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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 13 2019, @03:05PM (1 child)
Hey grandpa, do yourself a favor and install a non-Micro$oft operating system. And no, it won't cost you a dime but instead probably will make your older hardware usable again. I know it's supposedly hard to get out of an abusive relationship, especially if long but I hear it's well worth it.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 13 2019, @04:35PM
Hmm, most of my systems dual/multiple boot, these are the currently installed OSes (we won't go into bootable USB HDs and sticks and what lurks on them....)
This laptop: Slackware (running), Kali, Win7
Other laptop: PCLinuxOS, Win7, Haiku
Netbook: Win7, Kali
Firewall: PCLinuxOS (Heavily modified from stock install, lots of fun 'bespoke' code)
Firewall-in-development: Slackware (Update of the code developed for the PCLinuxOS one...now with teeth, so to speak...), boring old pfsense
NAS/Fileserver: FreeBSD
Desktop1: Slackware,Win7
Desktop2: Slackware, XP, Haiku
Desktop3: Devuan
Desktop4: XP, PCLinuxOS
Desktop5: Slackware, Haiku
ThinClient1: Tiny Core Linux
ThinClient2: Tiny Core Linux
Indy1: IRIX 6.5.22
Indy2: OpenBSD
SPARCclassic: OpenBSD
SPARCstation IPX: Sunos 4.1.4
Most of the PCs are Dual-Core, with one Quad-core cuckoo in the nest, some of them have 4GB ram, most have 2GB. I only run Win XP for 'legacy' DAW (I'm migrating gradually to Reaper, which will run on Slackware), Win7 for CAD/CAM/ECAD and Graphics design (The usual suspects, but mostly Coreldraw, yup, Corel, even with it's myriad braindeath inducing WTFs I prefer it to Illustrator...go figure..)
In keeping with my grandpa status, I have also been known to spend way too much time pissing around in emulated pdp-10s, mostly running TOPS-20, dreaming of the glory days of code hacking on the old DECSYSTEM-20...like MAME emulated versions of the arcade games of yore, better than nothing, but it just ain't the same....
(I'd say something about getting off my lawn, but you'd be hard put to get on it, seeing as the boat is currently taking up most of the space...)