one can see the whole picture at once, not just a tiny window of it, such as when formatting a full page document or working with a large spreadsheet. Currently, laptops can have far more storage than tablets. Even my little 15" one drive notebooks can have up to 2TB of storage using existing SSDs (I have only 500GB in mine and that still beats the holy, hairy snot out of tablets) and consumer 4TB SSDs are coming out soon.

I personally can't justify the expense of a tablet. The only thing I wopuld use it for would be for reading e-books and e-ink e-book readers cost less and have far better battery life. I love my little non-touchscreen Kindle (pity they don't make them anymore; I pray mine doesn't ever die). I use it only for reading when away from the house (I use Kindle for PC at home using my TV for the screen) so I can get up to two months of battery life; two weeks is the shortest interval between charges ever. Sunlight won't wash out the display and the cover I have for it has a little light I can flip up for reading in low light conditions.

A small tablet can be useful. I own a Nexus 7 that has helped me several times for navigation in the car. I also used it for phone calls via the internet (VoIP). I don't even remember how much I paid for it and now it does not really matter any more anyhow.

If Sputnik continues to be supported and gets all the development that is required to make it a real alternative to Windows (on Dell Skylake or any other new silicon), I will definitely consider it.