John,
went to the link and it says mainstream support ended a year ago and it is now in extended support. But I have been manually downloading security and non-security updates on both my WIN7 machines all this year without problem until July 29th. Maybe I am being forced into checking the automatic update option.
Ron
I changed my dual boot W7/W10 computer to just W10.
Four computers are still W7.
That's enough.
The end of mainstream support I understand to mean that no further development of the os will take place (no new features or updating of existing features), and no support for new technologies will be added.
The extended support will continue to provide security related support and some corrections to previous issues, (updated drivers)
Microsoft keeps bragging about how many users have "upgraded" to Windows 10. BUT, I wonder how many of those have went back to Windows 7?? I went back to W7 after trying W10 on two computers. No thanks MS.
I had to migrate my work laptop to Win 10.
I did the usual UI re-configuration ... and the result is a color-altered Win 7.
Sure, there are various new task bar items, but I've disabled that crap.
And I disabled whatever phone-home items I could find.
So, aside from cosmetic frivolities, what changed? Not much.
I actually prefer.... wait for it.... Windows 8.1 over Windows 10. Yes, I know, shock horror!
There are some things that annoy me about 8.1 but once it's had some tweaks applied, and Classic Shell installed, it's really not a bad OS (although reducing the shadow copy functionality REALLY annoys me).
It's definitely not as bloated as 10 and not much point updating if you're going to disable all the features.
Always makes me laugh when people say "Oh, it's shaved 10 seconds off my boot time.... Wow, I can hardly contain my excitement on that one.
As for improved security, if a person uses good security tools and uses a fair amount of common sense, then there shouldn't be any issues staying safe and secure online with Windows 7.
and I despise win-8
10 less seconds is better than 10 more seconds
Indeed more secure always gives me a giggle too
I find 10 so counter productive having to re-setup everything after these large updates
Plus if things stop working it's reset time yet again
I still to this day can not get word pinned to the silly start menu and show recent doc's on a list
My W10 Home install (or my SSD) succumbed to "Bit Rot" after ~20 boots ("inaccessible boot device" error).
The Recovery Environment still loaded and Linux Mint 18 (dual boot) was unaffected.
I couldn't fix the "inaccessible boot device" error, so I ended up using the "Reset" option.
At least the "Reset" option worked without any issues.
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