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posted by mrpg on Wednesday March 13 2019, @07:20AM   Printer-friendly
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GWX redux? Microsoft to start nagging Windows 7 users about upcoming EOL.

Making the transition to Windows 10 and Office 365

After 10 years, support for Windows 7 is coming to an end on January 14, 2020, with Office 2010 following shortly thereafter.  We are here to help you with recommendations for what to do next and answer questions that you may have about end of support.

End of support means that your Windows 7 or Office 2010 software will no longer receive updates, including security updates. But, there's good news – Windows 10 is the most secure Windows ever and Office 365 delivers the latest in personal productivity. Together they make a perfect pair to help you do everything you were doing before – safer, faster and easier.

To help our customers get advanced notice of this change, we are reaching out with information and resources. Beginning next month, if you are a Windows 7 customer, you can expect to see a notification appear on your Windows 7 PC. This is a courtesy reminder that you can expect to see a handful of times in 2019. By starting the reminders now, our hope is that you have time to plan and prepare for this transition. These notifications are designed to help provide information only and if you would prefer not to receive them again, you'll be able to select an option for "do not notify me again," and we will not send you any further reminders. Just as software has changed over the years, so has hardware. To learn more about the latest line-up of modern PCs and information for moving from Windows 7 to Windows 10, just click on the "learn more" button on the notification.

If you want to get started today, you can visit www.microsoft.com/windows7 to find out more.


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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by riT-k0MA on Wednesday March 13 2019, @10:02AM (6 children)

    by riT-k0MA (88) on Wednesday March 13 2019, @10:02AM (#813644)

    Doing exactly that. It's been... interesting.

    Purchased a new SSD for this purpose.

    Create bootable Cinnamon Mint 19.1 usb. Boot up live USB. "Cinnamon crashed. Entering fallback mode".

    Decide to install Cinnamon Mint 19.0 instead. Cinnamon doesn't crash. The install process crashes halfway through.

    I use mint on a professional basis and I'm still struggling to install it. It makes me wonder how the average user will find the experience.

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  • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 13 2019, @10:24AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 13 2019, @10:24AM (#813652)

    I was new to Linux last fall and found switching to mint very easy.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 13 2019, @12:28PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 13 2019, @12:28PM (#813691)

    I'll have my cat do it for you. You obviously aren't smart enough to do it yourself. Mint - any version - is notable for being trouble-free.

    • (Score: 2) by acid andy on Wednesday March 13 2019, @01:02PM (1 child)

      by acid andy (1683) on Wednesday March 13 2019, @01:02PM (#813701) Homepage Journal

      It almost always is, yes, but I'd say they were just unlucky. Unusual hardware maybe?

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      If a cat has kittens, does a rat have rittens, a bat bittens and a mat mittens?
      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 13 2019, @02:50PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 13 2019, @02:50PM (#813738)

        It could be a bad memory stick which would cause file corruption

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 13 2019, @06:29PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 13 2019, @06:29PM (#813856)

    mint is lame. use something else.

  • (Score: 2) by Bot on Friday March 15 2019, @10:21PM

    by Bot (3902) on Friday March 15 2019, @10:21PM (#815126) Journal

    "Cinnamon crashed. Entering fallback mode".
    SYSTEMD TO THE RESCUE
    See! it was worth it after all.
    (how's my sarcasm AI doing? vote by modding troll)

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