Jan. 13 marks the end of mainstream support for Windows 7

andrew129260 said:

Layback Bear said:

Folks I don't understand the big scare.

Windows 7 will get it's needed security update until the beginning of 2020.
I do believe this forum will be alive long after that date for other need information about Windows 7.

Cnet comments were funny from there article. People freaking out and demanding refunds lol.

Do you have a link to the Cnet article? Maybe we need to add the word patches as well as security updates will be issued for Window 7. Microsoft even though they wouldn't have to, is they tend to issue optional updates for awhile after mainstream support ends. One optional update they will need to support is MSE. (Microsoft Security Essentials)

essenbe said:

This may deserve it's own thread, but if it's true, this is a really underhanded act by Microsoft. I know there are ways around it, but still.... most won't be able to figure them out. Intel Skylake Removes Support for USB based Windows 7 Installation - Major Platform Specs Confirmed I think there are a couple of inaccuracies there too.

I guess I am not technically when it comes some of the stuff inside of computers.

I am assuming the current windows 7 operating system & motherboard will still be able to run & install windows 7 using the current usb drive.


The problem is the new motherboard won't be able to install windows 7 from a usb 3.0 drive. However, you would still be able to install windows 8 & above and a Linux system.--- I am asking is this the correct assumption? I also wonder how this will also affect Macrium reflect that-could this be one way around the issue.

Heh, I'll probably still be running my "Model T" XP machine in 2020

Real happy with W7 and its miniscule hiccups (Quick Launch, etc.) don't bug me.

I'm a simple Kitty with simple requirements.

Arc said:

jimbo45 said:

Hi there

Taskbar is fine in W10 --

It is fine?

Flat transparency, mismatch start menu color, bad color schemes, and no visual depth.

If XP, Vista (it was the best in this regard) and 7 are visual pleasures, all the later versions are just painful to look at.

Functionality comes later, at first it need to be pleasant to look at; specially when I am habituated with a beautiful OS over a long time.

I have similar opinions on the Win 8 / 10 looks. I think Win 8 / 10 taskbar / window looks is about someone having a nostalgic hard-on for early Windows (like 3.1) and wanting to re-experience some of its excessive simplicity, ignoring what is sensible - and ignoring what is sensible and design smart is the crux of declining MS mentality for the last many years. Maybe setting Windows' visual design on that course was one of Ballmer's last idiocies before he was thankfully shuttled out of the company.

Anyway, the Win 8 / 10 look for taskbar and application windows is not attractive, is gaudy and distasteful, and is a significant barrier for my willingness to approach Win 10.

Full UI looks customization features will need to be present for me to engage with Win 10. That white, flat square Windows logo for the Start button is hideous, and all of Win 10's square, hard angles is offputting. Also, the system browser icons for folders and HDDs in Windows 10 are downright throwup-worthy disgusting!! The very last things I want to have on my screen throughout everything I work on are the abominable design qualities of Win 10.

If MS can't make Win 10 comfortable, then it can go somewhere else.

Delicieuxz said:

Full UI looks customization features will need to be present for me to engage with Win 10. That white, flat square Windows logo for the Start button is hideous, and all of Win 10's square, hard angles is offputting. Also, the system browser icons for folders and HDDs in Windows 10 are downright throwup-worthy disgusting!!

That's exactly what the metro guidelines say they had to follow, in line with the "Everything is a tablet" vision. So annoying, I agree. For me is a significant entry barrier, and after all it doesn't provide that many other features (or at least they're not being promoted), while the long standing critical bugs are firmly there yet. It's difficult to find a serious reason to "upgrade".
Maybe if the next computer comes pre-infected with it I would give another try.