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Chazore said:
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. 

Good then stick with 7. No one is ultimately going to force you to upgrade. But you buying an operating system does not entitle you to updates indefinitely. Microsoft generally gives an EXTREMELY generous 7 - 10 year period of gradually decreasing updates. This same shit happens every time a new windows comes out. No matter how good it is (and myself and many tech experts agree EVERY version if windows has been better than its previous iteration. If not by immediately then atleast by the time service pack 1 is released) but a very vocal minority bitch and moan about how it sucks and what they had was better. and yet EVERY time people eventually come around. Holdouts such as yourself certainly shouldnt hold progress back.  Might as well accept the inevitable and start getting used to linux. I hope your pretty damn tech savvy.

 

More than anything I want to see developers really push directX 12 and climb on board. The sooner everyone upgrades the faster they will be forced to do so. So many people here talk so much shit about Windows 10 but its great. Have you even honestly given windows 10 a try? I VERY seriously doubt it and if you didnt like it please give a real reason as to why windows 7 is so much better?

 

So many people bitch about customizibility and having complete control over your system. Please name 1 damned feature or optionm that you use that you are unable to gain control of and access? While a few of the deeper options in windows 10 took me a little while to find i did so and now my system runs amazing. Libraries and indexing are SOOO much faster, the UI is much prettier and more functional, Direct X 12, Edge Browser, improved NVME support and the list goes on and on. Windows 7 is obsolete and dated.

 

So please tell me why windows 10 is so bad? And dont just say I dont need it or what i have is good enough. That isnt a valid excuse to stick your head in the sand and ignore progress. Or if you do dont complain when you get left by the wayside.

 

Edit: Im sorry if im coming off as hostile. Its just that the hate that windows 10 gets is absolutely mindblowing. Any person that has actually put in more than a few minutes into learning the ins and outs of the new system all have positive things to say. is windows 10 perfect? No absolutely not, but its infinitely more modern and faster than Windows 7. Absolutely no one who has really given it a whirl would disagree. Most of peoples complaints are just stuff they heard on the internet and not representative of their true experiences with the system. Seriously give it a try. Go through and customize it to your liking and use it for a week, and then come back and tell me that windows 7 is better.



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