I'm just curious as why a lot of people go for Windows 7 when mainstream support ended in January of this year and extended support will end in January 2020. Not that I've got anything against 7, far from it. Just wondering???
Because I do not have any reason to change it. Why should I "upgrade" to something that makes you click twice as much to get the same task done?
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I agree with what your saying! Though I've never used 7 (I'm on 8.1) I do like the look and feel. However, Microsoft are the way they are and looking at the lifecycle of 7, it wont be that long (in the grand scheme of things) before support will be a distant memory! IF 7 went the same way as XP did, I'd gladly get myself a copy!
The way microsoft has always been is xp good vista bad 7 good 8/8/1 bad 10 should be good. and most will change to it including myself since it is the only version that will have dx12 and all i use windows for is to game. it is the way 8 should have been.
I use them only for games and 8 sucks imo and 10 is coming very close and they look pretty decent. So if you do not require the mainstream support for what you do why not wait for the release of 10?
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Upgrading from 7 to 8.1 is kinda pointless. The only advantage I found is it's a tad quicker and the task manager works better in 8.1. Also, who calls Microsoft support anyway? :P
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Windows 7 support ends 2020.
Really isn't that long of a life-cycle now that the machines last so long (not in quality) since we're aiming for lower power not faster speeds it looks like another Windows Vista (much higher system requirements) won't happen anytime soon. I saw a question on The Guardian 'I upgraded my computer from XP to 8.1, can it run Windows 10?'. The hardware is outlasting the software.
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I've always been a fan of Windows, ever since I first started with Windows 3.1
95 followed, then 98 & 98SE, then I got Me (nuff said) After that I went to XP, then Vista, then back to XP. From the middle of 2008 until March 2014, I used a MacBook running OS X Leopard then Snow Leopard. When I went back to using Windows after 6 years, Windows 8 was a God send in my eyes! Back to .exe files instead of .dmg was like returning home! I upgraded to 8.1 and continue to this very moment.
But I just wondered if I had missed out with Windows 7?
I still use Windows 7 (but I will, so help me god, change to Linux) because:
- I am used to Windows 7 (my workflows are important to me, and I respect the years it took me to develop my workflows, whereas the Microsoft doesn't give a flying... saucer).
- My games work on Windows 7 (not all, but some also work on Linux).
- I need a good reason to get used to something else (and haven't gotten one yet).
- I didn't ask for it (Windows 8 UI), so I won't pay for it.
- I didn't ask for it (Windows 8 UI), and won't let myself get raped by it.
I find it important to separate things that change from the things that are constant, in order to function as a human being, and enjoy myself in both the flavors (the change, and the constant).
Windows 8 never enhanced on anything for me. I wish I could use Windows 8 with the Windows 7 UI. I certainly despise how Microsoft threw 20 years of UI evolution out the proverbial window. That's just obscene (which is the same way I felt about Ubuntu changing the UI a long while back, and why people made Mint). I also despise being forced into a change. I didn't ask for it, and I won't pay for it. If not payed to spend my time to embrace it, I will refuse it.
Windows 10 will be a rolling release. Just the way I feel Windows 7 has been for the past few years. So no change there.
Because it eight nine.
see what i did there :)
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Because why pay for something that has no benefit.
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I went to 8.1 because it's quicker. I don't use or like the metro tile tablet interface so I just use the desktop. It really is the same as windows 7 just faster, and not easting up as much memory. And the only reason I use windows is because I game, and the drivers.
Oh but Wine? Yeah? So? I didn't pay 400 CAD for a graphics card to game at 25 fps on medium settings.
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Windows 7 will most probably get extended support like Windows XP does simply because it looks like the version enterprises will stick with.
For instance, XP if it followed the Microsoft way it would have had support end in 2011 yet as we know it was supported till 2014, with public and private sector paying for support even longer than that.
Win 7 is arguably the best desktop OS MS has ever made, and who needs support from MS anyway, unless your installing and having a issue with the authentication why would you not come here to the Tek or some other forum instead of hanging on the phone waiting for someone who English isn't their native language to ask a question that a couple minuet google search would give you the answer. (and I mean no disrespect to any person who English isn't their native language)
I did not upgrade from windows 7, I have been using 8.1. I do not hate it, the 'stock' 8.1 still kinda sucky, but I've got everything just the way I need it. And the reason why people are still using 7 is bc people are resistant to change.
That's true, but OS software is different, OS software should aim for most efficient use of hardware (less resources), that way, power efficiency is preserved.
For granted, every new OS is more of a resource hog, because of new (mainly unnecessary) features.
No, that is right at all. If someone already has Windows 7 why should they pay more for an OS that offers nothing but a bad boot system and terrible GUI?
Unless you have a FX chip then it makes no sense to spend more on an OS that doesn't have a new Directx. That money can be put into hardware or games/software.
Hell, Windows 7 is getting a free upgrade to 10 so there is even less reason to bother.
Nope...not true at all, MS made a mistake with Win8 thinking people were ready for a OS that was touch enabled when the reality was the hardware and user base didn't materialize and they were forced to rush out 8.1 to restore the core feature everyone wanted (start button), with Win 10 they are covering the bases by giving people the functionality and user interface that most of the potential users want.
The thing is MS tried to drive the market in a specific direction and people resisted, they once again learned that while they might hold 90% of the desktop market they can not dictate to it's users what it feels is best for them, they have a very large installed base that really provides no source of income for them, to extract money from that base they have to twilight products and bring new products to market that people will actually want to use, they are also finding that forced migration doesn't work as a source of revenue either.
IMO I think it had more to do with windows being very similar from 95 all the way to 7 then it got radically changed when 8 came out. The average person just seeing it as a new GUI with more bells and whistles with a few things getting new names. Then 8 came out and it was a drastic change almost like going from Windows to Android in how radically the GUI changed and with the average person first impressions are lasting.
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