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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: 3, Interesting) by Hyperturtle on Wednesday March 13 2019, @04:27PM (2 children)
Per the article itself, there will be a checkbox that indicates "Do not remind me again".
"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."
That is how they also did it with XP.
I am hoping that they keep supporting Windows 7 embedded OSes (I'm not really sure how widespread that actually is) just like they had done with XP. That embedded OS support added 5 years of updates for XP machines--I know of no drama caused by old people not wanting change receiving updates on their elderly computers in this fashion, and hope they get more of the same.
I know even older people now, and just as they got used to windows 7 (after and also having actively rejected 8 and 10...) well. They won't update silently into the night; in fact most of them ALREADY have purchased Apple tablets or laptops. The windows 7 (and some XP) machines are now spares, having successfully transfered any important data over.
Linux was too hard; Apple stuff appeared to just work for them. I asked what about the costs, and they said if they were being forced into such a huge change, and the change was mostly unavoidable, they would pay for a new Apple rather than reward Microsoft for free for this unwanted approach that seemed really suspicious. What are they trying to hide? The people that they know that actually upgraded were continuously pissed about forced reboots and such. Some of these same people are those elderly folks that are proud members of the NRA and it's all the vote on -- I somehow never imagined such types owning an Apple computer, but you know, freedom does require active engagement if you want to keep it, even if the situation is different.
I kind of wish AARP had that kind of clout when it came to forcing tech companies to stop being jerks.
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 13 2019, @06:31PM (1 child)
"freedom does require active engagement"
freedom? with apple? are you on the cheese?
(Score: 2) by Hyperturtle on Saturday March 16 2019, @03:39PM
One older person told me the great thing about being old is that their new mistakes won't affect them for quite as long as the mistakes that followed them throughout their lives...