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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: 2) by Nuke on Wednesday March 13 2019, @02:03PM
It's the average Windows user who is stupid. If they pay for a new OS and it looks like the previous one, they would think they had paid for nothing.
That is the idea behind Win10 (this and the spying) - to move people onto a rental system like Office 365. Rental is a software company's wet dream because they don't need to keep writing new stuff to sell. Microsoft ran out of new ideas after WinXP; the tablet and phone world gave them a bit of a break in allowing them to re-do the UI to suit small devices, but that didn't go down too well with non-tablet users and their own tablets and phones are a flop. But if MS can move all its users on to Win10 rental and Office 365 then it can lean back and do nothing but count cash for ever more, with the occasional security update.