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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: 1) by ShadowSystems on Wednesday March 13 2019, @07:44PM (2 children)
Ok, now think of all the problems & headaches you've encountered in getting the issue fixed.
Can you see to do those repairs yourself?
Because I can't & would have to take it to BestBuy & let their GeekSquad have at my computer in order to fix it, get it back to a working state, & then pay the Danegold to get it back.
I'm not SatNad rich enough to afford that kind of crap, I live on a fixed income, so I could either, say, fix my computer or pay for my insulin.
I wonder which one gets paid for?
Hint: it's not the computer.
=-(
Life would be much different if I could still see to do my own repairs.
For starters I'd be running a Linux desktop on bleeding edge hardware instead of Win7Pro64 on a 4th gen I3 Intel NUC.
I dream of a 9th gen I9 running at 4GHz with turbo boosts up to 5GHz, 64Gb of RAM, a fat capacity M.2 NVMe SSD, a couple of Petabytes of HDD, pumped through a SLI of 12+Gb video cards spitting out 4K across multiple screens, all so I could play 3D NetHack.
But until/unless the Linux screen reader (Orca, Adrienne, Vinux, etc) gets to a point where It Just Works Out Of the Box, I can't even consider it an option.
I want Linux, I could Get Shit Done with a Linux box, but since I *have* to have that 'reader going I'm stuck on Windows.
I've tried an Imac & that experience was enough to make me swear off Apple products from now until the heat death of the universe.
I've tried Linux screen readers & while they mostly work, they don't work in crutial ways that I can't get past.
I Absolutely. Do. Not. Want. to move to Windows 10.
The telemetry makes me sick, the instability makes me worried as hell, & it deciding what/when/if to change something I might require means I can't trust it as far as I could comfortably squeaze Redmond out through my ureathra.
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(Score: 2) by Freeman on Thursday March 14 2019, @03:59PM (1 child)
I find it interesting that Windows has a screen reader setup from the start. Is it a specific version you can buy or do you rely on someone to help get it started?
In what crucial ways does the Linux screen reader not work? How vision impaired? Would a giant screen still be visible? Perhaps, instead of sticking with windows, figure out someway to get a stupidly huge screen, instead. TVs / Monitors with 32" screens are pretty cheap nowadays. I've also been researching cheap projectors, but they may not be bright enough for you.
720p projector:
https://www.amazon.com/Projector-Portable-Theater-Speakers-Multiple/dp/B07H5F2BJK [amazon.com]
1080p projector:
https://www.amazon.com/Projector-Portable-Theater-Display-Supports/dp/B07GXGW3B8 [amazon.com]
I've not bought either one, but those are the two I'm looking at possibly purchasing. The cheap projector market is a minefield of cheap knock-offs with 480p or less resolution trying to pass themselves off as 720p or 1080p projectors. They either hide the "native resolution" in the summary or don't list it. You won't be getting a 720p projector for much less than $150 and you won't be getting a 1080p projector for much less than $250. Also 99% of these cheap projectors list the brightness as something like 1000 lumens or 3200 lumens, but that's not ANSI standard lumens. In reality you're getting something like 120 lumens or possibly more with the ones that are listing at say 5000 lumens. We got a cheap knock-off for $60-$80 and it was true 480p, but at that resolution you can't make out text. It worked great for movies and the like, but it definitely was something like 120 lumens, not 1000+ lumens like it said on the box. As one reviewer noted the lumens are "chineese marketing", or as the rest of the world calls it "a lie".
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
(Score: 2) by Freeman on Thursday March 14 2019, @04:03PM
Also, another thing to think about is that the cheap projector I got ended up with a large "burn spot / yellowed / brown spot" on most of the picture. My wife would leave it on all day and it didn't have good enough cooling to handle that.
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"