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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: 5, Interesting) by ShadowSystems on Wednesday March 13 2019, @10:34AM (4 children)

    by ShadowSystems (6185) <ShadowSystemsNO@SPAMGmail.com> on Wednesday March 13 2019, @10:34AM (#813657)

    I have a screen reader that is a *Mission Critical* program. It *MUST* run for me to be able to interact with the computer at all. No screen reader means no computer.
    Every time I hear about a Win10 forced update that breaks the audio subsystem, causes a previously stable program to stop working, or even uninstals a user installed program, it makes me wonder how Win10 can be considered fit for purpose.
    How can I run my Mission Critical program if the underlying OS isn't stable enough to let it?

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  • (Score: 2) by Booga1 on Wednesday March 13 2019, @03:08PM (1 child)

    by Booga1 (6333) on Wednesday March 13 2019, @03:08PM (#813753)

    Interesting to hear about Win10 updates that broke the audio. I thought it was just me.

    Twice now I've had updates that caused my primary sound device(wireless headset) to stop working. They also caused all the video card audio devices to duplicate. This required me to uninstall all my audio devices and reboot to reinstall them. Physically unplugging the headset adapter before the reboot was also required, otherwise Win10 wouldn't see the device at all after reboot. No amount of disable/renable shuffling would suffice.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 13 2019, @08:54PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 13 2019, @08:54PM (#813915)

      It isn't fit for purpose. And they don't care so long as they get to control your computer.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 14 2019, @06:37AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 14 2019, @06:37AM (#814089)

    Oh, dude, you are so screwed. I've had to support win10 for some time now.
    The only thing worse is google forcing updates on android :( how the heck am I supposed to fix my phone on the road in the middle of nowhere?

  • (Score: 4, Interesting) by krishnoid on Thursday March 14 2019, @09:19AM

    by krishnoid (1156) on Thursday March 14 2019, @09:19AM (#814122)

    Call the local news station? I think your community and representatives would really like to take Microsoft to task for forcing one of their constituents to demonstrably upgrade their software to a version that breaks their ability to use a computer. Great local interest story, small-town paper/station takes on Goliath, Microsoft has to justify their wonderful Superbowl ad [youtube.com] at the cost of existing customers being able to continue using a working system reliably -- everybody wins.