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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.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 13 2019, @11:25AM (6 children)
This is just MS wanting more of your money by trying to force idiots onto office 365 and more useless bullshit monthly payment Crap.
Avoid it like the plague it is. ALWAYS tell your management how big stupid switching from licence to monthly rent is.
So far EVERY SINGLE COMPANY I have worked with stepped back from office 365 due to ridiculous administration, rising costs and lack of control.
MS, should just go over in a corner and die, as they have added NOTHING positive to the It world since windows 3.11
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 13 2019, @12:25PM (1 child)
Windows 10 is Microsoft's attempt to go full spyware. Accept the expedited setup following installation and practically every keystroke is sent to their servers--to improve the customer experience, of course. Icing on the cake is the fact that by default your computer will thenceforth become a Microsoft proxy server, helping to deliver Windows updates via TCP/IP to other computers, wherever they may be. For that matter, updates your computer receives may originate from a similar source.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 13 2019, @01:37PM
M$ was jealous of go-ogle and failbook who get all the hot spying action. Now they're in the game too.
If you have to learn a new operating system, learn one that makes sense. I would suggest GNU/Linux.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Nuke on Wednesday March 13 2019, @01:49PM (2 children)
That's an exageration. They have never done anything positive.
(Score: 3, Funny) by Snow on Wednesday March 13 2019, @03:15PM (1 child)
Hey come on now! They added support for Linux line breaks in notepad a few months ago.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 13 2019, @07:37PM
HDD space ain't rising as fast as they hoped, I suppose.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 13 2019, @03:09PM
Go ahead, just ignore "Bob" and "Clippy".