Will the Windows 10 push nightmare actually end in July, or...?

[Jizz_Beard_thePirate]

Hiku said:

Captain_Yuri said:

Yea but they didn't have much incentive to get people to upgrade like they do now... If they keep their promise of ending their free upgrade in July, then I don't think Windows 7 will get the same cycle as Windows XP did. If anything, business might continue to get security updates through their extended support program but consumes... To me it seems like the best way to force people to upgrade if I was MS.

I agree, but I can also see cutting long term support for their OS's by almost half as a risky move as well. It's one thing to push people towards a new, "better" version of the things we've come to expect from an MS OS. But to drastically lower our expectations of their long term support for those systems to the point where it becomes unpredictable and untrustworthy (if it's 12 years for XE, then 7 years for Win7, who's to say it's not going to be 3 years for Win 10?), then people will become increasingly cautious with where they invest their time and money. Having such a long term of support for XP earned them a good reputation mainly among businesses and schools that couldn't afford to upgrade their computers or OS's often enough.
Even if they go completely Free-to-use, that won't help those who don't have the hardware to support a new OS.

While that is true and its a very good point, MS did say Windows 10 will be their last Windows OS so... I think thats how they will market it and go the Apple route. And I do think it will be mainly for consumers they will stop the security updates and not businesses. Even Windows XP gotten extended support for businesses that used Windows XP through their extended support program well after they officially stopped supporting it.

I really do hope that is not the case but like, Windows 7 isn't really making them much money from the consumer standpoint since they don't sell them as much as they sell Windows 8 and 10 anymore in retail locations and on top of it, Windows 7 doesn't have their app store or their ad placements and etc. While I don't think they will stop supporting it like right after the free upgrade ends, I really don't think Windows 7 will get the same cycle for consumers as their other OS's did.

But we will see! Fingers crossed T_T

Edit: And honestly, if they cared what consumers think, they wouldn't have forced PCs to upgrade which seems to cause anywhere from being annoying to breaking computers