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Microsoft Warns Windows 7 Has Serious Problems

posted by n1 on Monday January 04 2016, @09:21PM   Printer-friendly
from the own-worst-enemy dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

Speaking to Windows Weekly, Microsoft Marketing chief Chris Capossela explained that users who choose Windows 7 do so “at your own risk, at your own peril” and he revealed Microsoft has concerns about its future software and hardware compatibility, security and more.

[...] There’s only one problem with Capossela’s statements: they are complete rubbish. Windows 7 is no less secure than Windows 10 (it will be supported until 2020) and no less compatible with new hardware and software. In fact its far greater market share means it is developers’ priority and has greater compatibility with legacy programmes and peripherals. If Fallout 4 won’t run on your Windows 7 computer, it will be upgrading your components not installing Windows 10 which fixes that.

As for fragmentation, the only issue that creates is for Microsoft and its target of getting one billion devices running Windows 10 within 2-3 years of release.

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  • (Score: 2) by Marand on Monday January 04 2016, @10:54PM

    by Marand (1081) on Monday January 04 2016, @10:54PM (#284810) Journal

    Hmmm, I had no such problems.

    Running Chromium on Manjaro with Ublock Origin, the Forbes site stopped on the continue to site page, and one click later I was at the page (with 23 blocked trackers and ads indicated by Ublock.

    I think you missed the line at the end where I said I had Chromium in incognito, which turned out to be the cause of the infinite loop. Viewing the page outside of icnognito worked as expected, with a nag and then continue. I only rarely use Chromium for misbehaving pages and the like, so all it has is adblock. Made it pretty easy to figure out that Incognito mode was breaking the site further and turning it off confirmed it.

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  • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Monday January 04 2016, @11:51PM

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Monday January 04 2016, @11:51PM (#284844) Journal

    Oftentimes, a site refuses to cooperate with me. I just go into a VM, and C/P the address into an unprotected browser. It loads, I read, I close the browser, and delete cookies and crap. I don't do it very often, but now and then, I feel a need to read the article. Usually I come away wondering why I bothered.