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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 drussell on Wednesday March 13 2019, @04:19PM
Unfortunately, for many people, a real OS as most of us would define it is not a viable option for many people, although it does seem that the situation is improving.
I recently set up a new machine for a gentleman in his 80s... It runs FreeBSD with his old Windows 7 accessible via a VM shortcut labelled "Windows 7" on his desktop. He has told me that he has almost never needed to load the Windows session now that he is used to the slightly different UI, and he says he really likes it (running things directly under his X desktop) and finds that it just does what he wants it to do instead of getting in your way all the time.
That is a great thing to hear from an "average" user!