Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:
Microsoft will soon begin nagging users running Windows 7 Professional to remind them that the operating system is soon to be shelved.
"We are now extending the notifications ... to Windows 7 Pro[fessional] devices to ensure our customers are aware of the end of support for Windows 7 and can take action to remain productive and secure," says an Oct. 15 update to a company blog post first published in March.
The original post confirmed that Microsoft would push notifications to Windows 7 systems in the months ahead - reprising a move it made in 2014 prior to Windows XP's retirement - but at the time, the company said nothing about limiting the on-screen alerts to Windows 7 Home Premium.
Like those earlier nags, the ones showing up on Windows 7 Professional PCs should include a way to reject future notifications and a button that leads users to more information.
[...]As late as July, the support document associated with KB4493132 claimed that the nag would "not install on devices running Professional and Enterprise editions of Windows 7 as well as Windows Server products" because the "update is not applicable for devices in managed organizations." The latest nag plan would seem to break that pledge.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 19 2019, @04:51AM (2 children)
Microsoft Starts Nagging Windows 10 Users About...
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 19 2019, @05:20AM
niggers
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 19 2019, @09:11AM
UPgrading to LINUX. Please first make a FULL backup of your documents, photos, music, etc.
(Score: 3, Informative) by epitaxial on Saturday October 19 2019, @05:23AM (2 children)
Eventually when my current desktop gets too old I will just convert the Windows install to a virtual machine and run it under Linux or even OSX. Hell you can even set up GPU passthrough on ESXI and its business as usual.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 19 2019, @09:08AM (1 child)
My "7" is aready in a VM here :) and.. no network, no updates, no nags, no risk. Just some legacy local operations and paid-for software. And so, no MS just deleting my app one morning because whatever. My next move - moving those couple of straggler apps to Wine (actually tested, but effort is involved to redo on new rig). I have been done with Windozone long, long ago.
(Score: 2) by RS3 on Saturday October 19 2019, @01:44PM
Sounds good. Which VM are you running Win7 in?
(Score: -1, Redundant) by fustakrakich on Saturday October 19 2019, @05:26AM (1 child)
Microsoft is a bunch of:
N_GGERS
I know it, but I don't think I should say it
5 seconds, Mr. Marsh
Alright, I'd like to solve the puzzle...
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 0, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 19 2019, @08:05AM
Do the easily triggered moderators want an apology too? Idiots! Jive turkeys ain't got no brains anyhow!
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Sally_G on Saturday October 19 2019, @07:47AM (2 children)
The machine in front of me doesn't nag much, but there is an occasional reminder that Win10 upgrade is available. One of the ladies in a different office seems to have clicked on that reminder, and her machine is now Win10.
It probably doesn't make any difference on corporate computers, since almost everything is in the cloud already. Microsoft and Google have access to virtually all of our data. Technical, billing, sales, personnel, payroll, pretty much everything. If we believe that any of our data is still "private" to the company, we are probably just kidding ourselves.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 19 2019, @10:03AM (1 child)
What happens if her machine is now broken due to Windows 10?
(Score: 2) by RS3 on Saturday October 19 2019, @01:48PM
Microsoft comes running with a brand new machine with a 10 year warranty, all her apps installed plus many free extras, her data migrated, free cloud and local backups, phone sync, everything working better than ever.
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 19 2019, @12:35PM (3 children)
Hello, Win7 loser. Fresh modern Win10 is available. Please select a button:
[ ] Upgrade me now to Win10
[ ] Do not keep Win7 on this machine
... and guess what the "X" button in the upper right does?
(Score: 2) by KritonK on Saturday October 19 2019, @05:38PM
The same thing that happens, if you put an "X" in one of those checkboxes?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 19 2019, @05:44PM
You'll have to Homer Simpson that bitch and just yank the power cord out of the back.
(Hope you're not on a laptop that doesn't have a removable battery...)
Of course, when you power it back on, I'm sure it will be the first thing you see when you login.
Maybe there is hope if it's on a VM and you can just rollback every, single, time.
(Score: 2) by Reziac on Sunday October 20 2019, @03:09AM
"... and guess what the "X" button in the upper right does?"
Causes this user to permanently disable Windows updates.
And there is no Alkibiades to come back and save us from ourselves.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 19 2019, @11:24PM (1 child)
I just watched a demo video of it and it looked pretty damn polished, plus you can mimic the classic Windows 7 menus. Casual users could jump over to Deepin Linux and go along like they were doing with Windows 7. Until Microsoft dumps Telemetry I am not touching Windows 10 and they can shove software subscriptions where the sun doesn't shine.
(Score: 3, Informative) by Reziac on Sunday October 20 2019, @02:55AM
Forbes had an ad for Deepin too. And it was an ad, however it masqueraded as a review. Well, I suppose China has to keep tabs on us somehow..
And there is no Alkibiades to come back and save us from ourselves.