Microsoft retracts Windows 7 PC end-of-sales deadline
Microsoft retracts Windows 7 PC end-of-sales deadline
Posted: 22 Jan 2014
As quietly as Microsoft defined the dates it would stop selling Windows 7, over the weekend it revised its end-of-sales deadlines again, saying it had made a mistake.
Last week, Microsoft told customers that it would require computer makers to halt sales of new Windows 7-powered PCs at the end of October 2014. Now, its sales shut-off page shows "To be determined" instead of the future date.
"We have yet to determine the end of sales date for PCs with Windows 7 preinstalled," a Microsoft spokeswoman said in an email reply to questions Tuesday. "The October 30, 2014, date that posted to the Windows Lifecycle page globally last week was done so in error."
Another mistake? Gosh they sure are getting careless
Withn 2020 the end of life for Win 7 and security updates that give Linux developers 6 years to make Linux not only viable, but desirable, as a replacement.. IMHO, M$ has lost interest in the desktop market so the hundred of millions of desktop users are going to need to go somewhere...
Skyrocketing hardware prices have done the rest..
Certainly not looking as though M$ will be a worthwhile investment.
I wonder if they will have trouble getting businesses off Win 7 after 2020? Will they revise that date too?
Computer Type: PC/Desktop System Manufacturer/Model Number: Home Built OS: Win 7 Pro x64, Win 10 Pro x64, Linux Light x86 CPU: Core i7 3770K Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z77P-D3 Memory: Crucial Ballistix Sport 8GB Graphics Card: ASUS GeForce GTX 650 Ti Sound Card: On board Monitor(s) Displays: ASUS 22 W/S Screen Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Keyboard: Razer Blackwidow Expert 2013 Mechanical Keyboard Mouse: Logitech G300 Gaming Mouse PSU: Corsair CX 750w Case: Black Night Cooling: 120mm fans front/back, Coolermaster Hyper 212 Evo Hard Drives: Intel 320 Series SSD, WD Caviar Black 1TB Internet Speed: 20mb Unlimited Browser: Cyberfox Antivirus: ZA Antivirus + Firewall Other Info: Powered USB Hub, External Drives 3 x 1TB, Phone Dock.
May be unbearable for you. Not for the previous posters, obviously.
I am looking forward to Deepin 2014 being released.
+1 to that. I only have 2 Windows machines left (out of 11). My server (Win 2008 R2), and one Win 7 x64. The only reason I haven't moved the server across is lack of time.
I'll keep one Win 7 machine for compatibility, and testing. Not much else.
Haven't come across anything I can't get done, and the number of GUI's give me plenty of freedom to do things the way I'm used to.
I have honestly tried Linux. Really really tried it. I have tried the following:
-Mint
-Ubuntu
-Zorin
-zubuntu
and a few others....
I hate them all. Not only do they cause endless frustrations, they simple don't work with modern hardware. Good lord, how does anyone get anything to work with them?
Finding drivers are next to impossible, and when you do find them, you have to jump through hoops to even install them. Installing programs is a hassle as well. And its so slow of a process.
When I use Linux, I feel like I am using dos. I have to use a terminal for almost everything, and its really frustrating. If I wanted to type commands all day, I would go to dos!
/rant
That said, for 90% of people (average user) out there its great actually. Very good security, good at web browsing, pictures -the basics. I have my family desktop using Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. It works good for there needs, doesn't have any big issues.
The one thing that really pissed me off was ubuntu would suddenly not shut down or restart when they told it to. It would just log them off and take them to the log in screen.
Its very pathetic when a freaking operating system cannot even do that right.
After searching online a lot, and applying some "terminal fixes" all was well again.
Computer Type: PC/Desktop System Manufacturer/Model Number: Custom Built OS: Windows 10 Pro CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 2400G Processor with Radeon RX Vega 11 Graphics Motherboard: ASRock X470 Master SLI/AC AM4 AMD Promontory X470 SATA 6Gb/s Memory: G.SKILL Ripjaws V Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) 288-Pin DDR4 SDRAM D Graphics Card: 2047MB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB (EVGA) Sound Card: Motherboard Built in Monitor(s) Displays: Acer R240HY bidx 23.8-Inch IPS HDMI DVI VGA (1920 x 1080) Wi Screen Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Keyboard: Wired Dell keyboard Mouse: Wireless Logitech mouse PSU: CORSAIR TX Series TX650M 650W 80+ Gold Modular Power Supply Case: CORSAIR CARBIDE SPEC-02 Mid-Tower Gaming Case, Red LED Fan Cooling: 220mm, two 120mm, and four 60mm fans Hard Drives: 1TB Sandisk SSD PLUS (Main drive)
500 GB Seagate 7200 RPM (Games)
500 GB Western Digital 7200 RPM (Virtual Machines) Internet Speed: 250mb down, 30mb up Browser: Chrome-ish x64 Antivirus: Panda Cloud Antivirus Other Info: Your awesome for reading this.
I know what you are getting at. Ironically for the simple stuff, it is great.
If you want to do more than that, it can involve a bit of work.
It doesn't have the depth of GUIs if that makes sense. Windows enthusiasts will have learned a lot about windows over a few years , commands, reg tweaks, etc. They will often forget it took them quite a while to learn that. Then when they go to Linux , they are back to square one with the slightly geeky stuff.
I wish Microsoft would seriously revise the mainstream support date for Windows 7 to like 2017 and the extended support date until 2022, that would be excellent for me to continue using it for that long, as I don't see myself using Windows 8 or Windows 8.1 anytime soon
Computer Type: Laptop System Manufacturer/Model Number: Toshiba Satellite C655-S5547 OS: Windows 7 Pro 64bit CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i3-2350M CPU @ 2.30 GHZ Memory: 4.00 GB Graphics Card: Intel HD Graphiics Sound Card: Conexant HD Audio Monitor(s) Displays: Generic PnP Monitor Screen Resolution: 1366 x 768 x 32 bits (4294967296 colors) @ 60 Hz Keyboard: Standard PS/2 Keyboard Mouse: Synaptics Pointing Device Hard Drives: TI106321W0B(C:) 450GB Internet Speed: 51.68 mb/s download and 12.08 mb/s upload as of 6/24/15 Browser: IE11, Mozilla Firefox 41.1.01, and Google Chrome if I must Antivirus: Webroot Secure Anywhere
I wish Microsoft would seriously revise the mainstream support date for Windows 7 to like 2017 and the extended support date until 2022, that would be excellent for me to continue using it for that long, as I don't see myself using Windows 8 or Windows 8.1 anytime soon