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Originally Posted by Manabi
I have Win 7 and am staying with it till after updates stop in 2020. After that I'm going to move to Linux. This is all happening because of Microsoft's shenanigans trying to force (and I do mean force) people to upgrade to Win 10. I no longer trust them at all. 
The truly sad part here is I had installed the pre-release version in January of last year and liked it for the most part. But then we get to full release and find out you can't disable auto-updating unless you have Pro or Enterprise editions. That's a big deal to me, I can't have my PC randomly rebooting when MS thinks it should. So the "free" upgrade became a non-free upgrade, requiring me to pay to upgrade to Pro for every machine. But then we get the non-stop parade of outrages done in the name of forcing people to upgrade, and I lost all interest. Once we got to the point that they were redefining clicking X as accepting the update, they'd gone into full-blown malware territory. 
I have used every version of Windows from 3.1, even the NT family. I've had to support every version up through Windows 7 (since I worked as a Sysadmin before my health disabled me) I cannot recommend anyone use Windows 10.
Also, I suspect they will bring the free upgrade back after the 31st. They're nowhere near hitting their one billion PCs on Windows 10 target, so they'll probably be bringing it back to try to hit that target. I just hope they don't bring back the forced upgrade shenanigans too.  |
I was going to upgrade my ASUS laptop/tablet combo that runs Windows 8.1, but finally decided not to bother after all. I use that computer basically just to run Word, and figured I might as well leave well enough alone. Partly I was worried that my older version of Office might not work properly; partly I was intimidated by the fact that I've never installed a new OS before.
My main PC is Windows 7, which I'm happy with. Since I had to replace the hard drive a couple of weeks ago, I considered installing Windows 10, but then found out Dell said it might not work properly with 10.