| 1337 Gamer said: Ill agree with you on the heavy handed part. However the more people that stick with old obsolete software the more resources microsoft has to waste to patch security and vulnerabilities. I think thats ultimately what this is about. Fragmentation is never a good thing for compatibility sake. Just ask Google. If i were them i would vastly accelerate the timeline for end of support on these old operating systems. Focus on compatibility and migration (basically make sure every program that works on windows 7 and 8 work on windows 10 and then pull the damn plug. The more i use Windows 7 at work the more i realize how archaic and old its really starting to seem.
By doing this everyone is a winner. Microsoft wins because they dont have to waste resources and manpower updating these old operating systems. The forward thinking consumer wins because they get better compatibility support (I still have yet to find a program that doesnt work on it but im sure there is some program out there from the 1990s that some small businesses use that dont work well) and those like you that dont want to upgrade for whatever their reasons may be, win because they will be left alone. |
Everyone isn't a winner though (certainly not me at all in the slightest), what you suggest is a very totalrian mentality in which we all have to upgrade to what you and MS think is subjective and objkectively the ebst way to do anything. Pulling the plug and showing a desire to force people to something you rpefer isn't going to make 7 billion people happy at all. It doesn't matter what you think is superior because 7 billion people on this rock aren't all going to agree with your views let alone MS's, otherwise MS would have complete global domination over everything OS/software wise and that is far from the truth here.
I'm sticking with 7 because it works for me and it's all I've ever wanted from an OS, 10 on the other hand and what MS has going for it isn't what I want at all which leads me to wanting to stick with 7 for as long as possible and then jumping over towards Steam OS/Linux because it's become clear that MS would rather force you to do what they think is best for you, that isn't really what's best for me, it's what MS thinks is best for themselves and I for one loathe a company that thinks in such a way.
Mankind, in its arrogance and self-delusion, must believe they are the mirrors to God in both their image and their power. If something shatters that mirror, then it must be totally destroyed.
