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I've been on Windows 10 on my home desktop computer for a few years now, and I haven't really had much to complain about. The computer is a 10 year old DELL and it's plugging along nicely. Of course, I did have a time having to install a huge amount of updates where it was unplugged for about 10 months (while I moved out of a house, into an apartment, and then, into a new house), but I have no complaints with Windows 10. I also really liked Windows 7 as well. I always likened Microsoft Windows to how good every other Star Trek movie was. For instance, Windows 98 was solid, Windows ME was horrible. Windows XP was solid, Windows Vista was horrible. Windows 7 was good. Windows 8 was frustrating, but 8.1 made it slightly better. Windows 10 has been good in my opinion.
While it's definitely no original idea to just stick with one OS and keep updating it (OSX, cough, cough), I think it's finally wise for Microsoft to do this. Windows Xp seemed to be supported forever, and it was a solid operating system. While Vista was all shiny and new, I hated it. In fact, I pretty much skipped it altogether.
IIRC, many of the newer Intel processors, maybe AMD as well, work only under Windows 10. Windows 7 is now a decade old.
Wow, never heard of Microsoft pulling such nonsense with Windows... I do have some ESX servers that seem to have discontinued support for some of my Xeon cpu based servers in 6.7, so such things are not unheard of. Its not like one is going to try to run Windows 95 on a 286(Yes, i've been in tech way too long)..thats completely different.
Windows isn't that bad,but i am woderring it is better to upgrade to Windows 10 from Windows 7,or just uninstall Windows 7 and install Windows 10?
With the former you probably don't have to re-install all your other programs like Office. With the latter you get a nice clean install but have to reinstall everything. Personally, I'd do the clean install and reinstall everything. I don't mind. It's kind of fun.
When tax software stopped running on XP, first year that happened I spent three days getting tax software running in WINE on linux. Wasnt doing that again. Found out I could do free unactivated install of win10 that never expires, just an easy to get rid of watermark nag on screen. Fine, that worked. Using it once a year, dont really care. I did play around using win10 firewall to block outward communication, least best I could. Meaning block data and updates this way. Not wasting my metered bandwidth updating system I use once a year. Dang win10 is like a swiss cheese far as back doors and intentional holes. But got most of them.... I think. Anyway win10 really not that bad with stake through Cortana's heart and the spying at least slowed way down. Shows what it could have been if greed wasnt primary function of win10. Win10 by way is just further evolution of good ole VISTA, win7, and win8. You can even use some old VISTA and win7 drivers sometimes. I even managed to get my old HP laserjet 4000 printer working. Something you arent supposed to be able to do.
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